Main Game

You can skip the cutscene, pop-up, and wait for the potential crime introduction. Shoot the person whose phone you hack into for the crime to start, and the crime will be instantly placed on the map. Throwing a grenade after that will fail the potential crime and complete the objective. Saves 25-30 seconds over the strat done in the WR.

This is faster than hacking the security router on the side of the building. You can hack the bouncer's phone at the start if you don't take too long. Just be careful not to get detected by the bouncer. My reference point is to move past the bouncer when he begins his 3rd step.

You can shoot Crispin and hack his phone without killing anyone else. It only saves a couple of seconds at most.

Bad Blood

This is my IL of T-Bwned (Bad Blood A1M1). If you are quick enough with the bike when exiting the silo, you can detect the fixer car and the objective will change to take down. You can then neutralize the fixer car at the next intersection with the traffic lights if there are enough cars there. Four things can happen: the fixer will either get out of the car, the car will get stuck (shoot the fixer in the car if this happens), the fixer car will continue as if nothing happens (stop your bike somewhere and hope you can snipe the fixer), or Frewer dies from the collision (uncommon). The same RNG also applies as the other strats after you get in the car(fixer car spawns). This only saves 10-15 seconds over the method done in my run.

Using cover sliding mechanics to exit the silo for same mission:

You can snipe the fixer in the car to skip most of the chase at the end of Bait. I could not figure out a consistent reference point for this.

Here is my explanation of how I think the WKZ skip works in the Bad Blood any% run (seen before Bad Medicine/A2M3). The WKZ announcement will trigger after Bait and the Tobias phone call before Illusions. If you start Illusions before the Tobias phone call finishes, the WKZ announcement won't happen before Bad Medicine. This is achieved either by reloading the autosave or by getting the cops called on you before Illusions. I reloaded the autosave because it is more consistent (and saves a system key for a jam com) and spawns me next to a vehicle. It saves at least 30 seconds in the run (skips announcement, T-bone lines, and pop-up).

big thanks for this, I will get back to badblood and Any% after this piping hot summer with GTA V goes over

These strats were not found by me:

You can skip the dream bed animation at the start of the game. Exit out of the sleep menu the first time and enter it again. This is still faster than reloading the autosave: ** ** ** https://www.twitch.tv/thegaming106/clip/BenevolentGrossMoonCharlieBitMe **

You can skip the prisoner cutscene in the basement during A1M9 (Dressed in Peels) altogether. He can be killed while running away. It might be a few seconds faster than the normal way, but initial testing proves it to be almost the same speed as the regular strats.

This new cash run challenge warp skips a lot of driving and can save at least 20 seconds in the run. My execution can also be better here on the left. And my WR run was not optimal there at the graveyard due to the unlucky white screen bug. The only issue is RNG with the bike spawns after fast traveling to the area next to Not the Pizza Guy, so it is possible to get better/worse RNG than what is shown. There is also potential to use this cash run later in the run.

Some more stuff here that can help me get sub 3:20 any% in this game:

I timed this section to be 18 seconds faster than what I did in the 3:21:51 run. Using the car on demand app to spawn the bike seems worth it because of how much driving there is. You can also use cameras at the Brandon Docks ctOS to do that mission slightly faster.

This is a strat comparison of the Racine skip strats used during A2M2/Breakable Things. Left is the new one used by K1ng_Ransom. Doing it perfectly by pushing the truck into the water can save a few seconds. Right is the old one with the sniper. You can also skip obtaining the sniper rifle during Thanks for the Tip, saving even more time.

New Cash Run During Act 1 There is no video of this. You can create a cash run while driving to Hacking Contract in Act 1. This can be used to teleport to A1M9 (Dressed in Peels) after A1M8 (Wrench in the Works) and can save a few seconds.

I introduced this new strat in my first sub 3:20 run. After Planting a Bug (A2M14), fast travel back to the bunker. Do dialogue skips during the Bedbug call and then use the Car on Demand app to spawn a sportsbike. Park this bike a safe distance away from the entrance so that it doesn't despawn.

Use this bike to drive to Way off the Grid mission location and then reload autosave. This will skip the Clara/Aiden dialogue. Then kill the fixers there as quickly as possible (Let the first fixer detect you so that the enemies will go towards you). The dialogue skip can still be done with the IED, but it's risky. This saves 15-20 seconds over the old strats.

The autosave at the start skips most of the driving. There is no bike spawn there after you teleport to the entrance, so you have to go on foot inside. More autosaves can be used inside to save more time because we don't have to worry about keeping a bike. This only saves a few seconds in total because we don't have a bike inside the mission area.

We finally figured out a way to do the firetruck skip on this mission. The explosion from the canister will interrupt Aiden's animation, allowing you to gain control of him much earlier. If you blow up the fence outside, you will have a clear line of sight to shoot the fixer before the firetruck cutscene starts. This skips the entire chase and is much easier than the old strat. The only problem is the canister getting blown up before the download finishes, but you can reload the autosave to respawn it.

Credit to Mr. Dirtbag for the explosive canister strat.

Credit goes to @MrDirtbag for these strats. These were posted in the Discord as well.

You don't have to go to the center first to access the underground camera. It is possible to jump to the right side with the bike, but you have to go back to the entrance to get the autosave to prevent a softlock, causing you to lose time. The new strat saves about 15 seconds as shown by this comparison.

You can hack cameras through the door by using some weird camera manipulation. This camera strat is tricky so I show my reference here on the left. There is a time save of about 10 seconds if you do the new strat well. You have to wait until the autosave before you complete a hack on someone (otherwise you have to hack an extra person), but you can profile everyone first.

He posted this strat also, but I found it to be inconsistent/unreliable. The theory is that scaring T-bone (by doing something like crashing into objects/people behind the bar) will cause him to turn around to check what's happening.

Reload autosave strat after Pawnee ctOS teleports you to land and is faster than docking the boat. The only major concern is that reloading autosaves can cause a bug in which Aiden can't move:

I found a way to skip the news broadcast prior to Pit of Paranoia. If you investigate the missing persons location for Michelle Strauss, you can skip the news broadcast about her & the serial killer. You can do this skip without losing any time. But you have to make sure that you don't skip too much dialogue at the junkyard (by leaving too quickly), or else you will have to wait until T-bone finishes all of his lines first before leaving the area. There is also a risk that you can fail the mission if you don't return to the junkyard before the timer runs out.

There is also a comparison to the old strat, which loses 20+ seconds to the broadcast skip. Do note that while the news broadcast skip (cash run) is the fastest shown here, driving the whole way (with the news broadcast skip) is actually faster because you get to set up a cash run to use to teleport to The Future is in Blume (A3M4) later. In total, this skip saves about 35 seconds.

Reloading the autosave allows you to stop the train earlier. It can save 10+ secs over the old strat here. You can just shoot one of the fixer cars. No need to even kill anyone.

A minor problem here is finding a car on the road and they could call the cops on you. RNG can also be an issue for the fixers at the start.

You can still make it to Ghosts of the Past (A4M6) in time with the cash run that you create in the new route and manage to do a couple of dialogue skips. Just take the fastest car from the parking lot.

This is one of the strats that Mr.Dirtbag found in his first any% run. You can use focus to time a cash run after Risky Bid is finished. This means that you don't need to drive to the train station and you can do more dialogue skips. Saves 5+ secs if you do every dialogue skip well.

This shows the new dialogue skip that Mr.Dirtbag found in this mission and compares it to the old dialogue skip strat. It gives you more time to use the ATM since you don't need to kill the two guys. Just like the T-bone dialogue skip in Hope is a Sad Thing, you can go far away to skip the dialogue of the NPCs.

It is possible to drive a vehicle farther into the fenced area without alerting the enemies by running over at least one of the guys on the left. You have to drive slow enough to not alert them, but also fast enough to run them over. This is more easily done with a bike. Do note that you have to take one of the driving routes to the right when you spawn in for the new strat to work. There is more time to be saved with this strat than shown because you can use the vehicle you drove in with to escape the area, which can be a lot faster than the fixed vehicle that you usually use. Also, a couple of enemies can be in different positions depending on the RNG/time you arrive there.

This blackout strat was found by Mr.Dirtbag. You can use a blackout during this mission (A4M5/Little Sister) to allow Nicky to run past the enemies. There is no need to reload the autosave to make it more consistent. To make sure it is nighttime during this mission, you have to teleport to this mission with a cash run instead of using the train.

This shows that the early bridge hack strat (found by Mr. Dirtbag) is faster than going for all of the dialogue skips prior to Way Off the Grid (A2M15).

The dialogue skips done on the right side are not perfect, but they still can't make up the 6 second difference. The second dialogue skip for the bridge hack strat has little room for error if you want to do it and still make it to the mission start on time.

This shows that spawning a Sayanora before this mission is worth it. Taking a bike here isn't too risky if you activate a late blackout and take the same route as me. The time save is mostly because you can take the bike to the boat.

I slow down on this mission because I want to trigger the steam pipe after the T-bone dialogue to activate the Damien dialogue earlier.

It is worth it to take a detour to make a cash run closer to the Sayonara spawn location at Brandon Docks ctOS.

Making the cash run in the new spot is comparable in time to the old cash run. For the new cash run, you want to hide behind the truck so that the guard doesn't see you.

Driving could have been better with the car, but the new strats/route guarantees you a Sayonara (which is better than every vehicle that you can get at this place) in a decent location.

There is no need to get off the bike to do this ctOS control center. You can do a similar thing like in Planting a Bug (A2M14) to run over the first guard without him detecting you. Then you can just hack the access code from the guard while on the bike.