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I just finished streaming a full run. I played without saving at all this time, and didn't die until Inside Menkaure's Pyramid. Luckily, I was able to get back-up saves from the recycle bin. :p I died two more times in Inside Menkaure's Pyramid, but the rest of the run was surprisingly smooth. If I discount the deaths and a certain one minute pause during which I fixed my stream title, my time comes out as 1:36:42, counting real time. at least a minute or so of that is loading screens, which are not included in Ewil's in-game time of 1:28:04.

The run can be viewed on Twitch if it's of any interest, although the quality's really bad and the image choppy in some scenes. Unless you know the game well yourself, you may not be able to infer what's going on all of the time. :/

The run's in two broadcasts; before and after the first death.
http://www.twitch.tv/xrikux89/b/322931498 (Starts at 2:13, one minute pause by the shotgun in The Tomb of Seth)
http://www.twitch.tv/xrikux89/b/322932821 (I didn't count the time taken nor the death that occured before determining the correct save)

Note: I killed the scorpion with the guard and guard's keys so the death bug doesn't happen. I had trouble with the following scorpion, so i'll probably pick up the super grenades in Citadel during following runs.

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I'm enjoying your run a great deal, though as you suggest, the Twitch graphics are only fair. Nice to see the slope creep shortcut into the Sphinx's mouth in Tomb of Seth. I've never seen the jeep keys in that cave of Valley of the Kings! Adept move to pass the Land Rover at the start of KV5. Too bad the ALT try in Karnak wouldn't behave, but the ALT in Hypo Hall works fine.

I was impressed by no swimming after getting the Sun Idol in the second pass through Temple of Karnak.

Oh wow, you did the big ALT in Tomb of Semerkhet! Lovely!

Interesting different ALT location at the end of Lost Library.

Interesting slope-creep in City of the Dead.

I'll watch the rest later.

Edit: For Inside Menkaure's Pyramid, nice idea to flare-wall through the trapdoor.

The game just flew by.

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It's not Twitch's fault. I'm using a wireless broadband since I'm still studying outside my hometown, and the upload speed is only 2Mbps.

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There are some very nice ideas, I especially had no idea you can turn on a pole whilst sliding down. This proves how much I suck at finding improvements

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I just managed my first full no-save speedrun of the game. Cambodia and some other parts sucked though, so it's not the run. You can watch it on Twitch if you're interested, but there's not really anything new. I should mention I shoot the last pack of bats in Temple of Horus, because on one occasion they managed to follow Lara all the way down the shaft, and pushed her off the platform during the fly-by.

http://www.twitch.tv/xrikux89/b/329939657

Run starts at 6:55.

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Hehe, I hated those bats. They tend to push you off very often

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Ehh, I realised that using the flare-slope bug in Menkaure's Pyramid is actually almost 10 seconds slower. I guess I'll do it the old way then, although I won't be able to use my trick to allow for faster climbing afterwards because of triggering the scorpion earlier.

On a related note, I wanted to try using the flare-slope bug in conjunction with a trigger bug to Inside Menkaure's Pyramid. (I could pick up the revolver in City of the Dead instead.) However, I seem unable to perform any triggers bugs after collecting the guard's keys. Skipping the keys on the other hand would probably cost too much time and ammo in Khufu's Queens' Pyramids... Unless of course I could find a new, faster trigger bug location using the flare-slope bug or something! I must try that later today.

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I found a way to do Menkaure's Pyramid in about 35 seconds. If I can get the revolver in City of the Dead and ALT in KPQ without wasting much more than a minute, I'm gonna do it. I can probably skip the super grenades if I use this, which would also save some time.

I'll post a video soon.

Edit: http://youtu.be/Ha0k2Ekf0cU

lol lol lol ;ddd;dd;d;dd;dd

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Verrrry rough estimates:

Menk's ALT saves ~1:25
Losses in KPQ minimised to 15 or 20 seconds
Revolver in CotD will take 15 or 20 seconds too I guess

Unsure of other factors for now, but I'm confident I'll be able to save at least 30 seconds. Going to try incorporating this to my route then.

rr_carroll, perhaps you remember our long discussion on the old forums about trying to make skipping the guard's keys worthwhile.

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Brilliant! I tried repeatedly to ALT from that chamber, but I never started with slope creep!

To finish Khufu's Queens Pyramids without the Guards Keys, you'll have to ALT to the End_level squares, which means killing all moving creatures, including the guards. But you can skip creating the soldiers and early scorpions with slope creep over the hill.

Riku, I remember that discussion well. If we had known about slope creep then, we might have done it, even without the big savings in Menkaure's Pyramid.

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