The time displayed by the savefile is a bit messed up in the context of a speedrun because it rollbacks whenever you die/reload a checkpoint. This was probably intented by the devs to help people complete the 2hours achievement but it can also make a slower run look better than a faster run. The timer also stops during certain cutscenes (hence why it's only 43:xx and not 47:xx) and never counts the final walk when we leave control room after the roof opening CS. That's why we use a separate timer that only stops during actual loadings

I hope you're referring to CoS difficulty which is a rather imbalanced gamemode that would be the equivalent of trying to beat the games you mentioned at low level. To me, Ashen's main issue as a souls game is that it fails at teaching the souls basics. So I simply cannot understand how someone claiming to be a souls veteran can struggle or complain about the base difficulty of this game. Every mob can be defeated with AI and spamming R1, bosses don't have that many patterns and are easy to abuse. Is the last boss overtuned compared to the rest of the game ? Yes... but compared to main souls bosses it's not harder than Abyss watcher in DS3 for say. And yet I've seen so many souls vet' go in disrespecting this game by turning off AI, skipping every forms of upgrade, not using the lock-in system, and then pikachu face at the first difficulty spike.

Instead of letting ourselves getting pushed through the wall after triggering SP, there are a few frames to jump on ground. It doesn't change the way we activate the glitch

@@Anemion ah.. I see, will practice that. Thank you!

It's one of the best dps weapon in the game and available right a the start

@@Anemion thanks for the response big dog

That's correct. Console versions do not have access to old patches

It comes from the relic Ukkoto's Guile. Each orb adds on-hit damage

Troll.

Shame on you

The time displayed on your savefile is the one that matters for that achievement. It is different than real time because it pauses when you pause the game and rewinds if you die/reload checkpoint

@@Anemion I tried a reload, did it a lot faster and it was listed as 2hrs 8mins...so cumulative. It explains the retries for B12 being done as fast as possible...time adds up and does not rewind. 😐 Bummer, but now I know that if I need to consult the vid for a particular problem section, quit the current save to stop the clock running. Well done on the vid!! In the sewer level, jumping up on the power handle and zapping the Zurks...I LOLed and thought "Dang, that was pretty slick and impressive thinking".

Some of them are patched on the latest versions but the devs gave us a way to download the old patch. This category features glitches but as usual we also have glitchless runs

I think preemptive meowing helps to get them off your back.

Hello binds meow to scroll wheel so they can’t touch him

It's a 100% speedrun. The whole point is to get all memories and badges along the way. Anemion also has the WR for any% speedrun if you're interested.

If this is for Livesplit then "Game Time" is what you should use. Feel free to ask on the Stray Speedrun Discord (or the speedrun.com forums) if you have any questions about timing, how to setup the load remover, etc..

Sadly I cannot help you as I don't have the PS version of the game. You can try asking on the game's Discord or on the relevant subreddit.

Seamus Clip ? Who's that ??

​@@Anemion Wrong name, oops. Seamus clip was a trick we used to do before sleep paralysis was discovered. In the current route, you actually clip through the door to Elliot's house (15:28).

This window (and a few others) are loading screens in disguise. I have a fairly good setup so I rarely get B12 messing up the password.

The rules used to be that you had to deliver the gold hoarder skull. It was later changed to match the end of the tall tale itself; when the toast for completing a Tall Tale is displayed. Selling the skull isn't part of that, even though there are commendations tied to it. The actual end is on the GH's death rather than the toast itself because there's can be a random delay between his death and the start of the cutscene, and the moderators didn't wanted it to be a factor in the final time

Or were you talking about Tall Tales checkpoints ? In that case, according to Rare Thieves, it's when you get the gold hoarder coin

@@Anemion so the final checkpoint is right before the fight or before the parkour to the fight?

Neither. This is the key to open the underground labyrinth

@@Anemion thanks sm just got the gold curse 😀

Both actually. I play controller+mouse for the majority of the run only switching to kb/m for dialogues and zurks.