Goodzilla

Started a new one today, and stopped now with 7 stims and 10 coffees  in the farmhouse. Ready for tomorrow. 

7 stims again with blizzard at the end

here the screenshot

Finally I got time to cut that video with my new record. However as I mentioned by PM I played this game in several parts and finished it late night  last Friday to Saturday and I forgot to record a part of it ( I realised it while gaming)

The missing part starts after looting the house on Jackrabbit Island. I used one more stim to run to Misanthrope’s Homestead and another stim to run home to Quonset Gas Station, also checked both fishing huts where I found some wood too. After coming back to the station I hacked 6 reclaimed wood next to the Station and one Cedar wood, back to the Garage and left them there to start hunting a wolf... and here the video continues.

I had a lucky stim run yesterday, I started in the morning an weather was snowy and cold, had frostbite long before the dam.

Found total 5 stims when I was in the farmhouse, weather changed and I found myself in a blizzard starting in TWM... and it was too much got frostbite lvl2 and still continued to see how many stims I would find at the summit, where I found 3 other stims!! But even with all the stims I had no chance to finish ...

Started another run,  with 7 stims in total, again blizzard came in CH and I made 15h 19m

It was also a long progress for me to learn not to loot (for speedruns). When I started to speedrun HR, I looted almost the whole dam until I realised how much time (2h in game) I needed. Then I stopped looting the first floor, later the other rooms , then the boxes, later the lockers and I stopped even to get the water from second toilet. Exactly same with other houses. Now I only take cloths that lay around, where I do not have to search through. This was one of the keys to get much better times.

Frostbite 2 (red) can be a problem also hypothermia 2 (red), but I only had this very few times. You will also get much less frostbite if you wear clothes on any part of the body, especially hands and head.

If you have 3 stims or more, 10 coffees cooked in the farmhouse is enough, 12 is better. At the summit I only warm them up (3-4 coffees)

Also the stims will push your heart-bar, only problem is if frostbite or hypothermia comes to lvl2, then the stamina is falling extremely quick, once I died in front of the lighthouse but this is a rerely pheomena.

BTW did you find any stim in the toilets of the farmhouse lately? I used to find them in the drawer and the first aid kid in the toilets but on my last 10-20 runs I could never find one

Here it is:

There was nothing too special on this run: 7 stims in total and one energy drink.

I was quite lucky with the weather until end of PL on the way to the lighthouse, then a blizzard started in CH until the end.

I am now also very positive to beat the 15h mark, only little more stims or better weather.

Trapper's 1
Carter Hydro 1
Radio Control Hut 2 !
The Summit  2 + Energy drink
Abandoned Mine to Coastal Highway  1

Very funny, since yesterday I cannot record it with GeForce anymore, it says that GeForce do not support TLD?!?

However I recorded it with Windows and again I made a new personal best time in HP with 15h 15m!
this time also with only 7 stims and one energy drink.

I shall upload the video soon

(I upload it directly without cutting or fast forwards)

Thank you!

Can I ask you with which program you are recording and what program do you use for cutting and formatting to mp4?

I recorded with windows and now GeForce and tried to fix them with Shotcut.... but it takes years to convert to mp4.....

yesterday I was so lucky with stims.... but I had to many wolf attacks and finally was killed by them.... I think I would have had 10 stims in total...

On 5/19/2019 at 3:25 PM, Lohaan said:

@Goodzilla  This is the fastest time I have seen anywhere. Have you seen anything faster?

I am not very active in the www, but where I checked this time is unbeaten.

However may be on reddit or somewhere else there are better times??

today another best time.

with 7 stims in total, have it one  video

today's run

You will complete it for sure soon!

I only cook coffee first time when I am back in Quonset.

If you want to cook in Hybernia you need also to loot the 1 or 2 houses at the waterfornt cottages

@Lohaan  what is your experiance with the energy drinks in speed runs?

If my stamina is down and I should drink a coffee and have to walk quite a lot before next stim, I used this new drink.

In my last run I took it in PV

38 minutes ago, Lohaan said:

 

 Wow man that feeling when you fire off the gun and watch that screen

I use to check my time a lot (with the Tab you dont lose time) to compare my runs, however after the summit I always stopp doing it and let me surprise at the end. I knew that it would be a good time for "after" new update, but I had no idear it would beat my old record

35 minutes ago, Lohaan said:

 

Well done!!!! This is an amazing time!! You see that dude, it CAN still be done. Wow man that feeling when you fire off the gun and watch that screen.... Nice work on the strategy there. All you need is a bit of luck, good weather and more stims lol. Congrats!

You where absolutely right, just have to get along with the new update. With more stims that could have been a time under 15h! Yesterday I stareted Without again, I am just back in the garage from the first trip to DP.

I have the same problem with spraining's in the challenges. When I got 2 sprains in Hopeless Rescue before, now I have about 15 sraining's

@stapeliad  I have got the same problem here.

I like to walk up or down a hill apart the paths and after the last update I got spraining's all day long.

It feels like 10 times more than before. Even I walk on an easy terrain, lets say in PV from the radio tower to the farmhouse. Just on the way down from the Radio tower I get two sprains at least, before I never had this problem at all.

Yesterday I finished my run which I started the day before yesterday and ... I made a new personal record  with 15h 51 minutes!
This is better as my previous record 15h 59m which I made before the last update..

I had ONLY 3 stims leaving the farmhouse, walked to the rope to TWM without double climb. Found only one stim at the summit and the one in the cave, all together 5 stims only. And I also found one energy drink in the summit. This is something between stim and coffee.

I recorded both days, but I am not sure if I deleted the one from the first day where I finished at the farmhouse. If I have time I shall upload it next week.

First of all I was super super lucky with the weather! First time I got hypothermia was on the lake in CH.

I have a "new" tactic how to handle the spraining's:

1) never use pain killers for spraining's

2) never heal wrist sprains until you are down from summit

3) on the big short cut in TWM: never heal any sprains until you are down from the summit

With this strategy you can probably not run during the short cut, but you will also use  two stims on the ropes where you can run. Down summit there is nothing to run.
After you got sprained two hands and two legs you will not get any further sprains.

Without this tactic you are healing sprains all the time and you will be out of bandage soon.

I heal all 4 spaining's when I am down the summit, so I also can use the flare gun to scare wolves away.

@stapeliad  See the list below where you can find stims and how many maximum

Trapper's 1
Camp office  1
Derailment x 1
Two trailers in front of the dam. max 1
Carter Hydro x 1-2 (four places where it can be)
Radio Control Hut x 1-2 (four places where it can be)
Farmhouse  1-2
The Summit x 1-4
Abandoned Mine to Coastal Highway  always 1 (three places where it can be)

I used to find more stims in the farmhouse, but on my last 20 visits there I find them only in the first-aid kits, one in the office and one in the basement. I remember before I also found some in the toilets.

On 5/15/2019 at 3:57 PM, stapeliad said:

 

 I never got the amount of stims or coffee you seem to get.   I will probably get at least as many sprains though.

I did many hundred times like Lohaan explain it. Restart until there is a stim in Trappers, nowadays I still start the challenge even without stim if the weather/daytime is good.

Two stims after the dam is still worth it to try it! (you will get at least one in radio tower and may be one or two in the farmhouse)
The Radio tower is a must to visit, you do not lose much time and there you find many good stuff for this challenge. There are four places in the Tower to find one or two stims (first aid box, just next to the box, under the table in rear control room and under the bed where you also can find a good trouser). Also there might be coffee, good coat, water bottle and shoes. To make a good time you need to come up here!

I tried and also asked here in the forum. It looks like this way is no more existing or you can only walk it downwards

On 5/9/2019 at 3:03 PM, Lohaan said:

I think there is also a third route which I have not explored yet between these 2 paths that might be faster.

 

Do you mean this one (see pic).

The new spraining machanism makes it way harder to do speedruns. To be honest I lost a lot of joy for speedruns after the update.

You got about 10 times more sprainings on the shortcuts

I only finished HR once after the update with 17h 11m

@Lohaan  I would be very interested in your answer:

I watched you video now full and more carefully. The big difference between your run (and Wizarc's) is, that I use the double climb in PV and you both take the way outside. Compared to your time I am 10 minutes faster at the rope to TWM but of course you save one stim on your route. Did you try both ways and came across that it is better to take the outside route?