You can see some restarts, how easy I screw up or how easy the game screws you up without choice and stuff. When I beat this level I did it in twelve minutes and IW's time was 4 minutes something, since I had beat them at High Explosive with Thumper headshots, and since I found out you are given a Thumper on this level I thought I could beat this record too. I quickly found I would not be able to beat the record using the Thumper, because the enemies spawn everywhere, and if you wait for them to arrive at your "nest" then its going to take ages (the seven minutes IW estimates it will take you). That means you have to be aggressive, so, hunting with the Thumper is not a very nice thing to try because the jugs spawn randomly all over the map, when they spawn they just stand there doing nothing, and you can ambush them, but if you are going to do that with all fifteen, and do so in less than IW's time that means you are some sort of psychic. The only way is to call their attention, by making noise, the gunshot or explosions sort of noise. But then you cant headshot them because they will come from everywhere, and shoot you kicking your aim and leaving your Thumper useless. So back to basics, the Barrett will do. I got a seven, then five minutes and forty seconds, four and forty seconds then four and twenty six, and so on. After playing for about 30 hours I got this time, four and nineteen, still losing to IW's time. How many attempts there? no idea, only five made it to the end though (the times I listed), every time trying to guess something about the game, I wasn't sure but it seemed that if I did the same things the game played the same, and something that almost always happened never happened if I changed my routine, as if the random number generator always started from a standard seed. For example, during this time getting a juggernaut on the first possible room was impossible, the first almost always appeared on the stairs to the second level. That meant a lot of time running without killing anything. Once I was bored and started firing by the beat of the music while climbing to the first floor, and guess what a juggernaut appeared where it had never before, cool, I wonder what happened. Then next attempt I did the same, and jugs was there, aha! so something having to do with that! So then I started firing to the tune of the music while climbing the stairs all the time, and that first jugs became common. Although having to fire and reload means I can't sprint, so then I started mixing it a bit, and fire at different speeds, more or less bullets, or at different segments of the way, without getting something useful so far. At the end of the video I added a blooper of something I loved about this level, and an easy one-Thumper-shot spot, but again it isn't useful for speed. On the next video I will explain more about the route and why I do stuff that doesn't look useful. On this one I was trying things as I played though, for example the grenades, I had been testing them around then, I decided they weren't useful at all. Check the response to keep reading the comments and the final run.
