The mission speedrunners want, obviously, is the last one, so that they can finish it and wrap the game as quickly as possible. With the ability to execute any line of script code, we can warp to any mission we want.” “The short story is that starting Vigilante during a certain part of the mission Ryder makes the game jump to an arbitrary line of script…depending on a variable that is linked to the time since the game started.
The explanation was posted to Reddit by a user called Powdinet last week. You can see the new record-setting run below. It’s a breezy 40-step thing which includes instructions like “reset if no cop bike before 7:46,” “Avoid Vending Machines,” and “just get lucky loool.” Speedrunning is good.
But that time’s been slashed down to a blink-and-you'll-miss-it 25 minutes thanks to a new trick discovered this week. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas once took almost four hours to speedrun, even in the anything-goes Any% category.