THE META HAS CHANGED
It's finally here, after doing some IWs with the whip bounce strats, I took a break from Clustertruck to focus on another game but for the past 2 weeks I've been back and hard at work trying to put together a fullgame run with these new strats and it's finally happened! This marks the first time in several years that any abilities that aren't levitate or portable truck have been used in a world record Any% speedrun, so this is an absolutely landmark moment in this game's progression. We still need levitate for the lategame worlds, but a majority of the levels now run solely with the truck boost/portable truck combo.
Overall, from my testing, this saves about ~25 seconds in the Any% run, maybe a couple seconds more, but makes the run a fair bit harder, numerous levels have stricter speed requirements to make it to the end, and some levels require entirely new routing that is pretty much always harder than the way it was formerly done with levitate, so you'll have to forgive me for not taking full advantage of those 25 seconds just yet :P, it really is that much harder. But the thing is, I likely could've PBed much sooner if I were not effectively handicapped for most of these past 2 weeks, not only was I dealing with occasional mouse issues messing up my setups at times, I was also unknowingly playing at a much lower FPS than normal up until a few days ago, this made certain levels much, much less consistent, especially in Forest in particular, so for a lot of the first 10 days I was struggling to get any paces that were remotely good, once I resolved this FPS issue a few days ago however I immediately started getting paces like this one here with relative ease, I lost a few promising runs to the lategame worlds, but I knew I could only be held back so long and I eventually broke through, this run still didn't have a good lategame though, the fact that 9:9 PTB is still not working on pace despite me having a high consistency with it on dead runs is rather annoying, but this run is merely the first step towards my next goal of sub 10:30 Any%, so stay tuned for that ^^
I also wanna note two things specifically about my splits here:
1. The time on my splits at the end of the run is NOT accurate, livesplit is not factoring in the time taken to swap between abilities after Ancient but that part of the run DOES count towards my final time, so the title and thumbnail is accurate, this run is a 10:40 and not a 10:37
2. My sum of best is not accurate here, I messed up my SoB tinkering with my splits earlier, my true SoB is 9:45.28, and is more like a high 9:47 if considering what I said in note 1
11:35.483 RTA
Lastly, I don't know if anyone is still reading this, but this run is dedicated to someone special, someone very important to me, who recently left us. I'd like to keep things private so I'd prefer to avoid saying their name or their relation to me, but I wanted to honour them in what way I could, and I hope that I'll be able to honour them with all that I do in life from here on out, so if you're somehow able to read this from where you're at, I just wanted to say that you really mean so much to me, and I still think about you every single day.
I miss you.
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