Part 4/4

And that's the Speedrunning Grand Slam for RA2YR!

Another first sub30 LRT thanks to RNGesus and updated strats! Sorry Rexy, but your services were no longer required.

What made this run faster than the previous record? Apart from slight timesaves from better micro in 1, 3, and 6:
√ Mission 4 (Romanov on the Run) was played with one less Demolition Truck, and I managed to determine the triggers to activate the Apocalypse Tank reinforcements as soon as it could be available. The usual attackstop spam coming in handy again, of course!
√ Mission 7 (Head Games) made use of the discoverable Terrorists, which saved me ~20s IGT. Poetic since I also made use of free troops in the Allied Campaign back in 2021!

Potential timesaves? While I screwed up Mission 5 (Escape Velocity) by ~20s IGT, everything else couldn't have been more perfect in a full, nosave run. I was trying to find a way to retain the Dreadnought in Mission 1 (Time Shift) through the time travelling bit, but I never managed after literally a whole day experimenting on that very first part alone. If someone can do it, they'll save close to a whole minute on that mission.

This took me half a week for experimentation and mastery. While it was definitely the easiest of the four categories, I'd say it was the most RNG dependent due to relatively scrappy fighting in every mission (and Yuri clones in 4, good grief). It was also the most boring since, I swear, half the time is just cutscenes...

I plan to play through Yuri's Revenge's Allied Campaign sometime in the future as a remaster of my 2021 run since that was done on my old Mac with crappy quality. I do have slight improvements in mind, but I'll prolly rest and focus on other personal projects for now. Wish I had a time machine, too! xd


MISSION START TIMESTAMPS:
Mission 01 — 00:06
Mission 02 — 07:51
Mission 03 — 09:45
Mission 04 — 14:08
Mission 05 — 20:16
Mission 06 — 25:36
Mission 07 — 32:00
Ending/Credits — 34:56

Individual missions’ ingame completion times:
Time Shift — 7:55
Deja Vu — 1:52
Brain Wash — 4:26
Romanov on the Run — 6:16
Escape Velocity — 5:26
To the Moon — 6:32
Head Games — 2:42
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TOTAL —— 35:09
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REAL TIME — 34:31.93
REAL TIME w/o LOADS — 27:47.97


My Other World Record Runs:
RA2 Allied:    • https://youtu.be/C08afMXdt8  
RA2 Soviet:    • https://youtu.be/sfXuQJS4KZ0  
YR Allied:    • https://youtu.be/0WLdmcdlpx4  

My Gaming YT:    / https://www.youtube.com/channel/uc8u3...  
speedrun.com leaderboards: https://www.speedrun.com/cncyr#Soviet...


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