New GTA: San Andreas trick slashes speedrun from 4 hours to 25 minutes

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as soon as took virtually 4 hours to speedrun, even within the anything-goes Any% class. But that point’s been slashed all the way down to a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it 25 minutes because of a brand new trick found this week. It’s a breezy 40-step factor which incorporates directions like “reset if no cop bike before 7:46,” “Avoid Vending Machines,” and “just get lucky loool.” Speedrunning is sweet. You can see the brand new record-setting run under.

The rationalization was posted to Reddit by a person known as Powdinet final week. “The short story is that starting [side mission] Vigilante during a certain part of the [main] 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. With the ability to execute any line of script code, we can warp to any mission we want.”

The mission speedrunners need, clearly, is the final one, in order that they will end it and wrap the game as rapidly as attainable. In order to get the game to entry the appropriate little bit of script, they must entry the mission Vigilante after which cancel it between 82070ms and 82093ms after starting the game. They do that by basing it on the in-game time of seven:46pm, however there’s no strategy to inform if it labored for 20 or so minutes afterwards.

There’s so much that must be performed – and due to this fact that may go unsuitable – throughout that point. Players have to finish sure missions, kill NPCs for money, and get particular haircuts. But don’t fear an excessive amount of concerning the particular steps. Powdinet writes that this isn’t essentially the “optimal” strategy to pull off the glitch, and it’ll possible be improved “at some point” anyway.

“I’ve been searching for this kind of glitch for over 3 years on and off now,” they write. It’s presently solely accessible on the Windows version of the game.

The earlier world document for the run solely dropped below 4 hours 5 months in the past, at three hours 52 minutes. Powdinet presently holds the brand new, 25 minute document, however with the lid so cleanly blown off there’s certain to be a rush of recent makes an attempt, and it’s solely a matter of time earlier than extra refinements are made.

Thanks, Kotaku.