This video takes a look at some of the first strats that were discovered for GTAV Speedruns back in 2013 and 2014, who found them and stories about how they were found, then takes a look at how strats were found/shared/worked on from 2015 to 2018. My last video was comparing the 2014 to 2019 speedrun with the 5 year gap, and this video will cover many of the early histories of the strats seen in that video. The comparison I made was only 15 minutes long, as many of the early routing in the GTAV Speedrun was somewhat set in place by the time the run I covered from Dekap in 2014 was done.
Many guides for speedrunning don't cover all the strats. The guides I watched to learn GTAV Speedruns, the guides I watched to learn GTA:SA Speedruns, and the guides I googled for games like Fallout and Mario 64's Speedruns all shared one thing - they present the speedrun as the speedrun. I approached my Casual VS Speedrun in GTAV the same way - I presented the run as-is, as taking the time to list every single person who found every single strat would both triple the length of the guide, as well as be nearly impossible to actually fact-check as shown in this video. So videos like these are how I want to present who-found-what in GTAV Speedrun strat finding, along with my Strat Update series. It seems like the best way to document this info.
I'm not much of a strat hunter myself - most ideas I get or people give me I pass onto Burhac or Reloe as of these days, so most of my opinions on this come from the runners I've interacted with - my desire is to just use the strats, and make videos documenting the cool stories, if any, of how they were found, the Reloe Hospital Warp being a prime example from this video.
My statement of "the strat fades into the run and just becomes part of it" may not sit well with everyone but it really seems to ring true for most of the people I talked to (can see some of them below) who actual do strat finding, so I'm expressing what I see, not trying to present a fact or something.
I used Dekap's footage for lots of the 2013/2014 strats when the footage otherwise didn't exist. It was just readily available and better visual quality than anyone else's at the time.
I call this video "Incomplete" as knowing every single strat and the who and why behind them may be near impossible, and I doubt I will ever cover every single one. So making a video that covers as many as possible like this seems like the best thing to do instead.
SpeedDemos Archive Forums:
Mission Chart - Updates by Reloe, original credits unknown:
GTA Series WR Progreession by Odysssic:
Speedrunslive - GTAV:
Dekap's Footage/2014 WR Run:
Velolcinator's Crystal Maze Strat:
Dekap's first Marriage Consueling Skip:
Trevor's Police Switch:
Ryedawg Cop Skip:
CyberThunder Firework Launcher:
Torik's Original Marriage Counseling Skip for PC:
Torik's SaveWapring:
DarkViperAU Dialogue Skip:
Dekap confusion (now known Hospital Warp):
Thanks to these runners who took some time to speak with me:
Dekap:
Ryedawg:
Mattie:
Toriks:
Reloe:
Burhac:
KZ_Frew:
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