Rerecords: 13776 (and yes it's damageless)
Swing count: 0 (obviously)
So, swingless - it's interesting. The overall skill ceiling is lower than it is with swinging, BUT the swingless tricks are much more difficult. It took a shorter amount of time to make this TAS than the any% for that reason. Rather than constantly looking for the optimal thing to swing on, you're just kind of, moving along the wall.
In typical Nate fashion, there are some mistakes in this TAS that cost probably around 10 seconds in total.
In chapter 3, there is some movement that could be improved just before reaching the date with Harry and MJ.
In chapter 7, I roll in the bugle, which probably loses a second (I did this because it was the only way I could get the bathroom spawn to work and didn't want to redo it; I wish I would have). Also in chapter 7, in the third prisoner round against Beck, one of the convicts gets glitched and doesn't enter the pit properly. At the end of the round, I yank him out and then bring him back in. This might not even lose any time (since I'm waiting for the other convicts to land in), but it looks sloppy regardless.
Although, I do use a new strategy for rounding up prisoners that saves a lot of time, since it prevents Beck from collecting anyone at all.
In chapter 8, I was only able to get the sniper to shoot the truck once, as opposed to twice in the any% TAS. This loses probably about a second.
In chapter 9, at about 25 minutes in flat, I go straight up on the pole swing. I probably didn't need to, losing a second or two.
In chapter 15, my method of defeating final Doc Ock was about 2 seconds slower than the any%.
There are some other bits of movement here and there that could probably be improved, too. But overall, I'm pretty happy with this TAS - saving a whopping 16 minutes over the current RTA record, and even beating the record that does use swings.
Though, there's one major problem you probably didn't notice. The game crashed. In chapter 15, the game crashes on the final hit of Doc Ock. The end cutscene just... doesn't play. Ever. I have absolutely no idea why this happened, and I couldn't reverse it without redoing a giant chunk of the TAS. So instead, I just spliced the end cutscene in. This means it probably won't be eligible to be posted to the TASVideos channel, so enjoy the Natetheman223 exclusive video.
0:00 Chapter 3
6:21 Chapter 4
9:16 Chapter 5
11:26 Chapter 6
14:01 Chapter 7
17:19 Chapter 8
21:43 The part you're here for (Chapter 9)
28:15 Chapter 10
32:07 Chapter 11
34:37 Chapter 12
38:47 Chapter 13
43:05 Chapter 14
48:08 Chapter 15
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