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Saw two fairly new users battling it out, so figured I would make an attempt from scratch as the game really spoke to me but it needed a good TAS.
This is frame perfect to every single movement, pickup, door, window, grandma, murder, and glitch.
I also used Spikestuff's slower TAS to verify after I finished that there weren't any IL gains anywhere that I was missing albeit still coming out ahead overall. There were not. Ironically, although our movements were vastly different (there's no diagonal movement, you can start either direction and murders can be committed on a bunch of different frames with no slowdown) and our RNG was manipulated different, we stayed frame perfect up until the bonus level.
It should be noted for some odd reason, the lag frames at the end of the main game are longer for me and shorter for Spikestuff. However, neither of us could continue until the exact same frame, so this negated the issue and ended up on the same frame again.
I had a few frame gains Spikestuff didn't catch, but the biggest timesave was discovery of being able to kill two nurses at once using a glitch I discovered. By manipulating the RNG precisely, I not only get an ideal pattern of their movement, but the nurse actually walks into the knife. The one I just used on the other nurse. It not only kills two birds with one stone but seems to speed up the death and also release me much quicker (likely at the release time of the first nurse). Also manipulated the last nurse (I have a way with nurses) for better murder.
Just want to re-iterate this was made from scratch and the other runs were not referenced until after it was finished. It's very neck and neck but the movies are obviously very different. Plus this game is desync hell.
Oh, and the game clearly uses subframes or something, because there were several levels IL that were a frame off in either direction, each frame compensating for the gain/loss, ending the main game on the exact same frame for us both. I noticed this in levels that are physically impossible to improve, so basically the work in the previous level is pushing me forward. Lose a frame to gain a frame, evens out.
Anyways, I don't see a way this could be improved. So ready to submit.
This is so polished I would be surprised if it can be beaten.

ThunderAxe31: Claiming for judging.

OtakuTAS: Requesting frame 13,826 for thumbnail/screenshot frame.

ThunderAxe31: 1 blank frames removed at the end. Spooky game stabbed fast. Accepting.

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But the biggest timesave was discovery of being able to kill two nurses at once using a glitch I discovered.
It's the same double kill that can be done within the Police Station, so technically not a discovery. I didn't have a viable setup when I went for it so the userfile where it was setting up desirable positions at the cost of a missed double kill was chosen instead. Since I made mine just as a buffer for what is on the workbench, not as a submission with the knowledge that Bonus round is bad. Same goes for Friday the 13th if you want to hijack that one. The only way to technically improve over this movie is somehow getting a triple kill with one swing on those nurses in the bonus round. Other than that nothing to note. Well besides spell my alias correctly (also to the Judge. One frame error at ending input). Edit: Oh on the topic of the brackets. You're comparing to an non-truncated version by FistaGames. It's a 69 frame improvement over them when their input is truncated (70 if your input wasn't off a frame).
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Spikestuff wrote:
But the biggest timesave was discovery of being able to kill two nurses at once using a glitch I discovered.
It's the same double kill that can be done within the Police Station, so technically not a discovery. I didn't have a viable setup when I went for it so the userfile where it was setting up desirable positions at the cost of a missed double kill was chosen instead. Since I made mine just as a buffer for what is on the workbench, not as a submission with the knowledge that Bonus round is bad. Same goes for Friday the 13th if you want to hijack that one. The only way to technically improve over this movie is somehow getting a triple kill with one swing on those nurses in the bonus round. Other than that nothing to note. Well besides spell my alias correctly (also to the Judge. One frame error at ending input). Edit: Oh on the topic of the brackets. You're comparing to an non-truncated version by FistaGames. It's a 69 frame improvement over them when their input is truncated (70 if your input wasn't off a frame).
Tried getting the triple kill but I think I've seen every RNG combination at this point and it's not even close. (I spelled it right didn't I? You mean the capitalization? Lol) I also trimmed the file this time. Not sure why it ended up adding a frame. It definitely wasn't there when I exported the .bk2. Because I knew you'd have something to say! Lol.
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Should also be noted that FistaGames is the creator and has 6 "New" TASes up for all his games. Obviously just as a starting point to stir competition. Pretty cool.
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Spikestuff wrote:
But the biggest timesave was discovery of being able to kill two nurses at once using a glitch I discovered.
It's the same double kill that can be done within the Police Station, so technically not a discovery.
Sort of, but not really, as you don't actually hit her hitbox it seems, she kind of like walks into it. Police both get smacked at the same time.
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Encode added.
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