Hi IgorOliveira666, I am not convinced your movie actually optimizes for the goals you imposed on it. Here are the notes I took, could you please comment on them and correct me if I interpreted things incorrectly? (apologies for the use of third person):

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Although this movie has an odd choice of goal, one can appreciate the extra challenge it brings. The community has reacted mostly positive to it, indicating they found it entertaining. TASVideos certainly is open, today more than ever, to weird funny alternative goals other than finishing the game as fast as possible. Notwithstanding the above, we always require that movies are decently optimized, even for the more relaxed category we accept. This doesn't imply that the movie has to be perfect, but that the author has done their best to polish both the routing and the execution of the movie. My opinion can be prefaced by the author's own admission:

This TAS can probably be much faster, using other strategies, manipulating RNG's better. I didn't focus so much on optimization.

Although I see a somewhat polished execution, I believe routing has failed to remain consistent with the movie's own goals. For example, although both pistol and grenades are allowed, only enemies are killed with grenades, whereas the pistol is used for scenery only. However, such distinction is not clearly made in the movie's goal. It ought to be renamed to "Grenades for enemies, pistol for scenery". Even if the goal was changed, a particular violation of this rule was indicated in the findings by Dimon12321:

[...] Usage of grenades is weird at times. For example, when Leon and Ashley are locked in the room with a ceiling moving down, it takes a lot of time to wait for the ceiling to reach the height to make it possible to destroy "energy sources" with grenades, instead of using a handgun instantly.

We would need to accept that the energy sources in the ceiling are (un)living and breathing enemies to not use the pistol on them. This is a hard pill to swallow, as these are, albeit active, part of the scenery. Another observation by Dimon:

[...] The optimisation of TAS is also a little questionable. Since grenades are used as the only combat weapon, the author has to rely on adaptive difficulty to make necessary-to-kill enemies have less health and, maybe, improve the odds to get grenade drops. This is achieved by taking a lot of damage throughout the game. Watching this may make one doubt the optimisation of TAS. It looks very fragile, amateur-like and prolonged.

I would agree with this. Playing the game sloppily just for it to drop the difficulty and allow you to kill enemies with fewer grenades goes a bit against the spirit of the movies we produce. In a sense this might be, indeed, the fastest way to beat the game with grenades. However, it makes you wonder whether more clever ways can be found.

Well, I can try to explain. Firstly, talking about the objects on which I used grenades instead of the pistol, I did this to increase the challenge of the TAS and to show the public that it is possible to pass these specific parts using only grenades, without the aid of weapons. In fact, my initial idea with this TAS was not to use a pistol or any other type of weapon other than grenades. And yes, it is possible to complete the game using just grenades, without the aid of a pistol, however, I didn't do it that way because it would be too slow. I would have to use my own grenades to drop other grenades and I would have to take damage all the time to control the difficulty level. The reason I chose to use the pistol was exactly to avoid this and make the TAS more dynamic, but the main objective is to complete the game using only grenades, not only on enemies, but also in mandatory parts where we have to break objects or things in the type. I think I forgot to include and make these details clear in the description and I also think I made a mistake in the branch of this movie, and I apologize for that :( But now talking about optimization, I didn't really focus on optimizing that much, however, I didn't do it sloppily. As I already said, the damage I received was calculated and I had to manipulate the difficulty level. It's not a question of wanting to use as few grenades as possible, but rather that the game doesn't provide as many grenades in barrels/vases/RNG boxes as it seems. Could I have avoided taking so much damage? For sure! However, I would have to farm more grenades and probably farm by killing enemies and manipulating drops. Or, otherwise, I would have to go to off-route places to find more RNG objects to drop grenades with the pistol. So, realize that, one way or another, I would have to "waste" time, either taking damage or farming grenades. It's very difficult to know which strategy would be faster in this case and as I wasn't as focused on being as fast as possible, I opted for the easier strategy of taking damage and using less grenades. And another issue is that, many times, I didn't farm grenades, even though I could, because I didn't have space in the suitcase. I could have farmed a lot of grenades in the cabin, for example, which would have prevented me from taking too much damage in the future, but, as I didn't have space in the suitcase, I couldn't do that. Maybe I should have thought better about the routes for this TAS. I did my best with what I had. Finally, I don't know what the ideal branch would be for this movie. I believe that "Grenades for enemies, pistol for scenery" would not be correct, because I ONLY use the pistol to farm grenades and I use the grenades themselves in the scenery. Maybe "grenades for enemies/scenario & pistol on objects" or something like that would be better, but I'm not sure. EDIT: I edited the description and I believe the objective of this TAS is now clearer. Sorry about that! Now all that remains is to correct the branch, but I'm still not sure which one would be ideal.