Friday the 13th Speedrun in 2m54s (3rd place)

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Published on December 28, 2021 6:34:38 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-X4oYcHix8

Duration: 3:17

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Frame counted to 2m54s233ms
WR is 2m53s874ms by PGHGuitarGuy, so I was roughly half a second off (update: now 2m52600ms, so 1.4s off)

Update again: 2nd place is now 2m52s by TheMightyMeatBag and WR is down to 2:51 by PGH. Whenever I come back I can definitely get a 2:51, but I don't know when that'll be. The 3 second timesave on day 1 is especially bad. 2:50 is possible but tight, and sub 2:50 is barely possible. I could get it if I really dedicated a ton of time but I'd probably have lost my mind by that point. Despite being a pretty easy route it's very optimized and just in this 4 hour session of runs I reset easily 1,000 times.

Timelosses:
3s day 1 (1s up to torch, 2 seconds to slow scroll)
~0.5s day 2 (bad Jason spawn/slow scroll)
~2s day 3 (a couple iffy throws, my B button doesn't function well and I need a new controller, bad RNG on 2nd Jason spawn and zombie spawn before last Jason spawn). The zombie spawned because Jason lunged towards me on his 2nd spawn therefore I couldn't gain as much distance to his next encounter. It was partially RNG but it's avoidable either way.

All in all a pretty good run, the slow scroll on day 1 was the most costly mistake, I mistakenly got ahead of Jason. The 1 second timeloss up to torch is based on my best time exiting the cabin in the woods which is just barely 43 seconds, but that's not realistic to get consistently. Sometimes the knife or key will spawn a little off and you'll have to cut a few frames, so the timeloss on day 1 is realistically closer to 2.5s. Yolo'ing the knife spawn saves almost a second but it's practically guaranteed to spawn in a similar way as it did here for me where you have to turn before landing to get it. I only lost time here having to do that from misjudging it though, most of the time I was jumping into it with my strategy of jumping around the door instead of the first fencepost.

Was a little over a second behind my previous PB of 2m57s at the end of day 1. Day 2s spawns and scrolls are heavily RNG dependent so it's hard to be perfect there. The same applies to day 3 since a zombie can spawn before the 1st and 3rd encounter, I got one on the 3rd which is actually pretty uncommon.

Sub 2:50 is possible but is extremely unlikely between all the luck required for good item spawns, zombie spawns (and lack thereof), and Jason spawns (combined with screen scrolls). It all has to work out just right and execution has to be stellar, but this game is just too random. It can take hundreds of resets before you even get the right seed, and then you instantly lose it because the knife spawns badly.

Goal is just world record for the time being, but a 2:51 would be really nice. I'm just happy to be improving at this rate as I have only recently started practicing. Still, it takes sometimes 1,000 resets in one session just to get a PB. The route is easy in general, a lot of people can get sub 3 now. it's all about the RNG at this level in every way.