Max Payne 3 - future data skips in Chapter 10
4For reference. If you want to know more about the skips in this game, see this guide I wrote on Speedrun:
https://www.speedrun.com/Max_Payne_3/guide/hb4vl
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0:00 - Chapter 10-4. Have to activate future data after killing all enemies. This sends Max to next set piece early, although it's unwinnable for now. You have to wait for a moment after Max becomes idle, after which point retrying is possible and makes game continue like normal from next Checkpoint. This skips a long cutscene and overall saves around 75 seconds?
0:39 - Chapter 10-5. The next skip is right afterwards. After the chain set piece is over and gameplay continues, using future data sends Max to next Checkpoint early. This only skips a bit of navigation, though. Overall timesave around 10 seconds.
1:07 - Chapter 10-8. Activate future data after fighting enemies and watching the scene of Giovanna walking down. This immediately sends Max to next cutscene, skipping a long cutscene and saving around 68 seconds.
However, trying to do this on console crashes the game during the next fight instead. There's a chance this is a PC-only skip, or alternatively you might have to quit + Continue on console to prevent the crash. It requires a bit more testing.
1:28 - Chapter 10-9. Activating future data after fighting all enemies sends Max to the console room. Using the console afterwards immediately begins next Checkpoint. However, since this skip only saves a negligible amount of time and is mutually exclusive with other skips in the Chapter, it isn't really used in any category.
1:45 - Chapter 10-10. Activating future data during the bullet time of shooting the last enemy begins the next set piece early and it becomes overlapped with the unskippable cutscene leading to it. It looks funny and saves a whopping 50 seconds (?).
2:51 - Chapter 10-11. Activating future data during the last moments before the fade-out skips the unskippable cutscene before the last set piece. It's another relatively big skip, saving around 45 seconds. However, it's mutually exclusive with the previous skip, and saves less time, so it makes sense to use the former. As a side effect, Max spends the set piece outside the bus, but otherwise things should work like normal.
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