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Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction (2005)

Duration: 1:11:33

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Now with double flings!

I did a pretty good recap at the end but I’ll do a full one below in the following format

Split Name
Split Time | Split Gold | Tier Rank (S, A, B, C, D, or F)
Description

Ante Up
6:07 | 5:36 | D
I had a bad fling up to the 2 and I don’t think I executed the double fling well either. Easy timesave

9, 7, 10, medevac, 3, medevac
6:28 | 5:53 | B
I think I’m gonna try to rework a lot of this split before I run this again, I don’t like where the first double fling puts you most of the time and I don’t like driving most of the way to the 7. Pretty good split though

8, 6, Mafia save, 5, medevac
4:10 | 3:31 | B
I question this route in the recap but actually, a lot of the timeloss here is bad luck. I think I might stick with this

STT Start
3:03 | 1:17 | F
Garbage split all around, Very easy timesave in the future

Stem the Tide
2:45 | 2:12 | C
Bad northern checkpoint, but the rest of the contract went pretty well

A Proper Function of Government
6:03 | 4:38 | D
A to B execution, but F luck leading to a D split. Losing those 2 baggage carriers hurt

A Farewell to Kings
3:24 | 3:02 | A
This is about as good as this can go with this new LZ, next time I do think I’ll try the old LZ again since its faster and we have the punch strat for added consistency

GOKD Start
2:22 | 1:36 | C
Man, I hate that goddamned hole

The Guns of Kirin-Do
3:43 | 3:43 | A
3 tenths of a second off gold, but there’s definitely gold potential here with better driving and a better final fling

10, 7, medevac
2:26 | 2:26 | A
New route, new split, new gold. I’d call it an A. The fling could have gone better but it’s a double so its hard to be very precise with them

4, 6, 8, (and 2), medevac
6:08 | 6:08 | C
Got an extra card here, this is going to make the sum of best not very helpful in the future. I’m used to taking a safer route to the 2 but after Escar’s hole in one I felt obligated to go for it. Lost a lot of time in the process

5,9, start MTD
4:42 | 4:42 | A
Got a gold because I cut a card out from this split. Came very close to completely missing the fling to the 9, I shouldn’t have tried to fling on the hill. With that being said, this WAS a pretty good split

Manipulate the Data
2:37 | 2:37 | A
Nearly an S tier, 2 small mistakes

Exit Strategy
1:20 | 1:20 | A
Pretty good for a first attempt new strat. My first fling is slower than Escar’s but I feel safer flinging from there

Chain Reaction
2:56 | 2:35 | B
Drove up the hill earlier to try and get a disguise, still didn’t get it, probably wasted at least 10 of the 20 seconds doing that. I’m considering just YOLOing this in the future since every run is essentially a YOLO run without a disguise anyway

The Ace of Spades
5:14 | 4:43 | C
Maybe a harsh rating considering how little timeloss is in this split, but considering how easy and consistent this split should be when you drive, I don’t like it

The statistics for this run prove that the new strats help a lot, I got this record without a lot of effort. It only took 7 attempts with a final attempt county of 86. I figured out my sum of best got screwed up in livesplit, the true sum of best right now is 55:59. I feel like the total time played might have also got messed up because I know one of my 7 attempts got 52 minutes into the run but the time played only incremented about 1 hour 10 minutes from my last record to 36:06:41

0:00 Introduction
2:34 Ante Up
6:11 9, 7, 10, medevac, 3, medevac
12:39 8, 6, Mafia save, 5, medevac
16:49 STT Start
19:53 Stem the TIde
22:39 A Proper Function of Government
28:42 A Farewell to Kings
32:07 GOKD Start
34:30 The Guns of Kirin-Do
38:10 10, 7 medevac
40:36 4, 6, 8, (and 2), medevac
46:47 5, 9, start MTD
51:30 Manipulate the Data
54:08 Exit Strategy
55:27 Chain Reaction
58:26 The Ace of Spades

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