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Outer Wilds (2019)

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Spoiler warning: If you haven't played Outer Wilds, DON'T WATCH THIS! Go play the game first, it's genuinely one of the best games I've ever played.

There's been some talk in the Outer Wilds speedrun discord about making this category into an official category. Recently I saw a video by ‪@dalorleon‬ which detailed a route that was doable for casual players, and it was MUCH better than the route I came up with myself (which did mask skip and had to come back to the statue, left the ship on Brittle Hollow and flew to the QM shipless to warp back, etc). I used that as a base and added in some speedrun tricks (my own setup to fly to the stranger blind, some quantum moon OOB business).

I'm decently happy with this time! I believe it is a world record as of recording, beating JuliusCube's previous WR of 23:56. This run has tons of improvements to go however, and I can imagine this run getting down to 14-15 minutes once the OW speedrunning pros take a stab at it. A lucid dreaming setup will make the dream world section a ton faster, and doing the Quantum Moon by the Hourglass Twins instead of Brittle Hollow will save plenty of travel time. I was planning on doing a faster QM route but somehow during this livestream I had like 4 or 5 runs die on the QM in absolutely bonkers ways that never happened during practice lmfao so I just decided to take it (relatively) lame and safe.

More to come! And I look forward to seeing where this category goes once it's on the leaderboard.

Dalorleon's Video:    • Outer Wilds: How to Get the Best Endi...  

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