[Rough] Metroid Prime New Any% TAS Route Timing
10A couple things to note about this video: due to the effort required to time massively different routes, this video only aims to display the "base route" for the Varialess Early X-Ray route.
'What does that mean?' It means that multiple sections of the new route have mirco-routing improvements to still be timed/implimented. Here's a list:
Because the 2016 TAS route enters far Phendrana from Transport to Magmoor Caverns South, this comparison video also enters far Phendrana from the same path, despite the potential of traversing the Pirate Labs to end up at Elder through a shorter path. This is to create more overlap between the routes and thus less work for a base timing.
The 2016 TAS collects Charge Beam, meaning it can kill the Chozo Ghost in HOTE relatively faster. Because of Exo Skip and the TAS method for ending Ridley's air phase with only Boost, Charge Beam is likely faster to skip in both routes now. Therefore accounting for Charge would be an inaccurary, since neither VEX nor the classic PBBB route would collect Charge Beam.
This timing video assumes overlap between Flaahgra-to-Wild-to-Magmoor movement, although VEX as Boost during this segment, meaning some time can be saved though Boosting. Additionally, VEX could very well not fight Flaahgra and instead opt to wallcrawl past the boss (given Varia Suit is not required). I think this is likely faster, but the difference is probably less than 10 seconds so I didn't bother for this video.
The Wave Beam segment borrows movement from Edzan's 100% TAS, and therefore optimizations in mirco routing haven't been investigated here yet. It is potentially faster to wallcrawl to and from Wave Beam, skipping the boss fight and morph ball tunnel bomb puzzle.
Lastly the current Magmoor wallcrawl following Plasma Beam utilizes 3 Energy Tanks in this video. It is potentially possible to achieve this using only 2 tanks, which could save a considerable amount of time as all of the 3rd etank options are a bit out of the way.
And that's everything you need to know (I think). There is a lot more timing to be done but at least we know the base route is comparable and appears to have more room for improvement over the 2016 route.
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