STALKER: Clear Sky Speedrun (25:12)

Done in 9 segments. Due to an encoding issue there&a bit of superfluous footage (3:22 onward), but I cba re-encoding it for that. This is more of a proof of concept run than a world record attempt. ----------------- This run starts with two peculiarities: firstly, you can skip the first mission by finding shelter from the emission fast enough, so you never have to return to the Clear Sky base. Secondly, Clear Sky gives rather easy access to the "Twilight Zone", the out-of-bounds area, and there are level transition triggers kept here. As a result, I just run straight from the Swamps into Limansk without doing a single mission. In Limansk, the hard part starts. This level has a lot of very tight encounters that are designed to force you to kill everything before progressing. Fortunately, there&a way around all of them. The crossroad can be run past with decent success rate. The house of soldiers can be shortened by jumping through a specific window. The construction site, the worst of all, can be worked around with a grenade jump. And finally, the fence can be snuck through. The Hospital, sadly, has no such shortcuts, so I just have to clear every area as fast as possible. Annoyingly, a lot of this area comes down to waiting for the Clear Sky NPCs to come arbitrarily help you. And yes, the Strelok fight is really that easy, if you don&move forward to trigger all the enemies. Three things are key to this route: Medkit drop manipulation (every killed enemy can drop 1 or...