Tomb Raider Anniversary City of Vilcabamba 2:43 Speedrun

[XiiMATTYiiX]

i cannot jump to that block of wood that turns when you get on it!

[sparkle3cm]

on my game this level doesnt work :( and natlas mines doesnt eather :(

[FreezingChilla]

hey, how did you jump on 0:37 - 0:40 and 0:54 - 0:57? Please help someone, in that place I can't jump on the platform :(( Lara doesn't reach it somehow

[redbull395]

@FreezingChilla

try holding down the jump button =)

[xxxkkk100]

my record is 3:22

[Moboro123]

Wow.. You really pass it so little time.. :)

[lara39164]

Sorry i make a mistake you suck vithor do gta!!

The game is cool!!

[SAMTHEMANTHATCAN]

agreed

[JayChuckers]

lol HOLY COW, 0:38... :-s

[hannelise89]

wish you could do that on the 360 version, which i have. all the flips to the side and skipping practically half the level.

[lovedolars]

wait can you please tell me how did you do that at 0: 55 cuz i just cant jump to that platform on normal way like every one do, maybe this way i will make it...

<:-)

[ilovelctr]

You have to turn FRAPS (the recording tool for PC games) on and set the recording framerate to any below 40FPS. When performing the track, you need to switch the recording mode on by pressing F9. Then FRAPS will limit the framerate to the recording framerate you've chosen, and this way, the back-flip trick is rather easy to achieve, since it requires low framerate due to the strange engine of this heaven-sent game...

[merbear27]

there's no way to do it on a mac is there

[dbzkunalsharma]

this man do very exellent job awesome coool fantastic can you tell me how to jump like this

[AdzTurner]

Tomb Raider (1996) is way better.

[ilovelctr]

Agreed. The interesting puzzles and the isolating atmosphere no longer exist in modern TRs.

[CZed91]

it's always nice watching your videos...

2:59 it's so ridiculus looking at COMPLETED TIME TRIAL: Yes/No...

I mean it's obvious that the answer is more than Yes...

[hesselz2]

Speedrun looks always fun, when you see Lara Croft so fast running :) Very nice well done.

(You can do it faster with the flymod XP)

[Amora000A]

Wow! that was pretty cool, well done ilovelctr

[skillisme]

is there any way to get rid of those annoying on-screen instructions? They ruin the feeling of 'being there' in the game...I mean, I'm now on the third level and it's still telling me what buttons to press as though I'm a little kid, or someone who didn't bother reading the manual. I've taken off the ridiculous hint indicator (which defeats a big point of the game - exploring for yourself), but there doesn't seem to be away to get these intrusive words off the screen.

[ilovelctr]

Sadly nope, there's no way to get rid of them, while the *.TRAprofile file (not autosave file, but it also saves automatically) will save the condition of blackout tutorials, relics and artifacts (so that's why you wouldn't need to re-pick one if you load from the previous gamesave). Thus theorially, once a tutorial has appeared, it shouldn't show up again.

Hint indicator doesn't matter much imo, cuz it only tells you which object is moveable. :) But it's nice that you love exploring. :P

[skillisme]

thanks mate. I guess I'll just have to try to ignore them. Good time, by the way...I'm going to see if I can beat it!

[ilovelctr]

No problem. :)

And nice you're going to try to the run. I'd really like to see someone doing a full speedrun without fly glitch and go-thru-wall bug for this game and submitting it to the official world record site SDA. For myself, I just totally got frustrated by the incredibly harsh demands on positioning Lara for some shortcuts.

[verhadCOOL]

GOD! damn thats too fast!!!!!

REDICULES!

[xFaassjjx]

now that's epic lol i mean dude.... there is no way i could ever do that XD I didn't even notice your mistakes.. i guess i'm that bad lol

but i am very impressed (Y) x

[ilovelctr]

Thank you for commenting my vids and for compliments. ^^

Well for the most of times, I play the game normally and always make mistakes too, just like everyone else. For a speedrun of a certain lvl, I always have to practice it for many many times. :P

[FinalFantasyGirl3]

Omg that´s soooo fast!!

And those Bats are also very Fast btw...Oo

[ilovelctr]

And they're mean. :P

[ShadowJacky]

the shortcut at 0:37, do you have to flip jump to get over the wooden door? I've been trying on the wii and it's hard enough to get on the key slot surface, but I can never go over the door :(

[ilovelctr]

It doesn't really require a salto jump to get it work. A long jump (by holding the jump button for a long time) can be used too. The key factor is to get the right angle when you jump toward the door. The angle is a bit harsh and needs exercises.

[ShadowJacky]

ah ok, thanks

[ilovelctr]

It's my pleasure. :P

[MALISH1234]

OMG!!!!!!!! thats incredible!!!!! i thought i was good! lol

[Reasondinn]

hey man you are the best man in the world for tomb raider

[Lara123Croft]

Whoa,Fantastic!

[toffee2k7]

Nice one ^-^

[csengu]

woohooooo o_O

[Chapsxo]

=0

Omg your awesome at this game XDD

[ilovelctr]

Thank you. ^^

[ByPeter23]

awesome job! really!!!!!!!!

O_O'

[QueenLeTigre]

Whoa!  Nice job! 5 stars!

[ilovelctr]

Thank you, haha. ^^

[EwilAndNice88]

I haven't watched it but I'm going to :)

[EwilAndNice88]

Great Vid:*

You and EwilCZ are my favourites ; )

[ilovelctr]

Thanx! ^^ Then have you watched MMAN(as MMAN2 on Youtube)'s work? He's also an awesome TR speedrunner. :P

[ilovelctr]

Well, that's not I who have found all the shortcuts and tricks. Pay attention to the info part of this vid. As I typed down there, many ppl contributed to this run. But it is I who played this, lol. ^_^

And no, not on Wii, I play TRA on PC only, using my keyboard and mouse.

[kayakopart]

lol O_O

[velvetolio]

love it!

[leveldesigner]

tomb raider 1 (original) is way better than this game. i dont like this game but that was a good run.

[Nightlover69]

Its always fun to watch when someone beat the level so fast that it´s almost unbelievable :o Nice work!

[ilovelctr]

Thank you, hehe. :P

[lctrgirlfan]

in lithuanian vilcabamba means wolve stomiach

[StephenFlagg]

bypassed the key--nice

[ilovelctr]

Thx. :) This fantastic trick was found by jardart; many thanks to him.

[NoodleMoogle]

That was...fast. I have this on PS2 and it might just be me exaggerating but she seems to pull up onto ledges faster...Anyhow that was...fast.

[ilovelctr]

The speed of pulling up a ledge is the same on PC and PS2. And when swinging pole, you could activate manual grab. As soon as you're on a pole, let go off manual grab.

As for these tricks, I think they should be possible to be performed on PS2 too. Since the back flip upon the door frame needs less than 30 FPS. And does the PS2 version run at 30? If so, you're supposed to be able to do that. But for the 1st left roll that I used in my Mountain Caves run, it needs 60, which PS2 can't hold.

[RadxxRyan]

Amazing.

[ilovelctr]

Thx. ^^

[lkjkorn19]

I wonder, at the first time that you do the backwards jump with the pistols (at 0:56) the message appears with her recovering from a bad grip, would it save time if you would've triggered this message in a level before? Like when getting the medipack in mountain caves above the wolf bridge...

[ilovelctr]

Yeah, I know that. :) But since this is an individual level run, which was played by "Replay Level" mode, the message can't be avoided anyway. And actually the lasting period of this kinda message won't be counted into your completition time judging by playing it in Time Trial mode (The timer will stop automatically).

[ilovelctr]

As for a continuous run (Save and Load method), after the first time you've triggered it, you'll never see it again even if you load a previously saved point that takes place before the message pops out, cuz whether it appears depends on whether it has been saved in the Profile.TRAProfile file, which is automatically saved like the autosave file. :)

[lkjkorn19]

Oh, I see. Thanks for making that clear. I'm sorry I haven't noticed it was an individual level run.

[gothicjaden]

Wow good job your fast

[ilovelctr]

Thx.

[xMaaarly]

OMG! OMG!

xD How COOL.

It looks like your cheating, but you don't, right?

[ilovelctr]

You could try all these tricks yourself to see if I ever cheated.

[ilovelctr]

Btw, those door-frame tricks had better be performed at less than 30 FPS, or you won't get such a high success rate. ;)

[lkjkorn19]

This is awesome man! Great playing.

[ilovelctr]

Thank you. :D

[qebiko]

fanstastic, well done!!

[ilovelctr]

Thx again, mate. ^^

[felcool]

My god...

It's amazing!

Great job! I will need more practice for do that lol^^.

[ilovelctr]

Thank you. :D

[MissFancyDay]

Ooh my god so fast! :D Come and do the time trials to me please!!!!!!! lolz but you are so good and talented ohmygod :DDDDD

[ilovelctr]

Thank you. ^^ And... haven't you finished your time trials?

[MissFancyDay]

No! I just have Mountain blaa (2 secs remained), vilcabamba, lost valley, coliseum, final conflict and sanctuary of the scion ohmygod I'm going to go crazy with those remaining-ones. Ooh and I have done the croft manor too lol :)

[MissFancyDay]

ooh and btw in TRL, can you get some rewards by completing the levels on hard?

[ilovelctr]

That's much easier than TRA, so, yes. :)

[MissFancyDay]

Ooh great! :P

[LaraPL]

lovely :)

[ilovelctr]

Thanks. :)

[marshymelpi]

One of the shortcuts was skipping the wolves and the bear... do a ledge glitch and jump pass the gate.. at 0:38. If you opened the gate properly, then it triggers the wolves behind the gate. But since you did this shortcut, does it trigger the wolves?

[ilovelctr]

That was found by jardart, and he told me about this before. Yeah, to trigger those wolves, you need the village key. But this glitch is extremely hard to be performed here. Even jardart has only succeeded once.

[marshymelpi]

Once? It must've been twice at the least, I assume, since he took a try at finding the shortcut and once for recording it. Unless he has his recorder on the whole time.. :|

[ilovelctr]

I mean, the shortcut can work well in those places that were shown in his vids, but not here in this particular lvl. He has only succeeded this glitch in City of Vilcabamba once only.

[marshymelpi]

ohh. And you? :)

[ilovelctr]

I never succeeded, not once.

[marshymelpi]

It'd be freaky if I could...

[DJTomoe]

Great run.

Excellent job ;3

[ilovelctr]

Thank you. :)

[evilbetty11]

It's strange how every living thing in this game wants Lara dead. What did she ever do to a tiny little rat? Who in real would probably just keep minding its own business. Anyway, you seem to be getting better and better at these runs well done.

[ilovelctr]

Thank you. :D In fact, there're several other lvls that I still haven't tried yet. I'm gonna get myself some trainings on them when I've got enough time. I wanna push every lvl to its limit finally. ^^

[qebiko]

fantastic speedrun, i see what you mean about the airwalk thing, nice find!!

[ilovelctr]

Thank you again, Ricky. :D

[marshymelpi]

Looks good. Bat friends annoyed you, huh. :]

Btw, did you say you were going to get a new computer soon?

[ilovelctr]

Yeah, I said, in the description section of several videos that I made recently, from which I believe you saw it. Actually, not very soon, perhaps in March this year will I buy a new one, for the sake of making speedruns. :) You know, my graphic card is poor. :D

[marshymelpi]

Quote: You know, my graphic card is poor. :D

Response: ... *akward silence* Ehhmmm... I think my graphic card is lower than lowest. :O hahaa..

[ilovelctr]

So is mine, hahaha. ^0^ Guess what? These runs were all recorded at 640x480 resolution with all VFX switched OFF only except shadows, reflections and water effects ON, and no Anti Aliasing. And I also adjusted the flitering level to the lowest via my graphic card driver. ^^

[marshymelpi]

really. I thought you had everything on! XD

[ilovelctr]

And I'm also considering whether I should remake Legend walkthrough with all the VFX switched on by that time. Do you have any suggestion on it? ^^

[marshymelpi]

If it looks good and doesn't harm the speed! lol :D

[ilovelctr]

It is for sure that I will make it more fast-paced if I redo it. ^^ With the next-gen effects, the graphics will look fantastically awesome, and Lara will become much more beautiful. XD Hmm, since you agree, I'll redo it! :D

[marshymelpi]

Oh wait! lol.... you don't have to redo it if you don't want to :D It's good enough!

[masterofthemasters]

Great vids a can badly wait to see the entire anniversary speedrun.

My graphic card is horible too, the only way o play is turning shadows, reflections and water effects OFF, and without anti aliasing and all vfx turned OFF.

And even in fog or water the game became a lot slowler.

[marshymelpi]

You're not the only one with all those turned off. ;)

[ilovelctr]

Thanx. Probably I will finally make whole run. :)

[Winger4u]

Great speedrun!

[ilovelctr]

Thanx.