Skipping Incinerate - Bioshock Speedrunning

These videos are a collection of glitches and tricks I've found that are likely to be useful to the speedrunning community. They're here for your reference. If you've not played Bioshock, you won't understand them. If you aren't interested in speedrunning, you won't appreciate them. They are demonstration videos only and no attempt has been made to carry out these tricks quickly - only to show how to do them.

This trick allows you to skip getting the incinerate plasmid. The normal sequence of the game requires you to use Incinerate to melt the ice blocking the door to Dandy Dentals. However it can be melted by placing a burning object on it instead. The quickest way to acheive this that any human has actually pulled off is shown here: to light an object with the burning corpse of the splicer outside Eternal Flame, then knock it quickly down the stairs to Dandy Dentals. A perfect run using this skip could potentially be up to 25 seconds faster than a perfect run getting the Incinerate plasmid.

Note that while the concept is simple, the trick is incredibly hard. Many skilled speedrunners have spent hours trying to pull it off and not succeeded once. This is mainly due to the high degree of unpredictability in where an object will go when you hit it, and the small time window between setting the object on fire and it going out. This trick deserves its own segment in a segmented run, and single-segment runners shouldn't even try.

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• Bioshock
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• Glitch
• Sequence
• Break
• speed
• demos
• archive
• sda
• skip
• incinerate

[ledzeplin101]

clever, but why would you want to skip incinerate!?

[ExplodingCabbage]

For speedrunning. Skipping it saves about 15 seconds in Medical Pavilion, and after Medical Pavilion, Incinerate doesn't really have any further use in a speedrun.

Check out my 2:55 Medical Pavilion run at /watch?v=1vE5gKKxISE to see the trick being used in a real run.

[BlitzKriege35]

So how do you get to the smugglers hideout? You need Incinerate to melt the ice on a freezer that leads to smugglers.

[ExplodingCabbage]

Shoot it with exploding buck. There's some on one of the corpses on the beams at the top of the room where you knock on Peach's door; if you bring that corpse with you with telekinesis, you can grab the ammo off it as soon as you put your weapons in the pneumo tube.

[DanteTrickster]

genious!

[w0mblemania]

Very clever!

[yogos87]

im subbing.

[nicmanity]

nice

[wonderedmario]

amazing genios

[bvanhar1]

great never thought of that