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Metal Gear Solid Speedrun Tutorial: PC Any% (Full Route)

NickRPGreen

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VOD of a tutorial stream I hosted on 5/8/21. In this video I go through the whole of a PC Any% Easy run, breaking down each room, showing different strats that can be used and explaining why we tackle each strat. I also explain the different glitches we use including GME, SWIM, kick cancelling, quick throw, flutter stepping, step counting and skating.

It is worth noting that this tutorial does not include the Boba Skip, as this skip was only discovered a few days after this tutorial was recorded.

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00:00:00 Intro
00:01:39 GOG vs Reddit
00:02:28 Controller Setup
00:10:40 Graphics/Sound
00:12:38 Basic Controls, Movement & Actions
00:16:21 Livesplit & Autosplitter
00:17:15 Dock
00:27:40 Heliport
00:32:00 Tank Hanger
00:41:12 Elevators
00:45:50 Cell (Vent Glitch)
00:53:25 Medi Room
01:08:18 SWIM
01:12:43 Medi Room SWIM
01:19:54 Armory (PSG1 Pickup, Quick Throw)
01:36:06 Canyon (Flutter Step)
01:41:03 Nuke Building 1F
01:47:32 Nuke Building B1 (+ Optional Nikita)
01:50:51 God Mode Exploit (GME)
01:59:03 Cave (Step Counting)
02:05:48 Underground Passage (Crash Danger)
02:14:47 Comm Twr A
02:20:52 Comm Twr A Roof
02:25:42 Rappel
02:35:51 Walkway
02:37:37 Comm Twr B (Crash Danger)
02:43:35 Snowfield (Sniper Wolf)
02:55:06 Blast Furnace
02:57:37 Cargo Elevator Fight (Kick Cancel)
03:03:29 Cargo Elevators
03:05:19 Nikita Raven
03:08:46 Grenade Raven
03:15:45 Warehouse North
03:18:28 Underground Base 1+2
03:19:50 Underground Base 3
03:20:34 Alert Count (10 Alerts)
03:25:15 Command Room (Losing PAL Key)
03:28:28 PAL Key Ditch Retrieval
03:35:56 Normal PAL Key Entry
03:40:24 Route To Freeze PAL (Underground Base & Skating)
03:43:38 Route To Freeze PAL (Warehouse North)
03:44:37 Freezing the PAL Key
03:48:05 Cold PAL Key Entry
03:50:02 Route To Heat PAL (Underground Base)
03:50:54 Route To Heat PAL (Warehouses)
03:51:20 Route To Heat PAL (Cargo Elevators)
03:52:55 Heating the PAL Key
03:55:02 Journey Back To Command Room
03:57:44 Hot PAL Key Entry & Gas
03:59:22 Metal Gear REX Phase 1
04:02:18 Metal Gear REX Phase 2
04:06:29 Liquid (Infinite Punch Explanation)
04:13:42 Liquid (Double Throw Setup)
04:17:14 Liquid (Backups)
04:20:40 Liquid (Double Throw)
04:25:35 Escape (Stealing The Truck)
04:28:00 Escape (Guard Checkpoints)
04:30:35 Escape (Liquid)
04:34:50 Score
04:35:55 Outro

20 Comments

@Thundernoob98 4 years ago

Snake throws a guard and runs away.
“ must have been the wind”
doesn’t raise the alarm

@Oh_ItsErin 2 years ago

Appreciate the thorough explanations! I was able to pick up this run relatively quickly despite never having speedrun a game before.

@tetra3000 4 years ago

Thanks for doing this this, it's so much easier to understand seeing you do it live and having a detailed explanation as you go

@robbaq3470 3 years ago

Watched this over a few days, just wanted to say thanks. Love some good speedrunning tutorials for games I like, there's something weirdly beautiful about a fan community just improving the optimal routes over the years. Cheers!

@Benoniyoutube 4 years ago

Clear and easy to understand. Also entertaining - great video.
I don't plan on speedrunning MGS but i've played it so many times this is enjoyable to watch!

@avantya4167 3 years ago

Just found your Tutorial, wanted to start speedrunning MGS for some time and never really knew how and where to start.
It can be really intimidating when you dont know what to do.
Finally got the courage thanks to you and this awesome Video !
Fun and easy to understand and follow along, thanks allot :)

@Xx_m1k3_0X1onG_xX 5 years ago

I've been slowly going through this video to try some of the tricks out and I have to say the explanations are absolutely amazing.
Thanks for the tutorial!

@OmYoJEL 3 years ago

Cool tutorial man. I personally have no interest in speed running but it's fascinating how all of this stuff is done and all the glitches etc. Thanks 👍

@leonschepers9022 4 years ago

Just realized I was watching your videos before you even replied to me lmao what a beastly run explanation

@RubyRoks 3 years ago

Was gonna check if you had an updated tutorial with Boba skip included, but your next vid after this is the sub-30, so i guess the explanation from the Boba Skip video works as an addendum to this. This is an incredibly in depth tutorial. Thanks for making it

@alambrado42 1 year ago

Thank you for this! Very usefull

@elseabe 4 years ago

Awesome video mate 👍🏻 subbed

@Ultimartinum 3 years ago

After watching this for almost an hour i was so fascinated that i went to twitch and gave you my prime for this month. Just to say thank you 💚

@kevinthomas180 4 years ago

This tutorial is awesome. I can’t stop watching it. Can u update it or edit into it the Kevin/Boba skip as that’s vital and this vid needs updating.

@HieroicDose 5 years ago (edited)

This is fascinating. Thank you for this.🙏

Will any of this work on the original PS1 version? Forgive me if you mentioned that early on and i missed it.

Edit: Nevermind, I'm 47:33 in and you just mentioned the vent glitch to put snake out of bounds works on console, too. 🐍🙂

@somemong989 1 year ago

1:06:59 UHUHUHUHGROK

@marcosotelo71 3 years ago

Can you get to the GME state if you’re playing on the PlayStation console?

@squiggly9742 4 years ago

I really wanted to know why the alerts were so important but you never really said , I know now but if anyone else wonders, its because under ten alerts there is a chance to spawn the pal key in a rat which adds more random to the section , this method of alerts is meant to make sure we don't get the rat .

@NeptorKriegor 4 years ago

Nice tutorial! I did all you told in this tutorial + boba skip, and my first speedruns were 51 minutes 59 seconds and my second run with 43 minutes 47 seconds. How do you guys save extra 10 minutes? Mind you I noticed that sometimes especially late game, cutscenes after entering Raven 2 fight onwards, seems to kinda crash the game if I hold X and square, so I manually skipped some cutscenes one by one as they appeared.