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Quantum of Solace any% - Chapter 1 - New Recruit

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I've been playing this game and I really liked it, it uses the call of duty engine but its a bit modified to include a cover system which is absolutely required on the hardest difficulty, 007.

I play on New Recruit so I can run and gun which is more like speed running, on 007 the level would have taken ages and would have been very unlikely to do in one life, since you can get killed easily even while in cover.

There is one really bad point about this game, it should run fine and all but you MUST uninstall Internet Explorer for it to work (dont bother with uninstalling specific microsoft updates, because MS can keep releasing new ones), QoS and IE are practically incompatible. But if you can do this (ie. if you only use Firefox) then the game is highly recommended.

While speed running I noticed some other stuff that bothers too, and it is that the game is very linear, fine, that kind of games usually cover the exit with something solid so you can't progress further, but here they forgot to do that at some points and if you try to go ahead of it you get automatically killed by some cloaked spy (that appears on the kill cam). So before running like crazy you have to complete certain triggers.

The third annoying thing, I am not sure why but this game stutters a lot, I have noticed it does so at anytime it saves to disk, and you will notice too. Whenever "Game Saved" or "Reached Checkpoint" appear on screen the game just saved and froze too. This is incredibly annoying because while bond can't move the AI sort of teleports and also your mouse still works so you can end up looking somewhere else. I tried to compensate for it by looking in the correct, future, direction and releasing the mouse when I knew I had reached a checkpoint.

Finally, its the melee system, its fine and all, but when I try to sprint past enemies it triggers :( so basically I can't sprint when close to enemies or it will take longer. I just reload or shoot at them.

This run is any% because I already collected all cellphones and also all power weapons which I don't intend to pick up unless needed. Doesn't mean I intend to beat the whole game, just felt for these, maybe I do the rest later.

Now about the chapter, you are looking for some millions at Mr. White's. On the garden you must kill all the guards to proceed, why because you must unlock the door, which takes a while, and if you get shot during that sequence it aborts. Even on easy the AI can land one shot during the sequence. Killing them goes like one, three, two, for a total of six guards.

Afterwards with the boats you must wait for the guard to open the door so I just kill the others with the explosion and reload some. To open the rest of doors you must hack the cameras, which I do.

Following this you could fight the ambush but I just run ahead to the greenhouse. Once in the greenhouse you must wait until the helicopter hover in front of it and completes its turning animation, it takes a while. If by then you have killed all the guards then the doors are blasted away. There's been times I did it so fast I had to wait in front of the door doing nothing, so I just take my time.

Once inside the mansion however I kill everyone, why not run past them? because once you exit the secret room they all come back for you but are grouped together right at the main hall, and even on New Recruit you get killed in an instant. Not only that but you also lose the same time killing them because now they are on the way and you must wait until their death animation plays, all of this while under the chance of getting killed, no use, better kill them when its easier.

Finally to complete the level you must make sure you shoot the helicopter once (shoot Mr.White).

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