hello there my name is KZ Frew I'm a
professional speedrunner Whitney and I
are very happy you can join us
speedrunning is not easy it's a hobby
that requires a lot of time research and
practice but today I'll be sharing with
you some of my own personal secrets to
success I'll be playing back my recent
Los Santos speedrun which took place in
the video game Grand Theft Auto san
andreas and I will be providing you with
my expert knowledge and commentary to go
alongside my gameplay hopefully you will
find this tape helpful I wish you the
best in your fast gaming endeavors
alright enough of that nightmare whew
let's play some san andreas' this is
only going to be the Los Santos segment
for the time being but if there's
interest I can of course cover the rest
of the game but let's go ahead and hop
right into it the first mission of
course going to be big smoke but even
before that you're going to have to do
the treacherous act of pedaling your way
from all this territory back to Grove
Street should be pretty straightforward
one thing that I think is very important
with learning these games it's mostly
just learning the routes of course you
can mostly get by with just heading in
the right general direction but if you
really want to improve your times which
I imagine is why you're watching this
video you're going to want to focus on
your driving routes just making sure
you're taking clear concise efficient
ways to and from your objectives and of
course you can do that by just watching
the video some of the more complicated
stuff I'll be happy to explain on the
voiceover nothing too fancy going on so
far just fast pelion is done by tapping
the key instead of just pressing it Big
Smoke here we go so the first thing I do
is I accelerate a little bit forward on
my bike which I get on to spawn traffic
if you don't do that traffic won't spawn
and I generally grab the first feel
quite fine taxi works just fine for this
mission and now you're going to want to
push the rear end of sweet just a little
bit you got to be very delicate with
helmet if you're too aggressive
he will just spin out and that will cost
you a lot of time I take very deliberate
routes in order to throw off the ball as
voted that chases you if you'll notice
I'll pass very close by this building
here that's going to hopefully cause
them to run into it if he's following
you on the left hand side also I'll pass
by the slow concrete barrier here on the
left and finally the last little push
here towards the cutscene trigger you
can also pass by that yellow thing on
the left very closely if the ball is
reduce arresting you you get this little
short unskipable cutscenesthat's
or drug dealers if you can find them I
was fortunate enough to find a cop I
grabbed his gun I very quickly grabbed
as a cop bike cop bike comes in handy a
lot later at the end of the Los Santos
segment when you use it on green saber
and now we're just going to sit this
intersection and wait for a rider to
pedal his ass over here pushing rider is
also recommended because it of course
speeds things along and speed runs
pretty important
he needs to be within a certain radius
of the marker in Grove Street in order
for you to complete the mission so
that's why you know all of this is
necessary so that's why we don't just
sprint to the marker we instead just you
know kind of push them along come on
Rider let's go come on we got to get
back to Grove Street now and of course
it's not the easiest thing to do with a
bike gun might have already mentioned
that but you know so right around this
Bend this little like corner here I tend
to speed off that way I have enough time
to get to the garage park my bike and
then enter the marker and Ryder will be
there generally if you're in a car I'd
wait until the last intersection before
grove street to speed off otherwise by
the time you get to the marker you'll
have to wait around for a writer or
he'll just have stopped because you're
too far away from them which is also a
pain you can skip that cutscene after
that line they're just next step go
ahead and head into the Johnson house
you're going to want to walk forwards a
little bit before you turn around to
leave otherwise CJ will just stand in
front of the door like a dingus very
important to have a gun if you don't
have one there's actually a location in
Grove Street pretty easy to find it's in
the corner tucked away so there you go
you're going to want to you're going to
want that gun of course to blow up
ryder's car' it saves you 25 seconds I
have a video on that you might have seen
it in case you're wondering wise to skip
the cutscene that occurs after you leave
a barber shop so nothing too fancy on
this mission you might see me despawn
traffic like I just did there just flick
the camera down then back up and usually
traffic will be spawn if it's far enough
away
djay worst thing that can happen here is
Ryder gets run over after you leave the
pizza parlor but otherwise you know just
drive over here nothing really to worry
about traffic accidents can of course
slow you down the way they slowed me
down when I hit that uh Tahoma t-boned
them
Piketty haircut you like doesn't really
change anything depends on what kind of
look you're going for I go for the Afro
these days usually Cesar and stache is
the fastest one to get but it's you know
a matter of frames give CJ kind of a
vile look if you ask me he doesn't look
too good with a moustache of course skip
that cutscene which you can only do
because we blew up ryder's car' and
failed the mission already then go ahead
i pizza and the next at the menu
like most cutscenes and san andreas you
can't skip them immediately you have to
wait a little bit and then just sprint
across the street
riders truck push it around let right or
get in and then drive off sometimes he
does get run over there which is a real
pain but that's a rare instance
thankfully and just drive right our home
nothing too fancy there tagging up turf
where it gets kind of annoying there's a
couple things that you can easily fail
namely the tag behind the wall and also
the jump to tag number six I believe the
pain but go ahead head down the
cul-de-sac over to Suites house and
right into his car and drive straight up
to Idol wood the start of this run
there's not really a whole lot going on
cleaning the hood and drive through
probably the most ridiculous missions in
terms of RNG everything else is pretty
straightforward tagging up turf like I
said can be a little annoying but it's
really nothing too big in the grand
scheme of things let's go ahead and skip
that cutscene first tag right here bleep
there you go next one jump over this
fence and you have this low wall and
Jesus it's so hard to find some time
like I really struggled here I didn't go
far and enough into that little nook
lately I've been better about it but
yeah that was that was a bad bird tag
there if you really want you can jump
the wall and then tag it and then jump
the wall again but obviously preferable
if you're able to get it through the
wall heading to uh what did say ball is
country balls territory out of them and
slide into that marker you could
sometimes fly over that marker it's kind
of annoying so make sure not to do that
here's tag number four and then head
down this alleyway um some people like
to try and shoot one of these balls I
just tend to go for the jump here
through the cutscenes so that you're
still moving even though you're in a
cutscene tag number five and then jump
this fence and here's the annoying
little jump
tag number six let's see if I get it and
I do nice okay so my reference point
there is like that little bar on the
side you see between those two windows I
like to jump around there I think I
jumped a little later this time but but
yeah it's just that little bar that
separates the two windows and usually I
get it
I've been missing it a lot lately
actually it's like I'm getting the third
tag lately but I'm starting to miss the
jump more it's kind of annoying anyway
pretty straightforward tag up all the
turf go home slide right into the marker
and listen for the lovely dialogue are
you doing all the fit I'm kind of
shocked you know crash took all my
cleaning the hood if you don't already
have a cop bike for Big Smoke cleaning
the hood is a good opportunity to get
one basically what you do is you try to
get competition after killing the the
dealer and if a bike spawns great if not
well you can at least get maybe a cop
car something that's fast facing the
right direction generally preferred you
can bail out of the marker here you can
bail into the marker suite rather to
speed things up that way you don't get
any car except animation from both of
you and writer that's just a little bit
faster just sprint through this alley
here
and aim for your dude boy's head try not
to miss for shoot'em the body it's kind
of annoying try not to get too close
also because you'll trigger the cutscene
and I didn't get any luck here it seems
yeah I got a save her face in the wrong
direction kind of annoying but savers
still pretty fast and there's a cop like
of course after I pick up the saber so
that's great
so yeah a really short drive over to the
crack house crack then whatever um and
now you're going to want to go through
for these three headshots
I think it's three guys yes three guys
be sure not to shoot writer in the head
I've done that before
I think everybody's done that before I
almost did it there just now even I had
my crosshair right over his head anyway
this cop cannot bust you just hold down
the horn that's going to be a your horn
button for me that shift leave the door
open by holding down Sprint's of course
when getting into a vehicle that way
brighter can just slide right on in and
if you're holding down the horn that cop
shouldn't do anything he can't actually
bust you he's like a civilian that is
dressed up in cop clothing he can't he
can't arrest you he could just be
annoying and punch you so that's about
that late at home sit through this
cutscene and then drive through
everyone's favorite mission go ahead and
climb into the car and just head down to
the cluckin Bell drive-thru I've seen
some people fly through the sparker just
try not to do that I approach it from
the street so that way I don't have any
chance of doing that but if you fly over
the sidewalk and you do that all right
here we go
just line yourself up next to the
passenger window make sure sweet can
shoot into the passenger window is
basically what I'm saying sweeping the
driver's side passenger in the rear
there line up his window with the
passenger window voodoo and then hope he
shoots and then run down the guy that
comes out of
car and speed off to Grove Street
nothing too complicated
orange gotta be annoying in terms of
traffic and sweet shooting you just
sometimes refuses to do that which mom
but if you pull it off back to Grove and
then take smoke back to his house easy
to forget to take smoke back to his
house and there you go just slide right
on in and then it's back to the Grove
four 9s and eight KS you're going to
want to take a phone call before 9s and
aks I take it in a certain way that
allows me to skip most of the phone hang
up animation if you're falling off of a
heights while that's happening then you
immediately regain full control of CJ
and I can start the mission faster and
that's what I try to do here and I pull
it off you saw me fall down there a
little bit and I was able to quickly
just sprint into marker feel Ross temple
bronze bro
the Glendale is not my favorite thing to
drive but it is what we must drive
weenie around Big Smoke no you got to
just head on over to Emmett's be sure to
not to get your routes confused
sometimes on drive-thru I go to nines
and a Cades sometimes on nines and aks I
go to drive-thru it's ridiculous it's
easy to do when you're just not thinking
all right my favorite mission in the
game not really the mouse controls are
kind of horrid on this game so I can
easily miss bottles or maybe it's just
me maybe I'm just bad maybe I need to
suck it up and admit that I'm just not
the greatest but there you go one two
took you five shots to shoot three
bottles that's fine that's 60% accuracy
it could be worse but yeah this is
nothing too fancy just the bottles
quickly don't miss I make an ass of
yourself the way I I do me check out
special agent big smoke especially as a
big smoke and then
these five bottles here nothing too
fancy and then you're going to want to
blow up the gas tank on this as the game
is about to tell you
BAM and then just straight up drive back
to big smokes house like I said nothing
too complicated oh gee loaf is probably
the first mission in the game that isn't
explicitly a tutorial in some way shape
or form actually no I guess
drive-through isn't a tutorial just kind
of a filler mission opening to break up
the monotony of being taught things what
are you talking about I'm talking about
choices all but this is uh this is
generally where I get out of like the
mindset of we're in a tutorial because
that's kind of I mean Los Santos teaches
you gameplay elements the entire time
you're in it all the way up to Los
Uppercross basically sweet but basically
uh oh jee loke like I said is where
things start to open up a little bit you
get into more of the heart of Los Santos
not just you know East Los Santos and
Ganton and Idol would I guess so yeah
sweet yells at you for not wearing
grocery clothing you just hang up that
phone call and drive down to the Bing
koklos shop enter it and exit it you
don't need to buy clothing at all
so no worries there you just get right
on back into big smokes ride and cruise
over to the og loaf marker I really care
a lot about the drives you get on this
mission I really care about clean drives
on this mission fast drives because
spinning out can just cost you so much
time in San Andreas it's really
heartbreaking if you ever watch me
stream I get so salty about it sometimes
so the way I gauge speed on this on this
drive is by the dialog if all the dialog
is played out by the time I get to the
marker that's slow if I get to the
marker before big smoke says joyriding
that's usually really really good
this was kind of slow because I spun out
and I was guaranteed salty about that
like I said spinouts waste you so much
time in San Andreas but I just go down
to the precinct pick up oh jee loke skip
the cutscene and now drive over to
freddy which we all know was OG luke's
boyfriend on the inside that's the
implication anyways taking the highway
here is pretty fast be careful when you
cross over you could sometimes hit
oncoming traffic and that's really
annoying especially on the highway
because everything's going so fast and
pile ups happen just naturally you don't
even have to do anything traffic just
looses its fuckin mind that stallion was
kind of annoying would have preferred
not to hit that and of course I get a
news van here so I have to not take the
line that I want around that corner just
speed on into that marker go up and ring
the doorbell and catch and kill Freddy
alright so this one a lot of new players
have trouble with what you're going to
want to do is just go through these
three alleys this is the second one this
is the third one and then veer off to
the left head down this hill here and
then do a quick 180 with your bike so
you're facing the other way I like to do
a little lean back action so that I get
a line up here and just shoot until the
bike catches fire and then turn left
here it could be a little tricky I I
kind of made it made it look easy there
sometimes cars can be really rude to you
and just like push you out of the way
give you a bad line up it really all
depends there is a backup for that in
case you fail it so you get another
chance but it does waste you a fair bit
of time after that you just skip the
cutscene and hook for a good vehicle and
then you just head over to the burger
shot that oh jee loke works at I was
lucky enough to get a bike that's pretty
pretty damn good RNG bikes are fast
bikes a versatile pack
bikes are lights all very good qualities
in the vehicle I would never take a
perennial there you know those awful a
station wagons I would never ever ever
take one for this Drive I just simply
straight it i straight-up refuse I also
hate getting bobcat I desperately avoid
trying to get a bobcat on this Drive
because it's terrible san Andreas is
such a big game and you spend so much
time driving that the vehicles that you
get when driving around though are
really important you know so good RNG
with vehicles can save you a lot of time
if you if you get it in clutch places
like this might actually be no it's not
a goal but it is quite a nice time safe
so life's a beach this is the first
mission that you have to arrive at
within a certain time frame if you're
too slow you'll miss the window here and
that can be quite annoying quite
disheartening for new players but don't
worry if you if you struggle with making
it to life's a beach in time just keep
practicing those first three missions
and you'll get there
owes you look especially probably being
the most complicated one but anyway the
route you take out this mission is very
important I recommend you go back and
look at the one that I just took to the
beach you're going to want to pick up a
homie and recruit him
and then tug at this door here and I
like to do the disband strat when he's
entering the vehicle I hit the disband
key and I hold it until CJ says see you
later homie or something to that effect
and then he just very quickly shoot him
and get back into the band and that is
the homie strat for this mission
bypasses the dance and all fancy things
of that nature it can take you again a
while to get used to the timing for the
disband not everybody does the disband
strap but I do I find it pretty
consistent if you start holding disband
while he's getting into the vehicle that
is the key and the reason the routes is
important to take is because if you take
like a bad route to the to the beach
then it could affect your homie spawns
and you can effectively get none if you
don't get any homie spawns when going on
to the beach just go and trigger the
cutscene just go drive towards the party
it will get a cutscene and then look
back towards the beach for homies
they're usually usually you get spawns
after that if you don't then that's
pretty unlucky just keep driving around
until you get some or or reset which I I
don't recommend if you're new to the
game I would not recommend resetting
just try and play it out so there you go
just drop off the van and try and get a
nice car
when leaving the drive is pretty short I
make it a point not to de-spawn traffic
in this area because I've had game
crashes when doing so I kind of just
went for it anyway there I like how my
commentary is immediately contradicted
by my on-screen gameplay a phone call
here just go ahead run to that barrier
get out take the phone call this is the
gem phone call can't skip this cutscene
so you just wait it out but it's pretty
short if you don't get the phone call
here it's probably because you have a
wanted star and one of the stars of
course keep phone calls from coming in
but if that does happen you can just
take the phone call at Grove Street
after running dog or sorry yeah after
running dog so running dog I do what is
called the console strat some people you
you watch them and they do the headshot
strat that is also pretty good cooldown
um
but for me the the the vehicle strat the
console strat I don't think it really
loses you that much time it means you
don't have to go looking around for a
vehicle after you've shot your gun which
causes a lot of chaos in the immediate
area so yeah skip that cutscene and then
to the right there's a fixed clover here
it's here every single time I just go
ahead and get into it turn around and
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drive around the block and then this is
the guy you need to kill for this
mission
squish mission test pretty simple pretty
straightforward the head stops kind of
annoying to get and if you miss it it's
kind of annoying to you know chase them
down and still try and shoot them and
kill them so I just do this every time
I've said a lot on stream that I want to
learn the head soft strat though that's
it might be worth it I don't know but in
the meantime that is effective enough
and you just head back to Grove Street
again if you didn't take the gym phone
call after life's a beach be sure to
take it there and drive by heading to
Rowland Heights ball this country its
mission is fun
it's pretty simple you drive by four
groups of Bhalla on this mission
pretty simple drive and what you
basically do during this mission the
Stratus is just run dudes over and then
let your homies take care of the rest
like run those two dudes over and then
let your homeless blast down the other
two on this group sometimes this group
does not spawn if you don't see this
group spawned turned your camera away
from that location and then turn back
and they should spawn I see a lot of new
people struggle with that wondering what
the hell's going on even I struggle with
that too
I was not happy that that last ball it
took a while to die there that's why
I've shaked my camera that's a bad habit
and I would not recommend it that is
taking your camera madly like that can
cause your game to crash in certain
areas oh don't
flail your mouse if you get mad do
something else like scream I don't know
anyway like I said that bitch is pretty
straightforward you got those four
locations of always just run them over
it's nothing too complicated you're
going to get the police attention after
that and of course you're going to want
to cruise over to the pain spray
sometimes cops bones can be kind of
annoying and they can try to ram into
you just you know be sure to dodge them
to the best of your abilities and then
head on back to Grove Street pretty
straightforward like I said simple
mission I might have said that five
times now take your homies back to the
hood and then sweets girl sweets girl
honestly one of the worst missions in
the game the AI enemies on this mission
have freakishly good aim and if you're
not careful they can gun you down in a
heartbeat
so you're going to want to be careful my
way of doing this is very consistent and
it's like I feel like it's pretty simple
but I've played this mission so many
times so it might take you a few tries
to get this down but um just look for a
nice car here
a Greenwood is totally fun spinning
around if you have to and just head over
to Seville Boulevard Terra where sweet
and his girl eagerly await awaits your
arrival I cannot speak English and go
ahead and run them over that is what I
do I approach at an angle because if you
approach them head-on then they tend to
just bail out of the way and that's
annoying but I run over the three dudes
I typically shoot the last two or sorry
I typically drive by the last guy on the
road and then the guy on the stairs I
get out and I shoot them but no if you
struggle with that mission that's normal
that's perfectly okay it will take
repetition for you to get used to that
mission it's run out to dilly-dally too
much if you're out of your vehicle
because you can get gunned down in a
hurry they will put holes in you it is
so annoying
cruising cruising up to Grove Street
here I'm going to go for a bailout strat
I don't think I get it yeah because
there's a pedestrian in the way
remember when we bailed out during
cleaning the hood at that marker you can
do the same thing here and it skips the
cutscene where you get out in vehicle
that's basically the same thing saves a
couple seconds but if you don't get it
don't worry it's kind of hard to do
there
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