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Gunner - Neon White Speedrun Commentary

📚 Main topics

Practicing GunnerThe player uses the Neon TAS mod to practice Gunner in slow motion, then switches it off to grind full-speed runs. They explain a more accessible sub-7 strategy before moving on to harder approaches. 0:00
Route and executionThe route uses the second gap in the opening section, followed by a quick shot and bomb knife. The player also describes the correct shooting order for the bullet boosts and emphasizes fast flicks to close the gap and reach the ending spray sooner. 1:01
Grinding for a personal bestAfter disabling the mod, the player works through several attempts and improves their time, eventually setting a 6.60 PB, down from 6.68. 2:09

✨ Key takeaways

Small route choices matterTaking the second gap appears faster, and staying low after knifing the bomb helps the opening. 1:01
Fast, accurate inputs are importantGetting the shooting order and flicks right helps the player reach the final spray sooner. 1:31
Practice builds confidenceSlow-motion practice helped the player prepare for full-speed attempts, and they felt more comfortable with the level after grinding. 2:09

🧠 Lessons learned

A strong run can still have room to improveThe player was happy with the 6.60 PB but noted they were still losing significant time compared with the record. 3:59

🏁 Conclusion/next steps

Next sessionThe player wraps up the Gunner grind and plans to work on Cascade in the next session. 4:29

Transcript excerpt

0:00 all right so this is episode three of neon white speedrun commentary and today we're going to be doing Gunner the Gunner's level I find extremely difficult and I've actually loaded up the neon TAS mod so I can practice in slow motion before I get started because uh learning this level at full speed is pretty difficult for me um so I'm gonna run through all the strats that I use in this level and then I'll be trying to get some good runs with it but first I want to talk about the sub 7 Strat so I found a strat that can get you a sub seven

0:31 um that isn't actually that hard that was a 7.0 and I missed both of the knives so this strike can get you I had a 6.8 with this Strat so it's actually a pretty powerful Strat um but it's not really I'm kind of out of the uh the realm of possibility of this getting me a PB anymore so I have to get to the harder Strat essentially a rundown of the current

1:01 Strat that I'm doing is at the start I'm going up this sort of staircase bumping myself off and then trying to go through this Gap right here because for some reason if you go through this Gap it loses a lot of time so going through the second Gap is uh seemingly way better and then shoot this guy and knife the bomb down like as fast as you possibly can and you want to be pretty low here um is what I've found so another thing is that um in that run I actually did the

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