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don't know if any of this is useful

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/382569080

02:48:47 - you make a joke here about how you save and the door opens
and it got me wondering: have you tried saving when a door starts
opening (or closing, or when a door waits to open) and then restoring?
it seems unlikely to me that this game keeps careful track of the
exact openness/closedness/waitingness of its doors upon save/restore.
in this level especially you might be able to save time via this
mechanic.  i don't know if save scumming is ok with officials in real
GDQs though.  also, i could easily see this causing doors to remain
permanently sealed that you need to open later.

02:59:27 - previous video (or previous previous) you watched a guy hop
around a room full of boxes until he clipped through the wall.  you
tried it in the starting room of some level but it didn't work.  the
one in that other person's video looked more like this one: smaller,
etc.  seems like you could exploit it even if it's not the same one.
might be able to skip a lot of this level.  for reference, the video
i'm thinking of is here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/381997586 at
02:34:50.  now that i look at it, i think you had the room right, but
i have to wonder if the cramped area i'm talking about has a higher
chance to get OOB.

03:00:46 - noticed this in conjunction with something i'll note in a
second.  i don't understand how damage works in this game.  sometimes
it seems like every quadrupedal and bipedal enemy takes five shots
regardless of weapon, sometimes not.  the former situation is part of
why this game is so goddamn monotonous.  the grenade launcher is a
notable exception, usually killing guys in two shots.  here, however,
it takes three direct hits to kill.  each time you fire, you are
backpedaling.

03:01:39 - on the other hand, shotgun seems like it often takes five
shots.  this enemy and the four that follow, you are running forward
when you fire, and quickly retreating just after many shots.  all five
enemies die after only three shots.  not sure if it's something like
mararthon punch or if it's just coincidence/really pseudorandom
numbers.