Okay, a quick test that was. The stalker can be killed as soon as it stops walking. You’ll notice that it disables the orb catcher, then has a walk in the window so that you can see it. As soon as it stops walking, you can kill it.Now, this doesn’t mean to fire it as soon as he stops. It means that you just need to make sure your orb is fired within the time it’ll take him to stop. So you fire it, you just need to make sure it doesn’t fade away before he stops. There’ll surely be a perfect timing so he dies exactly as he stops.I’ve had a test. He’s very fast at disabling the orb catcher, however, there is a window between him stopping and him disabling the orb catcher that you can kill him. This means, the order should be:1) Shoot orb into catcher.2) Catch the falling debris and throw it away.3) Stalker will spawn and disable catcher, then begin walking4) As soon as he disables it, shoot another orb into it. He won’t disable it until he stops5) At the right time, fire the orb, so that he will die as soon as he stops6) Enjoy as the 2nd orb is not disabled, while the stalker dies and freedom is one step closer.That’s all I have so far.
Again, after more testing, I’ve found some stuff out.Alyx, right at the start, seems to have a load of different timings. She can arrive next to you on the platform sometimes, or lag behind for 3 seconds or so other times. With enough retries, you can get her to be on the platform as you get there and launch the orb, meaning the platform starts much quicker.I didn’t keep my fastest one unfortunately, but one of the faster ones I have is ahead of foust’s demo by 1 second. The fastest would probably be ahead by 2.I also get the feeling that the orb catcher with the stalker protecting it, isn’t enabled until a certain point. It feels as if I shoot directly at it, but the orb just doesn’t work at all when it comes into contact. I’m not sure if this is me being REPEATEDLY unlucky (Honestly, 100+ tries), or if it really is enabled after a certain point, such as the elevator stopping.I tried it by segmenting, as the stalker orb part was proving very difficult for me. I segmented just before the stalker orb section. My finished one was 1:57 I believe, but for some reason Alyx took AGES to walk into the final room. I wasn’t watching her, which may be the problem, I was looking at the door. I think foust’s was in there for 14 seconds, whereas I was in there for 20+.I propose segmenting at the place I did. I’ll work hard to get the first segment the fastest I can, which I think I can get a 2 second improvement on foust’s run, then the second segment I also think could improve by about 2 seconds.Again, I’ll need some feedback, but with Typical on holiday, it’s to Foust and CooL (The only guys I know running the map, tell me if you are) to tell me if I’m being retarded or to agree or disagree and all that.
1:48, makes for a 10 second improvement on Phase 1, 4 second improvement on niklas’ time. I use 2 segments rather than 1, as the first can take a lot of retries, and by the time I get the fastest Alyx I can I find it hard to get the best Stalker shots I can.I propose moving on, as I feel like this run was very fast. Alyx was done quickly, and I don’t believe there were any real delays through the rest. Stalker was dealt with quick too, and I finish on full health and armour due to the recharger at the bottom.
Niklas, if you see this, I’m wondering what state we’re at right now? Far as I know you’re the only person left running this, so as soon as you give the go ahead we can move on. Just wondering how it’s going, since I don’t get to chat to you much it seems D:
I’m ready to just go ahead and move onto the c17 maps, which are mah favorite, all up to Niklas.
Oh yeah, I’m sorry guys. I don’t have time to run the game at all at the moment. So I’m cool with moving on. 1:48 is a great time. It just seemed to me as if you were a little slow at the very beginning of the run, josh, but I didn’t have time to give it another shot myself. Also, the stalker sequence still looks a little messy although it might not be. I’m sure it’s the best time you can get considering the fact that you can only kill the stalker once he stands still. Sorry if I slowed you guys down. From now on the decisions are completely up to you. I’ll let you guys know when I have more time again to run. So long, godspeed :>
If you mean it looks like I’m slow right as I’m getting onto the elevator, I intentionally slow myself down, because for some reason it makes Alyx get there faster than if you speed for it.The stalker sequence, even if it looks messy, is the fastest I can manage.It’s no problem, I just remembered you saying you’d take another run or two at it. Guess I’ll get a route guide up for citadel_03 then. Heh, we just took over this topic for the latest map, rather than a new topic. New one for citadel_03 though 
Egypt was fucking hot. Where’s everyone at!?