I don’t think it’s about the time anymore 
Well I got the same as Darkevil (5964 ticks) but he got it first so Im going to let him have it.
Well done 
How about choosing the demo that looks more entertaining etc.?
Not that I’m particularly active in this run, but I agree from a few posts back that ticks were extremely inaccurate when I was playing with them in episode 2. Can people get some testing done to see whether or not the ticks are constant in ep2? They are in ep1, but since this HL2 is on the ep2 engine, I wouldn’t trust it.
I recall that sometimes it was about 70 ticks per second, and sometimes it was 50, on separate demos.
I think default tickrate is 66, but I’m still not sure if counting time with them is a good choice. Well, maybe it is, but if someone of us changes their tickrate, it’s going to be impossible to compare times using ticks.
By the way, to change your tickrate, just add “-tickrate ” into the launch options. Although I wouldn’t suggest to do that for now, since you use ticks to compare times.
I say move on to trainstation_02.
Total time: ~2:36
~4 seconds saved.
Well doesn’t matter since the other option was the second, which was 90 for everyone. So ticks would be best since there’s not much else to look at.
Regarding the ticks.
Would loading this save and starting recording while it’s loading, be reliable enough to prove stuff?
I tested twice and got 1025 ticks on both tries.