Hitman: Blood Money - Death of a Showman Pro/SA Speedrun (

First ever sub-3. Could've been a 2:57 if I got the best map skip.
S/O to CarnyJared who was busy grinding some Free Bird 300% which made for a good anthem.
Anyway, right after I got my 3:03, I reviewed the run to see if sub3 could be done. I knew that a good dialogue skip could save at least a second, so I kept resetting until I got it, until I found a pretty consistent setup for it where I go to the car door and spam 1st person at the words, so another s/o to "Andrew Chiseler Attorney at Law."
I judge how fast my openers are by when the head is bonked in the cutscene, and the fastest I ever had was like 46.7ish.
A huge flaw in my old strat was when I get up to Clerance. I spent WAY too long waiting for the gun distraction to work when a simple coin could achieve the same affect.
But one thing I didn't find out until last night was the ending, a huge choke point. The problem is Scoop's deagle, so even having a fair amount of health might not be enough. I tried causing a gun distraction outside which didn't work, even shooting the bomb inside the ICA crate, but that wasn't promising enough.
But I remembered what I did for CD AO, and in Threeballer's words, it's like they left safety on their guns. I could not believe it worked here. I'd say it has a 50/50 success rate for the few times I tried it.
So now what? There's not much less for me to do for ILs, at least the main ones. This one can be improved, but I'd rather not. I will probably just do Devil, then retire from ILs with MoC.
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