Splinter Cell: Blacklist in 48m58s (World Record Speedrun)

We broke the 50 minute barrier!
Not only that, but we also skipped the 49 entirely!
I am very happy with this run. There are still time saves here and there but I am probably done trying to improve this time for a while.
The official time (without loads) is 48m58s180ms.
The RTA time (with loads) is 51m53s810ms.

[@seismixx]

Sprinter Cell

[@EvanMorganMagic]

Always a treat when you upload! I’m a big fan of the Splinter Cell franchise and of your speedruns!

[@Sam_Fisher1337]

I was here awesome run Distro !

[@slamoto2]

I love to check the speedrun WR after casually playing the game. Its just SO much faster. GG btw

[@Berlineff]

He’s back ladies and gentlemen !

[@tabutheatre4886]

YEAH!

[@jamesandrews1545]

Just found your channel and had to drop a sub! I can play through this game (story missions) in about an hour 15 these days on ps3 haha. Insane run man - love to see people still breaking world records on these games😅

[@DistroGaming]

Thank you very much for the sub! I appreciate it! And I am always very grateful when people enjoy the things we speedrunners do. Love to see it! :)

[@jamesandrews1545]

@@DistroGaminghaha just came back to this - I’d had many drinks at the time and did not even realise I was watching THE splinter cell speedrunner haha - new to watching streamers but I remember CriticalNobody mentioning you and your runs in his own Speedrun learning video. All bow to master Distro 😂 seriously though its so good there’s someone who keeps breaking these games. Congrats on all the world records🤣

[@DistroGaming]

@@jamesandrews1545 Thank you! Hey, with how tiny the Splinter Cell speedrunning community is, every single runner is THE splinter cell speedrunner and a complete legend in my book! :) I appreciate the kind words, my dude. As mentioned before, I am just happy when people appreciate what we speedrunners do.

[@jamesandrews1545]

@@DistroGaming as modest as you are GOATED my friend.

[@alexmeister643]

Never seen a 49 and never [redacted] will! You skipped the 49:xx and got the 48 run! GG!!

[@h2o848]

22:06 lmao that's cold

[@tabutheatre4886]

THE. GOAT. IS. BACK.

[@SonOfTheChinChin]

lore accurate sam fisher after 10 years experience of being the splinter cell

[@Charliex420xx]

Had hundreds of hours im multiplayer and coop and sadly know every mission blindly but this was really an intreresting way to look at the games. I didn't know any of the glitches even though in spys vs mercs me and my lil bro were in the top 100 (N1GHT5HOT16 and TheGamer231 were our gamertags but we were like 14 and 10 years back then)

[@Dannydaniel2010]

How can you play the game so smoothly in one go? Many players report online that they are suffering from a bug that causes this game to crash permanently after about 30 minutes. Do you perhaps know a solution to this?

[@DistroGaming]

www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Tom_Clancy%27s_Splinter_Cell:_Blacklist#Game_crashes_without_message_after_20-30min Check here! Add -offline and -offline_mode as command line arguments. That will fix the issue.

[@arrowhawkful]

Great run distrooooo distroLove

[@AJGucciardo]

Great work man

[@angeljane111108]

I Shattered the world record congrats!

[@DistroGaming]

thanks!

[@mohamedbenhamzalol]

good run bravo!👏

[@Jjramse1]

Bro I just got the best score on HQ and holy fuck wouldaloved to see the speedy skips on some of the shit and the drone shooting at the end holy fuck that was god mode

[@bryanaustin8362]

RNG > LNG Terminal :D lol. Nice Run!

[@joeaardvark9214]

Did you get a plaque from Guinness for this world record?

[@DistroGaming]

@@joeaardvark9214 No. Never got one for any of my speedrun records. Interesting question, though!

[@Cristian-de9iu]

Realist, not the truth WR

[@DistroGaming]

What does that even mean?

[@Cristian-de9iu]

@@DistroGaming I mean, the difficulty. It's realist, not even perfectionist nor ghost mode. Very personal record tho

[@DistroGaming]

@@Cristian-de9iu Oh, I see. This is an Any% speedrun. Any% always just uses whatever is the fastest. The speedrun is actually on Rookie, not Realist. I start on Realist because it skips a tutorial at the start. If you check around 1:27 to 1:31 then you see me switch to Rookie for the whole rest of the run. A Perfectionist or Ghost mode speedrun is a challenge speedrun. I don't do those. This is Any%.

[@Cristian-de9iu]

@@DistroGaming Still kuddos for taking less than 50min, I did not even tried speed run in rookie, but I bet is hard as well.

[@DistroGaming]

@@Cristian-de9iu Thanks! It is all a question of practice. :)

[@angeljane111108]

Usain Bolt Style

[@DistroGaming]

Gotta go fast!

[@GOVOS99]

dmn thats crazy

[@beowulf4100]

Lmao. Speed run world Record With every unlock in the game Lmao like speed running any game with max level lmaooooooooo Im dieingggggfffffffghgggggg i cant stop laughing

[@DistroGaming]

Any% (NG+) is the default category in Blacklist. There were discussions (including by me) to officially add a NG category and to rename this category to something like "All Campaign Missions" but there weren't enough interested runners. The Splinter Cell speedrunning community is tiny. That being said, this is the official world record for the main category of this game. Compared to the other runs in this category, this is the fastest one.

[@junexoxo9868]

now do it without cheats 😐

[@DistroGaming]

oki

[@osmancanaydnlogullar7086]

Lol you are not running at top difficulty, starting game full equipment and calling these runs as world record is kinda funny.

[@DistroGaming]

Correct! This is Any%, the main speedrun category of this game. The only goal is to go as fast as possible from beginning to end. However, in Blacklist this category is NG+. I have actually advocated to rename this category to "All Campaign Missions" or something similar and to add an Any% NG category, but this is not up to me. I am not a moderator for Blacklist speedruns. Starting on the 2nd highest (or highest) difficulty skips the tutorial at the beginning of the Safehouse level. I switch over to Rookie after the skip. Keep in mind that this is the official world record of this game's main category. I can call it whatever I want, it would still be the official world record. You can check the current ruleset, leaderboards, and categories here: www.speedrun.com/tcscb

[@Jjramse1]

lol might as well put it on easy wtf but nice work great game I just been replaying for the leaderboards. True players would grind for one of those imo. These speed runs have great value though lol I just can’t help but see this as a silly speed run, zero skill zero effort just literally running lol

[@Jjramse1]

Do you get the score when you skip the part server room on Special mission HQ

[@Jjramse1]

Do you get the score for any of those parts you skipped in the Hq ?

[@DistroGaming]

I honestly have no idea. As a purely speedrunning focused person, I don't pay attention to the scoring at all. I just want to point out that competitive speedruns take quite a bit more skill and perseverance than one would think at first glance. That being said, I get you. I really do. Speedruns are not everyone's cup of tea and definitely a niche. Still, it can be fun and also quite challenging. :) Edit: the run is on the easiest difficulty btw. We start on Realistic to skip a tutorial and then switch it to Rookie right after.

[@Jjramse1]

@@DistroGaming it’s fabulous to see the grind for sure. I just put in so much hours studying the methods to beating the best scores and it’s very similar to a speedrun of a campaign entirely. Instead I make it different because I’ve discovered many ways to reset gadgets and ammo during checkpoints, giving me more chances to get Chains DoD… the true challenge for Blacklist is either doing a challenge like you’re doing here or trying to do a single mission with a high score run.. the speedrun is definitely tougher just because you have one hiccup like missing a skip cutscene and bring you back to the previous one lol or missing any of those crucial time crunch moments… love the content bro

[@Jjramse1]

In a high score run missing skips are not crucial at all in fact I discovered a way to bring checkpoint fails at a zero time waste during restarting checkpoints (: also found a way to bring three of each gadget on perfectionist 😎😬