The Road to

This is a montage of clips I saved during my latest attempts at speedrunning the hardcore glitchless category of Subnautica.
I hope my failures are entertaining :)
I started the attempt counter at 1 for this grind but that doesn't mean these were my first attempts. I made over 1,300 attempts at this category alone last year.
If you're curious how attempts usually go, about 9/10 are reset to get a better spawn, then about 1/2 are reset due to seaglide fragments, and then about 3/4 are reset due to bad radiation warning.
What's the radiation warning? That's the warning the game gives randomly between 9:12 and 16:00 after starting the game. Multiply the time it happens by 5 and you'll know when the Aurora is going to explode. In glitchless we can't finish the game until the Aurora explodes so it's important for it to happen as soon as possible.
For me to get a 1:03:xx I needed the rad warning to happen before 10:45, which has a 23% chance of happening. I often went days without a run getting past 10:45.

[@farahabedin3125]

CAT IS INNOCENT!! My favorite was “cyclops on head” 🙃 this was super awesome!!!

[@gromsword6984]

Your cat: "Feed me already! It´s been three days!"

[@wenik8445]

Man one time I tried starting speed running Subnautica And i wrote everything i will need to beat the game, at directly that time i gave up

[@MrMordethrhedan]

4:06 That one minute time loss was horrible to watch. Can't imagine how painfull it was wich such a good pace :c GG for the WR tho

[@cinnamoncookies]

Haha yeah it was pretty rough. I took long break after that.

[@Ec1ypsed]

This video was incredibly well made and yet it still hurt to watch those deaths. Your commitment is insane, congrats on finally getting the 1:03. Also the cat interference was a little too relatable lol

[@agroteraaaa]

dude your commitment is so impressive!! huge congrats on 1:03!!!

[@Arturo8645]

I see its really painful to you but sometimes you are recording Perfect speedruns, don't give up :)

[@shibatokenhermitmcdermitt3620]

Wow. Such commitment... Much determination... I'm about 20hr into my first ever playthrough on survival and nowhere near this level lol Congrats on making the WR. Your speedruns are really fun to watch as well as inspirational. Thanks for sharing!

[@nealjensen6866]

This deserves way more attention. The sheer amount of commitment and time sunk into the game for a few seconds is insane.

[@michaelbarton1157]

If one is to BAKE thy CAKE, a few thousand eggs MUST thee SURELY BREAK

[@krookaexpert]

insanely hype

[@vojtechlahodny1321]

Congratulations you Are best!!!

[@DinoAnimations15]

Wow los speedrun de subnautica son súper difíciles por lo que veo.

[@imdrunkmk427]

you help me sleep and prep for next payday gameplay

[@pandaboy2559]

your cat is super cute

[@lollyblizowo4343]

yo where'd you get that depth map? it's way more detailed than anything i've found on my own!

[@cinnamoncookies]

I made it using a program called CloudCompare and an extraction of the game's terrain data. I don't recommend going down that rabbit hole and instead just use one of these 4k maps made by hhrhhr: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1234053158

[@lollyblizowo4343]

@@cinnamoncookies thank you, that's awesome! I've been wanting to learn the route for running 100%, and it'll be w a y easier if I can see what I'm doing rather than guess lol

[@tiborhegyes7850]

Are those attempt numbers for real?

[@cinnamoncookies]

Yep, taken straight from the splits file saved by livesplit.

[@tiborhegyes7850]

@@cinnamoncookies Respect and congrats!

[@OggythePoggy]

Now you gotta do below zero if you haven’t

[@Fngidus]

Where are you :(

[@alfredalfiesiv7082]

Hey here's a challenge: speedrun subnautica... On switch. Like the goal is about 2 hours glitchless

[@bloodkelp]

1:11 where did you took this map?

[@doinyamaam3677]

take*

[@bloodkelp]

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[@doinyamaam3677]

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[@bloodkelp]

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[@bloodkelp]

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[@mikestevenson4703]

Just save every 5 minutes

[@threedeepinthewindow8715]

its hardcore, which only gives you one life

[@sharkrancher282]

@@threedeepinthewindow8715; An aptly named mode! Seeing as the core concept of the game is to simply survive, I felt it would be a more authentic experience to only play on hardcore. Took me months to finally beat the game (and it took me way, waaaaay more than an hour to do it). I was proud of myself for finally succeeding, but I would definitely only recommend hardcore to folks who REALLY like Subnautica. As this video very clearly shows, there are a LOT of ways to die; even for an absolute pro like Cinnamon Cookies. Knowing that it took over a thousand attempts to achieve this record was genuinely comforting to me. Helped me feel a lot less bad about the many, MANY times I died while just trying to make it to the end. Thank you so much for making this, Cinnamon!!!