Half-Life Speedrun in 26:17 [WORLD RECORD]

Music version: Leaderboard link: I stream my attempts here: 2 weeks of struggling to no avail, but then I started popping . Then came this run. The early game of this run up to Surface Tension’s start, with the current strategies known, will not be beaten, I am calling it now. The lack of mistakes and good RNG is going to force me to use balanced splits from now on to not demotivate me while I continue my grind for the sub 26. This run is the definite proof of sub 26 being a reality. The late game has quite bad sections - Surface Tension, FAF sucked massively, meanwhile Gonarch cost me 12 seconds(god I love how missing a saveload by less than two tenths cost me that much time). However, I cumulated so much early game timesave and collected my LC Xen timesaves it didn’t matter for the sake of a new WR. I will continue. Timestamps: 0:00 Kisimov grindset acquired 0:39 Anomalous Materials 4:49 Unforeseen Consequences 6:02 Office Complex 7:00 “We’ve Got Hostiles!“ 7:11 Blast Pit and Power Up 10:49 On a Rail 13:27 Apprehension 15:36 Residue Processing 16:56 Questionable Ethics 18:36 Surface Tension 21:33 “Forget About Freeman!“ 22:17 Lambda Core 24:04 Xen 24:33 Gonarch’s Lair 26:08 Interloper 27:04 Nihilanth 27:23 OPPPAAAAA