I can only imagine it was really physically draining for Buffet Time as well. Runner Buffet Time physically moving around to fit through glitches. Head over to GameDoneQuick's Twitch channel for an archive of Buffet Time's speedrun.
It was pretty mindblowing to see the runner contorting their body to fit through a designated space in the surrounding environment, for example lying down on the ground to pass through the very bottom of a wall. Watching the entire speedrun was an absolute blast. Being a VR game, Half-Life: Alyx tracks your physical movements, which means runner Buffet Time had to physically crouch or get down on the floor when they needed to glitch through a certain part of their surroundings. Ordinarily in a speedrun, the runner might crouch down to glitch through walls and other objects in the environment (as was actually the case earlier this week with the excellent Alien: Isolation speedrun). The run got real weird real quick, with the speedrunner contorting their body and rapidly moving around their play area to fit through walls and glitches in the surrounding environment. Is there something you think we should be reporting on? Email last night, a speedrun for Valve's Half-Life: Alyx took place at Summer Games Done Quick 2020.
