Greetings, dear friends, in this video I'll teach you how to speedrun such great game like Cry of Fear.
Let’s take a look at key bindings and optimal game settings
that will help to walkthrough the game without crashes or any other problems.
Let’s get started with the most useful key bindings.
So, the most used binding is "inventoryuse" to use items without opening the inventory menu – fast use, in other words.
You can write it in console as «bind z "inventoryuse 2"» where «z» is the desired key button and «2» is a slot of ur inventory.
I prefer to start with the 2nd slot because the 1st one is always taken by the phone (so there’s no point in binding that key)
That’s why you better bind 2nd slot for “z” key and “x” for the 3rd slot.
You can choose any other keys but I prefer these two since it’s more comfortable for me that way.
Next goes another binding command. It is "inventorydrop" (written with the same pattern as with “inventoryuse)
to drop items from inventory. We’ll need it only once in the 3rd part of this guide. I’ll get back to it later. Now type in da console «bind alt “inventorydrop 1”».
Then goes "host_framerate" for time acceleration (or cutscene rewind). You’re gonna need it to perform ur speedrun.
Time acceleration (rewind) is used to skip cutscenes which cannot be skipped by pressing "enter" button.
Write it in console as «bind f5 "host_framerate 0"» where «f5» is a button you need and «0» is a default value (0 is a standard game speed).
You’ll also need this: «bind f6 "host_framerate 1.1"», where «f6» is a key button and «1.1» (or just 1) is an increased value to make game faster and skip the cutscenes.
You can use that binding only in a few places, that will be shown later
FPS and bindings to control it are also need to be mentioned.
FPS control will only be used once during the run, in the fight against chainsaw boss.
First, you need to write "developer 1" in da console to enable Developer Mode and unlock 100+ FPS.
But you have to play with 99 FPS the whole run, except the boss battle moment.
Command «bind [ "fps_max 99"» is to play with 99 FPS and «bind ] "fps_max 999999"» for boss battle (you can choose any other FPS, that depends on your PC)
That’s crucial – "developer 1" should be on to get you 100+ FPS.
I guess that’s all about bindings. I’m not using anything else. Now to the game settings.
The dodge (or dash) button is bound to "alt" by default but I think it’s a little bit wrong and advice you «mouse4» or «mouse5» buttons for this action.
Since we’re gonna bhop (bunny hop), we really need the dodge button. I’ll talk about bhop later.
It isn’t very convenient to press «alt» and «space» to bhop so I use side mouse buttons.
So I use the m4 and m5 buttons. But if you don't have one, just bind Dodge to your button.
If you have some extra buttons on your mouse – great, if not – use some other more convenient key for that sort of action on your keyboard.
Jump remains to "space" but if u r gonna use bhop script I left in description of the video you’ll be able to jump with "mwheelup,down".
Inventory - "tab", it’ll do. Not necessarily, but it’s desirable, to reassign the additional weapon function to some other mouse button too.
This is only my opinion and arrangement. Everything depends on how it’s comfortable for you personally. Do as you want, I just try to share my experience with you
Advanced options
The most important option is the brightness boost that should be at the highest value.
Otherwise all maps, the whole world will be dark. As you know, it’s a horror game and to speedrun it better we need more light.
All other options must be disabled, turn off everything else. Leave only subtitles, blood particles, cheap gunsmoke effect and B&W effect. Not sure about the last one ‘cause I don’t know the exact impact of this effect on performance.
That’ll be it, everything is prepared. Let’s get started. Choose easy difficulty.
At once I’ll tell you how to do long jump with further bhop.
In this game you have a limited time for jumping and sprinting because you have stamina parameter. If it’s low, you get slow and need to rest.
Even now when we can’t see the stamina bar, it’s there. So, you need to keep that in mind.
Now about long jump. First press “dodge” button and then press “space” in half a sec. There…
Press these two buttons almost simultaneously but dodge has to be pressed first.
Then hold “space” and keep jumping or simply scroll mouse wheel.
That’s it, let’s roll. After you spawned in the room turn left and run. Take shots of marks that’ll lead you forward.
There you can do ONE long jump.
Next, go on. Don’t hurry there.
And take shots as fast as possible, crouch to replenish stamina.
Take a shot of the next mark. There you can do one more long jump
And in the end you can do one more long jump with subsequent bhop and two jumps.
This guide will be without any unlockables so we’ll be using only the items that are provided by game. No unlocked items
I’ll quickly tell you about stairs. I dodge over all stairs. I mean I dash all the time because I don’t want to descend…
… like that (slow, eh?).
So, you can simply fly over it. And you do that even when ascend.
Start bhop right about here and if you’re lucky, you’ll see that dark silhouette behind the corner
Keep moving. You may bind knife to “1” button during loading, then continue.
There you need the long jump to avoid stairs
and, if possible, move along the walls at the same time pressing the move button on the side where the wall is.
In my case it’s “A” (so I press “W” and “A”). If the wall is on the right, press “D”.
Yeah, that gives you just a little boost but it’s a boost anyway.
Jump to the 1st note and, to save time while reading this
start moving back, hold «S» key, press «E», read and
there you’re
Game engine (GoldSrc) allows you to interact with objects through the obstacles like walls
so if the item is behind something you can use it anyway but only if it’s not far away from you.
There I can read the note without seeing it directly. I aim a little bit above, press back (S) and “E”,
read and see the password.
Go to computer, enter login and password, nothing special here.
I think that was like this, I could bat an eye. Nope :-(
Let’s check it… Ah, “jillusername”…
I’m doing something wrong, just a sec…
Ah! Maybe it’s… I got it!
*inhale of regret*
*gulp*
Remember the password given here - 7-8-2-4, and let’s head back.
(DA) yeah, it’s worth mentioning that you need to skip stairs, dash here.
Text from the first note must be written in the second gap and the second line must be in the first, upper gap.
Here we return back not through the passage but through the wall here.
While you proceed throughout locations you can open inventory. This may be useful. Like this, for instance, to see the password for the padlock.
And continue.
Skip stairs if possible and there’s the 1st cutscene.
In the end of this cutscene you’ll be turned in the direction of the door over there.
To prevent waste of time and get in immediately, keep holding “W” and, as soon as you skip cuNtscene by pressing “Enter”, start spamming “E” button.
So, skip the cutscene and interact with the door at once.
Like this.
If your timing is perfect, you’ll enter the door immediately, but if you show up near the wall like it happened with me right now, you’ll need to step aside a little.
Usually you can get in successfully right away.
In this game you can save only twice (by the rules of speedrun.com). I’ll skip this saving point but nevertheless I’ll press the use button on the audio tape recorder ONCE
in order to trigger the message that appears when Simon interacts with tape recorder for the first time.
You need to do that so this message wouldn’t bother you next time when you’ll try to save the progress.
Use the tape recorder (you can see that Simon is thinking about using it to record his experience) and put to use as much stamina as possible before the cutscene.
Skip the cutscene and commence battle with your first enemy. Just constantly use fast knife attacks. Spam him by clicking!
Pick up the first syringe, fall down and fight with one more mob, not a big deal.
*YE* (And) the next monster will also block the path so it won’t be possible to get through him, but
if you reach the wall ahead, slow down for half a second and then continue running, he will not have time to react
which will give you enough time to trick him and slip through.
*burp*
It doesn't always work, but if you do it right, you will get through painlessly
If something goes wrong, you will still have a window on the left that you can walk through.
Alright, let’s see, we run
slow down for a while and sprint again.
That is, release the run button literally for a split second.
Another important note is that all weapons in the game have a stun effect on their first hit.
So you see, I hit the monster the first time and he staggered.
It can be used to get away from hostiles. Without fight.
Next. Without using ladder, you should reach the 3rd floor like that, climbing up the scaffolding
*YE* (and) here, again, use the door through the obstacle to reach the 3rd floor. I think. Yeah, the 3rd one.
As soon as you’re in apartments, jump up straight to the 4th floor, you don’t need the pistol to fight the boss
Sit on the edge of that handrail, about there, maybe a bit to the left
aim at the door which is above you. This might take a few tries and yet it’s quite easy.
Jump and press “E”. The main thing here is to hit the button in time.
Cutscene begins, skip it, as cutscene ends, turn to the wall, get to it, press “E” and pick up the rope.
If you’ve made yourself bindings, it’ll be easier for you now
because you have the rope. You go to the balcony, the cutscene begins, use the rope and skip the cutscene.
That is, you will get one floor down during the cutscene.
Press the rope button, then "E" and then skip the cutscene.
It will be better if you spam these buttons. So, it looks… like that. Several times to avoid mistakes.
Goin’ next, turn to the right quickly and run to the door, skip that ugly monster, we don’t need that one.
The next monster must also be skipped. Stand in the doorway in front of the balcony, turn to the monster on the right.
It’ll be there. Wait until the monster attacks you and get in the space appeared on the left side
Like this… That’s it. You forced her to get closer and she gave you enough room for evasion.
Well, get in, skip the next monster simply by clicking “E” button in front of it
*YE* (a-and) there’s a quite important moment.
One of the GoldSrc engine features is that monsters can trigger some objects when they hit them.
Our goal now, according to the game plot, is to insert cassette tape into this TV set and watch the movie (cutscene) to acquire the password.
However, there is a monster hiding in the ambush on the left,
we're to make him help us by hitting this TV set and initiate the start of cutscene
without the tape.
How to do that – we will lead this monster to this TV and stand in the corner, then we compel the monster to attack
and at this moment we just have to jump to avoid the strike.
During the jump the monster will miss and hit the TV instead, the cutscene begins.
*snorts cocaine*
In this particular case I prefer that corner where the flower pot stands,
wait until monster comes closer and attacks, and jump.
This might take a few tries too
because this monster can choose random position for attack.
If this doesn't work for the first time, wait until the mob comes closer, and repeat all steps told above.
This is how it looks.
Just take your position, jump, she hits the TV set and the cutscene begins.
To find out the password faster you can skip this cutscene and interact with TV set to see the password in the subtitles below.
6-7-9-9
To the next location, through the ceiling.
*YEE* (a-and) 6-7-9-9, we enter the password… over there.
While the elevator goes up stamina restores while you squat. That is, when you sit (crouch) it restores faster.
*YE* (and) during the cutscene hold “A” and “S” buttons. Hold ‘em and skip the cutscene.
You’re not near the exit from the elevator but on the stairs.
Here we are, ascending, skip everything. Pick up ammo if you want because right now you won’t need any ammunition.
I’m not taking ‘em because I have a knife which ‘ll help me further.
*YE* (and) up to the boss, you can bhop without a break.
Now I’ll save here just in case to avoid some accidental attacks, if something goes bad.
You shouldn’t save here because it isn’t crucial moment, it’s not appropriate in here
There we come to the boss – what is the essential part here?
You need to make him kneel twice, that is, to damage him enough and then attack his vulnerable point
which is on his back. You can do this twice, like I said.
So, you… now… have 99 FPS. And monster turns around very quickly.
But if you unlock FPS higher than 99, the monster will turn more slower and that’ll be easy for ya to fight it. BUT!
The problem is that as soon as he gets up from his knee after the first period of the fight,
you need to make him turn towards you or, perhaps, even attack you.
Otherwise all damage caused to him will go into nothing and be nullified.
You could see that effect in my video “474 hours of stress” when I shot two pistol clips in that boss and he didn’t care.
He didn’t even kneel. SO
We have two bindings to control game FPS, now I’ll unlock FPS with one of these keys and start fighting with the boss.
Here we go, he turns quite slow
*YE* (and) immediately while I beat him I switch FPS back to 99
so he could turn back to me faster,
then again, push the key with high FPS to make him slow again.
That’s all. Set FPS back to 99 and continue.
First boss is defeated a-and we’re done with apartments for now.
So, there just jump over all monsters who meet you and go forward.
Next, the password in this location is immutable,
ignore enemies, keep moving and enter the only possible password
5-2-4-7
Coming in. And there you’ll be frightened by spooky chainsaw sounds
but there’s nobody here
Jump down and to the next location.
In the next location you should avoid monsters which’ll jump out from the water.
In Russian colloquial speech we call ‘em
Lya’gushki (frogs) so I’m gonna call all of them like that from now on.
A-and all these frogs appear from the water
So, there we can jump, avoid encounters with frogs, do wall boobst
and choose this particular path as it is a little bit shorter than the other one.
Okay, there begins a minor dilemma. Such things will happen several times but anyway.
There we’ll be a long fall, the distance is huge, there.
That’s why, first of all, you won’t have much health after that.
You can either use the syringe right away after the fall, or take your chances and leave it for later.
If I succeed, I will tell you why you can do it. If not, I’ll have to heal myself.
because there won’t be too much health and there, most likely,
4 angry people are waiting for me.
When you fall from a great height, the fall animation is activated
which stops you for 1 or 1.5 sec.
To bypass this animation, hold “space” or scroll mouse wheel while you fall and spam dodge button.
Alright, hold “space” and spam dodge button.
And you have something like this.
I have to sacrifice the syringe and use it ‘cause I’ve lost too much health
and I’m too slow now due to that.
So, I heal myself and that’s it, I can forget about that thing I wanted.
Errgh, before I forget, I should note that the syringe restores stamina in ratio to the health spent.
That means the more health you lose, the more stamina restored with the syringe
Also, in this place there’s a very, very nasty place.
I’ll try to demonstrate in practice. Not sure if it’ll make it but I think it’s worth telling you about it.
I save here just in case because it’ll probably happen as I expect.
There is a place by this metal grate in which you can stuck.
It’s called «soft-lock», that is, you stuck in there without any chance to get out,
so, you’ll have to load previous save.
It’s rather easy to stuck in it but…
how can I put this..?
Generally, it happens just by accident, so, when you simply pass by, sprint, jump
and wowee! Gee! What a mess, you’re trapped here!
It’s somewhere here. Approximately. I can’t point at the exact place but be sure
it's somewhere here. So if you stuck ther
you won’t have any chances to escape and continue.
Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to find it now, but still, be aware of this place, do not jump here
That’s why if you go there, it’s safer just to sprint through with “shi(t)ft”.
Okay, here you need to guess the password.
Only 3 digits are always the same, the last one random and must be guessed.
The constant numbers are 2-7-9 and random digit.
Once you've found the password, keep going.
There’ll be a little ambush, but this monster is easy to take down, fear not.
This monster must be taken care of because he doesn’t let us through at all. There’s a small obstacle.
And that one can be fooled, we don’t need him.
But I managed to kill him, wow.
The next dilemma is that we need the lighter and the shotgun
but it isn’t obligatory to take the shotgun, some runners can handle everything without it and yet it’s very helpful in my case.
The thing is that if you take the shotgun, frogs will be spawned in the previous location.
If you’re afraid of this, don’t take the shotgun. If it isn’t a problem, take the weapon with you.
Like I said, it’ll help us later. A-and, let’s head back.
There we have a quest item, so we must set fire to oil. That’s the target.
There can be monster near the oil.
This is a random event, so there's a probability that he won't be there.
Okay, breaking in and wait for monster, it…
He’s gone. Splendid.
Ignite the oil, wait for it to burn out a little bit, getting out.
Ignite the oil, wait for it to burn out a little bit, getting out.
And enter the door. There! If you haven’t waited long enough, you won’t be able to open it.
But when your timing is perfect, you’ll do it quick.
It takes 3 or 3.5 seconds before the door will be opened. Take in consideration the time taken be loadings between locations.
So, the 2nd boss, cakewalk.
You need to activate only 2 valves to kill him with electricity.
The first valve to spin is to the left from Simon and the second is gonna be shown now…
There, this one.
Rotate that one quickly.
Allow Mace to swing once so he stays back there
It’ll eliminate any risks.
Then jump over there, turn the next valve and spam “E” and “Enter” to enter the door.
There pick up the syringe through the locker and move on.
I’ve already calculated all supplies like syringes and ammo,
so, that’s the basic minimum of what you need to finish the game.
There – do not step any further, just pick up the saw and get back.
If you step somewhere in the room with saw you’ll trigger the area that responds for
spawn of monster in this place. There’s nobody, we can get back through the wall.
And there you can do a nice stunt but sometimes it doesn’t work
due to bad timing and wrong buttons pressed.
Now, we have the saw, “V” button is bound to this item.
My goal now is to stand somewhere here, in this area, press “V” button to use the saw
and manage to escape through that door in the remaining time before the cutscene begins.
That’s something like this.
There. Here I am and I already have the key
That’s faster than it could be.
Jump to the end of the corridor, interact with the door (E), jump back, getting outta here…
Keep the syringe this time.
Since we’ve used one already, we shouldn’t use one more in this place.
Dodge here with “Ctrl”, fly through.
Sometimes it works, sometimes not. To be honest, I still dunno how it works here but anyway it’s okay.
Don’t panic there, just go straight through the maze, remember how I do that
And bhop to the end of this corridor
There’s half of the health bar left, that’s fascinating
because we’ve got a syringe that will help to replenish quite a lot of stamina so keep it for a while.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
