Beyond Divinity - Any% RTA Speedrun

Since I have already done a few any% runs of Divine Divinity, I thought I should take a look at the next entry in the Divinity series. After having played Divine Divinity quite a bit and a few playthroughs of Beyond Divinity, I already had an idea what the route would roughly look like. So I spent the following weeks checking what tools were still available and piecing them together to a route through the game.

Unlike Divine Divinity, which is based around a open world, Beyond Divinity is divided into four separate acts. Each previous act cannot be accessed after completion. So I had, with a few exceptions, the simple goal to reach the end of each act as fast as possible. For Acts I, III and IV this was easy, since the end of these act is triggered simply either by a door or defeating Damian. For Act II things were a little different, as it is triggered by a dialogue at the end of the main questline. Here the developers did a good job to prevent you from skipping parts of it, but using the mechanics described in the google doc speeds things up. Combining everything to a reasonably safe route and executing it ok-ish has allowed me to finish a run with a time of 29:47.

More details on my route and other mechanics in the game can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h...