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Spoils of War
Spoils of War is the second stage of the It's a Blast series in the Arcade Amateur League in TimeSplitters 2.
The Glitch
Speedrun on this stage make use of a glitch that allows for impossibly fast times compared to the intended way to play the stage.
As most players know, if you kill yourself with the rocket launcher, you will leave behind a coin. It is possible, however, to leave behind more than one coin when you kill yourself. This is done by killing yourself while falling off of a ledge.
Keeping this in mind, there are three ledges in the stage that are useful. There are the two ramps in the small buildings(the interior of one is blue and the other is red), and there is the ramp in the large building in the middle of the stage. The ramps in the small buildings are the most useful and easiest to take advantage of.
Now to the glitch. What you want to do is move up a ramp a little ways, face sideways and move backwards off of the side of the ramp while looking down. As you just begin to fall, kill yourself with a triple rocket. If you did it right, you will leave behind more than one coin. Exactly how many coins you leave behind depends on what you did when you killed yourself.
If you just killed yourself with a single triple rocket burst, then you left behind two coins. Not too bad.
If you decided to damage yourself with a triple rocket(or a couple of single rockets) and then immediately fell off the ramp and killed youself with another triple rocket, then you may have left behid three coins. This is better, and could potentially get you a time of 35 seconds if you attempt a speedrun.
Getting more coins requires a little more work, but it's not too bad. The first thing you'll want to do is set up a custom control. You're going to need to be able to perform a fast weapon reload. For the PS2 version, put the weapon switches on the L1 and L2 buttons. Now, for how to pull off the suicide. Get a spawn near a ramp, quickly go up the ramp, look straight down and time shooting a triple rocket so that the majority of its damage will be absorbed by your invincibility, but it will still damage you somewhat. Immediately after you fire, do a quick weapons switch(hit L1 and then L2 quickly) and then fall of the ramp and suicide with another triple rocket. If done right, you will leave behind 5 coins.
Finally, there is one more thing to take into account. Not only can you leave behind multiple coins when you suicide, there is a way to actually pick them up immediately as you die. This is why the two ramps in the small building are so useful. If you fall backwards off of these ramps and suicide at the correct place(it's just a little ways up the ramps) you will fall right onto the coins you leave behind and pick them up.
Strats
Fast Strategy
Restart until you spawn in one of the small buildings. Do a 5 coin suicide. Hope you respawn in a small building. If you do, do a 5 coin suicide.
If respawn in the large building, do a 5 coin suicide off the large ramp. You won't be able to pick up the coins as you die off of this ramp, however.
If you spawn elsewhere, kill yourself as fast as possible.
Ideally, you want to get 5 straight spawns in the small buildings. The chance of this happening after getting an inital spawn in a small building is 1 in 256. Thus far, no known time has been done in 5 spawns. The best known time to date was done in 6 spawns.
