Battlefield 4 Any% Speedrun Former World Record

Battlefield 4 full game speedrun on easy difficulty. So close to sub 1h 59min but of course I had to choke in the last level. RTA 2h 1min 32s.

Let's go Recker, Recker follow me, I'll take the lead Recker. Recker. Recker! RECKER!


Run breakdown and possible improvements:

- Baku has possible 5+ second improvements.
- Shanghai has 5-10 seconds with better gunfights.
- South China Sea has 10+ seconds with faster diving, better gunfights and without potatoing shooting the 3rd chopper.
- Singapore has possibly 5-10 seconds with better gunfights.
- Kunlun Mountains has 30+ seconds with better gunfights and without enemies hiding.
- Tashgar has possibly 5-10 seconds with better gunfights.
- Suez has 20-30 seconds with better gunfights.

Even if low balling, there's over a minute of possible time saves so a sub 1 hour 58 minute run is clearly possible.


A recurring theme in this game are gunfights where you have to kill all enemies until you can move on. This is where most of my improvements compared to prior runs came from and where there's still room to improve. For example, Shanghai has 4 unskippable gunfights. 2 in the sky bar and 2 on top of the roof. Improving these would save me approx 5-10 seconds. Learning where the enemies usually are and using spotting / binoculars does help you a lot. Sometimes enemies like to run around aimlessly or go hiding so spotting helps finding these enemies easily.

The game also relies heavily on triggers that you can't skip so out of map glitches are not really useful in this game except for in the level Tashgar. Using Shanghai as an example again, without having to hit the triggers in order until the end, you could complete the level in theory in less than 5 minutes. You can glitch out of map quite early in the level and can then run to where the end of the level would be but since the triggers aren't completed and buildings / props don't load, you can't do anything.

https://www.speedrun.com/bf4