Max Payne 3 - New York Minute Hardcore completed for 2nd time!(12th Jan)

On 12th Jan,I have completed another walkthrough of New York Minute Hardcore!It take me around 3-4 hours real time to completed. This is my 6th time attempt New York Minute Hardcore,and success once again without die and fail,only get stuck in some moment,but no lag at all.
1st time:Failed in Chapter 2(Can't protect Giovanna well)
2nd time:Failed in Chapter 5(Stand too close propane tank and shoot to explosion then die...)
3rd time:Failed in Chapter 6 Part 1(Killed by full armor protected soldier)
4th time:Failed in Chapter 8(Lag+no aim point mark in last man standing)
5th time(21st Sep):102 mins + 49.72 secs(1st time success)
6th time(12th Jan):83 mins + 43.36 secs(2nd time success)
----------------------- 7th time(14th Jan):Failed in Chapter 12(Killed by shotgun and the wall stop me to shoot back..)
8th time(15th Jan):79 mins + 28.14 secs(3rd time success)(~3 hours + 15 mins)(Fastest)
->3/8=37.5% Success 

Here is a short video about my walkthrough (after becker lost his grenade launcher and hand),showing my completed time and time remain.Sorry about the quality and sound effect since I use my smartphone to record it.
If it is not clear,look at the picture below to see the completed time.

Since there are no overall leaderboard of New York Minute Hardcore,although I see my name here,but I am not sure what rank should I placed..

This time I use a bit different way to play.I aim for speed this time,so I don't care how much remain time I have.But in some chapter I also aim for safety to make sure I have enough pain killer to make myself not to die...

In this walkthrough,

• I melee fewer enemy than the original New York Minute as I will have chance to get more shot after melee the enemy and there still have enemy in close range.Only melee when there have 1 or a little bit more enemies.
• Shoot enemy to gain more bullet time and prepare for my next action(headshot,kill enemy in bullet time)
  Trick:Aim for head in bullet time and then stop the effect of bullet time and shoot enemy to die to gain bullet time
• Less Remain time at the first few chapter but 20 minutes more in last few chapters as aim for speed run
• Dual Wield same weapon/machine gun to make a faster kill(especially when enemy wear body armor/helmat)
• Pause the game to find out where is the enemy to save some time and kill them
• Explosive object(Propane tank&Vehicle) :Having some trouble in Chapter 4 Part 2,but in others(Chapter 1,Chapter 4 Part 1,Chapter 5 Part 1&2,Chapter 7,Chapter 9,Chapter 10,Chapter 11 and Chapter 14 are good,kill a lot enemy and get a lot time)
• Grenade Launcher:Important in Chapter 12&13,this weapon can help you gain a lot of time if you can kill enemy and blow up the vehicle(Chapter 13 only),you can get near 11 secs(5.5 secs for kill+5 secs explosion bonus) for each kill and 10 secs for car explosion.
• Get stuck...In chapter 13 boss fight,nearly enter last man standing due enemy use different road than usual to kill me but I quickly take pain killer to recover it and melee that enemy,so It can be lucky...
• Not care about shoot accuracy too much due to want enemy die faster to get time,often use SMG to kill enemies.
• Many chapters use more than 100 secs bullet time,some of them even more than 200 secs and less shootdodge too.
• Some of the chapters searching for more Pain killer,usually happen in last few chapters due lack of Pain killer at the beginning
• Roll in stair(Both Up&down),that can make me save a little bit time to pass through the stair

That all I remember from my memory,may have some more to point out when I remember them.

Time adding in NYM:HC showed below:

Action	Soft Lock*	Free Aim
Kill	+5.0 secs	+5.6 secs
Headshot Kill	+6.0 secs	+6.6 secs
Payne Bonus (Special Shootdodge / Bullet Time Scene Only)	+6.0 secs
Melee Kills	+10.0 secs
Explosion Kill (+ kill / Headshot Bonus)	+5.0 secs (+10-11 secs)	+5.0 secs (+10.6-11.6 secs)
Projective Bonus	+1.0 sec
Vehicle Bonus (Destroy Vehicle)	+10.0 secs
Crush Bonus 1 (Car drop from above and kill the enemy below, Chapter 4 Part 2, Chapter 10)	+10.0 secs
Crush Bonus 2 (Car Roll back and kill enemy behind, Chapter 5 Part 1)	+15.0 secs

* Explosion Kill - If a enemy is on fire, wou will only have explosion bonus instead of kill + Explosion Kill Bonus.
* Specific Part / Chapter - You will earn different bonus time for kills. This will be explained in that specific chapter. (Happens when you are in a moving vehicle, excluding Chapter 14 Final Part)
* Soft Lock Bonus - PC Edition of Max Payne 3 will only recieve Soft Lock Bonus even when you play on Free Aim.


You need to careful when you in a moving vehicle like car/boat/helicopter, each kill will reward you half of the time only. (less than half...)
Here are the list:

Action	Chapter 2 Helicopter & Chapter 10 Bus Part		Chapter 5 Part 2
	Soft Lock	Free Aim	Soft Lock	Free Aim
Kill	+2.0 secs	+2.3 secs	+1.75 secs	+2.05 secs
Headshot	+2.5 secs	+2.8 secs	+2.25 secs	+2.55 secs

More Tips:

• Usually people will try to get more time at the first few chapter to make sure they have enough time to fight in last few chapter as those are not that easy chapters...
  As I aim for speed this time,I don't care the time too much.But in average, I earn 4 mins and 16 secs in every chapters.
• Less shootdodge and more bullet time only,shootdodge have some bad points(like you will prone and stand up again,it will take few seconds but in this few seconds you will have a chance to get hit when there have a enemy stand near you.
• Always keep yourself in full health,if you have less than 60% health,consider take a pain killer as quick as you can otherwise you will die if you get more shot(especially deal with SMG,rifle and shotgun(also can kill you if you are too close with full health)),so don't stand too close if you want to kill them.Cover can be useful too.
• Dual Wield,since dual wield can help you kill the enemy faster as you can shoot more bullet at the same time,you just have to care how many ammo you left(Collect all golden part to make you have extended mag for most SMG,Pistol and rifle or more damage to kill a enemy) 
• Look for explosive object:
  Chapter 1 - 5 Vehicles
  Chapter 4 Part 1 - 3 Vehicles
  Chapter 4 Part 2 - Propane tank
  Chapter 5 Part 1 - Vehicle+Propane tank
  Chapter 5 Part 2 - Propane tank
  Chapter 7 - Propane tank
  Chapter 8 - 3 Vehicles(I figure out that grenade launcher can't make them explosion,try it with shot gun,but you can have some good use with grenade launcher to make some explosion kill,6 grenade only.
  Chapter 9 - Propane tank
  Chapter 10 - Vehicles+Propane tank
  Chapter 11 - 3 Vehicles
  Chapter 12 - 1 Propane tank(You can use Grenade launcher in this chapter)
  Chapter 13 - 4 Vehicles(You can use Grenade launcher in early part of this chapter,21 grenade total(12 can get from ammo box,you have 9 grenade when you get this)
  Chapter 14 - Vehicles(You can use Grenade launcher at the last part with ton of grenade)
  - Note that in some chapter enemy will drop grenade,in that case you can shoot the enemy and the grenade will fall to the ground and explosion.In some case,enemy will fail to throw the grenade to you and kill themselves...
  - If you can have better use of explosive object,you can earn a lot time with that and faster to pass through the checkpoint.Those explosive object should take around 3.5 secs to explosion.
  - Important:Stay away from explosion!
• Try to stay clam!If you don't know when is the enemy,simply pause the game and switch the camera to look around and find enemy to kill.Or pause for few minutes to make yourself not so nervous...
• Roll in stair,that can help you save a little bit time(If you are going up not every time you can roll...)

Fail/Death Point in every Chapter you need to careful: (Non-common + common mistakes)

Note that some photo collected from youtube video.
Chapter 1:
•    Act too slowly / Stay at the same point for a long time -> Rodrigo will be kidnapped(Should not happen in Speed run)

•    Shoot Fabiana...
Chapter 2:
•    Not fast enough to kill all the enemy in the same checkpoint (stage) -> Giovanna will be killed/kidnapped again

Chapter 3:
•    Not fast enough to get in other entrance -> Get kill by the sniper in 1 shot
•    Can't protect Passos before enemies get near him -> Passos will be killed

Chapter 4 Part 1:(Should have no problem,unless you get kill in car explosion...)
•    Haven't press fire button in the scene you have to kill Tony -> Max and Passos get killed
•    walk in the area(red line) before you kill all enemy -> Passos get killed by De Marco Gang

Chapter 4 Part 2:
•    Can't kill all 6 enemies before water tower collapsed -> Max get Killed
Chapter 5 Part 1:
•    Shootdodge to the water at the dock area -> Max get killed(high chance)(If you careful,that should no problem)

Chapter 5 Part 2:
•    Your boat receive too much damage and then explosion...(should not happen)
Chapter 6 Part 1:
•    Not fast enough to kill all 3 enemies in the vehicle -> Max get killed in a car crash

•    Kill by the full armor protect soldier(LMG.30,better use dual wield to kill him faster)
Chapter 6 Part 2:
•   Walk too slowly -> Die in Building collapsed / your life will slowly reduce and then die
•   get 2 shot and die(sometimes happen to me in bullet time of careless lol)
Chapter 7:
•    Get killed by the Molotov(1 can make you die...)
Chapter 8:
•    Kill all the enemy too slowly(red circle)  -> Passos get shot and die
•    Haven't tap fire button(RT) 2 times(3?) and you will be killed in the scene where Tony father cry about his son die
•    Inside the church can't protect Passos before enemies get close to him -> Passos get shot and die
Chapter 9:(Careful if you melee a enemy in the bridge,you may have chance to fall down and die(nearly the end of chapter)...)
•    Tap the button too fast/late and get killed by Milo(only 1 chance)
Chapter 10:
•    Can't shoot out 2 CraCha Preto members (with green laser) before they shoot Giovanna -> Giovanna die (Start of the Chapter)
•    Get too far from Giovanna -> Giovanna will be killed
•    The bus receive too much damage and explosion(Should not happen easily)

•    Die in last battle
Chapter 11:(Notice: At the beginning you don't have any pain killer!)
•    Stay at the point too long and don't shoot the enemies -> Passos will walk out the cover and get killed(near observation platform)
Chapter 12*:(Suggest you use M82A1 Sniper rifle to kill the full armor protect soldier,it will die in 1 shot)
•    Can't clean out all the enemies in time limit(~2:30) -> Building collapsed, failed
Chapter 13*:(Notice: At the beginning you don't have any pain killer!)
•    Armor protected Car shoot you to death

•    Get killed by the full armor protect soldier(LMG.30,shoot 2 grenade to him and he will die)
•    Get killed by the right hand man(Bachmeyer)(Even you have pain killer also will die as you can't shoot him at first...)
Chapter 14:
•    Get killed by Becker with Grenade Launcher (most common)/Grenade from other UFE
•    The car receive too much damage and explosion(Should not happen easily)
*If you can't use the grenade launcher/LAW careful, you may get killed from it also.

There will have more walkthrough when I have time to do this NYM:HC again.

Addition:

1st time success of New York Minute Hardcore:

3rd time success of New York Minute Hardcore:(15th Jan)

Mission Passed!

Achievement / Trophy:

	Achievement/Trophy	Description	Score	Trophy
1		Unlock And Complete New York Minute Hardcore	10 G	Sliver
*Original photo from Rockstar Games, for more information,visit http://www.rockstargames.com/maxpayne3/achievements

Unlocks:
If you successful complete New York Minute Hardcore,Congratulation!You can unlock Booze and pills Max Deathmatch Avatar now!

This post last updated at 9th Nov,2017 4:11pm(GMT).