Max Payne 3 - New York Minute Hardcore #15 (2 Years Anniversary Edition, Full Video)

Time flies... is been 2 years since Max Payne 3 released on US (15th May). To celebrate, the best thing for me is to play another New York Minute Hardcore to celebrate it.

My last New York Minute Hardcore run (#13) was completed on 7th June, 2013, so is nearly a year! And recently I begin playing Challenge Mode which you have to complete the challenge that the game have given, I have to change how I play this game. At the same time, I almost haven't played New York Minute (My main mode for practice New York Minute Hardcore.)

As the result, I need to practice New York Minute Hardcore at least 2 days (13th May) before I attempt it again. (Yep, practice is needed!)

So, in 1st Practice Day (13th May), I have attempted Chapter 1-3 and Chapter 7,8 to refresh my memory since I have a long time haven't play the game, I could forget something. After few hours of warm up action.

Here is some of my Score during Practice: (My best time)

Chapter 1: 4:44 (4:49)

Chapter 2: 6:35 (6:40)

Chapter 3: 7:13 (New Record)

Chapter 8: 7:54 (New Record)

For Chapter 3 and Chapter 8 I did make the video since those are new record.

For Chapter 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8ngtFRt6LU

Chapter 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no00L3pZ8cw

Back on to topic. Some people might ask, where is #14 run? I can say, failed! More detail will be explained.

Warm-up practice: Mostly on Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 (New York Minute Hardcore), and the performance is different (of course based on situation), but normally some warm-up action can improve my overall performance in New York Minute Hardcore (like aim faster and better).

Attempt #14 (Fail) : Overall my performance is not bad, go all the way to Chapter 6 Part 1 with 33 Minutes banked (at the end of Chapter 5 Part 2). When the quick time event come, a strange thing happened. I have shoot the driver but I don't know is that those shot not hit (direct hit with a lot of bullet) the driver, I end up get killed in Car accident... Weird! How can this happen...

After this happen, I gonna have some "Angry Ex-cop" action going in story mode... I did have some more warm-up action after that but the result isn't that good (Best is to Chapter 3), so I have to take a break for few hours.

Attempt #15 (success) : Real attempt again. Well, at the first few chapters the result wasn't that good, especially in Chapter 2, I nearly die (2 more shots without Pain killer will die). But I still have to move on... This is my biggest challenge, to have at least 80 mins left in my clock at the end of the run!

So melee, explosion kill, and so on... I can't have too many mistakes during the run. Overall there have 3 chapters I have to admit I am still doing not so well (base on time). Chapter 5 Part 2, Chapter 9 and Chapter 12. And here is the time on summary screen when completed the chapter.

Chapter	#15(15th May,14)	Time in New York Minute
Chapter 1	04:34.72	4:34.72
Chapter 2	10:03.55	6:28.83
Chapter 3	15:49.06	6:45.51
Chapter 4 Part 1	19:14.51	4:24.55
Chapter 4 Part 2	22:47.35	4:32.84
Chapter 5 Part 1	30:46.77	8:59.88
Chapter 5 Part 2	32:56.00	3:09.23
Chapter 6 Part 1	36:22.09	4:26.09
Chapter 6 Part 2	36:20.44	0:58.35
Chapter 7	42:23.26	7:02.82
Chapter 8	49:06.30	7:43.04
Chapter 9	50:56.39	2:50.09
Chapter 10	59:47.52	9:51.13
Chapter 11	66:28.04	7:40.52
Chapter 12	69:30.65	4:02.61
Chapter 13	77:38.82	9:08.17
Chapter 14 Final	87:27.96	10:49.14

* From Chapter 2 every chapter +1 min (Since New York Minute start from 1 min)

Compare to #12 run:

Chapter	#12(15th May,13)	#15(15th May,14)	(+/-)
Chapter 1	04:15.77	04:34.72	(+18.95s) -
Chapter 2	09:15.68	10:03.55	(+47.87s) +28.92s
Chapter 3	14:11.53	15:49.06	(+1:37.53) +49.66s
Chapter 4 Part 1	17:26.56	19:14.51	(+1:47.95) +10.42s
Chapter 4 Part 2	20:31.71	22:47.35	(+2:15.64) +27.69s
Chapter 5 Part 1	27:44.27	30:46.77	(+3:02.50) +46.86s
Chapter 5 Part 2	29:52.54	32:56.00	(+3:03.46) +0.96s
Chapter 6 Part 1	33:10.05	36:22.09	(+3:12.04) +8.58s
Chapter 6 Part 2	33:05.94	36:20.44	(+3:14.50) +2.46s
Chapter 7	39:22.33	42:23.26	(+3:00.93) -13.57s
Chapter 8	44:24.81	49:06.30	(+4:41.49) +100.56s
Chapter 9	46:43.16	50:56.39	(+4:13.23) -28.26s
Chapter 10	55:24.63	59:47.52	(+4:22.89) +9.66s
Chapter 11	60:09.99	66:28.04	(+6:18.05) +115.16s
Chapter 12	62:32.26	69:30.65	(+6:58.39) +40.34s
Chapter 13	68:44.61	77:38.82	(+8:54.21) +115.82s
Chapter 14 Final	76:24.80	87:27.96	(+11:03.16) +128.95s

The statistic explained (some) why Chapter 5 Part 2, Chapter 9 doing quite bad. But when you look at it, you will also find that Chapter 7 is doing worse than #12 run, here is some detail inside of it.

In Chapter 5 Part 2, as usual. If the enemies jump off before the ship blow up, you lost few seconds per enemies. Well, I did lost a lot of time since most of the time enemies jump off the boat before the boat blow up, luck based...

In Chapter 7, I find that 1 enemies missing and 1 enemy appear a lot later than I expected, I lost a chance to melee him at last.

In Chapter 9, a bad start. Normally I can melee the first 2 enemies that are in the stair but totally failed (~9 secs lost), wasted more time to deal with them. And nearly the last part another fail melee kill (~5 secs lost) and 1 enemy missing (10 secs), 1 explosion kill lost (melee kill at last). That why this chapter did quite badly this time.

In Chapter 12, although seems like is doing better than #12 run, but they are almost the same... I have grab the Grenade Launcher this time, I just can't use it well, that make me doing badly at the first part. After this bad beginning, not much big trouble.

Chapter	Bullet Time (Secs)	Total Kill	Headshot kill	Pills Taken^	Melee Kill^	Fail Melee kill^
Chapter 1	58	25	4	3	15	-
Chapter 2	238	84	27	5	39	1
Chapter 3	184	84	34	11	25	-
Chapter 4 Part 1	23	27	10	1	2	-
Chapter 4 Part 2	101	50	23	2	12	-
Chapter 5 Part 1	200	83	19	9	28	-
Chapter 5 Part 2	109	62	20	-	-	-
Chapter 6 Part 1	131	42	18	5	13	-
Chapter 6 Part 2	17	7	4	-	1	-
Chapter 7	284	112	55	7	27	-
Chapter 8	179	82	28	9	21	-
Chapter 9	103	34	16	2	9	1
Chapter 10	201	108	48	7	13	-
Chapter 11	215	94	33	5	25	-
Chapter 12	188	75	30	5	14	-
Chapter 13	259	113	41	10	27	1
Chapter 14 Final*	*	[111]	[39]	9	29	-
Total	2490	1193	449	91	301	3

[ ] mean count by myself by watching the video over and over to get the valid number
^Count by myself, (valid + fail melee kill and receive time(5 secs) / headshot bonus)
* Since No summary screen of Chapter 14, no information (exclude kill, headshot, melee, pills)

I sure in this run I have used more than 2,500 seconds (~42 minutes) of bullet time, more headshot and a lot more melee kill too. That really help me get a better time but of course, more dangerous moment...

Spotlight:
I am still alive but 2 shots away from death... (Chapter 2, 8:56)