Efficient run restarts

Ansy runs serve as a great example of good video evidence (remember to not include external music), bonus points for adding Input Overlay like [ThatDude001](https://www.speedrun.com/users/ThatDude001) for his runs. in one of [Ansy's runs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2_kDTc-mkM), you can notice a very efficient way of restarting a run, much faster than looking for a death zone.

Once in a private squad, hit Ctrl+R to refresh the page, so it puts you back on your spawn! If it doesn't work, enable "Automatically rejoin the last game" but it should work regardless of this setting toggle.

Poosting (Spear Boosting)

First time watching [the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NtCjoRo__I) I didn't catch how to do the Poosting, but now I get it! To anyone else struggling, you can start by watching [Ansy's video tutorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDlgH3K9OhE).

Spear weapons from melee category "**Light Poke**" on single attack click will make you dash slightly forward then backward (hence the name "PooSting", letters from Boosting replaced for SPear letters). These vary in range (attack range and poost distance), damage and attack cooldown, but for speedrunning Range will be most important stat, which Gatehouse Spear (Gatehouser) happens to have highest +5. It's also most expensive one, so take a notice while buying not to pick similarly looking Gatehouse "**Heavy Poke**". The Heavy Poke boost needs a charge that greatly slows you down, and while boosting/dashing you can't change your direction. No idea if it's faster than "180 poosting" with Light Gatehouser, if you make a comparison video please share. In a speedrun environment, it's unlikely it'd be faster.

This makes for several Light Poosting techniques:

1. Bow-switch Poosting requires you to switch to bow to cancel that backwards dash.
Since around [2023-08] some update reduced Switch-poost efficiency, where backwards dash can't be fully canceled.
2. 180deg Poosting uses that same forward dash, but then you turn back to catch a wind of second dash.
3. Wall Poosting uses the fact forward dash recoils off collision bodies, so just face a wall and fly backwards.
4. Ladder Poosting is used to jump unexpectedly high off the ladder's top. At its core it relies on Edge Poosting, but on difficulty increased by ladder physics. Reach the top of the ladder (where there is that weird catching when going up), then aim downwards and a bit to the ladder, finally jump and boost at the same time. Some ladders are long and you with the climbing process was quicker, luckily all other poost techs work on ladders.
5. Edge Poosting is when you poost into the edge of a prop to get an extra high jump, preferably that edge is smoothed. Essentially the angle you look down should be 20~40°Poost directly into the object **without** jumping (much more reliable), while pressing forwards, so that you lunge into it. Then press back while jumping with the recoil.
It was previously thought to be based on RNG, but it seems to be based on hitbox interactions.
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[2024-02-02]: Below methods 6, 7, & 8 - have been patched to **not work** anymore.
6. Omnipoosting as name implies allows poosting in any direction - lock your head in the only angle that you don't intend to poost (look straight at the floor), then switch to 3rd person camera ("Y" key) and Poost to move around. **Keep in mind** that for Poosting techs that require you to look straight up/down you just press Attack to poost, no switch or aggressive mouse movement and you gotta time the clicks with player animation. If you run out of dashes you switch the weapon (Press "Q" twice) to reload. This tech allows long difficult jumps where you can rely on speedhack anticheat, that stops you mid-air when exceeding speed limit.
7. Crab Poosting also has you look straight up/down, but in first person camera. Then you gotta jump sideways. Since [2023-10-03] [patch](https://discord.com/channels/519477170964267008/1131162522175680613/1158715763599876167), jumping sideways isn't a requirement, you can Crab Poost forward or backward as well. Since then you'll see people call it Floor Poosting.
8. Floor Poosting starts by looking in the direction you want to go then lunge, then jump, then look straight down and hold back till the animation finishes, then hold forward again and repeat. Before Crab Poosting had its improvement patch, it was a more convoluted way of bypassing the "jumping sideways" requirement.

Credits: *"1)" by* [12bobs](https://discord.com/channels/519477170964267008/1063953115096809563/1063953115096809563) *[2023-01-14]; Video by Toafloast [2023-03-21]; "4)" by Creepy [2023-05-20];  "6)" by gm.razgriz [2023-08-09]; "5), 7), 8)" by lege19 [2023-09-09]; "5)" description by mewcopult [2023-10-10]*

Timer Setup (LiveSplit)

[LiveSplit](https://livesplit.org/) is a stopwatch used by speedrunners to time their game. You can pair it up with [Splits.io](https://splits.io/) for better accuracy.

## Installation

Using link above you can download a local client, or settle on a less convenient [web version](https://one.livesplit.org/). Once downloaded, navigate to the location where you downloaded LiveSplit. It will be as a .zip file. To unzip, right-click and click on Extract (sometimes shows Extract All).

To launch LiveSplit, double-click to enter the folder, then double-click on LiveSplit.exe (there will be a bunch of other files but don't worry about those).

A stopwatch showing 0.00 in a black rectangle will appear: Right-click that and proceed to Settings.

At the top, you should find "Hotkeys" tab, from there edit the

```
Start/Split ... NumPad1
```

to whatever button you see fit. Study the remaining hotkeys, then once you're done, click on OK at the bottom. You can record your footage and control the timer with setup hotkeys.

## Installation (Linux/macOS)

Like all Windows apps, you can run LiveSplit with Wine, but to get the hotkeys working you'll need to find and follow a guide on "Linux: How to use hotkeys in Wine applications". It involves getting process ID, making and running a listener script.

## Recording your Speedrun

We recommend to use OBS Studio, Windows Recorder won't work as it only captures the window in use (so the stopwatch will not be seen). With OBS, you can record your entire screen which will show the stopwatch (or setup the captured scene to overlay 2 windows on top of each other (Fullscreen/Windowed Game and LiveSplit)). Here are some [video tutorials for OBS Studio](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7z5aaTneSH9MNxtvromeBO8ZiLiIXcxk) to get started.

Name	Author
Efficient run restarts	Incredible_Violent 1 year ago
Poosting (Spear Boosting)	Incredible_Violent 1 year ago
Timer Setup (LiveSplit)	blueywashere 1 year ago