Breakdown, SPEEDRUN GUIDE v0.9

Game Mechanics

Physics:
Momentum based, your speed is retained when moving on something like the yellow cart. Also
since there is no set jump speed, when you jump speed is added to whatever your speed was
before you jumped, this is why slow jumps happen because a jump was imputed on a frame
where your speed was 0.
Jumping:
If you are not holding a direction, or you jump just after the landing animation of your previous
jump, you will jump directly upwards. During the first few frames of a jump, you can input either
a punch (L, R, or both), or you can input a crouch which will set your horizontal vertical
momentum to 0 which allows you to do a super short hop by inputting (Jump, crouch, jump)
although no use for this has been found yet.
Punch canceling: NOT FULLY UNDERSTOOD
Jab has some strange properties, such as being able to do them indefinitely in quick succession
by inputting another jab on the right frame. Besides that it is very low priority as an action state,
currently, it is known to be cancelable by either inputting a slide immediately after the jab or by
inputting a jab during the first few frames of the jump animation. Can also be canceled by using
a shockwave. Very little is known about how it works and what it can be used for.
Stair skip:
The set of stairs just before the second keycard is collected can be skipped, by standing in a
very specific spot underneath them and jumping you will be warped to the top of the stairs. This
works because of how collision is handled in breakdown, the developers intended you to walk
on top of the stairs, and so that you don’t just fall through them there are collision boxes that
push up on you so you stay on top of the stairs. Because you were only ever intended to walk
on top of the stairs, there is no collision to stop you from going through the stairs from
underneath, at the peak of your jump the top of coles head is inside the collision box which
moves whatever is inside it, to on top of it. Currently, it is only known to work on that one
staircase
Fast reloading:
The length reload animations on weapons can be completely skipped by shielding during the
animation. I have no idea why this works, it just does
Glassdoor clip:
There are two doors currently known to be clippable through by jumping into them, the first
being the door just before the desert hallucination (which is an OOB), and the second being just
before the cat hallucination which is before the red-faced hallucination (known as cat skip). I
also have no idea why this works, it just does.
SMG weapon:
All around good, you will use this the few times you actually have to shoot.
Pistol weapon:
Just a slower smg.
Rocket launcher:
Necessary for helicopter fight, and useful for clearing groups of enemies.
Laser gun thing weapon:
Completely useless.
Grenades:
The way grenades work is surprisingly complicated, you can only affect the direction you throw
one, looking up or down won’t change where you throw it. The knockdown from a grenade
sends you a little less far than jumping. Both damage and knockdown can be completely
canceled by walking backward into a wall during the explosion.
Keycardless: Theory, the cause is unknown
There is only one point in the game when you don’t have to use a keycard to open a door, it is
at the end of the game when you wake up in the bed and go through the beginning tutorial, the
glass door that you are supposed to open with the keycard in room 2 can be opened by walking
backward into either the left or right corner (left is significantly easier). The cause is unknown
but I’m guessing because the door opens automatically when you approach it from the other
side, you can trick it into thinking you’re on the other side because walking backward lets you
get much closer to walls, and glass doors are incredibly thin.
Jumpcut:
By far the most common tech in the game, most cutscenes are rendered in real-time in the
game, the game always wants you to be looking at the cutscene when it’s happening, it
achieves this by facing you towards the cutscene, however, you’re speed and height are not
affected, so by jumping just before the cutscene starts, your jump direction is changed midair to
face the cutscene.
Jab:
Hits on frame 10
Animation 38
IASA 29
Damage 12
Straight punch:
Hits on frame 8
Animation 40
IASA 33
Damage 22
High kick:
Hits on frame 22
Animation 76
Damage 143
The most broken move in the game, it does an insane amount of damage, has a huge hitbox
that actually moves forward during the animation, and it has very low knockback so you can
combo high kick into itself.
Left hook:
Hits on frame 10
Animation 44
IASA(loop into right hook) 19
IASA(loop into left hook) 34
Damage 26
Right hook:
Hits on frame 12
Animation 43
IASA(loop into right hook) 33
IASA(loop into left hook) 22
Damage 22
Roundhouse:
Hits on frame 14
Animation 42
IASA 32
Damage 47
Backfist:
Hits on frame 11
Animation 45
IASA 34
Damage 25
Uppercut:
Hits on frame 16
Animation 50
IASA 40
Damage 40
kick :
Hits on frame 13
Animation 51
IASA 43
Damage 36
Full uppercut:
Hits on frame 19
Animation 69
IASA 53
Damage 83
Sliding:
Hits on frame 30
Damage 18
The second most useful move, an incredibly safe approach option since it moves far forward
with an active hitbox, lowers your hurtbox to the ground, you can’t be taken out of the animation
by an attack, combos into an uppercut which will almost always knock down the enemy.
Slide uppercut:
Damage 116
Soldier behavior: NTSC
Soldiers will immediately lock onto you and will not shift their focus no matter what, they also do
an unfair amount of damage, but don’t have much health.
Soldier behavior: JP
Soldiers have very slow reaction time, which means you can usually either run past them
without getting hit, or you can run up and high kick before they start shooting, also deal very
little damage.
T’lan warrior behavior: NTSC
Will immediately lock on to you and if you are anywhere near them will tackle you and put you in
knockdown, most of the time they are able to hit you again by the time you are out of
knockdown, deal a decent amount of damage but don’t hit very frequently. The only way you
can safely get past them is if you jump by when they are in the beginning of their walk
animation.
T’lan warrior behavior: JP
Slightly faster reaction time than the soldiers but still slower than their NTSC counterparts,
however because of their slower reaction time you can jump past them without having to wait for
their walk animation to start. Unfortunately, the T’lan merry go round backup strat is impossible
on JP since they hit you way more frequently than in NTSC.
T’lan merry go round backup strat;
You know that part early on in the game when you have to lure two t’lan warriors out of a room
so you can lock them out and safely open the door. Well if for whatever reason you die during
your first attempt, you can just run up to the door and open it(there is a good chance you will
survive but it’s not guaranteed).

Getting the Japanese version of Breakdown on an Xbox One/Xbox Series by 2KRN4U

Getting the Japanese version of Breakdown on an Xbox One/Xbox Series by 2KRN4U

1. If you don't own the disc (any region should be fine), make sure you have the game purchased/owned on your Microsoft Account.

2. Delete any Breakdown data you have on your console. (Settings -> System -> Storage -> Internal Storage -> Uninstall Things -> Uninstall Breakdown)

3. Change your region to Japan (System -> Language & Location -> Location -> Japan)

4. Once your region has changed:

Disc:
Insert the disc and it should automatically download the Japanese version (I haven't actually tested this, but in theory it should work.)

Digital:
Open the Microsoft Store and download Breakdown. It should download the Japanese version.

5. Once it finishes downloading, launch the game and make sure it's in Japanese.

6. Change your region back to your original region.

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Why get the Japanese version?
- The game is overall much easier. The AI is a lot less aggressive.
- There are much less forced fights compared to the other versions.
- Tutorial is shorter

Name	Author
Breakdown, SPEEDRUN GUIDE v0.9	Ryo242 5 years ago
Game Mechanics	supersoupy22 4 years ago
Getting the Japanese version of Breakdown on an Xbox One/Xbox Series by 2KRN4U	supersoupy22 4 years ago