I'm just making this a forum thread since I haven't actually pulled this off in a run yet, so this is really just a proof of concept (I swear there was an easier clip here in an earlier version of this game).
Addendum: boost jump glitch
Summary:
bind pause to your scroll wheel
jump while spamming pause
extra height???
This will make the second jump during the cave tunnel barrier skip thingy a lot nicer although I'd really like to see a better alternative to the OOB clip seen above
Edit: Be careful with spamming pause... It can crash your game and possibly other shenanigans... Use sparingly
ok here's a slightly better (easier? more doable?) version of the tunnel part of hammer skip:
Ok so I think sledge skip might be kind of mid. With it I think you can shave off like 20 seconds from chapter one but you then might lose out on time during the witch fight because you only have the knife and the shotgun (more testing needed on the shotgun strat). I think maybe the time loss could be minimized if you can successfully backshot the witch every time but idk (more testing needed).
Ok from what I've been testing, you can probably beat the witch in about 38 seconds if you have the best rng using the sledgehammer, using only the knife seems like a really big gamble and the shotgun merely tickles her in comparison to the sledge
That's what I was thinking too. The issue with not taking the hammer at this point is how much time loss there is possibly on the Witch. Without the Pistol and without the Hammer, Knife and Shotgun are kind of ass. You're likely to lose the time you'd get back unless something can be found to boost that damage
You CAN get the Code to the Door with the Dagger before finding the witch. But we need the Dagger to even put the code in, and picking up the dagger triggers the fight
maybe if there could be an out of bounds past the dagger door, then witch skip could be possible 🙏
That would beg the question of whether Chapter 3 triggers are even active in Chapter 2, yeah.
On top of grabbing the dagger triggering the witch, killing the witch also triggers the start of Chapter 3.
