(sorry for the shitty quality) using pipe bombs, we are able to exploit ethan's fall animation to squeeze past collisions to out of bounds.

So far, i've been able to do this 2 ways in the same spot. one being way less consistent than the other since it involves being shot across down the stairs by the explosion and pass the barrels near the crawl space where you see dimitrescu.

an this way seems a bit more consistent, but still tough to pull off as im Not 110% sure of the line up.

hopefully this will be viable in the full game, in other areas an such.

this was done on standard, an a trainer was used for infinite health & ammo. but you can tank about 4 explosions so it's not 𝘵𝘰𝘰 risky.

could you try this at the beginning of the moreau area to try to bypass the gate. because if this is possible then that's a huge timesave

i haven't checked myself but i've heard people have gotten to that section from the castle area.

few issues still remain when it comes to out of bounds tho, #1 being even if you do clip through the gate, i cant see being able to get back through as it requires a key to open it from the intended side, thus leaving you trapped in that part of the village as far as i know. unless another oob is found in moreau's section. #2 as mentioned you can get there from the castle and grab the flask in moreau section, but in doin so you wont be able to get the flask from the castle. as that place becomes inaccessible once you leave.

certain things in the castle dont work out of order either. like the statue head in the elevator where lady d cuts your hand off. you can collect it but the elevator wont move. you can interact with the casket but cannot pick up the knife to imitate the lady D fight. an shown below in a lazy way using cheat engine, you cant leave the room even if pick up the flask.

there's also an easy oob in the factory, but sadly you cannot trigger the cutscene with chris until you fight the Sturm (the armless spinning blade boss). And you cant hit the checkpoint behind the locked door on B1 whilst oob to go to that fight, until you backtrack to B3 to turn the mold into the heisenberg key. an the level itself is Way too vertical with very little collision to interact with to elevate yourself or Blast fall yourself down to

it's lookin like this game works Exactly like re7, when it comes to sequence breaking. if not worse. still really early days to tell tho.