AKheon--

Nice! Might use that myself. I'm not a speedrunner, but I'm a photo mode freak, and it might let me get the camera in better places in cities, where it's normally locked to the playable area. Cheers. :)

Unrelated: I can't get the airwalking trick to work as described. Has it been patched, or does it still work for you guys and I just suck at reproducing it?

Hey guys, I discovered a trick to fall from a great height and avoid dying at the bottom. A friend said speedrunners might find it useful, e.g. to get somewhere quicker when you can't fast travel.

Here's a video demonstration:

I called it, "breakjumping."

Basically, the trick relies on the fact that you fall faster than blast sling bombs, which have a physics presence you can collide with. If you fire one ahead of yourself before you jump and you manage to bounce off of it just above the ground, your speed relative to the bomb won't produce impact damage, but the bounce off will break your fall and you'll land on the ground unharmed. It's tricky as hell but it can definitely be done with practice.

Tips & notes:

I found it easier to simply fall off the ledge than jump. Jumping just felt more error-prone. In some cases, though, it might be better to jump, or maybe roll, if you have to fire the bomb further away to land somewhere specific.

I found that picking a spot on the preview throwing arc and falling as the bomb passes it is a good synchronization method.

Aim straight down and don't pull back all the way on the sling. Just tap the trigger. Otherwise the bomb goes too far out and is hard or impossible to land on. Rolling might help if so.

The reason why I'm aiming all the way through the jump is to use the Hunter Reflexes skill (rank 1 in Prowler tree) to augment my own mediocre reflexes. The slo-mo made it easier to adjust my timing and trajectory and land on the bomb, but you guys as speedrunners might need to learn to fire and let off the aim immediately for the sake of time. Your call.

I used a proximity bomb because I have the Disarm Traps skill (rank 3 in Forager) which allows me to pick the unused bomb back up. On a speedrun you might not have this, so any Blast Sling bomb would probably do. Not sure about regular sling ammo, but it probably works too.