It took a while but i have finally beaten the long standing Heart&Slash WR of 13:21 (also set by me)

It has been standing for about 10 months

And here we are today at 12:17

God I'm proud of myself :)

link to the run: https://www.speedrun.com/heart_and_slash/run/me3kq2qz

And if you're interested please check out the game, it's a fun speedrun to do!

My next goal is lowering slash story % to sub 1h, i know it's possible just gotta find out how to skip the lab boss with box skip and have some good RNG and clean execution

Whoever is holding the WR by the 31st of May will receive $50 USD. I love speedrunning the game, but the competition isn't very active and the current WR has a lot of room for improvement. I started grinding this category today and my PB is already at 5sec from WR.

Here's a link to the leaderboard: https://www.speedrun.com/heart_and_slash#Neutral_Ending

My discord if anyone wants to verify with me if this is real: Thronior#5892

Good luck everyone!

Here's a compilation of all the speedtech, glitches and exploits we have gathered on our discord

• Box clip

Box clip is a glitch that allows you to get out of bounds and skip all the way to the boss fight of the factory

Here's a bad tutorial that i made when it was first discovered

• Longer jump

If you jump up any kind of slope you jump much higher and further, so it's basically a better longjump and great for traveling through some factory rooms and for the stairs before Quassi

• Bunny Hopping

For those who don't know, bunny hopping is a speedtech dating back to the source engine where if you repeatedly jumped as soon as you hit the ground your momentum would keep increasing making you able to move very fast

In this game it works a bit differently than in source, your momentum doesn't keep increasing, but you can keep the top speed of longjumping without any break in your momentum.

How it works is that you hold the sprint buttons and jump, after your first longjump just keep jumping immediately after you land without letting go of sprint

• Attack cancelling

I'm not sure if this can be considered a tech since it is part of the loading screen tipps

All light attacks can have their endlag canceled by simply jumping or evading out of them, this makes fast hitting weapons (like boxing gloves) very good for the early game especially

• Slicer jump

The steel and volt slicers don't use up a jump with their grounded heavy, which means you can triple jump with them by performing a grounded heavy then a double jump

• Quick Slash

If you jump into the Slash fight arena (Slash Story%) before the doors close you can hit him during the dialog, if you do this, the optimal way of damaging him is a grounded heavy with the steel slicer and 3 aerial hits. After that you only need one more hit to defeat him. If you defeat him before the cutscene starts though, he gets stuck in his weakened animation and can't be hit so you have to reset. Also if you hit him with the kinetic repellers during his ending dialog it also breaks the game and you have to reset

• Fast armor kill

You can hit through the armor of fully armored enemies by spacing yourself correctly, but the spacing varies with every weapon and its extremely inconsistent. So to remove the armor, the quickest way is to hit 2 heavy attacks (or 3 depending on the weapon) on the center of their back, that's enough to completely dismantle an armor

• Stunlocking B-DSS Knight

You can stunlock B-DSS Knight by using any fast volt/electric weapon, evading the first attack string and mashing light attack afterwards

• Quick B-DSS Knight (Robnin)

The Knight' first attack is always the same attack and to evade it you simply need to jump over him, so to kill him fast as robnin, while airborn above the boss, do a heavy with your fire sword, then land and hit him 4 times with the light of the volt sword. Depending on the upgrades you have it might vary by 1 or 2 hits

• Hardcore Parcour

You can stand on every geometry in the game no matter how thin it is, which you can use to your advantage when climbing up roofs in city to destroy the security systems and to more quickly reach the top of the elevator

If you have any more just post them as a reply to this thread