Hi there!

With the Ultimate Decathlon community, we discovered a new trick that allows us to warp one extra room while walking through a door. We can use this to warp ONCE up, as well as an infinite amount of times to the left.

If our character is alive at the end of a room and there is an open door (which only happens in boss rooms), we can enter the door manually. Then, by pressing start once our character is in the animation of walking to the next room, press Start. Select any room you would like. If your character is walking through the North door, you will be warped one room above the one you have selected.

Here's a video example of a run using the maximum amount of warping possible:

Notes:

• Once the cutscene of a boss is triggered, we cannot use this warping glitch again. Therefore, we can use it on the following bosses:

  Once on Boss 1 to go up one room An infinite amount of times on boss 2 to go left (requires to play through the boss again for a single warp. The cutscene needs to be triggered to count towards the defeated boss requirement). Once on boss 4.

Realistically, the left warp does not allow us to go to zone 5 directly, since the rooms where we could use this warp requires 45 deaths to different discs.

As this was a test run, I'm really not sure if every trick used is worth. Clearing Carnivorous three times is quite painful, and does not save that much time either.

I didn't submit any run yet, since I wanted to have your input if this should be considered as a different run than the Any% category.

Speaking for myself, I think this trick should be allowed in Any%. As far as my tests went, the best route possible with the warping glitch would be to skip zone 2, clear the boss, and play as usual through the game. Routing 45 deaths to different types of discs to warp to the final zone is almost impossible, since it would require to unlock most of the map (if not all of it).

I think it does count that black screen you're talking about. But since this isn't a loading screen but a set time we shouldn't change anything tbh ; plus, if you didn't skip your cutscene fast enough, it kinda is your fault for not mashing enough your escape button :v. Real question is, if the first cutscene does count towards global timer, does both hostages cutscenes count as well ?

(Note that Reflex mode makes the IG timer go slower (or don't count at all, idk which one of them is the truth), therefore if you change how time is calculated it changes all of this game's speedrun, routes and everything)

Hi !

I didn't noticed first cinematic was in global timer, thanks for that info !

And sadly no, you don't have any way to "bypass" this advantage that console version have. The only way you can get close to it is by using chopper-calling grenade (sorry, I don't know its name in english) instead of iDroid. Still cost up to 4/5 seconds I guess :/

Thanks for the category Skull !

For Vallkyr : Depends if we use IGT or RTA. I think it has to be RTA since the IGT is totally messed up with the Reflex Glitch.

If so, Single Segment is forced (or else we could leave and enter the game to skip cutscenes faster, and it would be a pain for the timer (+ it depends of which version of the game you're playing)).

I'll make some runs when I'll be sure if it's RTA or IGT :)

It would be a good idea, however I don't know if people are still running this game :/ I'm still working on SS New Game (5 sec improvement from my PB, I'm waiting for sub 3 to post something), so if other runners are hyped for that category I'd give it a try :)