You can get a checkpoint in the sewers, but that's before the Zorn fight, so it's essentially the same problem of not having Junk Bolt, if I understand you correctly. How would that skip the Zorn fight entirely?
Edit: Oh, you're talking about the Manhole cover. I was confused, because there's actually a sewer section before the Zorn fight. What ends Episode 3 is pressing B on the Manhole cover, and that's actually possible before you fight the Zorn, but it still starts the exact same cutscene of the Zorn appearing, so I don't think there's a trigger other than that which could skip the fight. From my experience, that pressing B trigger just gets replaced after you beat the Zorn. But I can take a look tomorrow with mods
I made a little video about it:
I missed to record flying through the pipe looking for a trigger after deactivating the mines, it's the same result though. Let me know if I missed anything or if there's something else
Shoot that’s too bad. It’s like we’re so close because you can hit the button to enter the manhole but it doesn’t do anything. Thank you for taking the time to check it out though!
I think you will be happy to know I got low enough during an air walk to walk exactly where you stood during the trigger for the Zorn to die (though I assume just you moving OOB didn't kill it but it jumping to you? I still don't know if just you being OOB triggered victory) but I was in an air walk so nothing happened , however you can get inside the fight zone and take damage from a mine.
When I took damage from a mine, it semi knocked me out of an air walk. I walked a little odd, however I could trigger the memory right away, but sadly I could not use my RB to Target him, and just spammed B and it did nothing. So my current idea is to toy around in this area but you can get perfectly ground level with the Zorn area and go all around if and inside it. I did not try and find a way to get under it, this could very well change things but I ran out of time for tonight
Zorn skip isn't dead quite yet :)
