Today I made an experiment/hunt glitch to try to find a setup to get both keys at the beginning of the level. I expected that this setup existed because there's also glitches for Rapid and Laser shots, but just never did the proper testing, until now.

Here's a video with the full experiment (very long and I forgot to put my keyboard display, but I uploaded anyways as a documentation of the test):

And here's the short version with just the results and some explanations:

With this we can avoid A LOT of almost every level.

I'll be working on re-routing the different categories.

TL,DR: just type 'L' 12 times and you'll get both keys

It's really weird that there's so many different ways to do the rapid and laser bonuses! Both keys gonna change so much. Works for me as well, just mash L. I'm also gonna reroute, just moderate ep 1 for now tho :>

I tested your inputs as well: Rapid:

• hold up YES
• hold numpad "-" YES
• hold 5 YES
• hold 7 YES
• hold ? NO ---- YES if i hold my "-", so same key as on numpad but next to the normal nmbr. keys, but for some reason you do have to hold it longer than the numpad key. this key is, oddly enough, not in the same position as your keyboard map thingy shows (it's next to 0 not next to p)
• hold O YES
• hold K YES
• 9 6 times YES
• alt gr like a billion times YES
• numpad 8 4 times YES

Laser:

• up 2 times YES
• hold F4 YES
• hold 9 YES
• hold T YES
• hold S YES
• hold { (it's ' on my keyboard but same position as on your map) YES

Both keys:

• L 12 times YES

Thanks for the research!

niiiice. I'll see if I can upload some pictures I'm doing of the new routes. so far I got this for Moderate:

Level X , Old Route ---> New Route - Estimate timasave (seconds) Level 1, No bonus ---> Keys -- 14 Level 2, Rapid --------> Keys -- 4 Level 3, Rapid --------> Rapid - 0 Level 4, No bonus ---> Keys -- 23 Level 5, Laser --------> Keys -- 12 Level 6, Laser --------> Keys -- 14 Level 7, Laser --------> Laser - 0 Level 8, Laser --------> Keys -- 10 Level 9, Rapid --------> Keys -- 19

Total estimate timesave: 1:36

The route overall has the same difficulty as before, some levels are easier and others are harder.

I'm getting a significantly bigger time save on level 2 (~8 seconds), are you slowing down somewhere for health management?

My time save on level 5 is a lot less though :/ you can only skip the silver key right?? How does that save 12 seconds haha, takes me like 6 seconds to walk there and back to where you fall down

Other than that I'm getting about equal timesaves Think im gonna get rekt by level 9 a lot now, that new jump and the possible extra damage because of bad RNG are horrible as well as the mashing lol

I did the times saves with my best segments, so I either got a nice level 2 or just mistimed.

On level 5 I probably miscalculated something xD.

And yeah level 9 is nasty now >__<, but If it's executed well is one of the best timesaves.

UPDATE:

I went deeper into the previous experiment, now testing for tap + hold all the keys up to 3~4 taps in general. I found some interesting stuff.

Full Experiment:

And of course the short version with summary:

TL,DR: There's now two more reliable methods for obtaing the Keys, and they are more consistent:

• tap 'F8' 2 times, then hold it for ~1 second
• tap 'C' 3 times, then hold it for ~1 second