Speed Run FAQ - Ask any Battlefront 2 speed run questions here!
7 years ago
Québec

I see more and more people these last few months interested in Star Wars Battlefront 2 speed running. It is nice to see the game having a bit more activity.

I have answered a lot of people questions in private in the past and I thought that it would be nice to have a thread where information is more accessible or easier for someone to ask a question about something they do not know.

So if you have any questions, drop them here! I'll be happy to answer them (or anybody else that do know the question you are looking for :) ) .

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Ireland

Any tips for perfecting the infinite sprint glitch? I'm having a lot of trouble getting it down

Québec

It is not an easy trick to get down, I suggest to always try to go for it while you are playing, it is somthing you have to get a feel for it and then it become a bit more consitant. Remember to always hold foward+sprint and then press/hold roll when the stamina bar gets empty. If any of these button are not held or release the trick will not work.

There is however an easier way to do the infinite sprint trick but it is not always optimal because you have to go out of your way to do it sometime.

If you run off of a platform while your stamina bar gets empty, you will still be in a sprinting mode even though your stamina bar is empty. The game also allows you to buffer a roll when you are in mid air. So if you are sprinting in mid air with an empty stamina bar and then holding the roll button, you will get Infinite sprint.

I did a video with a few examples a while ago:

In the video, the last example could be worth to go for at the end of mygeeto. However the force field is still active by the time you get there so you can not use that little slope to get infinite sprint.

The trick is use by a few runners in Coruscant before the third objective. Since the second objective is on a timer, you have the time to set it up and then it allows you to begin the third objective with infinite sprint already active.

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Germany

Is there a discord for this game? I may have appeared ''dead'' for a while but now I got a new PC, desk and chair and will hopefully be up to speed

Québec

No there is not at the moment. If this is something insteresting for a lot of you guys let me know, it maybe a good idea to create one.

Wales

Is there a way to get my splits not close out swbf2 while doing galactic conquest?

Québec

Did you try to play in windowed mode?

Wales

Uhm when doing galactic conquest speed-runs is allowed to use awards?

Québec

Yes they are allowed, every galactic conquest runs are currently using them.

For the rise of the empire speed runs, we have a category for runs with bonuses/awards and then another category for runs that starts from a fresh file.

Wales

Thank you, I just didn't see the effect/affect from the awards lol.

Québec

No problem :) . Most of the time you are using heroes/jedis in galactic conquest. They are not affected by the awards that is why you probably did not saw them.

Wales

How would i get a 1:20 conquest (republic) route and ai manipulation?

Québec

I do not know a lot about galactic conquest, I never much interest in it since it is super random and there is not much actually strategies in it.

Do suggest taking a look at this though: http://www.speedrun.com/swbf2/guide/ygzhq

^Useful information and also a part where it explains what you can do to try and manipulation the Ai on the world map.

If you are playing on console versions, it will be much harder manipulation the Ai in the position you want (also a bit more annoying since loading times are longer).

Washington, USA

Hey so I was watching some runs and I noticed that Xbox seems to have more mines than PC. Is it just a version difference or something?

Luckily I think it only effects Felucia in term of speedrunning.

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Québec

That is correct. The heavy trooper only has a maximum of 3 mines on the PC version while consoles versions have 4.

The strategy that I use on the Xbox version allows me to not have to stop to the ammo droid. There is a lot of different ways you can deal with the acklays, but generally it is better to stop for at least an extra mine since you are already using 2 of them to get rid of the acklay that spawns far way.

PC and consoles versions have a surpring large amount of very slight diffenrences. Here is all of them I can think of at the moment:

-- PC advantage -- -Infinite sprint is PC only -You can use a mine to destroy the spaceship at the end Death Star

-- Console advantage -- -Heavy Trooper has 4 mines -Can spawn with Bobba Fett in Kamino closer to the door -Can disable the objective screen that appears every new objectives -Dark Trooper's Arc Blaster firing rate is faster and just a bit better overall. -Menuing is generally faster on console since you are doing direction inputs instead clicking -Tantive IV OoB that saves about 1 second if done right

There is also some tiny differences in the way you play, like for example the sprint button on console allows you to sprint right away, while on PC it will take a half second to activate so you either alway have to hold it before hand or you can do a double tap and hold "W".

France

Hi everyone ! New to this site, newbie to speedrun, very old fan of SBFII thought ! I just wanted to ask 2 questions not strictly related to the game itself.

  1. What software/OBS plugin do you use as a chrono (in order to measure different segment etc)
  2. I saw that some speedrun videos on twitch were older than 2 weeks, did you just used clip (but doesn't clips have a maximum length ?)

Thank you, looking forward to submit my first try on the campaign !!

Washington, USA
  1. Do you mean what do we use to record the times? I use Livesplit to capture my overall times, but go back and manually subtract the loading times from my runs.

  2. Twitch now has highlights that can be entire stream lengths. It makes it easier to just export a highlight to Youtube, then exporting the whole video and try to edit it there.

Québec

Hey Temuchyn :) Welcome to the speed run community. I hope you will have fun speed running SWBFII !

  1. Most people are using either LiveSplit or WSplit as a timer software.

LiveSplit has a lot of customization options while WSplit is a much more simple program and takes a bit less CPU usage.

LiveSplit: http://livesplit.github.io/

WSplit: http://www.speedrunslive.com/tools/ (Look in the "Timers" section)

2)There is many ways you can submit a video for the leaderboards. Like Wryvin said, you can create a highlight from one of your past broadcast. Just click on the past broadcast video you want to edit, then click the "3 dot" button and select highlight.

From there you will be able select the section of your run and create a video with it. You can even upload that highlight video to Youtube with the export option. Highlights video do not have a maximum length I belive.

You can also use the local recording option with OBS if you want and then use a video editing software to create a video with your run. Streaming while the local recording is active does work.

My personal setup is a bit more unique. I am currently speed running the Xbox version on a Xbox 360. The HDMI signal from the Xbox 360 goes to my AverMedia which records the footage in a very nice quality. Then the AverMedia sends the signal to my elgato device which allows my computer to receive the footage and stream it. And then the elgato sends it to my monitor so I can play the game without any kind of lag.

France

I replied but somehow it wasnt published !

Thank so much for all your advices, it was both clear and helpfull. So I downloaded wsplit and set everything up, the only catch is the hotkeys wont work while I'm in game ! (I play on pc) Hotkey are enabled, so it goes over any other window but not the game ! I've read a couple of solutions on using a script w/ Autokey in order to "hook" it up but is there any easier solutions ? Thanks again =)

France

Well hotkeys are already enabled, and it works with every windows but SWBF. If no one had a similar problem, I'll just switch to Livesplit, thanks