Death glitch, possible teleport early glitch?
8 years ago
New Jersey, USA

I'd like to preface this with "I have no idea how this happened and if it will work," and also "this may be a known glitch already."

With that out of the way, something strange happened while doing attempts today. While collecting items, I died. Not so strange, right? But when I died, the bandit turned invisible and I was able to control him normally, but couldn't interact with items. I tried to make it to the teleporter to see what would happen, but it took too long and the teleporter already counted down. I was still able to activate the teleporter like normal and continued onto the next level with none of my items. It seems to be very similar to activating the teleporter and then dying.

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If this is a known glitch, let me know. If not, I'll try to explain why I think this could allow us to use the teleporter early.

French Southern Territories

I am not an expert but it might be interesting. However, I am not sure Onin and ShadowDraft read the speedrun.com forums, however, you can PM them on Twitch to get an answer :)

Drenthe, Netherlands

That has happened to me one time and I never managed to reproduce it. Never managed to figure out if it was useful. Sadly it falls under the IGT% glitch, so it's not useful in runs.

New Jersey, USA

I think it could be useful if it's possible to use the teleporter while it's counting down, that way we move onto the next level that much quicker. The reason it might be possible is because after I die, it counts the enemies as if I was ready to teleport.

The way I think I did it was dying on the frame I selected an item. I'll look into reproducing it tomorrow and see what kind of benefits it may or may not have.

Edit: Trying to explain better If for some reason this works and we can use the teleporter before it counts down, the any% run could end up being less than 9 minutes, and the monsoon any% would pretty much be equivalent since it skips the longer teleporter. 1 minute per level, assuming we teleport early 5 level = 5 minutes 3-4 minutes for final level + Providence (based on igt% wr) = 8-9 minutes total

Double edit electric boogaloo: Just tested it, and it doesn't work as expected. I didn't fully test it, like using the Imp statue in the video, but if anyone cares to look into it further here's how you do it: Get a command chest, activate it but don't pick an item. Wait until something is about to attack you for all of your health. When it "kills" you, pick any item in the command chest. You have a few frames to do this. The game will consider you dead, but you are invisible and can still run around and shoot and kill things. Maybe the Imp statue will do something important? Who knows. I don't have time to test further tonight.

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