Ability Guide

# New Guide on Abilities

There are three main abilities that have been used in the world's fastest runs. 
* Ghost - an ability that somewhat negates the slowdown that occurs when you "bonk" into any enemy.
* Rubber Bullets - an ability that lets your missed bullets ricochet, meaning they have a chance to kill an enemy behind you or much further ahead of you. Lowers your chances of missing basically.
* Knife - the knife has a chargeup attack and aside from maybe the pistol is the best weapon in the game. The charge one shots everything in the game and the knife itself has some AOE meaning there is no need to be accurate with it. The knife provides not only a method of instakilling everything, but an easy way of gaining health since you can now much easily hit smaller enemies.

Ghost should be selected whenever possible, and the other two should only be selected depending on what weapon you like best. 

Particularly, after you select one or two of the abilities in game, you should skip further ability upgrade screens by spamming the spacebar. 

# Outdated Guide

For the run, it's important to note the abilities that should be used for what seems to be the most optimal speed. However, this is subject to change in the future. 

There are 3 abilities that you should mostly always ignore. These three are the shotgun, knife, and uzi gun swaps. Shotgun isn't horrible, however, with only two shots in the chamber and a decently long reload, you will be killing less quickly than someone with good aim and the starter pistol. The knife 1-2 shot kills mostly everything, however, with limited range. The uzi should also be steered clear of. The recoil and lack of significant damage makes this the worst weapon in the game.

However, the shotgun is special out of these three extra gun upgrades. Early game, it may prove to be one of the worst due to slow reload times and only an ammo count of 2. When in the late game, after acquiring reload speed upgrades, and ammo capacity upgrades, the shotgun starts to outclass the pistol. The meat walls are now always a one shot, even if you miss. You will obliterate entire groups of enemies in one shot, especially with the explosive ammo upgrade, and it seems that you can even shoot stuff to the side of you even if not directly looking at enemies. Can't confirm if this is a solid strat or not, but based my experiences, I'd say it is.

There are four major abilities that you should be making use of. These four are "Rubber Bullets", "Explosive Ammo", "Big Idol",  and "Ghost". 

Rubber bullets make any missed shots bounce of walls and ricochet. These bullets have the possibility of killing enemies around corners, which is obviously a great backup with random elements.

Explosive ammo makes enemies explode on death. While not particularly useful on early levels, starting on level 4, flying drones start to appear. These drones will chain explode on each other which means less shooting and more running.

Big idol is a simple ability. It simply upgrades your idol to hold more fluid, and this upgrade can be acquired multiple times over a single run. Of course this means in the more hectic and chaotic final levels you won't be dying after a couple of shots.

The final upgrade ability which is helpful is ghost. This is simple in nature. When an enemy hits you or you run into an enemy, you slow down to crazy low speeds. This ability negates that to an extent and can also be acquired multiple times over a single run. 

The other abilities, such as more ammo, faster reloading speed, and endpoint guide are good but not totally necessary.

Easily cut your runs from a video player

You can use `mpv` and `ffmpeg` to efficiently cut your video recordings.

## Pre-requirements

* `mpv` is a video player, akin to VLC: https://mpv.io/installation/
* `ffmpeg` is an audio and video encoder. It can do a bunch of things, but we'll only use it to slice videos, without re-encoding them: https://ffmpeg.org/download.html

You can download and install both of them separately, or use `chocolatey`, a package manager, to quickly install them:

* Run the chocolatey install command in an administrative command prompt: https://chocolatey.org/install
* Run `choco install mpv ffmpeg` in that same shell.

## Cutting script

After installation, you'll need to download and copy the following script in the `%appdata%\mpv\scripts` directory: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/nmussy/2351bac8e4d307d316b4b7b8db4f064c/raw/dbabe89047ceb32270ea297792a4a9fc08bfc22b/slicing.lua

GitHub adds a `.txt` at the end of the file, which you will need to remove, so that it ends with `.lua`. You will also probably need to create the `scripts` directory.

## Usage

Once installed, you can open any video files with MPV and press `c` on your keyboard to start a cut, and `c` again to end it.

You can change the output path by changing the `target_dir` parameter in the script. By default, the cuts will be copied to your user Videos folder.

## Twitch VODs

If you're only streaming and would like to upload your ILs separately, you might want to check `youtube-dl` to download your VODs, and cut them with this method.

You can either install it using chocolatey (`choco install youtube-dl`) or get the latest release from their GitHub: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/

## Troubleshooting

If you have any problems, feel free to hit me up on the Post Void Discord, preferably in the #offtopic channel

Faster Upgrade Screens, and also how to skip them

You can upgrade abilities faster than normal (but not as fast as skipping) by spamming spacebar after choosing an ability. (Discovered by WoKaa)

By pressing space on an upgrade screen, you can skip the upgrade AS WELL AS the animation for grabbing the upgrade.

At the moment if you pick up some of the more OP upgrades early on, its almost certainly worth skipping the rest of the upgrades later on. You'll ideally wanna get your hands on Rubber Bullets, Ghost, and Explosive Ammo (Ranked by necessity)

Known Glitches

This will be a kept post of glitches over version numbers to keep a history and record of said glitches

##1.0.2c
Pistol has infinite ammo when spammed at a rapid rate

Movement Guide

In order to go fast, you're gonna need to do more than your basic walking.

## Strafe Running & Slide Dashing

Holding either W+A or W+D and looking off at a 30-45 degree angle in the appropriate direction (Left for A and right for D) will give you a pretty decent speed increase. We've dubbed this Strafe Running.

Alternatively you can spam shift and gain a fair bit of speed by sliding over and over. We've dubbed this Slide Dashing.

I think it's faster to Strafe Run, but you can shoot enemies a bit easier if you're Slide Dashing.

## Serious mode sliding

Serious mode uncaps the backwards movement speed, and a slide goes in the direction you're aiming. This means that if you start a slide while strafing backwards, serious mode will propel you at almost twice the speed of strafing

## Movement methods comparison video

https://youtu.be/cJcPhzmYIxY

Post Void Autosplitter Guide

##Information

Automatically starts the timer. Splits can be chosen in the settings. Resets when a new run is begun. Syncs to in-game time when comparison is set to Game Time.

##Instructions
* open your split file (any category) and Right Click LiveSplit 🡆 Edit Splits...
* make sure the game name is set to "Post Void"
* above your splits, an "Activate" button will appear, which you need to click
* check settings if you want to change when to split (must have the same amount of splits as you checked in the settings)
* done!


Contact Ero#6117 on Discord, or add your own changes *[here on GitHub](https://github.com/just-ero/LiveSplit-Autosplitters/blob/master/Post%20Void/PostVoid.asl)* if there are issues!

Name	Author
Ability Guide	woKaa 4 years ago
Easily cut your runs from a video player	nmussy 4 years ago
Faster Upgrade Screens, and also how to skip them	Meta 4 years ago
Known Glitches	woKaa 4 years ago
Movement Guide	Meta 4 years ago
Post Void Autosplitter Guide	Ero 4 years ago