I was playing SW:RC one day and I ended up hitting shift (walk) while grappling and I somehow discovered that it completely stops you from doing it. So I went on some of the levels you grappled and haven't found much to skip but have been able to get OOB on tons of missions. Critical Strike has been the most helpful grappling glitch. I also found out that it semi useful on Strength of Brothers.
wow ! great job man ! I would never believe that the action "walk" was useful anyhow. Plus it's pretty simple to perform, thank you, you're on your way to the top
Nice find. I never would have thought of that. Also I don't even have a walk button, now I have to find out where to put it, there's already enough buttons in this game.
Here are my first experiment my this glitch. Unfortunately, part from the Critical Strike one, each of these new OBB seems useless. Details :
.1 0:00 Maximum Prejudice
You can't use this because you fall as soon as you move. There is no invisible platform like in the other cases.
.2 0:16 The Strength Of Brothers
Interesting one. It allows to enter the Sun Pack room without trigger the rest of the scenario. However, by doing this, you can't finish the level, because you absolutely need 07 to snipe Sun Pack's ship in order to trigger the exit. What does happen when you break the glass from afar (like behind the first door) ?
.3 1:11 The Heart Of The Machine
Seem useless, you are jailed by invisible walls
.4 1:48 Advance to The Coreship
Maybe you can land on invisible caulk walls from there, but I didn't succeed.
.5 2:08 Canyons Of Death
The most impressive one. As previously, maybe some caulk walls are reachable from there (if you don't fall on the bottom of the map).
.6 2:50 Ghost Ship Recon
Useless
.7 3:28 The Rescue Of Tarfful
This one is very disapponiting. You can't reach the top of the map, so you have to pass by the bottom, and there you can walk on an invisible floor no so distant from the real floor. (mole mode activated). I strongly believed in the possibility to reach the exit this way, but I confronted with a surrounding solide wall.
.8 5:09 From The Shadows
You can't perform the glitch here. DISAPPOINTING, All my hopes and expectations went to this level when seeing your video, but is is the only grapple time where the glith is impossible.
.9 5:21 Critical Strike
The glitch is indeed useful here, it leads to the CS OOB with a gain of 50 sec compared to the ancient path.
.10 5:40 The Bridge Of Kachirho
You're once again surrouded by caulk, so it's useless. But this segment is already in is minimal state anyway
.11 5:59 Behind Enemy Lines
Useless too, as you are trapped in solid.
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Yeah I have tried messing around with all of them and this pretty much sums up my experience.
Investigations on Geonosis :
The Strenght Of Brothers :
You can see in the video that I do a lead of faith to pass the glass window, but there is an easier way to proceed. You can just walk and clip through the wall on the left to land on a caulk chunk. Graphically you are on the side of a large Geonosian window. Jump to join the other side, clip through the wall and land in the room.
At this point Sun Fac is standing still, and the first door is open. If you pass the door you can collide with the droids and the SBD which are to appear ; for the moment they are just invisible ; and you can kill them ! It will trigger your counsellor advising you to breach the second door. But you can't do it, since you didn't break the glass for your squad to pass.
New strat : let's enter the room, then break the glass. If you do this the first door will close, and the droids will turn visible. The game unfolds as usual, except that you are at another position. You can't order your team to breach the second door as long as the first one is closed. You can also put yourself in the middle of the door before it closes, so you will glitch and a gap will remain between the two flaps. Unfortunately the clones can't pass through.
Conclucion : the trigger system of the level makes it impossible to pass with illicit means.
. Canyons Of Death :
Three ways are possible : to fall onto the bottom of the map ; that is useless - to jump over one of the pits to clip through the wall - or to jump over the other pit the clip through the other wall. Despite being offered a generous perspective, the caulk walls are blocking every try to advance further. This level isn't particulary important anyway.
Yeah I have experimented with stopping the door and stopping Sun Fac. I almost get them through but only one ever does. And have only experience the same with Canyons of death .
On Strength Of Brothers, the fact that the droids and SBD are invisble but already loaded means that through casual play, you can throw a shock grenade before the door closes on Sun Fac to weakens them. It can save a few seconds
I managed to get the squad on the other side of the door. The door closes upon Sun Fac crossing it. But Sun Fac is solid. That means you can block him. I won't lie it's very hard to do so, because his path finding is overall good. You have to block him between your hitbox and the wall. When it's done, the squad can pass. Take note that the second pack of droids and SBD don't spawn, as we are far enough from the door. We can now breach cool.
But :
- Catching Sun Fac is HARD
- the setup is way too long !
As a conclusion, the door breach being the condition to finish the level, it is obvious that you need the whole squad there asap. So the better strat is to play the casual way, and break the glass panel first. Even if we could avoid some droids, and skip the door - closed for a few seconds - it balances not in the end. So the grapple glitch has unfortunately no usefulness there.
How about breaching the door with him not passed the door? I tried to do it. It might glitch hard.
I guess nothing really happened. I recorded it but nothing really happened.
You did it ? so you experienced how hard it is to catch him. There is no reason for something to happen as his appearance as for sole meaning to escape, for the door to close upon him, for the droids to turn visible, and for the next trigger to unlock (the one that spawns 1 SBD near the elevator, and some droids, when you pass the first door). So if you block Sun Fac, well, you just block Sun Fac, avoiding the events I listed, but nothing forbids you to breach the second door
Some little news about The Strength Of Brothers... If you don't kill the invisible droids, Sun Fac will be blocked by them, allowing to glitch the door and keeping it open, so for the squad to pass, without the annoying setup we talked about lately.
Still, after some experiments, I can tell that the quickest way is indeed the casual way, as the glass is broken first. Case closed.
