South Holland, NetherlandsHeya runners,
I am wondering what in the run changes if I would decide to run current patch? This is a game I really enjoy playing/watching, but I am not yet convinced I would enjoy the speedrun, so I kind of don't want to jump through the hoops that are needed for the early patch route.
It does, the moment you jump into the arena the boss intro starts.
Hey everyone,
Not sure if you were already aware of this one, but found that you could get Out of Bounds here. Basically you want to jump to the side of the hole and get stuck on a ledge. The sliding will therefore get stuck, meaning the animation doesn't play afterwards. Now you can walk Out of Bounds. Not sure if it is applicable anywhere else however.
Edit: Been able to go all the way to the boss with that OOB.
Awesome to hear! Hope you join the Discord as well, cause we would love to have more people around there! Either way, good luck on the runs!
I am not sure if there would be any reasons for it not to be available in Australia? Maybe check Steam if it is available there, but you can always check the Switch, Xbox One, Epic Game Store and GOG as well if you prefer those.
Full Game categories are almost there! Today's update added a full game timer. We are now working on the rules and will implement is as soon as possible!
Awesome! Can't wait for your runs to appear on the board!
We decided on this as we thought it was easier to keep up with as you can't easily restart levels the way they are meant to be played (with only the weapons accessible from a NG playthrough) and it is hard to sometimes not equip them as some levels and checkpoints auto equip weapons. Once the next PJ update comes out and the timer gets extended to also work for the full game we are planning on adding both NG, NG+ and 100% to the leaderboard as the full game categories.
But you are correct, it is technically NG+ Any%. If it bothers you or other people a lot we could change it around or find a more fitting name, but for now I feel this works just as well.
Hey, thanks for sharing! We also encourage people joining the Official Pumpkin Jack Discord to share all these skips in case you feel like joining an already amazing community full of runners and glitch hunters!
And short answer, YES! Longer answer: YES! We wanted to implement a full game leaderboard from the start, but as the devs have started on making a full game ingame timer, we wanted to wait for that update to hit at least the PC before allowing runs to be sent in. This way everyone will be on a level playingfield, no matter the console. This also makes it easier for us to not have to delete any times of the leaderboard this soon into the game's lifespan to conform to the new timing method. I hope that answered your question? :) We will be making a Forum post about it as well.
Oh heck, really?! I didn't know the engine was different? Played through it a 100% not that long ago on the PS4 and it felt almost 100% the same to me. Pretty damn good port then, haha!
Either way, I hope someone can get use out of this or figure out how to transform into Hermoine in Hogwarts, because that is the missing link at the moment, haha
Hey guys, I know I have been MIA for a while, but there has been a lead that popped up in my community pointing towards a potential skip. If we find a way to excecute this one it'll skip 4 levels in the Story Mode speedrun. (Years 7.1 mission 3 till 6)
This has been found by: timeeater678
Recently someone joined my channel and asked my why he skipped 4 levels and how he could get back to replaying them.
After not understanding what he meant he decided to sent a picture of his screen to show that he was missing 4 levels. 
After showing this picture he explained what happened and I try to recreate it on PC. (What happened for him happened on a PS4 copy)
Sadly enough I was not able to recreate it, because there is no way of changing into Hermoine at that point of the game.
Here is what he did and explained us so far: #1 Complete the game normally till you complete Year 7.1 Magic is Might.
#2 Go into the tent and teleport to Hogwarts through the Marauder's Map.
#3 Go to the grounds near Hagrid's hut, change into Hermoine and use her bag near the gate.
Doing this, they said, would result into skipping it.
Not entirely sure how it works and what would happen afterwards, but it seems rather legit so far.
I did make a save file after completing Year 7.1 Magic is Might, so if anyone feels called to figure this one out, let me know!
Edit: I forgot to say that this would save AT LEAST 30 minutes from the run, making it a lot more interesting category. It does maybe have some implications, though. Mainly that it skips levels, so maybe this requires a potential sub category.
Hey, I was looking at the leaderboard and was wondering if it would look better if you put the difficulties as sub cats under the tabs. This way you just have Any% and (Any%) NG+ meaning it would look a bit cleaner.
Greetings, Bucket
Hey guys,
I would like to request a 100% save file of this game so I can start a new category that literally is NG+ any% or, how we call it in LEGO Harry Potter, Replay Story. It you just play through the game with the use of Red Bricks. Why? Because the route drastically changes when you do so and in my opinion would be more fun.
Let me hear about if at least the save file is possible!
Greetings, BucketPls
Hey guys,
On my last run today I skipped a cutscene which saved me 6 seconds in total. Any way you guys can see what happened there compared on what we do normally?
Greetings, Bucket
Hey guys,
As of recently I was thinking of returning to speedrunning the Replay levels in Harry Potter 2, but what I was noticing is that load times are sometimes really unpredictable and is sometimes even loading after I skip cutscenes. What I was thinking is writing an autosplitter file for LiveSplit so we can get rid of loading times in at least this Harry Potter game.
If it is something you guys agree with that is of course!
But yeah, let me hear your thoughts and maybe we can find an other solution for this :P
There is still a stunlock in the Alien campaign and we are not sure how it works, so that might be something that is not doable because of framerate or something like that.
