Kilkenny, IrelandIt's possible to hang off sections of the Cathedral and swing off them to gain height. Might be faster for the first / second spiral.
If you jump and keep holding it then dash into / through something you'll fall slower, also if you hold jump when dashing down into a bouncepad you'll go a tiny bit higher.
However, if you were to dash of something then dash back and keep holding jump then the slow fall effect doesn't happen.
Can be useful in a couple areas. e.g bottomless pit to skip the moving platform and to slow fall to make dashing into the final dirt instantly a lot easier, instead of having to bonk on something first to slow you down.
Maybe add an Individual Levels Leaderboard? Could split it into 4 chapters. 1st being just san 2nd being with tall dude 3rd chains / large insects 4th pipes / ending
I found these before the patches, not sure if they still work.
Curing large insect skip(I think it's patched, worked on v1.0): https://imgur.com/a/0R6Ozgs
You can use 1 of the insects to open the door to the top left of the area where you cure the big insect. then go down the elevator but leave the elevator relatively high. Put your spear angled on the wall. Collect the second spear and use the first spear to get up top. Put the second spear angled on the large door, then call back your first spear and have it angled above the second spear. Jump on these to get on top of the large door. Finally there's 1 more invisible wall so callback your spear and place it on the ground to get over.
By angled I mean have the spear be nearly flat with the wall and slightly higher than normaml. That way you can get the max height from it.
Bridge skip(Still works Patch 2): https://imgur.com/a/VcAZgzX
For this level you can use one spear (or 2) to get on top then use that configuration to get across. Make sure you bring one of the grey spears up with you. You need to be at the edge looking back to get the grey spear in the right spot.
Spike skip(Untested): https://imgur.com/a/PbAhzkE
I found that if you jump in the direction the spikes are pointing you're able to jump off them in a small window.
A minor skip, You can use just the first 2 gears to get this configuration. You then jump from the bottom of the second platform, begin throwing your spear downwards, jump off the spikes, due to the long throwing animation your spear then lands you jump off it and for some reason you can walk up the steep platform.
4_08 Semi Major Skip: Instead of using the white teleporter to go to the room to get green you can jump right without having rotated anything to get red. Swap it at the entrance and then teleport with white up to go get green. From there you can teleport with green over, swap it in the window get red and carry on as normal.
Minor Skip 4_08: (If you're not doing the above skip) In the area where you keep switching between white and green to get to red. Instead of doing 4 teleports you can just do 2 and look up to get red.
Minor Skip 1_05: In the room to the right instead of going around on the platforms to the right you can do a tight jump to the left stand on the orange platform begin jumping right and collect orange and then carry on as normal.
Semi-Major Skip 2_01: In Floor 2 Level 1 instead of completing the red and white puzzle you can go to the corner opposite where the green cube is. If you then jump and look at the right angle you can just about see a few pixels of the green cube to collect it and finish the level.
Minor Skip 2_10: At the first lined pane of glass at the top of the stairs you can jump above it to collect red / green. If you aim (kinda hard to see in the image) roughly at where the fourth line on the second lined pane of glass meets the black wall you can just about jump above it to get a swap. https://imgur.com/a/GxIfNh5 The jumping can be a bit random but with a medium jump you have a tiny window to put it on the rotary thing or with a high jump you have a slightly bigger window.
I estimate it saves ~2secs if gotten first try but it is very difficult and probably not suitable for RTA.
I've been messing around with finding a line up. At one point I got it 3 times in a row and some other times I got it 2 times in a row but even with a line up it still felt nearly random whether I got the distance / right angle.
I'd be interested in doing Floor runs before thinking of attempting full game runs. Is there a start / end decided? Do you just do the floor or do you have to do the food / elevator as well?
Just to start off.
at ~10:30(not my vid)
instead of doing the stuff with the water you can do a pixel perfect jump to the ladder. I did it on controller. I'm not sure if you can hold up on keyboard so the timing to climb the ladder can be tricky. If done first try probably saves ~20-30secs
Not sure what's happening but near the penultimate booster pad I keep getting slowed down often, even though I'm not getting hit by any bullets and I doubt the game is lagging. Doesn't happen all the time but it's enough to ruin alot of runs.
Any ideas? Seems to lose me ~2-3 secs.
If you wanted you could make a copy of the credits rename it to level 1 and you've "beaten" the game in a couple seconds. Obviously wouldn't count but it's funny none the less.
In hot heights after you hit the green switch you need to become yellow. However for some reason sometimes when you do it you won't be able to open the breakable wall and will need to re-enter the goo. My guess is that I entered + exited too quickly.
If you leave a level while holding a crate the crate won't carry over to the next level, but the game will still think you're holding it. You can't drop it and you can't pick up any other boxes. You also can't stick to walls or grapple anything with any color. Finally it won't fix itself unless you close the game and reopen it.
Curious if anyone wants to share anything. I myself found: A weird/ currently unusable way to complete groovin' grapplin' which is hard but skips activating 2 buttons. It takes ~52secs while normally it takes 46secs You can clip the crates and then yourself through bars saving ~3mins 15secs. (uploading a 25min run so you can see it there). At one point I somehow clipped through the ground. In blue beyond I was able to clip through the wall by repeatedly jumping and grappling the dummy targets around the room. Can't remember everything but the final thing is that in hot heights the 2 groups of 2 large stones don't need to be moved. Neither do you need to move a large stone from the teleporter to inbetween the two pads.
Anyone interested in using this forum / making a discord, to discuss ways of improving runs?
E.g What towers are useful, how many, what level is cost effective etc.
or the idea of having two paths to the end and switching between blocking each one to switch the pathfinding of the enemies. How and when best to allow lives to be lost. Most optimal wave spam combinations i.e for instance (at least using the current formation) doing waves 3-6 after placing the stun. suggestions for different formations using the ideas discussed above
