@muji5875

1 year ago

Some thoughts from a speedrunner: 5:30 you don't need to melee or anything to ghost. Your hitbox is displaced by just crashing into an object with the right orientation and enough speed. On classic H2 you can get enough speed just by running. On anniversary or vista the physics tick rate is twice as fast and you really can't get enough speed to do it in normal conditions. You need to get several bumps without your hitbox resetting in order to ghost through a wall or door on Cairo. 12:15 They can't see you or shoot you at all. The only risk is that there are some invisible surfaces that will detonate rockets, so it is possible to blow yourself up while doing this. You also need to go into the lower level of the Scarab to get the pilots to load. 12:30 Busted animation priority leads to almost all the fun glitches in H2. Cancels, Swordflies, Butterflies, everything would be impossible without animations working this way. 13:30 Swordflies are a tick-perfect trick where you change weapons, then cancel the animation, then you can get one frame where the sword reticle is red/not red based on the range of the first weapon, not the sword. If you then lunge with the sword reticle red, you lunge without regard to how far away the enemy is. Physics works fundamentally differently during lunging so there are a bunch of other things you can do to modify this, like midair stops, jumping while not touching the ground, redirecting midair, and so on. It is also possible to start a swordfly WHILE swordflying. Your inputs need to be accurate to within a 30th of a second on classic and a 60th of a second on anniversary. It is impossible to time it consciously, but you can learn to do it through muscle memory. 14:50 We didn't actually know this was possible until only a couple years ago. Butterflying used to be a multiplayer thing but it turned out to be possible with the player and an enemy. You need a combination of crouching, melee cancelling and midair stops. The same principle made prison skip possible on Gravemind. Technically that is a butterfly too, though you don't have to control any of your movement so it is much much much easier. We have a very similar skip on Uprising using a brute, though it is much harder to pull off, and parts of Regret can be skipped using drones. 18:50 Pelibumps don't save you a tonne of time. They save like 5 seconds in a 4 minute level. I have an Anniversary Easy Pelibump time that is slow enough that it is beaten by several non bump times. When you grind attempts out as fast as you can you'll get maybe 2 good bumps per hour. You then need to hit some super precise cancels and survive RNG hell sniper jackals after. I never wanna see that pelican again. Only the top few IL times use Pelibumps since they're just hell to go for. There's a similar bump on Metro using a Spectre. 19:00 This can be used to bring any vehicle in. However only one specific spectre works for the Johnson dupe. We don't fully understand it but it seems to have a flag that overwrites some AI conditions so that the elite will drive it up to you at the start of the level. Any other spectre will not work, no more Johnsons will spawn and if you take one down to Tartarus, he will disappear. You can still bring them in - just no Johnson dupe. 20:00 He's simultaneously modelled as a councilor and flagged as an honor guard so his armor is screwy. Nobody quite gets what is going on with him, it is probably just an oversight giving him both flags. He is also the final boss of Gravemind so maybe they wanted to make him unique and this was a way to do that.

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