Heya 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.

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.

In case you guys do not know how to add a load remover, here is a video of Morpha explaining exactly how to do so!

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 guys, I notice that my game crashes an awful lot while I am doing runs. Any particular points that crash or programs that I might need to turn off?

Greetings, BucketPls

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

Hey guys,

I am having a hard time collecting everything in the flight levels in the any% category. So what I was wondering was if you really need to get everything in the flying levels or if I could get less/change the levels up a bit to still get enough gems? I just want to be able to start a run and train the flying levels on my off time.

Greetings, BucketPls

Alright, I have been asking around on this to try and figure out how it works. One of the people is Rogue Warrior speedrunner Traz64. Since both games are made in the same engine it could might mean some of the same mistakes are in both games, so we could help each other out here.

What he had to say after watching the stunlock was the following: "Traz64: It looks like your hits are moving him slightly. Perhaps this is interrupting a scripted action he takes when he spawns and because he drops in he doesn't attempt to reroute himself back to that point. Enemies in rogue warrior have a scripted sequence to go through before their AI kick in (generally running to a specific cover point) and we normally use this to run past them before they start shooting. It could also be frame perfect to cause that displacement however."

I hope with this info we can figure this stunlock out and optimize this category!

Hey guys,

I noticed there is a bit of a faster way of doing research lab. If all is done correctly I think we can get it down to a 5:35 or maybe even lower if more is found!

What I did to get a 5:37 is breaking the lights before attacking the first guy. That way you skip some dialogue and waiting around.

An other small time saver is using shift+space to attack the second one instead of shift+mouse 1. That way you can attack a bit earlier. However, I did notice it did softlock a door from time to time when I did that, but we might be able to find a way around it!

Here is a highlight of what I did:

Hey guys,

Since a while I have been really interested in doing a Doom speedrun, but I can't seem to do the second skip in the game.

What I see people doing after they glitched through the first door with the "Glory Kill Glitch" is sitting in a corner, turning around and pressing the button, but what are the exact steps for this?

Hey guys,

I just noticed I placed my Replay run of Order of the Phoenix in the Freeplay section. Will there ever be something special for Freeplay or will everything be stacked on Freeplay in the individual years?

Hey guys,

I am having some problems with the cutscene skip FinnGamer does in the Half-Blood Prince. How does he skip that first cutscene? Simply because it will save about 2-3 minutes in a run.

Hey guys, should I make some save files so it is easier to run the other years without re-doing all previous years to get to that point?

That basically means if you reset you need to quit the game, replace the save file and you can continue that year again. (So it is saved before the year begins.)

Hello,

Since a while I want to get into BL2 speedruns, but never got into it. Now since I want to actually start I find I have myself some problems. I am going to list them down and hope people can help me with it.

1. The auto splitter of the current LiveSplit version does not split and if I downgrade it with the .dll from Funcannon's guide it is glitching out. (I can provide a gif of what it is doing if you guys want to.)

2. I am getting way to many "Tutorial" stuff popping up. Any way to get rid of all/some of them? It might have to do with DLC?

3. Is there by any chance a mod/cheat/glitch which gives me infinite grenades? I want to learn proper grenade jumping, but I can't do that with the grenades I find on the ground.

If I have any more questions I will post them in here! I really hope you guys can help me out!

EDIT: I found the LiveSplit fix!

Hey guys,

I know Kakarot was already talking about this on an other forum post, but I guess it is a pretty solid idea! Guides per mission to get to know why certain triggers activate and other information to make the run more fun/to make it a bit easier for new runners and fucktards like me to learn the mission routing.

Also a quick idea: Should I set up a Cod:WaW Discord so we can maybe talk outside the forums and make the CoD:WaW community a bit tighter and such? Maybe planning races of some kind?

Hello people,

Lately Deckerzz and I are trying to run Briggs Missions and we are running into a bug and we have no clue what is going wrong. Whenever Briggs starts the UAV at the end of Smugglers Compound he gets stuck in an animations and the UAV page does not show up. Do you guys maybe know why that happens or do we have to do some more investigation?

Greetings, Bucket

Hey guys,

Lately whenever I try to speedrun there are 2 things happening a lot! Sometimes the points do not get triggered or a character get stuck which makes it, I guess this is the right word, softlock.(?) Biggest problem I am facing is that it happens like 3/5 times in the first level after you take down the gunner in the hut at the beach. If it doesn't happen there it will happen somewhere else in the run and makes it a pain in the ass to run.

Greetings, Bucket

Hey guys,

I can't seem to find the time without loads in my LiveSplit. Is there anything extra I need to install or something?