UPDATE : point (11)

Since they are a few more people running this game now, I don't want them to lose their time so here are some tricks to speed up the speedrunning process : (it's mostly common sense)

1. • get rid of the intro videos

do you really want to see them each time you open the game ? just go to the game path on windows, then into GameData, then into Movies and delete (or rename or move) LECIntro.avi and NVIDIAIntro.avi

2. • skip the introductive monologue between each campaign

these thing are about 1 minute long, and are unskippable, but there is a way to do it : once the actual game begins make a save asap. Then, if you are to begin the campaign just load the save, press echap, select 'restart the level' so to load the said level in no time

3. • make hard saves

If you are to practice some of the tricks, save them in hard. It's way more convenient than having to reach it throughout the level from the beginning (how to rename it ? I'll search)

3b) - warp between levels

you can type ' open "GEO_01C" ' to load Strength Of Brothers. This is an example, you can actualy load any level in the game : Geonosis = GEO, Assault Ship = RAS, Kashyyyk = YYY, then 1 underscore (_), then the chapter number, and the mission letter. (this command isn't case sensitive) (exception for chapter numbers : chapter 02 of Kashyyk is in fact 35, and chapter 3 doesn't exist but skips to 04)

4. • make quicksaves

One hazardous passage to play ? quicksave ! even in live playing, because you don't want to lose time re-doing what has already been done you can bind the quicksave/quickload fonctions to keys via the menu

5. • if somehow you lose your config/profile (messing with command lines often breaks the game)

have a backup. We are talking about all the hard saves done at (4) and your own customization. Don't reinstall the game again and again... if you want a new profile, but don't want to redo all the game, the cheat code 'lamasu' will unlock every mission in the campaign menu

6. • while practicing : skip dead times

By doing this game over and over again, I really got tired of the counsellor speaking, and all the bomb-planting, console-slicing, door-breaching times. This represent a good third of the time spent on the game ! So I have bound the cheat 'slomo 10' to a key. This causes the game to process 10x faster when pressing the key. Thank me later ( set input thekeyuwant slomo 10 | onrelease slomo 1 )

7. • for research and developpement : use cheats

Wondering if you can jump over this or that ? in need to test something risky ? wanting all enemies dead to avoid hitboxes collison ? there are cheat codes for that, detailed in the Console Commands guide

8 ) - be above 30 FPS when recording

or many of the skips featuring jumps won't work

9. • use the directionnal arrows to naviguate through menus

that's really nothing, but I cringe every time I see someone using the cursor. The time taken to aim at items in the menu is wasted.

10. • stop bunnyhopping around

there is no gain of speed by doing this, neither bunnyhopping nor strafejumping exist in this game. You are only hurting your finger and your keyboard

11. • avoid some lags

Upon passing certain triggers the game will autosave, causing a micro-lag. This lag might be extremely annoying, when it occurs when you are aiming or jumping, for example. To avoid that, you can open the gamepath, go in GameDate/Save/yourprofile_AutoSave, right click on the yourprofile_AutoSave.cts and enable the 'reading only' property. So that the game won't be able to overwrite it, and won't lag when autosaving occurs (not).