Hi, new to speedrunning the game and posted my first run last week. While I'm not at the stage of being able to use any warps like the ticket machine (at least not yet), is there any documented way of navigating the pre-rendered animations and conversations as quickly as possible? I know what I need to say, but from watching other runs and my own dumb luck, there seems to be efficient ways to skip parts of the conversations that I haven't been able to consistently replicate.
Any other general tips and tricks gladly received! Thanks
hey there! you're in luck, as i have been working on a 'state of grim' guide that is close to being finished which can probably answer a lot of questions for you. that said...
in terms of skipping the prerendered animations: use ESC to skip these cutscenes. it won't work for all of them, but will for most. as for conversations, hyperformance and myself use what we call a '4 key method' for text skipping. by hitting the '.' (period/dot/stop) key it will clear out one line of text. you can remap this in game to a second key (i use C, for example) however it doesn't actually cancel out using . as a skipping key. this gets paired with left and right click on mouse and by mashing all 4 of those together you can rip through text quite quickly.
on the note of ticket warping, this is still kind of in an early stage though hyperformance put together a pretty nice outline of what was done on their run in another thread. i'm sure this will change as more eyes are on it.
if you want any other info, feel free to drop by one of my streams as i have been doing attempts 2x a week and can answer questions live.
anyways, congrats on your first run and glad to have another active runner here! i would encourage you to join the Speedy Adventures discord (https://discordapp.com/invite/kWCfAPu) where i and a few others have been pooling some of our findings in the #lucasarts-legacy channel. it's also a great place for any sort of adventure game speedrunning if you are interested in others. (Mods- please consider adding this server as the official discord for this! also feel free to remove the link if this isn't allowed!)
Awesome, thank you! I'll try to drop into a stream soon, time zones allowing...
I put esc to good use in the cinematics, does it often work within conversations as well (like glottic rocking backwards and forwards as he says something outside his hut)?
I'll get another skipping key mapped and have a look at remapping some of the other keys too.
Cheers
