Do you happen to know about the high jump you can do in Hinedere Beat? I briefly skimmed through the runs and didn't see it used.

It should help you get to some platforms that the game requires you to do some extra work for. As far as I remember, it's only useful to get onto ledges, I don't think you can get to rails / pipes this way or run up a wall at the end but I'll leave that to you to find out.

The short description of how to do it is: Hold up. Jump. In the landing animation, jump and (what feels like) a frame later kick. To move left / right in the air, you'll need to let go of up.

This seems like the frame you want to aim for when doing the jump / kick:

Here's a short video with an input viewer:

This trick/exploit requires the use of Macros for it to be extremely useful (currently).

In trying to do a pacifist run and not being able to do a certain jump without getting an upgrade for the magic meter, I discovered that by spamming the escape key while using an ability, you can extend the life of your magic meter by a little bit.

Example 1:

While messing around with it more in Immermeer, I thought about using macros to extend the magic meter. This led me to discover that you can extend your magic meter by an incredible amount.

Example 2:

Luckily enough, Immermeer has a great application for this extended magic meter: making it across the swamp without the Quantum Pilgrim's form or the Pilgrim's son.

Example 3:

First off, I do think it's possible to do this spider form alone by regenerating magic meter by killing the dragonflies, although it's probably very hard (EDIT: Check the next post. It's not that hard.). I'm going to keep trying this way.

Second off, I don't think this would save as much time as it seems like it would (for Any% at least; in a Pacifist run this would save a ton of time) since the Pilgrim's form (ghost form) is definitely the fastest form of movement and you would be required to use the Queen's form (spider form) for the rest of the run, but I do think this would be on the greener side of things in terms of time.

(For reference, in my 52:41 pb, Immermeer took me roughly 10 minutes to complete to get the ghost form.)

However, this does require the use of macros in runs (I really doubt anyone can spam Escape fast enough) which is probably a contentious point for most.

I'll keep looking around and see if I can find other applications or get an idea for the potential time this would save.

I thought it would be fun to have leaderboards for this game to see if anyone's up for the challenge of making this game any faster or finding some tricks and glitches.

I think this game has a lot of potential. It's super fun, just a little long. Let's break it together.

Good luck, friends!

Here's how to downpatch your game to v1.0.5.

1. Open the Steam Console (choose the easiest for you):

• open the Run window (win + R), type steam://open/console and press Enter.
• create a shortcut to steam on the Desktop, right-click and go to Properties, add -console to the target, click Apply and Ok and open the shortcut.
• run steam from a console with the -console option (ie: $ steam.exe -console).

2. Paste the following command into the console and press Enter:

• for PC: download_depot 771810 771811 1968959965336715170

The steam console will start downloading the patch, however it will give you no indication of progress so you will just have to wait it out. Once it is finished, the console will print out a line that says something along the following: Depot download complete : "\Steam\steamapps\content\app_771810\depot_771811" (580 files, manifest 1968959965336715170)

3. Open the folder specified by the console and copy everything inside.

• There should be a folder called TSWSM_Data, an executable called TSWSM.exe and a steam_api.dll.

4. Navigate to your TSWSM installation directory (\Steam\steamapps\common\The spy who shot me™) and:

• if you want to keep the most recent update so you don't have to re-download it, make a new folder and dump all of contents inside.
• if you don't want to keep the most recent update, delete everything inside except for the \Steam\steamapps\common\The spy who shot me™\Saves folder.

5. Paste the depot files into the installation directory.

6. Exit Steam.

7. Navigate to your steamapps folder (\Steam\steamapps), look for appmanifest_771810 and open it in a text editor:

• look for StateFlags key and set its value to 4
• look for UpdateResult key and set its value to 0

8. Save the file and re-open Steam. You've successfully downpatched your game!

Note: You may need to repeat step 5 whenever future updates happen.

To undo all of this, simply navigate to your steamapps folder (\Steam\steamapps), delete the appmanifest_771810 file and restart steam. As a disclaimer, I suggest you delete the game folder as well and let Steam download the game from scratch.

Let me know if anything if you have any questions, if anything needs to be changed or anything's not working for you.

Click here to go to the guide.

Let's have some fun going nowhere together!

Let me know how you feel about how I split up the sub-categories.

I didn't make individual levels because they are built into the game but let me know if you want them!

Good luck, friends!

Let's all be potatoes together.

Good luck, friends!

Whoops, I made a mistake in my last post.

I've been doing a ton of runs lately and I just noticed something about how the final mission time gets calculated into the IGT speedrun time. This may change how you may want to do the final boss in future runs.

For the level PB, this one is kinda obvious. Your mission 20 time is the amount of time it takes for you to climb the stairs and choke the boss out and kill the big demon head, with the timing starting when you can move and ending when [MAIN OBJECTIVE COMPLETED] pops up. Annoyingly enough, this is the time that gets saved whenever you do mission 20 and never changes unless you get a lower time.

For the speedrun timer, the time that gets added to your IGT speedrun time is ONLY the amount of time it takes for you to kill the big demon head. That time starts approximately when the boss's head explodes from inside the boss HQ and the time ends when [MAIN OBJECTIVE COMPLETED] pops up. Why it does this? I have no idea. I guess the stair part is considered too random or something.

You should be able to calculate how much time it takes you by adding up all of your level times (Mission 0 - 19) and subtract it by your speedrun time. The time you get will be approximately the amount of time it takes for you to kill the demon head. I say approximately because the game rounds the level times when they're shown to you on the mission completed screen (most likely by the 4th unseen digit).

Let's have a good time looking for cats and yarn together.

Good luck, friends!

I made a discord in case anyone wants to join and talk speedrunning or anything else.

I'll keep the topic unlocked in case the link expires because I'm a dummy.

https://discord.gg/9eYegpD

Hello friends. Hope you all are doing well.

I've been having fun running this game and I think other people would too. I've posted my pb and I'll post a guide or two to get people started in-time. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to make a thread!

I want to do something with the Omakes since they're cool and have their own timer; I'll either make levels for them or their own category eventually.

Good luck!

Ultimately, the Steam leaderboards will have the full rankings. Feel free to check them out.

Any%: http://steamcommunity.com/stats/673000/leaderboards/2236700

IL Total: http://steamcommunity.com/stats/673000/leaderboards/2214067

I'm aware that the mission complete screen and level select screen are off by a thousandth of a second, that's why I will be accepting only the time from the mission complete screen for the moment.

Discuss how you feel about that here.

Let's come up with some neat strats and glitches and have some fun, yeah? If you have any concerns about timing, categories, rules and whatnot, don't be afraid to post about it.

I'm aware that Steam leaderboards exist for this game! I'm hoping that High Hell's presence on speedrun.com allows for more competition and gives people a place to view routes for levels they're having trouble on. It will also encourage people to record their runs!

Good luck, friends!

Currently, the version of Cat Quest before the Mew Game update is the fastest. If you wish to try out that version or speedrun with us, follow these instructions. If you have no idea how you got here, buy Cat Quest on Steam, iOS, PS4, Android or Switch and play it.

1. Open the Steam Console (choose the easiest for you):

• open the Run window (win + R), type steam://open/console and press Enter.
• create a shortcut to steam on the Desktop, right-click and go to Properties, add -console to the target, click Apply and Ok and open the shortcut.
• run steam from a console with the -console option (ie: $ steam.exe -console).

2. Paste the following command into the console and press Enter:

• for PC: download_depot 593280 593281 7941355512749589113
• for Mac: download_depot 593280 593282 5724481506853978624

The steam console will start downloading the patch, however it will give you no indication of progress so you will just have to wait it out. Once it is finished, the console will print out a line that says something along the following: Depot download complete : "\Steam\steamapps\content\app_593280\depot_593281" (579 files, manifest 7941355512749589113)

3. Open the folder specified by the console and copy everything inside.

• There should be a folder called Cat Quest_Data, an executable called Cat Quest.exe and a steam_api.dll.

4. Navigate to your Cat Quest installation directory (\Steam\steamapps\common\Cat Quest) and:

• if you want to keep the most recent update so you don't have to re-download it, make a new folder and dump all of contents inside.
• if you don't want to keep the most recent update, delete everything inside.

5. Paste the depot files into the installation directory.

6. Exit Steam.

7. Navigate to your steamapps folder (\Steam\steamapps), look for appmanifest_593280 and open it in a text editor:

• look for StateFlags key and set its value to 4.
• look for UpdateResult key and set its value to 0

8. Save the file and re-open Steam. You've successfully downpatched your game!

To undo all of this, simply navigate to your steamapps folder (\Steam\steamapps), delete the appmanifest_593280 file and restart steam. As a disclaimer, I suggest you delete the game folder as well and let Steam download the game from scratch as it may screw with your achievement progress.

Let me know if anything if you have any questions, if anything needs to be changed or anything's not working for you.

I was able to perform a zip in Cat Quest during one of my runs and have since recreated it.

If you buffer a roll on the first or second frame (unsure of this at the moment but it feels right) that you can buffer one and enter / exit a building, you will zip across the map / through the building. The zip ends when you hit something you cannot travel over (if you have water walk, you can zip over water). It's a little tricky to get it the first time but once you get the feel for it it's not that hard.

The direction you zip in is very weird. I've mostly managed to zip left out of a lot of caves and ruins (as shown in the video), but I was able to hit a right-ward zip from the founder's cave, seemingly only after killing one of these guys (). This may or may have just been a coincidence.

The direction you roll on the buffered roll seems important but I don't have a lot of data on this so I can't speak too much about it.

The side you enter the cave / ruin in is important. If you enter from the bottom right and the zip brings you north west, you'll just hit the cave / ruin and stop. You'll notice your character be a little closer than how you entered.

You can softlock your game if you attempt zips without water walk or flying from certain caves / ruins. One of these ruins is Zeta Ruins; you will be teleported behind Cold Paw and not able to move.

This is all the info I've got. Mess around with it and report back if you find anything!

Let's come up with some neat strats and glitches and have some fun, yeah? If you have any concerns about timing, categories, rules and whatnot, don't be afraid to post about it.

I'll be posting my runs and findings when I have a chance.

Good luck, friends!

In case you were wondering where you may acquire Enviro-Bear 2000, it is available for free on gamejolt: http://gamejolt.com/games/enviro-bear-2000/211