Hello! You guys can call me Reverbed (pronounced like a fake, shorter past tense of reverberated), or Ty!

I'm excited to learn how to speedrun this game, and I've already started learning Geonosis! The only experience I have with speedrunning is doing some speedrunning tricks for fun on the Halo games because it's my favorite franchise. As far as I'm concerned though, this is my first time speedrunning seriously and I'm still learning all the basics like LiveSplit and setting up Republic Commando with OBS to record my runs, not to mention the basics of running the actual game.

So far I've managed to finish Geonosis somewhere in the 30 minute range, but that's a rough estimate because I messed up my splits. Like I said, still learning! I've been using the other submitted runs to learn glitches and tactics and what not, as well as some community videos showing or explaining different aspects of the run. Thanks to Kram and Utsu for their SGDQ submissions and Wike, ISlide, and ThinksTheClown for their material out there that has helped me so far. Thanks to ISlide for the info in the guide section and his long playlist of tricks on YouTube.

Right now my biggest issues are getting rid of the hint popups, QS/QLing levels consistently, setting up recordings/streams for my runs, understanding the jumping mechanics, and plenty more I'm sure I'll ask about later.

Hint popups: I'm using a profile that has completed the game, so I thought they shouldn't be popping up anymore. Also, when I hit continue without hints, it continues to give me hints. I'm looking into ISlide's response on an older post to the same problem.

QS/QL: Is there specific timing for quicksaving and quickloading a level? Do I need to do it quickly at the beginning, more towards the end, space it out during the load, or is it different depending on the level? I went ahead and bound QS/QL to the 2 buttons on the side of my mouse, which works for me. I'm curious what buttons you guys use for QS/QL.

Livesplit Bindings: What keybindings does everyone prefer for LiveSplit?

Jump mechanics: What does crouching affect when trying to jump over stuff? It's obvious that it isn't a crouch jump like in Halo. Jumping later rather than too soon tends to get a better result for me.

What resolution do you play on? I have no experience setting up a stream overlay that displays the game, a webcam, and LiveSplit. I play on 1920x1080 so I can't setup mine like Wike, for example, who seems to play with a smaller ratio. Thoughts? Thanks in advance!

If you have any tips for me or I forgot to mention anything, please let me know! I'll be checking this regularly for any new responses and you can message me on my discord as well. I have my other accounts linked if you'd like to check me out in those spots too. I look forward to beating some of your times :) Thanks so much!