I'm tempted to try to update the game and try each version because I swear on baby jesus I was able to get it 95% of the time with any setup on a specific version.
I'm on the same version as Ferret, which is strange because I have never updated Infinite
Steam updates the game automatically. If you have the season pass or DLCs, you get more updates though (as the DLCs get updated too).
I guess RealLink and I have the season pass, and you and Ferret don't which is why you're not as advanced in the version number but you still have the latest version of the base game.
Its not Comstock Gate Skip and it might not even be a thing (I had Drop Cloth on and I don't know if you need a boost or if the boost you get from HRH works as well), but eh. Elizabethless Factory Skip aka. Factory Skip: Easy Mode
e: Damn it you can't get quite high enough without Drop Cloth it seems. And right now I can't try if HRH boosting would do it >_< There is a different strat with HRH boosts and 1 kind of precise jump but I don't like it and it doesn't have the swag the above has.
I think I have something to test. If you do emporia skip and then try comstock gate skip without waiting for the checkpoint and miss, you can go back to the graveyard entrance right where most people suicided and kill yourself, you respawn exactly where you stand in a unloaded area. If you try to move you will fall and land on a floor similar to the IDG, but you will be able to move around after each quick respawn. Moving in different directions spawns different loading zones but I have only gotten IDG so far.
Edit - nvm you end up at the normal respawn point when you are doing the comstock gate skip, probably nothing but worth dicking around with
As a side note does anyone know how to prevent the first handyman fight from soft locking. I think one of the enemies is falling off and not dying to the kill barrier
I cheesed a wr out real hard. I'm uploading it now, finished with a time 2:06:24. The only reason it sucked so bad was I missed emporia twice and didnt get comstock gate skip first try, got unlucky with the button on the second floor of the hand of the prophet as well.
Just started uploading, should be up within an hour
Did some testing of the new factory skip with HRH. Forgive the potatoesque quality, I think I was running high graphics which doesn't stream well on my PC, so whenever I move quickly everything gets all pixelated.
The jump seems pretty precise...aim too high and you don't get enough lift, aim too low and you actually clip through the ramp onto the floor below...
Edit: There are backup strats if you overshoot the landing like I did and end up inside the building...just walk into the wall I did to load the next area, and then keep heading right and you can get outside onto the roof and jump down onto the bridge.
The new way of doing Factory has to be pretty quick, doing it with eliz isn't actually that slow, its just that sometimes she can be a dick and not want to stand in the right spot
Also are you doing this with fps capped or no?
Link do you know how you can slide up certain walls in the game? It could be possible to slide up a wall in that area to do it without eliz
The skip seems to have a nice flow to it; the jump is precise but it isn't that hard to get. I'll have to look at Ferret's textbook WR run prior to HRH and see if the skip is any faster than when he used Elizabeth for the original skip.
I would agree that it's faster...pretty easy to get once you practice it a few times and get a feel for where you should jump. It's actually faster still if you just clip through the wall, fall into the building, and then drop onto the bridge instead of walking around the ledges first.
Edit: Picked it up again this morning...did 7 successful jumps in a row. I say 2-3 attempts would still be faster than using Elizabeth the old way.
I have pretty much tried anything I could think of in that area, none of the walls there seem to be sticky, and if there were ones you could go up they were in useless places. I found another way to do the skip without Elizabeth but like I said earlier, it also needs HRH and you have to do 2 kind of precise jumps. If you fail them you can just retry though as its not OoB. I may edit in a Screenshot or Video later.
e: Here. The jumps require HRH (I think), and getting on top of the hook is kind of hard because you can overshoot easily. Once you are on the cylinder shaped thingy you can just do stick method like on the other side and jump up on top of the roof. But if you already have HRH then I don't see why you wouldn't do the Halfpipe jump because its faster. And its so swag.
e2: You can also suicide through the Factory gate and you will respawn at the checkpint that is inside that room where all the stuff is burning already, but can't go anywhere from there.