Dying Light

2015-01-28 10:14:28 am

Truljin @ Twitch

So having completed the game yesterday in under 11 hours I started looking at it today to see how a serious speedrun could work out.
First of all, the EXPcalibur takes a few minutes to get and is only useful for 7 hits, however together with the duplication glitch it might be worth it?

I believe there are ways to abuse the parkour system as I found a few ways to access areas by going over things you aren't supposed to, it also looks like the dodging might be abusable.

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Twikax

2015-01-28 06:35:03 pm

The game looks really interesting, indeed, the mobility and graphics are really enjoyable and most of cutscenes can be skipped.
However, the game is really scripted, in the way that you have to follow quests step by step, further triggers just doesn't exists if you try to skip something.
I still already found few interesting tricks.
Here is my route for Awakening :

Saddly I couldn't exploit much more the OoB I found for the reason I explained before, it still saves like 40 seconds.

I didn't finished the game yet, how many story quest are there overall ?

Tezur0

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Tezur0: 2015-01-28 09:42:09 pm

2015-01-28 09:41:48 pm

I clipped through ceeling a couple of times with grab system, wasn't streaming so nothing to show, but these were useless tbh. but still, parkour system can't make game less glitchy.
also keeping vanilla might be reasonable. All these duping glitches and such might be fixed soon. Unless fixes produce even more glitches.

lillbrorsan

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lillbrorsan: 2015-01-29 08:13:58 am

2015-01-29 02:57:03 am

Truljin @ Twitch

Anyone know a good way to get a sick weapon earlyish on and keep it?
A firearm would be brilliant.

Also, there is another minor skip while doing the gym, will try and record it.

lillbrorsan

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lillbrorsan: 2015-01-29 11:33:29 am

lillbrorsan: 2015-01-29 11:26:55 am

2015-01-29 11:25:55 am

Truljin @ Twitch

So my best so far is 9:47 for Awakening but it was a bad attempt so can go way lower.
I basically used the current OOB on the TV, a skip by the crane to teleport to the NPC and my own skip while doing the gym to skip some of the climbing.

I also found, by mistake, that if you sprint and jump onto the front of a van and then jump again it will launch you a fair amount of distance, pretty fun to do but not really useful right now.

I stream my stuff on www.twitch.tv/truljin and have nractgamin help me out find stuff, you can add me on skype using the same name I have here on the forum.

Twikax

2015-01-30 02:00:11 am

I find a way to go through a recurrent type of gate, I don't know yet how much it could help, but there is an example :

I didn't found yet a really consistent setup to go through, maybe if you guys tryed to look around !

lillbrorsan

2015-01-30 02:42:00 am

Truljin @ Twitch

That could be really useful, could grab those guns before heading off to the next few missions, will take a look at it!

lillbrorsan

2015-01-30 07:32:08 am

Truljin @ Twitch

Just a warning, the new patch was released today and it fixes the duping glitch.

NractGamiN

2015-01-30 10:59:47 am

Here's the crane skip I found explained. It's all in how you navigate within the air. Glad I could contribute.
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lillbrorsan

2015-01-30 12:24:45 pm

Truljin @ Twitch

I tried that skip but doesn't seem to be consistent for me, will test again tomorrow.

As for the gate skip by Rais, seems that if you go on the right side, aim almost all the way down until you can't aim any further then a bit to the right and mash jump you should get through pretty quickly.

iHasCube

2015-01-30 03:54:41 pm

Hey guys, figured Id join in the discussion since I'm interested in this run. The best way from what it seems like to get the crane skip is to sprint jump off the crane towards the other building right after you pass the ledge of the building you are just leaving.

iHasCube

2015-01-30 04:06:27 pm

Also, when climbing the crane at the end of the training course, you dont have to get on the outside railing to jump up. You can move a little to the right and jump on the ledge below the handrail easily. Ill be streaming and highlighting as I go later tonight.

AlDeezy1

2015-01-30 08:49:22 pm

I start. You blink. I finish.

Hey guys, I beat the story today and will start my own routing after dinner, but first let me show you a pretty easy OoB I did right after the human scubagear section during "The Museum".

I recommend lower your volume a little bit.

Virrward

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Virrward: 2015-01-31 10:04:07 am

2015-01-31 09:41:45 am

Quote from AlDeezy1:

Hey guys, I beat the story today and will start my own routing after dinner, but first let me show you a pretty easy OoB I did right after the human scubagear section during "The Museum".

I recommend lower your volume a little bit.

yeah the climbing is REALLY broken. similar things happened to me multiple times during my casual playthrough. among other places one of them was while climbing the radio tower towards the end of the game.

Virrward

2015-01-31 09:42:50 am

oh and you guys probably knew this already but everytime you are forced into walking you can still dodge wich means you can still go pretty fast Cheesy

lillbrorsan

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lillbrorsan: 2015-01-31 01:12:20 pm

2015-01-31 01:11:52 pm

Truljin @ Twitch

Did some testing today, mainly the clip in Rais's place and I seem to have found a consistent spot to make it work, it might be hard to see but my white crosshair is right there in the red circle.
When my crosshair had the right position I just walked forwards while holding space and it would let me through without any issues.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/y964ynyt5j58mzs/DyingLight_ClipPosition.jpg?dl=0

iHasCube

2015-01-31 01:42:32 pm

I was doing a speedrun yesterday just as a start, sadly twitch servers were being wonky and crashed my OBS so I never finished. But, we have some work to do boys haha. After finishing Pact With Rais, I was a little over an hour into my run. We got to find some safe routes that are fast. Im working on routes from the Tower, to main parts of the missions.

MrHattu

2015-01-31 05:03:19 pm

Hi! I finished my second practice run today on New Game any% no glitches run.
The time I got was 3 hours 28 minutes and 37 seconds.

Here is a link to my save file image http://imgur.com/K5zxGLi

Would love to start streaming now that the basics are done for me.

Twikax

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Twikax: 2015-01-31 07:53:17 pm

2015-01-31 07:52:48 pm

I don't think that taking the parquet as mark is fast and consistent enough.

I found an alternative setup which consists of taking roughly the middle of these 2 lines as angle :

There is a video which prove how consistent it can be :

DemonStrate

2015-01-31 09:36:20 pm

If we were you, we would quit now.

My first playthrough was around 10 and a half hours. There was an easy... hour and a half that can be shaved from that. So, without glitches, at least under 9 is easily possible. I'm thinking that if you exploit the supply drops and super level Survivor, you can get this game under 5 hours because of the grappling hook.

Also, discovered the safe zone grapple flying glitch:

lillbrorsan

2015-02-01 03:28:00 am

Truljin @ Twitch

Quote from Twikax:

I don't think that taking the parquet as mark is fast and consistent enough.

I found an alternative setup which consists of taking roughly the middle of these 2 lines as angle :

There is a video which prove how consistent it can be :

If it works well then go for it, there are so many setups for this clip that you can find one that works for you, will probably try this one later today.

MrHattu

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MrHattu: 2015-02-01 04:43:53 pm

2015-02-01 04:23:21 pm

This run can be done in less than three hours. I get the grappling hook just before the last mission.

The run had several mistakes. Bad pathing (my 4th time running this way), few dumb deaths.. I actually found out a few faster strats. 1. Dying immediately after Karim sends you to Jaffar gets you closer. 2. Tariq gets wrecked by power attacks.
http://www.twitch.tv/mrhattu/c/6016645
Ingame timer 3h 12min 05s

Twikax

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Twikax: 2015-02-01 06:26:37 pm

2015-02-01 06:25:53 pm

And there are some new things : http://www.twitch.tv/twikax/c/6020042

Scikan

2015-02-01 07:01:51 pm

Hey guys

I found this little out of bounds during the "Broadcast" mission, not sure if it might be helpful in runs or not

MrHattu

2015-02-01 08:27:36 pm

I found a way to do Arena a lot faster. I now pick up all the firecrackers and DYI throwing knives first. Then you get the rebar from top of the containers.

Kill the zombies while they are stacked inside the containers for massive splash hits. The explosive canisters might just make things slower..

The knives do decent damage against the boss AFTER you break his armor.