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Tomb Raider 2013

2016-06-26T23:58:13Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Introduction */

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==Introduction==
Tomb Raider 2013 is a great game to speedrun, with several runners and lots of glitches and tricks to show off. Generally all the tricks on console work on PC with some exceptions. There are many PC only skips which are labeled as PC only on the skip page.

This KB will get you up to speed on known tricks on the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]] page, and help you select a route for yourself on the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page.

If you are confused with all the skips and tricks this game has to offer and don't know how to get started you can also check out the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started|Beginners Guide(PC)]]

Current best runs are: http://www.speedrun.com/tr2013

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2016-06-26T23:48:59Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Problems */

The only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot and around 150 FPS are recommened This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.
* Ice skating glitch. Performing dirty tricks when Lara is about to pick up the walkie talkie causes the ice skating glitch. It is super easy and can be cancelled by pressing aim. It can be used up to 6 times in total (depending on the skips you are going for).
* 1: (If you don't go for "Rope Skip") Right before Lara steps into a trap and hangs upside down. She then has to shoot 3 people with the pistol and aquires the rope
* 2: After the collapsing rope right before Lara gets to the monastery.
* 3: (If you don't go for "The Big One") After Grim dies in Shanty Town.
* 4: (If you don't go for "The Big One") After crossing the bridge above Shanty Town where Roth gives you cover there is a short walkie talkie sequence before entering the cave.
* 5: (This one neither saves nor loses time) When Lara gets to Shanty Town for the second time after leaving the forest (or after going for "The Big One").
* 6: In case you go for the gondola skip you will need to perform this glitch

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Video===
(Probably needs a more serious video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm5AcWxGsHA

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on LOW! framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 150FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Video===
(Video doesn't show proper setup, you might have to check the footage of a speedrun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof instead of jumping.

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time, do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo

*There is faster version that contains a short skywalk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZBA59S7p1A

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route after the clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Video===
* Video doesn't show proper setup and alternate version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down.
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she lands Lara will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at some point she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2016-06-26T23:47:24Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* General Time Saving */

The only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot and around 150 FPS are recommened This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.
* Ice skating glitch. Performing dirty tricks when Lara is about to pick up the walkie talkie causes the ice skating glitch. It is super easy and can be cancelled by pressing aim. It can be used up to 6 times in total (depending on the skips you are going for).
* 1: (If you don't go for "Rope Skip") Right before Lara steps into a trap and hangs upside down. She then has to shoot 3 people with the pistol and aquires the rope
* 2: After the collapsing rope right before Lara gets to the monastery.
* 3: (If you don't go for "The Big One") After Grim dies in Shanty Town.
* 4: (If you don't go for "The Big One") After crossing the bridge above Shanty Town where Roth gives you cover there is a short walkie talkie sequence before entering the cave.
* 5: (This one neither saves nor loses time) When Lara gets to Shanty Town for the second time after leaving the forest (or after going for "The Big One").
* 6: In case you go for the gondola skip you will need to perform this glitch

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Video===
(Probably needs a more serious video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm5AcWxGsHA

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on LOW! framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 150FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Video===
(Video doesn't show proper setup, you might have to check the footage of a speedrun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof instead of jumping.

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time, do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo

*There is faster version that contains a short skywalk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZBA59S7p1A

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route after the clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Video===
* Video doesn't show proper setup and alternate version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she lands Lara will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at some point she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2016-06-26T23:43:48Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* General Time Saving */

The only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot and around 150 FPS are recommened This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.
* Ice skating glitch. Performing dirty tricks when Lara is about to pick up the walkie talkie causes the ice skating glitch. It is super easy! It can be used up to 5 times in total (depending on the skips you are going for).
* 1: (If you don't go for "Rope Skip") Right before Lara steps into a trap and hangs upside down. She then has to shoot 3 people with the pistol and aquires the rope
* 2: After the collapsing rope right before Lara gets to the monastery.
* 3: (If you don't go for "The Big One") After Grim dies in Shanty Town.
* 4: (This one neither saves nor loses time) When Lara gets to Shanty Town for the second time after leaving the forest (or after going for "The Big One").
* 5: In case you go for the gondola skip you will need to perform this glitch

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Video===
(Probably needs a more serious video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm5AcWxGsHA

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on LOW! framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 150FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Video===
(Video doesn't show proper setup, you might have to check the footage of a speedrun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof instead of jumping.

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time, do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo

*There is faster version that contains a short skywalk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZBA59S7p1A

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route after the clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Video===
* Video doesn't show proper setup and alternate version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she lands Lara will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at some point she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2016-06-26T23:36:44Z

TheArtisticBallistic:

The only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot and around 150 FPS are recommened This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.
* Ice skating glitch. Performing dirty tricks when Lara is about to pick up the walkie talkie causes the ice skating glitch. It is super easy! It can be used up to 5 times in total (depending on the skips you are going for). If you only for skips in the beginners guide you can use all of them.
* 1: (If you don't go for "Rope Skip") Right before Lara steps into a trap and hangs upside down. She then has to shoot 3 people with the pistol and aquires the rope
* 2: After the collapsing rope right before Lara gets to the monastery.
* 3: (If you don't go for "The Big One") After Grim dies in Shanty Town.
* 4: (This one neither saves nor loses time) When Lara gets to Shanty Town for the second time after leaving the forest (or after going for "The Big One").
* 5: In case you go for the gondola skip you will need to perform this glitch

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Video===
(Probably needs a more serious video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm5AcWxGsHA

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on LOW! framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 150FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Video===
(Video doesn't show proper setup, you might have to check the footage of a speedrun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof instead of jumping.

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time, do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo

*There is faster version that contains a short skywalk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZBA59S7p1A

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route after the clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Video===
* Video doesn't show proper setup and alternate version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she lands Lara will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at some point she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2016-06-26T23:34:50Z

TheArtisticBallistic:

The only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot and around 150 FPS are recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.
* Ice skating glitch. Performing dirty tricks when Lara is about to pick up the walkie talkie causes the ice skating glitch. It is super easy! It can be used up to 5 times in total (depending on the skips you are going for). If you only for skips in the beginners guide you can use all of them.
* 1: (If you don't go for "Rope Skip") Right before Lara steps into a trap and hangs upside down. She then has to shoot 3 people with the pistol and aquires the rope
* 2: After the collapsing rope right before Lara gets to the monastery.
* 3: (If you don't go for "The Big One") After Grim dies in Shanty Town.
* 4: (This one neither saves nor loses time) When Lara gets to Shanty Town for the second time after leaving the forest (or after going for "The Big One").
* 5: In case you go for the gondola skip you will need to perform this glitch

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Video===
(Probably needs a more serious video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm5AcWxGsHA

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on LOW! framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 150FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Video===
(Video doesn't show proper setup, you might have to check the footage of a speedrun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof instead of jumping.

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time, do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo

*There is faster version that contains a short skywalk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZBA59S7p1A

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route after the clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Video===
* Video doesn't show proper setup and alternate version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she lands Lara will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at some point she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2016-06-26T23:31:32Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Video */

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot and around 150 FPS are recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.
* Ice skating glitch. Performing dirty tricks when Lara is about to pick up the walkie talkie causes the ice skating glitch. It is super easy! It can be used up to 5 times in total (depending on the skips you are going for). If you only for skips in the beginners guide you can use all of them.
* 1: (If you don't go for "Rope Skip") Right before Lara steps into a trap and hangs upside down. She then has to shoot 3 people with the pistol and aquires the rope
* 2: After the collapsing rope right before Lara gets to the monastery.
* 3: (If you don't go for "The Big One") After Grim dies in Shanty Town.
* 4: (This one neither saves nor loses time) When Lara gets to Shanty Town for the second time after leaving the forest (or after going for "The Big One").
* 5: In case you go for the gondola skip you will need to perform this glitch

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Video===
(Probably needs a more serious video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm5AcWxGsHA

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on LOW! framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 150FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Video===
(Video doesn't show proper setup, you might have to check the footage of a speedrun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof instead of jumping.

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time, do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo

*There is faster version that contains a short skywalk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZBA59S7p1A

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route after the clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Video===
* Video doesn't show proper setup and alternate version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she lands Lara will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at some point she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route

2016-06-26T23:30:44Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Radio Tower OoB (Large) */

{{Contents}}
Welcome! If you've been linked here you may be interested in running Tomb Raider 2013! Excellent choice! This page will take you through the main part of the game and help you choose which skips and tricks you will and won't do during the run. There will be relevant links to the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]] page for each skip where it's relevant.

The "compulsory" elements of TR2013 are generally very linear, but because of how many skips there are, you often have to choose which skips you will and won't use for each run. Some skips are really tough, and you may wish to omit them while you're still learning. And sometimes you will have to choose between two different skips. For each skip there will be an approximate "time saved" and "time per attempt" figure. The time per attempt is timing failed attempts, so if the skip saves 10 seconds and the time per attempt is 30 seconds, you need to get it first try or it will cost you time.

This page will help you choose which skips you will do each run, based on difficulty and payoff in chronological order. This will just cover major timesavers and skips. For the small time savers check an up-to-date run and/or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloading]]

==Intro==

===Intro OoB (PC only)===
Right after pulling out the spike you get a checkpoint. When you reload this checkpoint it is possible to get off a jump that gets you OoB. You should bind jump to mousewheel, otherwise it will be too hard to do.
* Time Saved: 1:30 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for the jump (Note once you die or get inbound during this skip you have to restart the run since you only have one shot at this)
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 10/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4n_e2ilUSo

==Bambi to Old Ruins==
After you kill the deer is your first major skip. Rather than going back to the campsite use your preferred [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] method to clip through the door near where you got the bow.
*Note It is advised to use Method #4 on PC and PS4, since it's by far the easiest for these platforms

===Deer Door Clip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Old-Gen Consoles Difficulty 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty 6/10 (Tackle-Flipping) 1/10 (Scramble + Lunge Method)
* PC Difficulty 4/10 (Tackle-Flipping) 1/10 (Scramble + Lunge Method)
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu2SP-SJfiY
Requires checkpoint reload before or after killing the 3 jumping wolves to prevent game crash

===Binary Singularity (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 40 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 10 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty TBA
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frBA6d_Ic2g

===Whitman Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 8 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lm_eVRk5Nw

==Old Ruins Escape to Broken Bridge==
After escaping the old ruins PC runners can do the House Skip. Much harder than it looks, there's no reason this skip shouldn't be possible on console, but it seems to be much harder for some reason.

===Burning House Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??10s??
* Time per attempt: ??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 9/10 It is more risky than difficult because the skip doesn't save a lot of time while Lara can die in the process.
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjmvABe5P_I

===House Skip===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Old-Gen Consoles Difficulty: TBA
* PS4 Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

After the house skip, play as normal until the "The pack's up there somewhere." line. Go into the house up the cliff and try your hand at the wolf skip. ::Video Needed::

===Wolf Cave Approach===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Wolf Cave Skip (PC only)===
* Time Saved: 1:45minutes/2:15minutes Slow/Fast route (has to be timed again)
* Time per attempt 1 minute
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 , 10/10 Slow/Fast route
* Video Slow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0I2SezG3h4 Video Fast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWxSdIRWyWs

===Tutorial Climb Skip (PC, PS4 only)===
* Time Saved: 4Seconds.
* Time per attempt 4 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10 -> It's random if it works for you. Framerate has a big impact on this.
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMAWKPNZGhQ

===Bridge Skip (PC, PS4 only)===
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts 15 Seconds
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: N.A.
* PS4 Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07li8xcn1M

==Base Approach to Radio Tower==
Once you enter the base before the radio tower and progress a little you will see a guy pushing a barrel. Up the stairs to the right is a door which can be clipped using [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]].

===Base Approach door clip===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Immediately after the previous skip (Or after climbing through the duct if you didn't do the last skip) you can choose to either do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flip]] through the second door in the room, or you can do the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8 assault rifle wall clip].

====Choice #1: Assault Rifle Wall Clip====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8

====Choice #2: Base Approach door clip #2====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 (not recommended)

Continue into the next room and you will have a choice to either complete the combat here as per normal or clip through the final door to skip killing a couple of guys.

===Pipe Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??15s??
* Time per attempt: ??5-10s??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43I-dwfyr80

===Combat Skip===
* Time Saved: 10-30 seconds. (Depends on platform and combat RNG)
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10

After exiting the base, crossing the beam and performing the QTE, you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to save a few seconds.

===Radio Tower OoB (Large)===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* There is a faster version for PC that includes skywalking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZBA59S7p1A
* Video .:Needs new video, doesn't show optimal route:. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo
Large OoB is the fastest route!
Tip: Hold down Aim, when doing the jump @0:30 to prevent going through the wall. This will prevent you from doing the rest of the Large Route and can cost
you some time, since the next Doorclip (during the miniboss) is somewhat inconsistent to get.

===Radio Tower OoB (Small)===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10

Next up you have to get past the radio tower door. If you did "Radio Tower OoB (Small)", you can choose to extend that OoB to avoid the next door clip. The alternatives are to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] near the radio tower door.

====Choice 1: Radio Tower Door Clip (Tackle Flip)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10

====Choice 2: Radio Tower Door Clip (Step Clipping)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHti5BhaBqs

==Radio Tower to Monastery Exit==
For console and people who are not confident with skywalking: After the radio tower, continue as per normal until you make past the pilot and the guy holding a shield and you will be at a campsite. From here you want to buy Dirty Tricks. You'll have two other skill points as well, which are commonly used for Pain Tolerance and Ammo Capacity. Once you're done you can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]] to save some time.

===Rope Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??60 Seconds??
* Time per attempt: ??15-30s??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJPGdhS9OAk

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After this, you will get the rope arrows, fight some dudes and climb up into the building. Next you can choose to skip using the rope arrow to get across the bridge.

===River Jump===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds (Quickest) / 4 seconds (safest)
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds (If you fail) (almost impossible to fail "safest" method)
* Console Difficulty: 3/10 (Quickest) 1/10 (Safest)
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxuXrsu2wKE
Tip: If you can't always get the jump to the rock in the middle, begin by jumping onto the small rock ro your right, then jump on the one in the middle.
Is basically not failable and you only lose about 1 second opposed to the direct jump.
*Video Needed*

===Collapsing Rope Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??30s??
* Time per attempt: ??10s??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgS7uZIO07o

After some more platforming, you'll approach the Monastery where you can do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]].

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After entering the monastery, you can choose to do the Monastery skip.

===Monastery Skip (#1)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-EHGm818KA

===Monastery Skip (#2)===
* Time Saved: Depending on Combat RNG (see explaination below)
* Time per attempt: Depending on where you Fail.
* Console Difficulty: 1/10
* PC Difficulty: 1/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSFpoM5HFZY
* Explaination: This version does not actively save time! If it's an option for you depends on you performance in the two fights
you are skipping this way. *Note* Video does not show optimal route / execution.

After opening the second window and finishing part 2 of the Bell puzzle, 5 enemies will spawn. Take care of them and wait for the checkpoint.
'''Reload that Checkpoint, or else the next hallway won't load'''

After this, continue until you have completed the monastery and the waterfall/parachute sections and you'll be ready for shanty town.

==Shanty Town==
We don't call this place Skip City for nothing. Lots of options here, it will help to look at other's runs here, because doing some skips means you don't have to do others. The first one is everyone's favourite skip, the Spud Slide (Mash inputs while entering the crawlspace and pray to whatever it is you pray to.)

===New Fire Arrow Skip (Pc / PS4 Only)===
* Time Saved: 4 Minutes
* Timer per attempt: 5 seconds
* PS4 Difficulty: 2/10 (mostly luck based)
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Spud Slide===
* Time Saved: 22 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 20/10
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.twitch.tv/brsmstr/c/2756782

There's a trick you can do while entering the crawlspace at the start of Shanty Town, by hitting an input on the right frame you can make Lara move much faster than normal. It was thought that the only input that could be used was tackle. However, runners have had success with multiple inputs, leading to the current belief that the frame is more important than the input used.

===Fire Arrow Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 7/10 '''not recomended'''
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Shortly after, you'll approach the shanty town gate and trigger some combat, next up is the shanty town gate clip.

===Shanty Town Gate Clip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for PC, 20 seconds for console (with tackle flip), 5 Seconds (with scramble + Tackle clip).
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 7/10 (tackle flip) || 1/10 (scramble + lunge clip)
* PS4 Difficulty: 9 / 10 (tackle flip) || 1/10 (scramble + lunge clip)
* PC Difficulty: 6/10 || N.A. (scramble + lunge clip)
* Video (Pause buffering method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jetcq7fe4IE
* Video (Scramble + lunge method): '''Video Needed'''
* Text tut (Scramble + lunge method): Jump (facing away from the gate) as close to the gate as possible (if you see the thorns of the gate,
that's a good sign). Now scramble backwards and as soon as this animation is finished hit 'Lunge' followed by hitting '''back''' a few Frames
later (between 10 - 40)

After the gate clip PC and console have different routes, you will have your first choice of route for Shanty Town. PC has a different route and should go for choice #3.

====Choice #1a: AKheon Clip====
* Time Saved: 6 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds
* Console Difficulty: 1/10 (impossible on PS4/Xbox One as the gap that you can clip through no longer exists)
* PC Difficulty: 2/10 (Easy on 60FPS almost impossible on 200FPS)
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cGQY8euYR8

====Choice #1b: Tin roof Clip (PC / Ps4 Only)====
* Time Saved: 6 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds (if wrong set-up) / 40 seconds (if you fall into the room below)
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: N.A.
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOtR1qKSR50
* Note: Video showing input coming soon. Tutorial in Video-description.

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 1====
* Time Saved: 5 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4aH74r1lbk

====Choice #3: The Big One (PC Only)====
* Time Saved: 25minutes.
* Time per attempt: 1:30 minutes.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqvsySfTDb0

After making your choice, you will make it to the platforms where Grim is and will have another choice. Certain conditions cause the bridge to despawn if you reload, or on some PC setups, if this is the case, you will have to use Grim Skip 2.

====Choice #1: Bridge Jump(old gen console only)====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 2====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESd7S81YPdY

After all of that, you've got one more easy trick to do to get out of shanty town, using the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]] to get across the bridge.

===Shanty Town Bridge Float===
* Time Saved: 20 seconds.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjoStkEDxyE

==Geothermal Caverns==
Now you get to play normally for a while after all the shanty town craziness. Just one skip here, Run all the way through until you get to the part where you find your friends, and you can choose to do the friendship skip. This trick seems to be much easier to do on PC than console.

===Friendship Skip (Method #1)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Friends saved: 0
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds (10 seconds if you fall)
* Console Difficulty: 8/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quI04nRknIg

===Friendship Skip (Method #2)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Friends saved: 0
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds (10 seconds if you fall)
* Console Difficulty: 4/10 '''recomended'''
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: '''Video Needed'''

==Solarii Fortress Approach to Helicopter==
Yet again, just one small skip here. Worthy of mention though because there's no risk of getting sniped. There are some important [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloads]] though, so it will be worth checking an up-to-date run.

* Time Saved: 10 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds per clip attempt, 30 seconds lost if you miss the jump back in bounds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 7/10 -> Can't be done with Scramble + Lunge clip, has to be Pause Buffered!
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTXphI2mzT8

===Helicopter Warning (Xbox One / PS4 Only)===
Just before you jump into the helicopter change the saveslots. In just this one Cutscene the game has 5 different point where it can
crash without a reason. After this cutscene, three more will follow. Don't skip these too early as it will increase the risk of crashing
the game and corrupting your savefile. The crash can also occure in the following stealth section.
Crash probabilty: ~30%
'''Note''': When your game crashed in the helicopter cutscene, it is permitted to pause the timer.

==Helicopter to Alex==
Some very interesting skips here. After the helicopter cutscene you'll go through a stealth section and eventually end up back outside. You then have another chance to use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]]. It doesn't save any time, but it's easy, and looks cool, so you should totally do it. After the cutscene on the gondola you'll rope arrow off and climb a ladder, and you'll be ready for the Air Boat skip.

===Gondola Skip===
* Time Saved: ??Worth??
* Time per attempt: ??10s??
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4SEkVqKG8c Note: On console there is no menuing required. On Pc you have to change to double buffer to lose enough height and use survival instincts in order to see.

===Air Boat Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2wNQ_FzIWQ

===Teleport Skip===
* New route! Lara Skywalker --> Fast travel from research base to beach --> Teleport skip --> Upgrade bow --> Fast travel back to research base.
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts: 15 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 9/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98ydfmWt31M

After this you will continue normally until they get the new bow and make it to the bunker. Because of the relative inconsistency with the door clip involved, the PC version is much easier than the console version here because they can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC only)|CA Clip]].
Note PC has a different route available that will lead to the research base directly.

===Lara Skywalker===
* Time Saved: 15 Minutes.
* Time per attempts: 1:30 Minutes.
* Old gen Console Difficulty: 8/10 -> Old gen uses a different setup. It's slower, but more consistent. It also takes longer per attempt. (Must use the updated version) ::Video Needed::
* PS4 Difficulty: 8/10
* PC Difficulty: 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEnGTikBYGg
* There is an updated version of this skip which is around 15s faster: Waterfall --> Skywalk to reseach base --> Fast travel to beach --> Cutscene Skip --> Teleport Skip --> Get upgraded bow --> Fast travel to research base

===Bunker Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: ::Video of door clip method needed::

Right after the bunker skip, console runners can do the Alex Skip.

===Alex Skip(Old Gen console only)===
* Time Saved: 4 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yo59WJK_bc

After Alex has be killed or skipped (We're such nice guys.) continue until you reach the research base.

==Research Base to Mathias==
Once you've gone through the research base normally for a bit, you'll arrive at the elevator puzzle. PC runners can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC / PS4 only)|CA Clip]] here. Console runners need to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Grenade Clipping (Door Clip Method #2)|Grenade Clipping]]

===Elevator Skip PC only version===
* Time Saved: 3:01 minutes.
* Time per attempts: 3 seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 1/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Elevator Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds for PC / PS4, 10 seconds for console.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 0/10 (Using CA-Method)
* PC Difficulty: 0/10
* Video (Console method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82J1yWmp-mc

Right after the elevator skip you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to skip the research base fight.

===Research Base Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

After that there's only one major skip to go for. Pc players that went for the Lara Skywalker skip don't have the rope ascender and are forced to do the cage puzzle skip.

===Cage Puzzle Skip (mandatory when you went for Lara Skywalker)===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: 40 Seconds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 8/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 9/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EESCY8zcPKU
* Cageless version is a bit faster but harder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5glB9dqbtRM

===Final Walkie Talkie Skip===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: N/A only one attempt possible.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnlgfm4_q-Q

===Final Gauntlet Skip===
* Time Saved: Lots. 10 minutes?
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10 (impossible to break sequence PS4/Xbox One )
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

And you're done! Hope this helps some budding runners get started. Just remember that this only covers the major skips. There's a bunch of small time savers and checkpoint reloads everywhere which save 1-10 seconds each, so make sure to check out some runs! If you have any questions, check out:
https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/tomb_raider__a_survivor_is_born.html

Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route

2016-06-26T23:28:31Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Old Ruins Escape to Broken Bridge */

{{Contents}}
Welcome! If you've been linked here you may be interested in running Tomb Raider 2013! Excellent choice! This page will take you through the main part of the game and help you choose which skips and tricks you will and won't do during the run. There will be relevant links to the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]] page for each skip where it's relevant.

The "compulsory" elements of TR2013 are generally very linear, but because of how many skips there are, you often have to choose which skips you will and won't use for each run. Some skips are really tough, and you may wish to omit them while you're still learning. And sometimes you will have to choose between two different skips. For each skip there will be an approximate "time saved" and "time per attempt" figure. The time per attempt is timing failed attempts, so if the skip saves 10 seconds and the time per attempt is 30 seconds, you need to get it first try or it will cost you time.

This page will help you choose which skips you will do each run, based on difficulty and payoff in chronological order. This will just cover major timesavers and skips. For the small time savers check an up-to-date run and/or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloading]]

==Intro==

===Intro OoB (PC only)===
Right after pulling out the spike you get a checkpoint. When you reload this checkpoint it is possible to get off a jump that gets you OoB. You should bind jump to mousewheel, otherwise it will be too hard to do.
* Time Saved: 1:30 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for the jump (Note once you die or get inbound during this skip you have to restart the run since you only have one shot at this)
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 10/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4n_e2ilUSo

==Bambi to Old Ruins==
After you kill the deer is your first major skip. Rather than going back to the campsite use your preferred [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] method to clip through the door near where you got the bow.
*Note It is advised to use Method #4 on PC and PS4, since it's by far the easiest for these platforms

===Deer Door Clip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Old-Gen Consoles Difficulty 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty 6/10 (Tackle-Flipping) 1/10 (Scramble + Lunge Method)
* PC Difficulty 4/10 (Tackle-Flipping) 1/10 (Scramble + Lunge Method)
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu2SP-SJfiY
Requires checkpoint reload before or after killing the 3 jumping wolves to prevent game crash

===Binary Singularity (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 40 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 10 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty TBA
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frBA6d_Ic2g

===Whitman Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 8 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lm_eVRk5Nw

==Old Ruins Escape to Broken Bridge==
After escaping the old ruins PC runners can do the House Skip. Much harder than it looks, there's no reason this skip shouldn't be possible on console, but it seems to be much harder for some reason.

===Burning House Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??10s??
* Time per attempt: ??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 9/10 It is more risky than difficult because the skip doesn't save a lot of time while Lara can die in the process.
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjmvABe5P_I

===House Skip===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Old-Gen Consoles Difficulty: TBA
* PS4 Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

After the house skip, play as normal until the "The pack's up there somewhere." line. Go into the house up the cliff and try your hand at the wolf skip. ::Video Needed::

===Wolf Cave Approach===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Wolf Cave Skip (PC only)===
* Time Saved: 1:45minutes/2:15minutes Slow/Fast route (has to be timed again)
* Time per attempt 1 minute
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 , 10/10 Slow/Fast route
* Video Slow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0I2SezG3h4 Video Fast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWxSdIRWyWs

===Tutorial Climb Skip (PC, PS4 only)===
* Time Saved: 4Seconds.
* Time per attempt 4 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10 -> It's random if it works for you. Framerate has a big impact on this.
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMAWKPNZGhQ

===Bridge Skip (PC, PS4 only)===
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts 15 Seconds
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: N.A.
* PS4 Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07li8xcn1M

==Base Approach to Radio Tower==
Once you enter the base before the radio tower and progress a little you will see a guy pushing a barrel. Up the stairs to the right is a door which can be clipped using [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]].

===Base Approach door clip===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Immediately after the previous skip (Or after climbing through the duct if you didn't do the last skip) you can choose to either do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flip]] through the second door in the room, or you can do the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8 assault rifle wall clip].

====Choice #1: Assault Rifle Wall Clip====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8

====Choice #2: Base Approach door clip #2====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 (not recommended)

Continue into the next room and you will have a choice to either complete the combat here as per normal or clip through the final door to skip killing a couple of guys.

===Pipe Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??15s??
* Time per attempt: ??5-10s??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43I-dwfyr80

===Combat Skip===
* Time Saved: 10-30 seconds. (Depends on platform and combat RNG)
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10

After exiting the base, crossing the beam and performing the QTE, you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to save a few seconds.

===Radio Tower OoB (Large)===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* There is a faster version for PC that includes skywalking (Needs video).
* Video .:Needs new video, doesn't show optimal route:. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo
Large OoB is the fastest route!
Tip: Hold down Aim, when doing the jump @0:30 to prevent going through the wall. This will prevent you from doing the rest of the Large Route and can cost
you some time, since the next Doorclip (during the miniboss) is somewhat inconsistent to get.

===Radio Tower OoB (Small)===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10

Next up you have to get past the radio tower door. If you did "Radio Tower OoB (Small)", you can choose to extend that OoB to avoid the next door clip. The alternatives are to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] near the radio tower door.

====Choice 1: Radio Tower Door Clip (Tackle Flip)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10

====Choice 2: Radio Tower Door Clip (Step Clipping)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHti5BhaBqs

==Radio Tower to Monastery Exit==
For console and people who are not confident with skywalking: After the radio tower, continue as per normal until you make past the pilot and the guy holding a shield and you will be at a campsite. From here you want to buy Dirty Tricks. You'll have two other skill points as well, which are commonly used for Pain Tolerance and Ammo Capacity. Once you're done you can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]] to save some time.

===Rope Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??60 Seconds??
* Time per attempt: ??15-30s??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJPGdhS9OAk

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After this, you will get the rope arrows, fight some dudes and climb up into the building. Next you can choose to skip using the rope arrow to get across the bridge.

===River Jump===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds (Quickest) / 4 seconds (safest)
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds (If you fail) (almost impossible to fail "safest" method)
* Console Difficulty: 3/10 (Quickest) 1/10 (Safest)
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxuXrsu2wKE
Tip: If you can't always get the jump to the rock in the middle, begin by jumping onto the small rock ro your right, then jump on the one in the middle.
Is basically not failable and you only lose about 1 second opposed to the direct jump.
*Video Needed*

===Collapsing Rope Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??30s??
* Time per attempt: ??10s??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgS7uZIO07o

After some more platforming, you'll approach the Monastery where you can do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]].

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After entering the monastery, you can choose to do the Monastery skip.

===Monastery Skip (#1)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-EHGm818KA

===Monastery Skip (#2)===
* Time Saved: Depending on Combat RNG (see explaination below)
* Time per attempt: Depending on where you Fail.
* Console Difficulty: 1/10
* PC Difficulty: 1/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSFpoM5HFZY
* Explaination: This version does not actively save time! If it's an option for you depends on you performance in the two fights
you are skipping this way. *Note* Video does not show optimal route / execution.

After opening the second window and finishing part 2 of the Bell puzzle, 5 enemies will spawn. Take care of them and wait for the checkpoint.
'''Reload that Checkpoint, or else the next hallway won't load'''

After this, continue until you have completed the monastery and the waterfall/parachute sections and you'll be ready for shanty town.

==Shanty Town==
We don't call this place Skip City for nothing. Lots of options here, it will help to look at other's runs here, because doing some skips means you don't have to do others. The first one is everyone's favourite skip, the Spud Slide (Mash inputs while entering the crawlspace and pray to whatever it is you pray to.)

===New Fire Arrow Skip (Pc / PS4 Only)===
* Time Saved: 4 Minutes
* Timer per attempt: 5 seconds
* PS4 Difficulty: 2/10 (mostly luck based)
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Spud Slide===
* Time Saved: 22 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 20/10
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.twitch.tv/brsmstr/c/2756782

There's a trick you can do while entering the crawlspace at the start of Shanty Town, by hitting an input on the right frame you can make Lara move much faster than normal. It was thought that the only input that could be used was tackle. However, runners have had success with multiple inputs, leading to the current belief that the frame is more important than the input used.

===Fire Arrow Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 7/10 '''not recomended'''
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Shortly after, you'll approach the shanty town gate and trigger some combat, next up is the shanty town gate clip.

===Shanty Town Gate Clip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for PC, 20 seconds for console (with tackle flip), 5 Seconds (with scramble + Tackle clip).
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 7/10 (tackle flip) || 1/10 (scramble + lunge clip)
* PS4 Difficulty: 9 / 10 (tackle flip) || 1/10 (scramble + lunge clip)
* PC Difficulty: 6/10 || N.A. (scramble + lunge clip)
* Video (Pause buffering method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jetcq7fe4IE
* Video (Scramble + lunge method): '''Video Needed'''
* Text tut (Scramble + lunge method): Jump (facing away from the gate) as close to the gate as possible (if you see the thorns of the gate,
that's a good sign). Now scramble backwards and as soon as this animation is finished hit 'Lunge' followed by hitting '''back''' a few Frames
later (between 10 - 40)

After the gate clip PC and console have different routes, you will have your first choice of route for Shanty Town. PC has a different route and should go for choice #3.

====Choice #1a: AKheon Clip====
* Time Saved: 6 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds
* Console Difficulty: 1/10 (impossible on PS4/Xbox One as the gap that you can clip through no longer exists)
* PC Difficulty: 2/10 (Easy on 60FPS almost impossible on 200FPS)
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cGQY8euYR8

====Choice #1b: Tin roof Clip (PC / Ps4 Only)====
* Time Saved: 6 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds (if wrong set-up) / 40 seconds (if you fall into the room below)
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: N.A.
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOtR1qKSR50
* Note: Video showing input coming soon. Tutorial in Video-description.

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 1====
* Time Saved: 5 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4aH74r1lbk

====Choice #3: The Big One (PC Only)====
* Time Saved: 25minutes.
* Time per attempt: 1:30 minutes.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqvsySfTDb0

After making your choice, you will make it to the platforms where Grim is and will have another choice. Certain conditions cause the bridge to despawn if you reload, or on some PC setups, if this is the case, you will have to use Grim Skip 2.

====Choice #1: Bridge Jump(old gen console only)====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 2====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESd7S81YPdY

After all of that, you've got one more easy trick to do to get out of shanty town, using the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]] to get across the bridge.

===Shanty Town Bridge Float===
* Time Saved: 20 seconds.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjoStkEDxyE

==Geothermal Caverns==
Now you get to play normally for a while after all the shanty town craziness. Just one skip here, Run all the way through until you get to the part where you find your friends, and you can choose to do the friendship skip. This trick seems to be much easier to do on PC than console.

===Friendship Skip (Method #1)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Friends saved: 0
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds (10 seconds if you fall)
* Console Difficulty: 8/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quI04nRknIg

===Friendship Skip (Method #2)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Friends saved: 0
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds (10 seconds if you fall)
* Console Difficulty: 4/10 '''recomended'''
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: '''Video Needed'''

==Solarii Fortress Approach to Helicopter==
Yet again, just one small skip here. Worthy of mention though because there's no risk of getting sniped. There are some important [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloads]] though, so it will be worth checking an up-to-date run.

* Time Saved: 10 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds per clip attempt, 30 seconds lost if you miss the jump back in bounds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 7/10 -> Can't be done with Scramble + Lunge clip, has to be Pause Buffered!
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTXphI2mzT8

===Helicopter Warning (Xbox One / PS4 Only)===
Just before you jump into the helicopter change the saveslots. In just this one Cutscene the game has 5 different point where it can
crash without a reason. After this cutscene, three more will follow. Don't skip these too early as it will increase the risk of crashing
the game and corrupting your savefile. The crash can also occure in the following stealth section.
Crash probabilty: ~30%
'''Note''': When your game crashed in the helicopter cutscene, it is permitted to pause the timer.

==Helicopter to Alex==
Some very interesting skips here. After the helicopter cutscene you'll go through a stealth section and eventually end up back outside. You then have another chance to use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]]. It doesn't save any time, but it's easy, and looks cool, so you should totally do it. After the cutscene on the gondola you'll rope arrow off and climb a ladder, and you'll be ready for the Air Boat skip.

===Gondola Skip===
* Time Saved: ??Worth??
* Time per attempt: ??10s??
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4SEkVqKG8c Note: On console there is no menuing required. On Pc you have to change to double buffer to lose enough height and use survival instincts in order to see.

===Air Boat Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2wNQ_FzIWQ

===Teleport Skip===
* New route! Lara Skywalker --> Fast travel from research base to beach --> Teleport skip --> Upgrade bow --> Fast travel back to research base.
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts: 15 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 9/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98ydfmWt31M

After this you will continue normally until they get the new bow and make it to the bunker. Because of the relative inconsistency with the door clip involved, the PC version is much easier than the console version here because they can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC only)|CA Clip]].
Note PC has a different route available that will lead to the research base directly.

===Lara Skywalker===
* Time Saved: 15 Minutes.
* Time per attempts: 1:30 Minutes.
* Old gen Console Difficulty: 8/10 -> Old gen uses a different setup. It's slower, but more consistent. It also takes longer per attempt. (Must use the updated version) ::Video Needed::
* PS4 Difficulty: 8/10
* PC Difficulty: 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEnGTikBYGg
* There is an updated version of this skip which is around 15s faster: Waterfall --> Skywalk to reseach base --> Fast travel to beach --> Cutscene Skip --> Teleport Skip --> Get upgraded bow --> Fast travel to research base

===Bunker Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: ::Video of door clip method needed::

Right after the bunker skip, console runners can do the Alex Skip.

===Alex Skip(Old Gen console only)===
* Time Saved: 4 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yo59WJK_bc

After Alex has be killed or skipped (We're such nice guys.) continue until you reach the research base.

==Research Base to Mathias==
Once you've gone through the research base normally for a bit, you'll arrive at the elevator puzzle. PC runners can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC / PS4 only)|CA Clip]] here. Console runners need to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Grenade Clipping (Door Clip Method #2)|Grenade Clipping]]

===Elevator Skip PC only version===
* Time Saved: 3:01 minutes.
* Time per attempts: 3 seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 1/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Elevator Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds for PC / PS4, 10 seconds for console.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 0/10 (Using CA-Method)
* PC Difficulty: 0/10
* Video (Console method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82J1yWmp-mc

Right after the elevator skip you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to skip the research base fight.

===Research Base Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

After that there's only one major skip to go for. Pc players that went for the Lara Skywalker skip don't have the rope ascender and are forced to do the cage puzzle skip.

===Cage Puzzle Skip (mandatory when you went for Lara Skywalker)===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: 40 Seconds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 8/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 9/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EESCY8zcPKU
* Cageless version is a bit faster but harder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5glB9dqbtRM

===Final Walkie Talkie Skip===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: N/A only one attempt possible.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnlgfm4_q-Q

===Final Gauntlet Skip===
* Time Saved: Lots. 10 minutes?
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10 (impossible to break sequence PS4/Xbox One )
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

And you're done! Hope this helps some budding runners get started. Just remember that this only covers the major skips. There's a bunch of small time savers and checkpoint reloads everywhere which save 1-10 seconds each, so make sure to check out some runs! If you have any questions, check out:
https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/tomb_raider__a_survivor_is_born.html

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2016-06-26T23:22:45Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* General Time Saving */

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot and around 150 FPS are recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.
* Ice skating glitch. Performing dirty tricks when Lara is about to pick up the walkie talkie causes the ice skating glitch. It is super easy! It can be used up to 5 times in total (depending on the skips you are going for). If you only for skips in the beginners guide you can use all of them.
* 1: (If you don't go for "Rope Skip") Right before Lara steps into a trap and hangs upside down. She then has to shoot 3 people with the pistol and aquires the rope
* 2: After the collapsing rope right before Lara gets to the monastery.
* 3: (If you don't go for "The Big One") After Grim dies in Shanty Town.
* 4: (This one neither saves nor loses time) When Lara gets to Shanty Town for the second time after leaving the forest (or after going for "The Big One").
* 5: In case you go for the gondola skip you will need to perform this glitch

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Video===
(Probably needs a more serious video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm5AcWxGsHA

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on LOW! framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 150FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Video===
(Video doesn't show proper setup, you might have to check the footage of a speedrun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof instead of jumping.

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time, do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route, also note there is a faster version of this skip that contains a short skywalk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route after the clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Video===
* Video doesn't show proper setup and alternate version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she lands Lara will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at some point she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2016-06-26T23:21:45Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* General Time Saving */

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot and around 150 FPS are recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.
* Ice skating glitch. Performing dirty tricks when Lara is about to pick up the walkie talkie she will get into the ice skating glitch. It is super easy! It can be used up to 5 times in total (depending on the skips you are going for). If you only for skips in the beginners guide you can use all of them.
* 1: (If you don't go for "Rope Skip") Right before Lara steps into a trap and hangs upside down. She then has to shoot 3 people with the pistol and aquires the rope
* 2: After the collapsing rope right before Lara gets to the monastery.
* 3: (If you don't go for "The Big One") After Grim dies in Shanty Town.
* 4: (This one neither saves nor loses time) When Lara gets to Shanty Town for the second time after leaving the forest (or after going for "The Big One").
* 5: In case you go for the gondola skip you will need to perform this glitch

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Video===
(Probably needs a more serious video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm5AcWxGsHA

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on LOW! framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 150FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Video===
(Video doesn't show proper setup, you might have to check the footage of a speedrun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof instead of jumping.

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time, do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route, also note there is a faster version of this skip that contains a short skywalk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route after the clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Video===
* Video doesn't show proper setup and alternate version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she lands Lara will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at some point she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2016-06-26T23:19:15Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* General Time Saving */

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot and around 150 FPS are recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.
* Ice skating glitch. Performing dirty tricks when Lara is about to pick up the walkie talkie she will get into the ice skating glitch. It is super easy! It can be used a couple of times in the run.
1: (If you don't go for "Rope Skip") Right before Lara steps into a trap and hangs upside down. She then has to shoot 3 people with the pistol and aquires the rope
2: After the collapsing rope right before Lara gets to the monastery.
3: (If you don't go for "The Big One") After Grim dies in Shanty Town.
4: (This one neither saves nor loses time) When Lara gets to Shanty Town for the second time after leaving the forest (or after going for "The Big One").
5: In case you go for the gondola skip you will need to perform this glitch
If you only go for the skips in the beginners guide you can do all 5.

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Video===
(Probably needs a more serious video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm5AcWxGsHA

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on LOW! framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 150FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Video===
(Video doesn't show proper setup, you might have to check the footage of a speedrun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof instead of jumping.

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time, do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route, also note there is a faster version of this skip that contains a short skywalk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route after the clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Video===
* Video doesn't show proper setup and alternate version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she lands Lara will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at some point she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2016-06-26T23:03:15Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Final Skip */

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot and around 150 FPS are recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Video===
(Probably needs a more serious video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm5AcWxGsHA

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on LOW! framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 150FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Video===
(Video doesn't show proper setup, you might have to check the footage of a speedrun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof instead of jumping.

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time, do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route, also note there is a faster version of this skip that contains a short skywalk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route after the clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Video===
* Video doesn't show proper setup and alternate version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she lands Lara will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at some point she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2016-06-26T23:02:39Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Research Base Fight Skip */

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot and around 150 FPS are recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Video===
(Probably needs a more serious video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm5AcWxGsHA

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on LOW! framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 150FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Video===
(Video doesn't show proper setup, you might have to check the footage of a speedrun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof instead of jumping.

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time, do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route, also note there is a faster version of this skip that contains a short skywalk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route after the clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Video===
* Video doesn't show proper setup and alternate version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she lands Lara will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at some point she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2016-06-26T23:00:41Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Elevator Skip PC version */

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot and around 150 FPS are recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Video===
(Probably needs a more serious video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm5AcWxGsHA

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on LOW! framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 150FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Video===
(Video doesn't show proper setup, you might have to check the footage of a speedrun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof instead of jumping.

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time, do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route, also note there is a faster version of this skip that contains a short skywalk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route after the clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she lands Lara will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at some point she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2016-06-26T22:59:14Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* New Fire arrow Skip */

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot and around 150 FPS are recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Video===
(Probably needs a more serious video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm5AcWxGsHA

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on LOW! framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 150FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Video===
(Video doesn't show proper setup, you might have to check the footage of a speedrun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof instead of jumping.

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time, do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route, also note there is a faster version of this skip that contains a short skywalk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route after the clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she lands Lara will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at some point she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2016-06-26T22:57:12Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Radio Tower OoB */

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot and around 150 FPS are recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Video===
(Probably needs a more serious video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm5AcWxGsHA

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on LOW! framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 150FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Video===
(Video doesn't show proper setup, you might have to check the footage of a speedrun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof instead of jumping.

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time, do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Video===
*Video doesn't show optimal route, also note there is a faster version of this skip that contains a short skywalk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she lands Lara will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at some point she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route

2016-06-26T22:55:42Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Radio Tower OoB (Large) */

{{Contents}}
Welcome! If you've been linked here you may be interested in running Tomb Raider 2013! Excellent choice! This page will take you through the main part of the game and help you choose which skips and tricks you will and won't do during the run. There will be relevant links to the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]] page for each skip where it's relevant.

The "compulsory" elements of TR2013 are generally very linear, but because of how many skips there are, you often have to choose which skips you will and won't use for each run. Some skips are really tough, and you may wish to omit them while you're still learning. And sometimes you will have to choose between two different skips. For each skip there will be an approximate "time saved" and "time per attempt" figure. The time per attempt is timing failed attempts, so if the skip saves 10 seconds and the time per attempt is 30 seconds, you need to get it first try or it will cost you time.

This page will help you choose which skips you will do each run, based on difficulty and payoff in chronological order. This will just cover major timesavers and skips. For the small time savers check an up-to-date run and/or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloading]]

==Intro==

===Intro OoB (PC only)===
Right after pulling out the spike you get a checkpoint. When you reload this checkpoint it is possible to get off a jump that gets you OoB. You should bind jump to mousewheel, otherwise it will be too hard to do.
* Time Saved: 1:30 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for the jump (Note once you die or get inbound during this skip you have to restart the run since you only have one shot at this)
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 10/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4n_e2ilUSo

==Bambi to Old Ruins==
After you kill the deer is your first major skip. Rather than going back to the campsite use your preferred [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] method to clip through the door near where you got the bow.
*Note It is advised to use Method #4 on PC and PS4, since it's by far the easiest for these platforms

===Deer Door Clip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Old-Gen Consoles Difficulty 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty 6/10 (Tackle-Flipping) 1/10 (Scramble + Lunge Method)
* PC Difficulty 4/10 (Tackle-Flipping) 1/10 (Scramble + Lunge Method)
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu2SP-SJfiY
Requires checkpoint reload before or after killing the 3 jumping wolves to prevent game crash

===Binary Singularity (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 40 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 10 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty TBA
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frBA6d_Ic2g

===Whitman Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 8 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lm_eVRk5Nw

==Old Ruins Escape to Broken Bridge==
After escaping the old ruins PC runners can do the House Skip. Much harder than it looks, there's no reason this skip shouldn't be possible on console, but it seems to be much harder for some reason.

===House Skip===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Old-Gen Consoles Difficulty: TBA
* PS4 Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

After the house skip, play as normal until the "The pack's up there somewhere." line. Go into the house up the cliff and try your hand at the wolf skip. ::Video Needed::

===Wolf Cave Approach===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Wolf Cave Skip (PC only)===
* Time Saved: 1:45minutes/2:15minutes Slow/Fast route (has to be timed again)
* Time per attempt 1 minute
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 , 10/10 Slow/Fast route
* Video Slow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0I2SezG3h4 Video Fast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWxSdIRWyWs

===Tutorial Climb Skip (PC, PS4 only)===
* Time Saved: 4Seconds.
* Time per attempt 4 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10 -> It's random if it works for you. Framerate has a big impact on this.
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMAWKPNZGhQ

===Bridge Skip (PC, PS4 only)===
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts 15 Seconds
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: N.A.
* PS4 Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07li8xcn1M

==Base Approach to Radio Tower==
Once you enter the base before the radio tower and progress a little you will see a guy pushing a barrel. Up the stairs to the right is a door which can be clipped using [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]].

===Base Approach door clip===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Immediately after the previous skip (Or after climbing through the duct if you didn't do the last skip) you can choose to either do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flip]] through the second door in the room, or you can do the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8 assault rifle wall clip].

====Choice #1: Assault Rifle Wall Clip====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8

====Choice #2: Base Approach door clip #2====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 (not recommended)

Continue into the next room and you will have a choice to either complete the combat here as per normal or clip through the final door to skip killing a couple of guys.

===Pipe Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??15s??
* Time per attempt: ??5-10s??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43I-dwfyr80

===Combat Skip===
* Time Saved: 10-30 seconds. (Depends on platform and combat RNG)
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10

After exiting the base, crossing the beam and performing the QTE, you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to save a few seconds.

===Radio Tower OoB (Large)===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* There is a faster version for PC that includes skywalking (Needs video).
* Video .:Needs new video, doesn't show optimal route:. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo
Large OoB is the fastest route!
Tip: Hold down Aim, when doing the jump @0:30 to prevent going through the wall. This will prevent you from doing the rest of the Large Route and can cost
you some time, since the next Doorclip (during the miniboss) is somewhat inconsistent to get.

===Radio Tower OoB (Small)===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10

Next up you have to get past the radio tower door. If you did "Radio Tower OoB (Small)", you can choose to extend that OoB to avoid the next door clip. The alternatives are to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] near the radio tower door.

====Choice 1: Radio Tower Door Clip (Tackle Flip)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10

====Choice 2: Radio Tower Door Clip (Step Clipping)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHti5BhaBqs

==Radio Tower to Monastery Exit==
For console and people who are not confident with skywalking: After the radio tower, continue as per normal until you make past the pilot and the guy holding a shield and you will be at a campsite. From here you want to buy Dirty Tricks. You'll have two other skill points as well, which are commonly used for Pain Tolerance and Ammo Capacity. Once you're done you can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]] to save some time.

===Rope Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??60 Seconds??
* Time per attempt: ??15-30s??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJPGdhS9OAk

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After this, you will get the rope arrows, fight some dudes and climb up into the building. Next you can choose to skip using the rope arrow to get across the bridge.

===River Jump===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds (Quickest) / 4 seconds (safest)
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds (If you fail) (almost impossible to fail "safest" method)
* Console Difficulty: 3/10 (Quickest) 1/10 (Safest)
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxuXrsu2wKE
Tip: If you can't always get the jump to the rock in the middle, begin by jumping onto the small rock ro your right, then jump on the one in the middle.
Is basically not failable and you only lose about 1 second opposed to the direct jump.
*Video Needed*

===Collapsing Rope Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??30s??
* Time per attempt: ??10s??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgS7uZIO07o

After some more platforming, you'll approach the Monastery where you can do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]].

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After entering the monastery, you can choose to do the Monastery skip.

===Monastery Skip (#1)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-EHGm818KA

===Monastery Skip (#2)===
* Time Saved: Depending on Combat RNG (see explaination below)
* Time per attempt: Depending on where you Fail.
* Console Difficulty: 1/10
* PC Difficulty: 1/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSFpoM5HFZY
* Explaination: This version does not actively save time! If it's an option for you depends on you performance in the two fights
you are skipping this way. *Note* Video does not show optimal route / execution.

After opening the second window and finishing part 2 of the Bell puzzle, 5 enemies will spawn. Take care of them and wait for the checkpoint.
'''Reload that Checkpoint, or else the next hallway won't load'''

After this, continue until you have completed the monastery and the waterfall/parachute sections and you'll be ready for shanty town.

==Shanty Town==
We don't call this place Skip City for nothing. Lots of options here, it will help to look at other's runs here, because doing some skips means you don't have to do others. The first one is everyone's favourite skip, the Spud Slide (Mash inputs while entering the crawlspace and pray to whatever it is you pray to.)

===New Fire Arrow Skip (Pc / PS4 Only)===
* Time Saved: 4 Minutes
* Timer per attempt: 5 seconds
* PS4 Difficulty: 2/10 (mostly luck based)
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Spud Slide===
* Time Saved: 22 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 20/10
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.twitch.tv/brsmstr/c/2756782

There's a trick you can do while entering the crawlspace at the start of Shanty Town, by hitting an input on the right frame you can make Lara move much faster than normal. It was thought that the only input that could be used was tackle. However, runners have had success with multiple inputs, leading to the current belief that the frame is more important than the input used.

===Fire Arrow Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 7/10 '''not recomended'''
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Shortly after, you'll approach the shanty town gate and trigger some combat, next up is the shanty town gate clip.

===Shanty Town Gate Clip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for PC, 20 seconds for console (with tackle flip), 5 Seconds (with scramble + Tackle clip).
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 7/10 (tackle flip) || 1/10 (scramble + lunge clip)
* PS4 Difficulty: 9 / 10 (tackle flip) || 1/10 (scramble + lunge clip)
* PC Difficulty: 6/10 || N.A. (scramble + lunge clip)
* Video (Pause buffering method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jetcq7fe4IE
* Video (Scramble + lunge method): '''Video Needed'''
* Text tut (Scramble + lunge method): Jump (facing away from the gate) as close to the gate as possible (if you see the thorns of the gate,
that's a good sign). Now scramble backwards and as soon as this animation is finished hit 'Lunge' followed by hitting '''back''' a few Frames
later (between 10 - 40)

After the gate clip PC and console have different routes, you will have your first choice of route for Shanty Town. PC has a different route and should go for choice #3.

====Choice #1a: AKheon Clip====
* Time Saved: 6 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds
* Console Difficulty: 1/10 (impossible on PS4/Xbox One as the gap that you can clip through no longer exists)
* PC Difficulty: 2/10 (Easy on 60FPS almost impossible on 200FPS)
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cGQY8euYR8

====Choice #1b: Tin roof Clip (PC / Ps4 Only)====
* Time Saved: 6 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds (if wrong set-up) / 40 seconds (if you fall into the room below)
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: N.A.
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOtR1qKSR50
* Note: Video showing input coming soon. Tutorial in Video-description.

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 1====
* Time Saved: 5 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4aH74r1lbk

====Choice #3: The Big One (PC Only)====
* Time Saved: 25minutes.
* Time per attempt: 1:30 minutes.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqvsySfTDb0

After making your choice, you will make it to the platforms where Grim is and will have another choice. Certain conditions cause the bridge to despawn if you reload, or on some PC setups, if this is the case, you will have to use Grim Skip 2.

====Choice #1: Bridge Jump(old gen console only)====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 2====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESd7S81YPdY

After all of that, you've got one more easy trick to do to get out of shanty town, using the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]] to get across the bridge.

===Shanty Town Bridge Float===
* Time Saved: 20 seconds.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjoStkEDxyE

==Geothermal Caverns==
Now you get to play normally for a while after all the shanty town craziness. Just one skip here, Run all the way through until you get to the part where you find your friends, and you can choose to do the friendship skip. This trick seems to be much easier to do on PC than console.

===Friendship Skip (Method #1)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Friends saved: 0
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds (10 seconds if you fall)
* Console Difficulty: 8/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quI04nRknIg

===Friendship Skip (Method #2)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Friends saved: 0
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds (10 seconds if you fall)
* Console Difficulty: 4/10 '''recomended'''
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: '''Video Needed'''

==Solarii Fortress Approach to Helicopter==
Yet again, just one small skip here. Worthy of mention though because there's no risk of getting sniped. There are some important [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloads]] though, so it will be worth checking an up-to-date run.

* Time Saved: 10 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds per clip attempt, 30 seconds lost if you miss the jump back in bounds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 7/10 -> Can't be done with Scramble + Lunge clip, has to be Pause Buffered!
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTXphI2mzT8

===Helicopter Warning (Xbox One / PS4 Only)===
Just before you jump into the helicopter change the saveslots. In just this one Cutscene the game has 5 different point where it can
crash without a reason. After this cutscene, three more will follow. Don't skip these too early as it will increase the risk of crashing
the game and corrupting your savefile. The crash can also occure in the following stealth section.
Crash probabilty: ~30%
'''Note''': When your game crashed in the helicopter cutscene, it is permitted to pause the timer.

==Helicopter to Alex==
Some very interesting skips here. After the helicopter cutscene you'll go through a stealth section and eventually end up back outside. You then have another chance to use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]]. It doesn't save any time, but it's easy, and looks cool, so you should totally do it. After the cutscene on the gondola you'll rope arrow off and climb a ladder, and you'll be ready for the Air Boat skip.

===Gondola Skip===
* Time Saved: ??Worth??
* Time per attempt: ??10s??
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4SEkVqKG8c Note: On console there is no menuing required. On Pc you have to change to double buffer to lose enough height and use survival instincts in order to see.

===Air Boat Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2wNQ_FzIWQ

===Teleport Skip===
* New route! Lara Skywalker --> Fast travel from research base to beach --> Teleport skip --> Upgrade bow --> Fast travel back to research base.
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts: 15 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 9/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98ydfmWt31M

After this you will continue normally until they get the new bow and make it to the bunker. Because of the relative inconsistency with the door clip involved, the PC version is much easier than the console version here because they can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC only)|CA Clip]].
Note PC has a different route available that will lead to the research base directly.

===Lara Skywalker===
* Time Saved: 15 Minutes.
* Time per attempts: 1:30 Minutes.
* Old gen Console Difficulty: 8/10 -> Old gen uses a different setup. It's slower, but more consistent. It also takes longer per attempt. (Must use the updated version) ::Video Needed::
* PS4 Difficulty: 8/10
* PC Difficulty: 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEnGTikBYGg
* There is an updated version of this skip which is around 15s faster: Waterfall --> Skywalk to reseach base --> Fast travel to beach --> Cutscene Skip --> Teleport Skip --> Get upgraded bow --> Fast travel to research base

===Bunker Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: ::Video of door clip method needed::

Right after the bunker skip, console runners can do the Alex Skip.

===Alex Skip(Old Gen console only)===
* Time Saved: 4 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yo59WJK_bc

After Alex has be killed or skipped (We're such nice guys.) continue until you reach the research base.

==Research Base to Mathias==
Once you've gone through the research base normally for a bit, you'll arrive at the elevator puzzle. PC runners can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC / PS4 only)|CA Clip]] here. Console runners need to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Grenade Clipping (Door Clip Method #2)|Grenade Clipping]]

===Elevator Skip PC only version===
* Time Saved: 3:01 minutes.
* Time per attempts: 3 seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 1/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Elevator Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds for PC / PS4, 10 seconds for console.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 0/10 (Using CA-Method)
* PC Difficulty: 0/10
* Video (Console method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82J1yWmp-mc

Right after the elevator skip you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to skip the research base fight.

===Research Base Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

After that there's only one major skip to go for. Pc players that went for the Lara Skywalker skip don't have the rope ascender and are forced to do the cage puzzle skip.

===Cage Puzzle Skip (mandatory when you went for Lara Skywalker)===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: 40 Seconds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 8/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 9/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EESCY8zcPKU
* Cageless version is a bit faster but harder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5glB9dqbtRM

===Final Walkie Talkie Skip===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: N/A only one attempt possible.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnlgfm4_q-Q

===Final Gauntlet Skip===
* Time Saved: Lots. 10 minutes?
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10 (impossible to break sequence PS4/Xbox One )
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

And you're done! Hope this helps some budding runners get started. Just remember that this only covers the major skips. There's a bunch of small time savers and checkpoint reloads everywhere which save 1-10 seconds each, so make sure to check out some runs! If you have any questions, check out:
https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/tomb_raider__a_survivor_is_born.html

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2016-06-26T22:52:02Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Wolf Cave Approach */

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot and around 150 FPS are recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Video===
(Probably needs a more serious video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm5AcWxGsHA

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on LOW! framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 150FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Video===
(Video doesn't show proper setup, you might have to check the footage of a speedrun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Video===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof instead of jumping.

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time, do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she lands Lara will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at some point she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2016-06-26T22:50:38Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* House Skip */

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot and around 150 FPS are recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Video===
(Probably needs a more serious video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm5AcWxGsHA

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on LOW! framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 150FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Video===
(Video doesn't show proper setup, you might have to check the footage of a speedrun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof instead of jumping.

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time, do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she lands Lara will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at some point she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2016-06-26T22:47:01Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Deer Door Clip */

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot and around 150 FPS are recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Video===
(Probably needs a more serious video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm5AcWxGsHA

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on LOW! framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 150FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof instead of jumping.

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time, do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she lands Lara will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at some point she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route

2016-06-26T22:42:23Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Cage Puzzle Skip (mandatory when you went for Lara Skywalker) */

{{Contents}}
Welcome! If you've been linked here you may be interested in running Tomb Raider 2013! Excellent choice! This page will take you through the main part of the game and help you choose which skips and tricks you will and won't do during the run. There will be relevant links to the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]] page for each skip where it's relevant.

The "compulsory" elements of TR2013 are generally very linear, but because of how many skips there are, you often have to choose which skips you will and won't use for each run. Some skips are really tough, and you may wish to omit them while you're still learning. And sometimes you will have to choose between two different skips. For each skip there will be an approximate "time saved" and "time per attempt" figure. The time per attempt is timing failed attempts, so if the skip saves 10 seconds and the time per attempt is 30 seconds, you need to get it first try or it will cost you time.

This page will help you choose which skips you will do each run, based on difficulty and payoff in chronological order. This will just cover major timesavers and skips. For the small time savers check an up-to-date run and/or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloading]]

==Intro==

===Intro OoB (PC only)===
Right after pulling out the spike you get a checkpoint. When you reload this checkpoint it is possible to get off a jump that gets you OoB. You should bind jump to mousewheel, otherwise it will be too hard to do.
* Time Saved: 1:30 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for the jump (Note once you die or get inbound during this skip you have to restart the run since you only have one shot at this)
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 10/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4n_e2ilUSo

==Bambi to Old Ruins==
After you kill the deer is your first major skip. Rather than going back to the campsite use your preferred [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] method to clip through the door near where you got the bow.
*Note It is advised to use Method #4 on PC and PS4, since it's by far the easiest for these platforms

===Deer Door Clip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Old-Gen Consoles Difficulty 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty 6/10 (Tackle-Flipping) 1/10 (Scramble + Lunge Method)
* PC Difficulty 4/10 (Tackle-Flipping) 1/10 (Scramble + Lunge Method)
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu2SP-SJfiY
Requires checkpoint reload before or after killing the 3 jumping wolves to prevent game crash

===Binary Singularity (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 40 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 10 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty TBA
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frBA6d_Ic2g

===Whitman Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 8 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lm_eVRk5Nw

==Old Ruins Escape to Broken Bridge==
After escaping the old ruins PC runners can do the House Skip. Much harder than it looks, there's no reason this skip shouldn't be possible on console, but it seems to be much harder for some reason.

===House Skip===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Old-Gen Consoles Difficulty: TBA
* PS4 Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

After the house skip, play as normal until the "The pack's up there somewhere." line. Go into the house up the cliff and try your hand at the wolf skip. ::Video Needed::

===Wolf Cave Approach===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Wolf Cave Skip (PC only)===
* Time Saved: 1:45minutes/2:15minutes Slow/Fast route (has to be timed again)
* Time per attempt 1 minute
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 , 10/10 Slow/Fast route
* Video Slow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0I2SezG3h4 Video Fast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWxSdIRWyWs

===Tutorial Climb Skip (PC, PS4 only)===
* Time Saved: 4Seconds.
* Time per attempt 4 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10 -> It's random if it works for you. Framerate has a big impact on this.
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMAWKPNZGhQ

===Bridge Skip (PC, PS4 only)===
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts 15 Seconds
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: N.A.
* PS4 Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07li8xcn1M

==Base Approach to Radio Tower==
Once you enter the base before the radio tower and progress a little you will see a guy pushing a barrel. Up the stairs to the right is a door which can be clipped using [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]].

===Base Approach door clip===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Immediately after the previous skip (Or after climbing through the duct if you didn't do the last skip) you can choose to either do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flip]] through the second door in the room, or you can do the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8 assault rifle wall clip].

====Choice #1: Assault Rifle Wall Clip====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8

====Choice #2: Base Approach door clip #2====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 (not recommended)

Continue into the next room and you will have a choice to either complete the combat here as per normal or clip through the final door to skip killing a couple of guys.

===Pipe Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??15s??
* Time per attempt: ??5-10s??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43I-dwfyr80

===Combat Skip===
* Time Saved: 10-30 seconds. (Depends on platform and combat RNG)
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10

After exiting the base, crossing the beam and performing the QTE, you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to save a few seconds.

===Radio Tower OoB (Large)===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video .:Needs new video, doesn't show optimal route:. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo
Large OoB is the fastest route!
Tip: Hold down Aim, when doing the jump @0:30 to prevent going through the wall. This will prevent you from doing the rest of the Large Route and can cost
you some time, since the next Doorclip (during the miniboss) is somewhat inconsistent to get.

===Radio Tower OoB (Small)===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10

Next up you have to get past the radio tower door. If you did "Radio Tower OoB (Small)", you can choose to extend that OoB to avoid the next door clip. The alternatives are to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] near the radio tower door.

====Choice 1: Radio Tower Door Clip (Tackle Flip)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10

====Choice 2: Radio Tower Door Clip (Step Clipping)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHti5BhaBqs

==Radio Tower to Monastery Exit==
For console and people who are not confident with skywalking: After the radio tower, continue as per normal until you make past the pilot and the guy holding a shield and you will be at a campsite. From here you want to buy Dirty Tricks. You'll have two other skill points as well, which are commonly used for Pain Tolerance and Ammo Capacity. Once you're done you can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]] to save some time.

===Rope Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??60 Seconds??
* Time per attempt: ??15-30s??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJPGdhS9OAk

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After this, you will get the rope arrows, fight some dudes and climb up into the building. Next you can choose to skip using the rope arrow to get across the bridge.

===River Jump===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds (Quickest) / 4 seconds (safest)
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds (If you fail) (almost impossible to fail "safest" method)
* Console Difficulty: 3/10 (Quickest) 1/10 (Safest)
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxuXrsu2wKE
Tip: If you can't always get the jump to the rock in the middle, begin by jumping onto the small rock ro your right, then jump on the one in the middle.
Is basically not failable and you only lose about 1 second opposed to the direct jump.
*Video Needed*

===Collapsing Rope Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??30s??
* Time per attempt: ??10s??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgS7uZIO07o

After some more platforming, you'll approach the Monastery where you can do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]].

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After entering the monastery, you can choose to do the Monastery skip.

===Monastery Skip (#1)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-EHGm818KA

===Monastery Skip (#2)===
* Time Saved: Depending on Combat RNG (see explaination below)
* Time per attempt: Depending on where you Fail.
* Console Difficulty: 1/10
* PC Difficulty: 1/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSFpoM5HFZY
* Explaination: This version does not actively save time! If it's an option for you depends on you performance in the two fights
you are skipping this way. *Note* Video does not show optimal route / execution.

After opening the second window and finishing part 2 of the Bell puzzle, 5 enemies will spawn. Take care of them and wait for the checkpoint.
'''Reload that Checkpoint, or else the next hallway won't load'''

After this, continue until you have completed the monastery and the waterfall/parachute sections and you'll be ready for shanty town.

==Shanty Town==
We don't call this place Skip City for nothing. Lots of options here, it will help to look at other's runs here, because doing some skips means you don't have to do others. The first one is everyone's favourite skip, the Spud Slide (Mash inputs while entering the crawlspace and pray to whatever it is you pray to.)

===New Fire Arrow Skip (Pc / PS4 Only)===
* Time Saved: 4 Minutes
* Timer per attempt: 5 seconds
* PS4 Difficulty: 2/10 (mostly luck based)
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Spud Slide===
* Time Saved: 22 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 20/10
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.twitch.tv/brsmstr/c/2756782

There's a trick you can do while entering the crawlspace at the start of Shanty Town, by hitting an input on the right frame you can make Lara move much faster than normal. It was thought that the only input that could be used was tackle. However, runners have had success with multiple inputs, leading to the current belief that the frame is more important than the input used.

===Fire Arrow Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 7/10 '''not recomended'''
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Shortly after, you'll approach the shanty town gate and trigger some combat, next up is the shanty town gate clip.

===Shanty Town Gate Clip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for PC, 20 seconds for console (with tackle flip), 5 Seconds (with scramble + Tackle clip).
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 7/10 (tackle flip) || 1/10 (scramble + lunge clip)
* PS4 Difficulty: 9 / 10 (tackle flip) || 1/10 (scramble + lunge clip)
* PC Difficulty: 6/10 || N.A. (scramble + lunge clip)
* Video (Pause buffering method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jetcq7fe4IE
* Video (Scramble + lunge method): '''Video Needed'''
* Text tut (Scramble + lunge method): Jump (facing away from the gate) as close to the gate as possible (if you see the thorns of the gate,
that's a good sign). Now scramble backwards and as soon as this animation is finished hit 'Lunge' followed by hitting '''back''' a few Frames
later (between 10 - 40)

After the gate clip PC and console have different routes, you will have your first choice of route for Shanty Town. PC has a different route and should go for choice #3.

====Choice #1a: AKheon Clip====
* Time Saved: 6 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds
* Console Difficulty: 1/10 (impossible on PS4/Xbox One as the gap that you can clip through no longer exists)
* PC Difficulty: 2/10 (Easy on 60FPS almost impossible on 200FPS)
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cGQY8euYR8

====Choice #1b: Tin roof Clip (PC / Ps4 Only)====
* Time Saved: 6 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds (if wrong set-up) / 40 seconds (if you fall into the room below)
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: N.A.
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOtR1qKSR50
* Note: Video showing input coming soon. Tutorial in Video-description.

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 1====
* Time Saved: 5 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4aH74r1lbk

====Choice #3: The Big One (PC Only)====
* Time Saved: 25minutes.
* Time per attempt: 1:30 minutes.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqvsySfTDb0

After making your choice, you will make it to the platforms where Grim is and will have another choice. Certain conditions cause the bridge to despawn if you reload, or on some PC setups, if this is the case, you will have to use Grim Skip 2.

====Choice #1: Bridge Jump(old gen console only)====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 2====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESd7S81YPdY

After all of that, you've got one more easy trick to do to get out of shanty town, using the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]] to get across the bridge.

===Shanty Town Bridge Float===
* Time Saved: 20 seconds.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjoStkEDxyE

==Geothermal Caverns==
Now you get to play normally for a while after all the shanty town craziness. Just one skip here, Run all the way through until you get to the part where you find your friends, and you can choose to do the friendship skip. This trick seems to be much easier to do on PC than console.

===Friendship Skip (Method #1)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Friends saved: 0
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds (10 seconds if you fall)
* Console Difficulty: 8/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quI04nRknIg

===Friendship Skip (Method #2)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Friends saved: 0
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds (10 seconds if you fall)
* Console Difficulty: 4/10 '''recomended'''
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: '''Video Needed'''

==Solarii Fortress Approach to Helicopter==
Yet again, just one small skip here. Worthy of mention though because there's no risk of getting sniped. There are some important [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloads]] though, so it will be worth checking an up-to-date run.

* Time Saved: 10 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds per clip attempt, 30 seconds lost if you miss the jump back in bounds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 7/10 -> Can't be done with Scramble + Lunge clip, has to be Pause Buffered!
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTXphI2mzT8

===Helicopter Warning (Xbox One / PS4 Only)===
Just before you jump into the helicopter change the saveslots. In just this one Cutscene the game has 5 different point where it can
crash without a reason. After this cutscene, three more will follow. Don't skip these too early as it will increase the risk of crashing
the game and corrupting your savefile. The crash can also occure in the following stealth section.
Crash probabilty: ~30%
'''Note''': When your game crashed in the helicopter cutscene, it is permitted to pause the timer.

==Helicopter to Alex==
Some very interesting skips here. After the helicopter cutscene you'll go through a stealth section and eventually end up back outside. You then have another chance to use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]]. It doesn't save any time, but it's easy, and looks cool, so you should totally do it. After the cutscene on the gondola you'll rope arrow off and climb a ladder, and you'll be ready for the Air Boat skip.

===Gondola Skip===
* Time Saved: ??Worth??
* Time per attempt: ??10s??
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4SEkVqKG8c Note: On console there is no menuing required. On Pc you have to change to double buffer to lose enough height and use survival instincts in order to see.

===Air Boat Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2wNQ_FzIWQ

===Teleport Skip===
* New route! Lara Skywalker --> Fast travel from research base to beach --> Teleport skip --> Upgrade bow --> Fast travel back to research base.
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts: 15 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 9/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98ydfmWt31M

After this you will continue normally until they get the new bow and make it to the bunker. Because of the relative inconsistency with the door clip involved, the PC version is much easier than the console version here because they can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC only)|CA Clip]].
Note PC has a different route available that will lead to the research base directly.

===Lara Skywalker===
* Time Saved: 15 Minutes.
* Time per attempts: 1:30 Minutes.
* Old gen Console Difficulty: 8/10 -> Old gen uses a different setup. It's slower, but more consistent. It also takes longer per attempt. (Must use the updated version) ::Video Needed::
* PS4 Difficulty: 8/10
* PC Difficulty: 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEnGTikBYGg
* There is an updated version of this skip which is around 15s faster: Waterfall --> Skywalk to reseach base --> Fast travel to beach --> Cutscene Skip --> Teleport Skip --> Get upgraded bow --> Fast travel to research base

===Bunker Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: ::Video of door clip method needed::

Right after the bunker skip, console runners can do the Alex Skip.

===Alex Skip(Old Gen console only)===
* Time Saved: 4 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yo59WJK_bc

After Alex has be killed or skipped (We're such nice guys.) continue until you reach the research base.

==Research Base to Mathias==
Once you've gone through the research base normally for a bit, you'll arrive at the elevator puzzle. PC runners can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC / PS4 only)|CA Clip]] here. Console runners need to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Grenade Clipping (Door Clip Method #2)|Grenade Clipping]]

===Elevator Skip PC only version===
* Time Saved: 3:01 minutes.
* Time per attempts: 3 seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 1/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Elevator Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds for PC / PS4, 10 seconds for console.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 0/10 (Using CA-Method)
* PC Difficulty: 0/10
* Video (Console method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82J1yWmp-mc

Right after the elevator skip you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to skip the research base fight.

===Research Base Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

After that there's only one major skip to go for. Pc players that went for the Lara Skywalker skip don't have the rope ascender and are forced to do the cage puzzle skip.

===Cage Puzzle Skip (mandatory when you went for Lara Skywalker)===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: 40 Seconds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 8/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 9/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EESCY8zcPKU
* Cageless version is a bit faster but harder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5glB9dqbtRM

===Final Walkie Talkie Skip===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: N/A only one attempt possible.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnlgfm4_q-Q

===Final Gauntlet Skip===
* Time Saved: Lots. 10 minutes?
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10 (impossible to break sequence PS4/Xbox One )
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

And you're done! Hope this helps some budding runners get started. Just remember that this only covers the major skips. There's a bunch of small time savers and checkpoint reloads everywhere which save 1-10 seconds each, so make sure to check out some runs! If you have any questions, check out:
https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/tomb_raider__a_survivor_is_born.html

Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route

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Welcome! If you've been linked here you may be interested in running Tomb Raider 2013! Excellent choice! This page will take you through the main part of the game and help you choose which skips and tricks you will and won't do during the run. There will be relevant links to the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]] page for each skip where it's relevant.

The "compulsory" elements of TR2013 are generally very linear, but because of how many skips there are, you often have to choose which skips you will and won't use for each run. Some skips are really tough, and you may wish to omit them while you're still learning. And sometimes you will have to choose between two different skips. For each skip there will be an approximate "time saved" and "time per attempt" figure. The time per attempt is timing failed attempts, so if the skip saves 10 seconds and the time per attempt is 30 seconds, you need to get it first try or it will cost you time.

This page will help you choose which skips you will do each run, based on difficulty and payoff in chronological order. This will just cover major timesavers and skips. For the small time savers check an up-to-date run and/or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloading]]

==Intro==

===Intro OoB (PC only)===
Right after pulling out the spike you get a checkpoint. When you reload this checkpoint it is possible to get off a jump that gets you OoB. You should bind jump to mousewheel, otherwise it will be too hard to do.
* Time Saved: 1:30 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for the jump (Note once you die or get inbound during this skip you have to restart the run since you only have one shot at this)
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 10/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4n_e2ilUSo

==Bambi to Old Ruins==
After you kill the deer is your first major skip. Rather than going back to the campsite use your preferred [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] method to clip through the door near where you got the bow.
*Note It is advised to use Method #4 on PC and PS4, since it's by far the easiest for these platforms

===Deer Door Clip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Old-Gen Consoles Difficulty 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty 6/10 (Tackle-Flipping) 1/10 (Scramble + Lunge Method)
* PC Difficulty 4/10 (Tackle-Flipping) 1/10 (Scramble + Lunge Method)
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu2SP-SJfiY
Requires checkpoint reload before or after killing the 3 jumping wolves to prevent game crash

===Binary Singularity (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 40 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 10 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty TBA
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frBA6d_Ic2g

===Whitman Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 8 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lm_eVRk5Nw

==Old Ruins Escape to Broken Bridge==
After escaping the old ruins PC runners can do the House Skip. Much harder than it looks, there's no reason this skip shouldn't be possible on console, but it seems to be much harder for some reason.

===House Skip===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Old-Gen Consoles Difficulty: TBA
* PS4 Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

After the house skip, play as normal until the "The pack's up there somewhere." line. Go into the house up the cliff and try your hand at the wolf skip. ::Video Needed::

===Wolf Cave Approach===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Wolf Cave Skip (PC only)===
* Time Saved: 1:45minutes/2:15minutes Slow/Fast route (has to be timed again)
* Time per attempt 1 minute
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 , 10/10 Slow/Fast route
* Video Slow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0I2SezG3h4 Video Fast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWxSdIRWyWs

===Tutorial Climb Skip (PC, PS4 only)===
* Time Saved: 4Seconds.
* Time per attempt 4 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10 -> It's random if it works for you. Framerate has a big impact on this.
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMAWKPNZGhQ

===Bridge Skip (PC, PS4 only)===
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts 15 Seconds
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: N.A.
* PS4 Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07li8xcn1M

==Base Approach to Radio Tower==
Once you enter the base before the radio tower and progress a little you will see a guy pushing a barrel. Up the stairs to the right is a door which can be clipped using [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]].

===Base Approach door clip===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Immediately after the previous skip (Or after climbing through the duct if you didn't do the last skip) you can choose to either do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flip]] through the second door in the room, or you can do the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8 assault rifle wall clip].

====Choice #1: Assault Rifle Wall Clip====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8

====Choice #2: Base Approach door clip #2====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 (not recommended)

Continue into the next room and you will have a choice to either complete the combat here as per normal or clip through the final door to skip killing a couple of guys.

===Pipe Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??15s??
* Time per attempt: ??5-10s??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43I-dwfyr80

===Combat Skip===
* Time Saved: 10-30 seconds. (Depends on platform and combat RNG)
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10

After exiting the base, crossing the beam and performing the QTE, you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to save a few seconds.

===Radio Tower OoB (Large)===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video .:Needs new video, doesn't show optimal route:. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo
Large OoB is the fastest route!
Tip: Hold down Aim, when doing the jump @0:30 to prevent going through the wall. This will prevent you from doing the rest of the Large Route and can cost
you some time, since the next Doorclip (during the miniboss) is somewhat inconsistent to get.

===Radio Tower OoB (Small)===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10

Next up you have to get past the radio tower door. If you did "Radio Tower OoB (Small)", you can choose to extend that OoB to avoid the next door clip. The alternatives are to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] near the radio tower door.

====Choice 1: Radio Tower Door Clip (Tackle Flip)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10

====Choice 2: Radio Tower Door Clip (Step Clipping)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHti5BhaBqs

==Radio Tower to Monastery Exit==
For console and people who are not confident with skywalking: After the radio tower, continue as per normal until you make past the pilot and the guy holding a shield and you will be at a campsite. From here you want to buy Dirty Tricks. You'll have two other skill points as well, which are commonly used for Pain Tolerance and Ammo Capacity. Once you're done you can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]] to save some time.

===Rope Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??60 Seconds??
* Time per attempt: ??15-30s??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJPGdhS9OAk

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After this, you will get the rope arrows, fight some dudes and climb up into the building. Next you can choose to skip using the rope arrow to get across the bridge.

===River Jump===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds (Quickest) / 4 seconds (safest)
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds (If you fail) (almost impossible to fail "safest" method)
* Console Difficulty: 3/10 (Quickest) 1/10 (Safest)
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxuXrsu2wKE
Tip: If you can't always get the jump to the rock in the middle, begin by jumping onto the small rock ro your right, then jump on the one in the middle.
Is basically not failable and you only lose about 1 second opposed to the direct jump.
*Video Needed*

===Collapsing Rope Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??30s??
* Time per attempt: ??10s??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgS7uZIO07o

After some more platforming, you'll approach the Monastery where you can do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]].

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After entering the monastery, you can choose to do the Monastery skip.

===Monastery Skip (#1)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-EHGm818KA

===Monastery Skip (#2)===
* Time Saved: Depending on Combat RNG (see explaination below)
* Time per attempt: Depending on where you Fail.
* Console Difficulty: 1/10
* PC Difficulty: 1/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSFpoM5HFZY
* Explaination: This version does not actively save time! If it's an option for you depends on you performance in the two fights
you are skipping this way. *Note* Video does not show optimal route / execution.

After opening the second window and finishing part 2 of the Bell puzzle, 5 enemies will spawn. Take care of them and wait for the checkpoint.
'''Reload that Checkpoint, or else the next hallway won't load'''

After this, continue until you have completed the monastery and the waterfall/parachute sections and you'll be ready for shanty town.

==Shanty Town==
We don't call this place Skip City for nothing. Lots of options here, it will help to look at other's runs here, because doing some skips means you don't have to do others. The first one is everyone's favourite skip, the Spud Slide (Mash inputs while entering the crawlspace and pray to whatever it is you pray to.)

===New Fire Arrow Skip (Pc / PS4 Only)===
* Time Saved: 4 Minutes
* Timer per attempt: 5 seconds
* PS4 Difficulty: 2/10 (mostly luck based)
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Spud Slide===
* Time Saved: 22 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 20/10
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.twitch.tv/brsmstr/c/2756782

There's a trick you can do while entering the crawlspace at the start of Shanty Town, by hitting an input on the right frame you can make Lara move much faster than normal. It was thought that the only input that could be used was tackle. However, runners have had success with multiple inputs, leading to the current belief that the frame is more important than the input used.

===Fire Arrow Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 7/10 '''not recomended'''
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Shortly after, you'll approach the shanty town gate and trigger some combat, next up is the shanty town gate clip.

===Shanty Town Gate Clip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for PC, 20 seconds for console (with tackle flip), 5 Seconds (with scramble + Tackle clip).
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 7/10 (tackle flip) || 1/10 (scramble + lunge clip)
* PS4 Difficulty: 9 / 10 (tackle flip) || 1/10 (scramble + lunge clip)
* PC Difficulty: 6/10 || N.A. (scramble + lunge clip)
* Video (Pause buffering method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jetcq7fe4IE
* Video (Scramble + lunge method): '''Video Needed'''
* Text tut (Scramble + lunge method): Jump (facing away from the gate) as close to the gate as possible (if you see the thorns of the gate,
that's a good sign). Now scramble backwards and as soon as this animation is finished hit 'Lunge' followed by hitting '''back''' a few Frames
later (between 10 - 40)

After the gate clip PC and console have different routes, you will have your first choice of route for Shanty Town. PC has a different route and should go for choice #3.

====Choice #1a: AKheon Clip====
* Time Saved: 6 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds
* Console Difficulty: 1/10 (impossible on PS4/Xbox One as the gap that you can clip through no longer exists)
* PC Difficulty: 2/10 (Easy on 60FPS almost impossible on 200FPS)
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cGQY8euYR8

====Choice #1b: Tin roof Clip (PC / Ps4 Only)====
* Time Saved: 6 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds (if wrong set-up) / 40 seconds (if you fall into the room below)
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: N.A.
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOtR1qKSR50
* Note: Video showing input coming soon. Tutorial in Video-description.

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 1====
* Time Saved: 5 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4aH74r1lbk

====Choice #3: The Big One (PC Only)====
* Time Saved: 25minutes.
* Time per attempt: 1:30 minutes.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqvsySfTDb0

After making your choice, you will make it to the platforms where Grim is and will have another choice. Certain conditions cause the bridge to despawn if you reload, or on some PC setups, if this is the case, you will have to use Grim Skip 2.

====Choice #1: Bridge Jump(old gen console only)====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 2====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESd7S81YPdY

After all of that, you've got one more easy trick to do to get out of shanty town, using the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]] to get across the bridge.

===Shanty Town Bridge Float===
* Time Saved: 20 seconds.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjoStkEDxyE

==Geothermal Caverns==
Now you get to play normally for a while after all the shanty town craziness. Just one skip here, Run all the way through until you get to the part where you find your friends, and you can choose to do the friendship skip. This trick seems to be much easier to do on PC than console.

===Friendship Skip (Method #1)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Friends saved: 0
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds (10 seconds if you fall)
* Console Difficulty: 8/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quI04nRknIg

===Friendship Skip (Method #2)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Friends saved: 0
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds (10 seconds if you fall)
* Console Difficulty: 4/10 '''recomended'''
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: '''Video Needed'''

==Solarii Fortress Approach to Helicopter==
Yet again, just one small skip here. Worthy of mention though because there's no risk of getting sniped. There are some important [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloads]] though, so it will be worth checking an up-to-date run.

* Time Saved: 10 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds per clip attempt, 30 seconds lost if you miss the jump back in bounds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 7/10 -> Can't be done with Scramble + Lunge clip, has to be Pause Buffered!
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTXphI2mzT8

===Helicopter Warning (Xbox One / PS4 Only)===
Just before you jump into the helicopter change the saveslots. In just this one Cutscene the game has 5 different point where it can
crash without a reason. After this cutscene, three more will follow. Don't skip these too early as it will increase the risk of crashing
the game and corrupting your savefile. The crash can also occure in the following stealth section.
Crash probabilty: ~30%
'''Note''': When your game crashed in the helicopter cutscene, it is permitted to pause the timer.

==Helicopter to Alex==
Some very interesting skips here. After the helicopter cutscene you'll go through a stealth section and eventually end up back outside. You then have another chance to use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]]. It doesn't save any time, but it's easy, and looks cool, so you should totally do it. After the cutscene on the gondola you'll rope arrow off and climb a ladder, and you'll be ready for the Air Boat skip.

===Gondola Skip===
* Time Saved: ??Worth??
* Time per attempt: ??10s??
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4SEkVqKG8c Note: On console there is no menuing required. On Pc you have to change to double buffer to lose enough height and use survival instincts in order to see.

===Air Boat Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2wNQ_FzIWQ

===Teleport Skip===
* New route! Lara Skywalker --> Fast travel from research base to beach --> Teleport skip --> Upgrade bow --> Fast travel back to research base.
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts: 15 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 9/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98ydfmWt31M

After this you will continue normally until they get the new bow and make it to the bunker. Because of the relative inconsistency with the door clip involved, the PC version is much easier than the console version here because they can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC only)|CA Clip]].
Note PC has a different route available that will lead to the research base directly.

===Lara Skywalker===
* Time Saved: 15 Minutes.
* Time per attempts: 1:30 Minutes.
* Old gen Console Difficulty: 8/10 -> Old gen uses a different setup. It's slower, but more consistent. It also takes longer per attempt. (Must use the updated version) ::Video Needed::
* PS4 Difficulty: 8/10
* PC Difficulty: 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEnGTikBYGg
* There is an updated version of this skip which is around 15s faster: Waterfall --> Skywalk to reseach base --> Fast travel to beach --> Cutscene Skip --> Teleport Skip --> Get upgraded bow --> Fast travel to research base

===Bunker Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: ::Video of door clip method needed::

Right after the bunker skip, console runners can do the Alex Skip.

===Alex Skip(Old Gen console only)===
* Time Saved: 4 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yo59WJK_bc

After Alex has be killed or skipped (We're such nice guys.) continue until you reach the research base.

==Research Base to Mathias==
Once you've gone through the research base normally for a bit, you'll arrive at the elevator puzzle. PC runners can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC / PS4 only)|CA Clip]] here. Console runners need to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Grenade Clipping (Door Clip Method #2)|Grenade Clipping]]

===Elevator Skip PC only version===
* Time Saved: 3:01 minutes.
* Time per attempts: 3 seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 1/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Elevator Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds for PC / PS4, 10 seconds for console.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 0/10 (Using CA-Method)
* PC Difficulty: 0/10
* Video (Console method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82J1yWmp-mc

Right after the elevator skip you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to skip the research base fight.

===Research Base Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

After that there's only one major skip to go for. Pc players that went for the Lara Skywalker skip don't have the rope ascender and are forced to do the cage puzzle skip.

===Cage Puzzle Skip (mandatory when you went for Lara Skywalker)===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: 40 Seconds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 8/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 9/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EESCY8zcPKU

===Final Walkie Talkie Skip===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: N/A only one attempt possible.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnlgfm4_q-Q

===Final Gauntlet Skip===
* Time Saved: Lots. 10 minutes?
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10 (impossible to break sequence PS4/Xbox One )
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

And you're done! Hope this helps some budding runners get started. Just remember that this only covers the major skips. There's a bunch of small time savers and checkpoint reloads everywhere which save 1-10 seconds each, so make sure to check out some runs! If you have any questions, check out:
https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/tomb_raider__a_survivor_is_born.html

Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route

2016-06-26T22:37:17Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Helicopter to Alex */

{{Contents}}
Welcome! If you've been linked here you may be interested in running Tomb Raider 2013! Excellent choice! This page will take you through the main part of the game and help you choose which skips and tricks you will and won't do during the run. There will be relevant links to the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]] page for each skip where it's relevant.

The "compulsory" elements of TR2013 are generally very linear, but because of how many skips there are, you often have to choose which skips you will and won't use for each run. Some skips are really tough, and you may wish to omit them while you're still learning. And sometimes you will have to choose between two different skips. For each skip there will be an approximate "time saved" and "time per attempt" figure. The time per attempt is timing failed attempts, so if the skip saves 10 seconds and the time per attempt is 30 seconds, you need to get it first try or it will cost you time.

This page will help you choose which skips you will do each run, based on difficulty and payoff in chronological order. This will just cover major timesavers and skips. For the small time savers check an up-to-date run and/or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloading]]

==Intro==

===Intro OoB (PC only)===
Right after pulling out the spike you get a checkpoint. When you reload this checkpoint it is possible to get off a jump that gets you OoB. You should bind jump to mousewheel, otherwise it will be too hard to do.
* Time Saved: 1:30 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for the jump (Note once you die or get inbound during this skip you have to restart the run since you only have one shot at this)
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 10/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4n_e2ilUSo

==Bambi to Old Ruins==
After you kill the deer is your first major skip. Rather than going back to the campsite use your preferred [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] method to clip through the door near where you got the bow.
*Note It is advised to use Method #4 on PC and PS4, since it's by far the easiest for these platforms

===Deer Door Clip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Old-Gen Consoles Difficulty 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty 6/10 (Tackle-Flipping) 1/10 (Scramble + Lunge Method)
* PC Difficulty 4/10 (Tackle-Flipping) 1/10 (Scramble + Lunge Method)
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu2SP-SJfiY
Requires checkpoint reload before or after killing the 3 jumping wolves to prevent game crash

===Binary Singularity (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 40 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 10 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty TBA
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frBA6d_Ic2g

===Whitman Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 8 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lm_eVRk5Nw

==Old Ruins Escape to Broken Bridge==
After escaping the old ruins PC runners can do the House Skip. Much harder than it looks, there's no reason this skip shouldn't be possible on console, but it seems to be much harder for some reason.

===House Skip===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Old-Gen Consoles Difficulty: TBA
* PS4 Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

After the house skip, play as normal until the "The pack's up there somewhere." line. Go into the house up the cliff and try your hand at the wolf skip. ::Video Needed::

===Wolf Cave Approach===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Wolf Cave Skip (PC only)===
* Time Saved: 1:45minutes/2:15minutes Slow/Fast route (has to be timed again)
* Time per attempt 1 minute
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 , 10/10 Slow/Fast route
* Video Slow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0I2SezG3h4 Video Fast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWxSdIRWyWs

===Tutorial Climb Skip (PC, PS4 only)===
* Time Saved: 4Seconds.
* Time per attempt 4 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10 -> It's random if it works for you. Framerate has a big impact on this.
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMAWKPNZGhQ

===Bridge Skip (PC, PS4 only)===
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts 15 Seconds
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: N.A.
* PS4 Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07li8xcn1M

==Base Approach to Radio Tower==
Once you enter the base before the radio tower and progress a little you will see a guy pushing a barrel. Up the stairs to the right is a door which can be clipped using [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]].

===Base Approach door clip===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Immediately after the previous skip (Or after climbing through the duct if you didn't do the last skip) you can choose to either do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flip]] through the second door in the room, or you can do the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8 assault rifle wall clip].

====Choice #1: Assault Rifle Wall Clip====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8

====Choice #2: Base Approach door clip #2====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 (not recommended)

Continue into the next room and you will have a choice to either complete the combat here as per normal or clip through the final door to skip killing a couple of guys.

===Pipe Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??15s??
* Time per attempt: ??5-10s??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43I-dwfyr80

===Combat Skip===
* Time Saved: 10-30 seconds. (Depends on platform and combat RNG)
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10

After exiting the base, crossing the beam and performing the QTE, you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to save a few seconds.

===Radio Tower OoB (Large)===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video .:Needs new video, doesn't show optimal route:. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo
Large OoB is the fastest route!
Tip: Hold down Aim, when doing the jump @0:30 to prevent going through the wall. This will prevent you from doing the rest of the Large Route and can cost
you some time, since the next Doorclip (during the miniboss) is somewhat inconsistent to get.

===Radio Tower OoB (Small)===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10

Next up you have to get past the radio tower door. If you did "Radio Tower OoB (Small)", you can choose to extend that OoB to avoid the next door clip. The alternatives are to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] near the radio tower door.

====Choice 1: Radio Tower Door Clip (Tackle Flip)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10

====Choice 2: Radio Tower Door Clip (Step Clipping)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHti5BhaBqs

==Radio Tower to Monastery Exit==
For console and people who are not confident with skywalking: After the radio tower, continue as per normal until you make past the pilot and the guy holding a shield and you will be at a campsite. From here you want to buy Dirty Tricks. You'll have two other skill points as well, which are commonly used for Pain Tolerance and Ammo Capacity. Once you're done you can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]] to save some time.

===Rope Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??60 Seconds??
* Time per attempt: ??15-30s??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJPGdhS9OAk

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After this, you will get the rope arrows, fight some dudes and climb up into the building. Next you can choose to skip using the rope arrow to get across the bridge.

===River Jump===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds (Quickest) / 4 seconds (safest)
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds (If you fail) (almost impossible to fail "safest" method)
* Console Difficulty: 3/10 (Quickest) 1/10 (Safest)
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxuXrsu2wKE
Tip: If you can't always get the jump to the rock in the middle, begin by jumping onto the small rock ro your right, then jump on the one in the middle.
Is basically not failable and you only lose about 1 second opposed to the direct jump.
*Video Needed*

===Collapsing Rope Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??30s??
* Time per attempt: ??10s??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgS7uZIO07o

After some more platforming, you'll approach the Monastery where you can do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]].

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After entering the monastery, you can choose to do the Monastery skip.

===Monastery Skip (#1)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-EHGm818KA

===Monastery Skip (#2)===
* Time Saved: Depending on Combat RNG (see explaination below)
* Time per attempt: Depending on where you Fail.
* Console Difficulty: 1/10
* PC Difficulty: 1/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSFpoM5HFZY
* Explaination: This version does not actively save time! If it's an option for you depends on you performance in the two fights
you are skipping this way. *Note* Video does not show optimal route / execution.

After opening the second window and finishing part 2 of the Bell puzzle, 5 enemies will spawn. Take care of them and wait for the checkpoint.
'''Reload that Checkpoint, or else the next hallway won't load'''

After this, continue until you have completed the monastery and the waterfall/parachute sections and you'll be ready for shanty town.

==Shanty Town==
We don't call this place Skip City for nothing. Lots of options here, it will help to look at other's runs here, because doing some skips means you don't have to do others. The first one is everyone's favourite skip, the Spud Slide (Mash inputs while entering the crawlspace and pray to whatever it is you pray to.)

===New Fire Arrow Skip (Pc / PS4 Only)===
* Time Saved: 4 Minutes
* Timer per attempt: 5 seconds
* PS4 Difficulty: 2/10 (mostly luck based)
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Spud Slide===
* Time Saved: 22 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 20/10
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.twitch.tv/brsmstr/c/2756782

There's a trick you can do while entering the crawlspace at the start of Shanty Town, by hitting an input on the right frame you can make Lara move much faster than normal. It was thought that the only input that could be used was tackle. However, runners have had success with multiple inputs, leading to the current belief that the frame is more important than the input used.

===Fire Arrow Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 7/10 '''not recomended'''
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Shortly after, you'll approach the shanty town gate and trigger some combat, next up is the shanty town gate clip.

===Shanty Town Gate Clip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for PC, 20 seconds for console (with tackle flip), 5 Seconds (with scramble + Tackle clip).
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 7/10 (tackle flip) || 1/10 (scramble + lunge clip)
* PS4 Difficulty: 9 / 10 (tackle flip) || 1/10 (scramble + lunge clip)
* PC Difficulty: 6/10 || N.A. (scramble + lunge clip)
* Video (Pause buffering method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jetcq7fe4IE
* Video (Scramble + lunge method): '''Video Needed'''
* Text tut (Scramble + lunge method): Jump (facing away from the gate) as close to the gate as possible (if you see the thorns of the gate,
that's a good sign). Now scramble backwards and as soon as this animation is finished hit 'Lunge' followed by hitting '''back''' a few Frames
later (between 10 - 40)

After the gate clip PC and console have different routes, you will have your first choice of route for Shanty Town. PC has a different route and should go for choice #3.

====Choice #1a: AKheon Clip====
* Time Saved: 6 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds
* Console Difficulty: 1/10 (impossible on PS4/Xbox One as the gap that you can clip through no longer exists)
* PC Difficulty: 2/10 (Easy on 60FPS almost impossible on 200FPS)
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cGQY8euYR8

====Choice #1b: Tin roof Clip (PC / Ps4 Only)====
* Time Saved: 6 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds (if wrong set-up) / 40 seconds (if you fall into the room below)
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: N.A.
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOtR1qKSR50
* Note: Video showing input coming soon. Tutorial in Video-description.

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 1====
* Time Saved: 5 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4aH74r1lbk

====Choice #3: The Big One (PC Only)====
* Time Saved: 25minutes.
* Time per attempt: 1:30 minutes.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqvsySfTDb0

After making your choice, you will make it to the platforms where Grim is and will have another choice. Certain conditions cause the bridge to despawn if you reload, or on some PC setups, if this is the case, you will have to use Grim Skip 2.

====Choice #1: Bridge Jump(old gen console only)====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 2====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESd7S81YPdY

After all of that, you've got one more easy trick to do to get out of shanty town, using the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]] to get across the bridge.

===Shanty Town Bridge Float===
* Time Saved: 20 seconds.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjoStkEDxyE

==Geothermal Caverns==
Now you get to play normally for a while after all the shanty town craziness. Just one skip here, Run all the way through until you get to the part where you find your friends, and you can choose to do the friendship skip. This trick seems to be much easier to do on PC than console.

===Friendship Skip (Method #1)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Friends saved: 0
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds (10 seconds if you fall)
* Console Difficulty: 8/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quI04nRknIg

===Friendship Skip (Method #2)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Friends saved: 0
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds (10 seconds if you fall)
* Console Difficulty: 4/10 '''recomended'''
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: '''Video Needed'''

==Solarii Fortress Approach to Helicopter==
Yet again, just one small skip here. Worthy of mention though because there's no risk of getting sniped. There are some important [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloads]] though, so it will be worth checking an up-to-date run.

* Time Saved: 10 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds per clip attempt, 30 seconds lost if you miss the jump back in bounds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 7/10 -> Can't be done with Scramble + Lunge clip, has to be Pause Buffered!
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTXphI2mzT8

===Helicopter Warning (Xbox One / PS4 Only)===
Just before you jump into the helicopter change the saveslots. In just this one Cutscene the game has 5 different point where it can
crash without a reason. After this cutscene, three more will follow. Don't skip these too early as it will increase the risk of crashing
the game and corrupting your savefile. The crash can also occure in the following stealth section.
Crash probabilty: ~30%
'''Note''': When your game crashed in the helicopter cutscene, it is permitted to pause the timer.

==Helicopter to Alex==
Some very interesting skips here. After the helicopter cutscene you'll go through a stealth section and eventually end up back outside. You then have another chance to use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]]. It doesn't save any time, but it's easy, and looks cool, so you should totally do it. After the cutscene on the gondola you'll rope arrow off and climb a ladder, and you'll be ready for the Air Boat skip.

===Gondola Skip===
* Time Saved: ??Worth??
* Time per attempt: ??10s??
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4SEkVqKG8c Note: On console there is no menuing required. On Pc you have to change to double buffer to lose enough height and use survival instincts in order to see.

===Air Boat Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2wNQ_FzIWQ

===Teleport Skip===
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts: 15 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 9/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98ydfmWt31M

After this you will continue normally until they get the new bow and make it to the bunker. Because of the relative inconsistency with the door clip involved, the PC version is much easier than the console version here because they can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC only)|CA Clip]].
Note PC has a different route available that will lead to the research base directly.

===Lara Skywalker===
* Time Saved: 15 Minutes.
* Time per attempts: 1:30 Minutes.
* Old gen Console Difficulty: 8/10 -> Old gen uses a different setup. It's slower, but more consistent. It also takes longer per attempt. (Must use the updated version) ::Video Needed::
* PS4 Difficulty: 8/10
* PC Difficulty: 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEnGTikBYGg
* There is an updated version of this skip which is around 15s faster: Waterfall --> Skywalk to reseach base --> Fast travel to beach --> Cutscene Skip --> Teleport Skip --> Get upgraded bow --> Fast travel to research base

===Bunker Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: ::Video of door clip method needed::

Right after the bunker skip, console runners can do the Alex Skip.

===Alex Skip(Old Gen console only)===
* Time Saved: 4 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yo59WJK_bc

After Alex has be killed or skipped (We're such nice guys.) continue until you reach the research base.

==Research Base to Mathias==
Once you've gone through the research base normally for a bit, you'll arrive at the elevator puzzle. PC runners can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC / PS4 only)|CA Clip]] here. Console runners need to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Grenade Clipping (Door Clip Method #2)|Grenade Clipping]]

===Elevator Skip PC only version===
* Time Saved: 3:01 minutes.
* Time per attempts: 3 seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 1/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Elevator Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds for PC / PS4, 10 seconds for console.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 0/10 (Using CA-Method)
* PC Difficulty: 0/10
* Video (Console method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82J1yWmp-mc

Right after the elevator skip you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to skip the research base fight.

===Research Base Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

After that there's only one major skip to go for. Pc players that went for the Lara Skywalker skip don't have the rope ascender and are forced to do the cage puzzle skip.

===Cage Puzzle Skip (mandatory when you went for Lara Skywalker)===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: 40 Seconds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 8/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 9/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EESCY8zcPKU

===Final Walkie Talkie Skip===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: N/A only one attempt possible.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnlgfm4_q-Q

===Final Gauntlet Skip===
* Time Saved: Lots. 10 minutes?
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10 (impossible to break sequence PS4/Xbox One )
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

And you're done! Hope this helps some budding runners get started. Just remember that this only covers the major skips. There's a bunch of small time savers and checkpoint reloads everywhere which save 1-10 seconds each, so make sure to check out some runs! If you have any questions, check out:
https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/tomb_raider__a_survivor_is_born.html

Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route

2016-06-26T22:32:17Z

TheArtisticBallistic:

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Welcome! If you've been linked here you may be interested in running Tomb Raider 2013! Excellent choice! This page will take you through the main part of the game and help you choose which skips and tricks you will and won't do during the run. There will be relevant links to the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]] page for each skip where it's relevant.

The "compulsory" elements of TR2013 are generally very linear, but because of how many skips there are, you often have to choose which skips you will and won't use for each run. Some skips are really tough, and you may wish to omit them while you're still learning. And sometimes you will have to choose between two different skips. For each skip there will be an approximate "time saved" and "time per attempt" figure. The time per attempt is timing failed attempts, so if the skip saves 10 seconds and the time per attempt is 30 seconds, you need to get it first try or it will cost you time.

This page will help you choose which skips you will do each run, based on difficulty and payoff in chronological order. This will just cover major timesavers and skips. For the small time savers check an up-to-date run and/or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloading]]

==Intro==

===Intro OoB (PC only)===
Right after pulling out the spike you get a checkpoint. When you reload this checkpoint it is possible to get off a jump that gets you OoB. You should bind jump to mousewheel, otherwise it will be too hard to do.
* Time Saved: 1:30 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for the jump (Note once you die or get inbound during this skip you have to restart the run since you only have one shot at this)
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 10/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4n_e2ilUSo

==Bambi to Old Ruins==
After you kill the deer is your first major skip. Rather than going back to the campsite use your preferred [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] method to clip through the door near where you got the bow.
*Note It is advised to use Method #4 on PC and PS4, since it's by far the easiest for these platforms

===Deer Door Clip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Old-Gen Consoles Difficulty 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty 6/10 (Tackle-Flipping) 1/10 (Scramble + Lunge Method)
* PC Difficulty 4/10 (Tackle-Flipping) 1/10 (Scramble + Lunge Method)
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu2SP-SJfiY
Requires checkpoint reload before or after killing the 3 jumping wolves to prevent game crash

===Binary Singularity (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 40 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 10 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty TBA
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frBA6d_Ic2g

===Whitman Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 8 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lm_eVRk5Nw

==Old Ruins Escape to Broken Bridge==
After escaping the old ruins PC runners can do the House Skip. Much harder than it looks, there's no reason this skip shouldn't be possible on console, but it seems to be much harder for some reason.

===House Skip===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Old-Gen Consoles Difficulty: TBA
* PS4 Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

After the house skip, play as normal until the "The pack's up there somewhere." line. Go into the house up the cliff and try your hand at the wolf skip. ::Video Needed::

===Wolf Cave Approach===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Wolf Cave Skip (PC only)===
* Time Saved: 1:45minutes/2:15minutes Slow/Fast route (has to be timed again)
* Time per attempt 1 minute
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 , 10/10 Slow/Fast route
* Video Slow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0I2SezG3h4 Video Fast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWxSdIRWyWs

===Tutorial Climb Skip (PC, PS4 only)===
* Time Saved: 4Seconds.
* Time per attempt 4 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10 -> It's random if it works for you. Framerate has a big impact on this.
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMAWKPNZGhQ

===Bridge Skip (PC, PS4 only)===
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts 15 Seconds
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: N.A.
* PS4 Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07li8xcn1M

==Base Approach to Radio Tower==
Once you enter the base before the radio tower and progress a little you will see a guy pushing a barrel. Up the stairs to the right is a door which can be clipped using [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]].

===Base Approach door clip===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Immediately after the previous skip (Or after climbing through the duct if you didn't do the last skip) you can choose to either do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flip]] through the second door in the room, or you can do the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8 assault rifle wall clip].

====Choice #1: Assault Rifle Wall Clip====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8

====Choice #2: Base Approach door clip #2====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 (not recommended)

Continue into the next room and you will have a choice to either complete the combat here as per normal or clip through the final door to skip killing a couple of guys.

===Pipe Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??15s??
* Time per attempt: ??5-10s??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43I-dwfyr80

===Combat Skip===
* Time Saved: 10-30 seconds. (Depends on platform and combat RNG)
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10

After exiting the base, crossing the beam and performing the QTE, you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to save a few seconds.

===Radio Tower OoB (Large)===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video .:Needs new video, doesn't show optimal route:. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo
Large OoB is the fastest route!
Tip: Hold down Aim, when doing the jump @0:30 to prevent going through the wall. This will prevent you from doing the rest of the Large Route and can cost
you some time, since the next Doorclip (during the miniboss) is somewhat inconsistent to get.

===Radio Tower OoB (Small)===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10

Next up you have to get past the radio tower door. If you did "Radio Tower OoB (Small)", you can choose to extend that OoB to avoid the next door clip. The alternatives are to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] near the radio tower door.

====Choice 1: Radio Tower Door Clip (Tackle Flip)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10

====Choice 2: Radio Tower Door Clip (Step Clipping)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHti5BhaBqs

==Radio Tower to Monastery Exit==
For console and people who are not confident with skywalking: After the radio tower, continue as per normal until you make past the pilot and the guy holding a shield and you will be at a campsite. From here you want to buy Dirty Tricks. You'll have two other skill points as well, which are commonly used for Pain Tolerance and Ammo Capacity. Once you're done you can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]] to save some time.

===Rope Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??60 Seconds??
* Time per attempt: ??15-30s??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJPGdhS9OAk

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After this, you will get the rope arrows, fight some dudes and climb up into the building. Next you can choose to skip using the rope arrow to get across the bridge.

===River Jump===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds (Quickest) / 4 seconds (safest)
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds (If you fail) (almost impossible to fail "safest" method)
* Console Difficulty: 3/10 (Quickest) 1/10 (Safest)
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxuXrsu2wKE
Tip: If you can't always get the jump to the rock in the middle, begin by jumping onto the small rock ro your right, then jump on the one in the middle.
Is basically not failable and you only lose about 1 second opposed to the direct jump.
*Video Needed*

===Collapsing Rope Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??30s??
* Time per attempt: ??10s??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgS7uZIO07o

After some more platforming, you'll approach the Monastery where you can do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]].

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After entering the monastery, you can choose to do the Monastery skip.

===Monastery Skip (#1)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-EHGm818KA

===Monastery Skip (#2)===
* Time Saved: Depending on Combat RNG (see explaination below)
* Time per attempt: Depending on where you Fail.
* Console Difficulty: 1/10
* PC Difficulty: 1/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSFpoM5HFZY
* Explaination: This version does not actively save time! If it's an option for you depends on you performance in the two fights
you are skipping this way. *Note* Video does not show optimal route / execution.

After opening the second window and finishing part 2 of the Bell puzzle, 5 enemies will spawn. Take care of them and wait for the checkpoint.
'''Reload that Checkpoint, or else the next hallway won't load'''

After this, continue until you have completed the monastery and the waterfall/parachute sections and you'll be ready for shanty town.

==Shanty Town==
We don't call this place Skip City for nothing. Lots of options here, it will help to look at other's runs here, because doing some skips means you don't have to do others. The first one is everyone's favourite skip, the Spud Slide (Mash inputs while entering the crawlspace and pray to whatever it is you pray to.)

===New Fire Arrow Skip (Pc / PS4 Only)===
* Time Saved: 4 Minutes
* Timer per attempt: 5 seconds
* PS4 Difficulty: 2/10 (mostly luck based)
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Spud Slide===
* Time Saved: 22 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 20/10
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.twitch.tv/brsmstr/c/2756782

There's a trick you can do while entering the crawlspace at the start of Shanty Town, by hitting an input on the right frame you can make Lara move much faster than normal. It was thought that the only input that could be used was tackle. However, runners have had success with multiple inputs, leading to the current belief that the frame is more important than the input used.

===Fire Arrow Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 7/10 '''not recomended'''
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Shortly after, you'll approach the shanty town gate and trigger some combat, next up is the shanty town gate clip.

===Shanty Town Gate Clip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for PC, 20 seconds for console (with tackle flip), 5 Seconds (with scramble + Tackle clip).
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 7/10 (tackle flip) || 1/10 (scramble + lunge clip)
* PS4 Difficulty: 9 / 10 (tackle flip) || 1/10 (scramble + lunge clip)
* PC Difficulty: 6/10 || N.A. (scramble + lunge clip)
* Video (Pause buffering method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jetcq7fe4IE
* Video (Scramble + lunge method): '''Video Needed'''
* Text tut (Scramble + lunge method): Jump (facing away from the gate) as close to the gate as possible (if you see the thorns of the gate,
that's a good sign). Now scramble backwards and as soon as this animation is finished hit 'Lunge' followed by hitting '''back''' a few Frames
later (between 10 - 40)

After the gate clip PC and console have different routes, you will have your first choice of route for Shanty Town. PC has a different route and should go for choice #3.

====Choice #1a: AKheon Clip====
* Time Saved: 6 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds
* Console Difficulty: 1/10 (impossible on PS4/Xbox One as the gap that you can clip through no longer exists)
* PC Difficulty: 2/10 (Easy on 60FPS almost impossible on 200FPS)
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cGQY8euYR8

====Choice #1b: Tin roof Clip (PC / Ps4 Only)====
* Time Saved: 6 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds (if wrong set-up) / 40 seconds (if you fall into the room below)
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: N.A.
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOtR1qKSR50
* Note: Video showing input coming soon. Tutorial in Video-description.

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 1====
* Time Saved: 5 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4aH74r1lbk

====Choice #3: The Big One (PC Only)====
* Time Saved: 25minutes.
* Time per attempt: 1:30 minutes.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqvsySfTDb0

After making your choice, you will make it to the platforms where Grim is and will have another choice. Certain conditions cause the bridge to despawn if you reload, or on some PC setups, if this is the case, you will have to use Grim Skip 2.

====Choice #1: Bridge Jump(old gen console only)====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 2====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESd7S81YPdY

After all of that, you've got one more easy trick to do to get out of shanty town, using the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]] to get across the bridge.

===Shanty Town Bridge Float===
* Time Saved: 20 seconds.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjoStkEDxyE

==Geothermal Caverns==
Now you get to play normally for a while after all the shanty town craziness. Just one skip here, Run all the way through until you get to the part where you find your friends, and you can choose to do the friendship skip. This trick seems to be much easier to do on PC than console.

===Friendship Skip (Method #1)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Friends saved: 0
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds (10 seconds if you fall)
* Console Difficulty: 8/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quI04nRknIg

===Friendship Skip (Method #2)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Friends saved: 0
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds (10 seconds if you fall)
* Console Difficulty: 4/10 '''recomended'''
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: '''Video Needed'''

==Solarii Fortress Approach to Helicopter==
Yet again, just one small skip here. Worthy of mention though because there's no risk of getting sniped. There are some important [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloads]] though, so it will be worth checking an up-to-date run.

* Time Saved: 10 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds per clip attempt, 30 seconds lost if you miss the jump back in bounds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 7/10 -> Can't be done with Scramble + Lunge clip, has to be Pause Buffered!
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTXphI2mzT8

===Helicopter Warning (Xbox One / PS4 Only)===
Just before you jump into the helicopter change the saveslots. In just this one Cutscene the game has 5 different point where it can
crash without a reason. After this cutscene, three more will follow. Don't skip these too early as it will increase the risk of crashing
the game and corrupting your savefile. The crash can also occure in the following stealth section.
Crash probabilty: ~30%
'''Note''': When your game crashed in the helicopter cutscene, it is permitted to pause the timer.

==Helicopter to Alex==
Some very interesting skips here. After the helicopter cutscene you'll go through a stealth section and eventually end up back outside. You then have another chance to use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]]. It doesn't save any time, but it's easy, and looks cool, so you should totally do it. After the cutscene on the gondola you'll rope arrow off and climb a ladder, and you'll be ready for the Air Boat skip.

===Air Boat Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2wNQ_FzIWQ

===Teleport Skip===
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts: 15 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 9/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98ydfmWt31M

After this you will continue normally until they get the new bow and make it to the bunker. Because of the relative inconsistency with the door clip involved, the PC version is much easier than the console version here because they can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC only)|CA Clip]].
Note PC has a different route available that will lead to the research base directly.

===Lara Skywalker===
* Time Saved: 15 Minutes.
* Time per attempts: 1:30 Minutes.
* Old gen Console Difficulty: 8/10 -> Old gen uses a different setup. It's slower, but more consistent. It also takes longer per attempt. (Must use the updated version) ::Video Needed::
* PS4 Difficulty: 8/10
* PC Difficulty: 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEnGTikBYGg
* There is an updated version of this skip which is around 15s faster: Waterfall --> Skywalk to reseach base --> Fast travel to beach --> Cutscene Skip --> Teleport Skip --> Get upgraded bow --> Fast travel to research base

===Bunker Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: ::Video of door clip method needed::

Right after the bunker skip, console runners can do the Alex Skip.

===Alex Skip(Old Gen console only)===
* Time Saved: 4 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yo59WJK_bc

After Alex has be killed or skipped (We're such nice guys.) continue until you reach the research base.

==Research Base to Mathias==
Once you've gone through the research base normally for a bit, you'll arrive at the elevator puzzle. PC runners can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC / PS4 only)|CA Clip]] here. Console runners need to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Grenade Clipping (Door Clip Method #2)|Grenade Clipping]]

===Elevator Skip PC only version===
* Time Saved: 3:01 minutes.
* Time per attempts: 3 seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 1/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Elevator Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds for PC / PS4, 10 seconds for console.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 0/10 (Using CA-Method)
* PC Difficulty: 0/10
* Video (Console method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82J1yWmp-mc

Right after the elevator skip you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to skip the research base fight.

===Research Base Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

After that there's only one major skip to go for. Pc players that went for the Lara Skywalker skip don't have the rope ascender and are forced to do the cage puzzle skip.

===Cage Puzzle Skip (mandatory when you went for Lara Skywalker)===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: 40 Seconds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 8/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 9/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EESCY8zcPKU

===Final Walkie Talkie Skip===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: N/A only one attempt possible.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnlgfm4_q-Q

===Final Gauntlet Skip===
* Time Saved: Lots. 10 minutes?
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10 (impossible to break sequence PS4/Xbox One )
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

And you're done! Hope this helps some budding runners get started. Just remember that this only covers the major skips. There's a bunch of small time savers and checkpoint reloads everywhere which save 1-10 seconds each, so make sure to check out some runs! If you have any questions, check out:
https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/tomb_raider__a_survivor_is_born.html

Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route

2016-06-26T22:28:18Z

TheArtisticBallistic:

{{Contents}}
Welcome! If you've been linked here you may be interested in running Tomb Raider 2013! Excellent choice! This page will take you through the main part of the game and help you choose which skips and tricks you will and won't do during the run. There will be relevant links to the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]] page for each skip where it's relevant.

The "compulsory" elements of TR2013 are generally very linear, but because of how many skips there are, you often have to choose which skips you will and won't use for each run. Some skips are really tough, and you may wish to omit them while you're still learning. And sometimes you will have to choose between two different skips. For each skip there will be an approximate "time saved" and "time per attempt" figure. The time per attempt is timing failed attempts, so if the skip saves 10 seconds and the time per attempt is 30 seconds, you need to get it first try or it will cost you time.

This page will help you choose which skips you will do each run, based on difficulty and payoff in chronological order. This will just cover major timesavers and skips. For the small time savers check an up-to-date run and/or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloading]]

==Intro==

===Intro OoB (PC only)===
Right after pulling out the spike you get a checkpoint. When you reload this checkpoint it is possible to get off a jump that gets you OoB. You should bind jump to mousewheel, otherwise it will be too hard to do.
* Time Saved: 1:30 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for the jump (Note once you die or get inbound during this skip you have to restart the run since you only have one shot at this)
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 10/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4n_e2ilUSo

==Bambi to Old Ruins==
After you kill the deer is your first major skip. Rather than going back to the campsite use your preferred [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] method to clip through the door near where you got the bow.
*Note It is advised to use Method #4 on PC and PS4, since it's by far the easiest for these platforms

===Deer Door Clip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Old-Gen Consoles Difficulty 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty 6/10 (Tackle-Flipping) 1/10 (Scramble + Lunge Method)
* PC Difficulty 4/10 (Tackle-Flipping) 1/10 (Scramble + Lunge Method)
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu2SP-SJfiY
Requires checkpoint reload before or after killing the 3 jumping wolves to prevent game crash

===Binary Singularity (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 40 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 10 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty TBA
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frBA6d_Ic2g

===Whitman Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 8 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lm_eVRk5Nw

==Old Ruins Escape to Broken Bridge==
After escaping the old ruins PC runners can do the House Skip. Much harder than it looks, there's no reason this skip shouldn't be possible on console, but it seems to be much harder for some reason.

===House Skip===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Old-Gen Consoles Difficulty: TBA
* PS4 Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

After the house skip, play as normal until the "The pack's up there somewhere." line. Go into the house up the cliff and try your hand at the wolf skip. ::Video Needed::

===Wolf Cave Approach===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Wolf Cave Skip (PC only)===
* Time Saved: 1:45minutes/2:15minutes Slow/Fast route (has to be timed again)
* Time per attempt 1 minute
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 , 10/10 Slow/Fast route
* Video Slow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0I2SezG3h4 Video Fast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWxSdIRWyWs

===Tutorial Climb Skip (PC, PS4 only)===
* Time Saved: 4Seconds.
* Time per attempt 4 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10 -> It's random if it works for you. Framerate has a big impact on this.
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMAWKPNZGhQ

===Bridge Skip (PC, PS4 only)===
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts 15 Seconds
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: N.A.
* PS4 Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07li8xcn1M

==Base Approach to Radio Tower==
Once you enter the base before the radio tower and progress a little you will see a guy pushing a barrel. Up the stairs to the right is a door which can be clipped using [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]].

===Base Approach door clip===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Immediately after the previous skip (Or after climbing through the duct if you didn't do the last skip) you can choose to either do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flip]] through the second door in the room, or you can do the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8 assault rifle wall clip].

====Choice #1: Assault Rifle Wall Clip====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8

====Choice #2: Base Approach door clip #2====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 (not recommended)

Continue into the next room and you will have a choice to either complete the combat here as per normal or clip through the final door to skip killing a couple of guys.

===Pipe Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??15s??
* Time per attempt: ??5-10s??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43I-dwfyr80

===Combat Skip===
* Time Saved: 10-30 seconds. (Depends on platform and combat RNG)
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10

After exiting the base, crossing the beam and performing the QTE, you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to save a few seconds.

===Radio Tower OoB (Large)===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video .:Needs new video, doesn't show optimal route:. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo
Large OoB is the fastest route!
Tip: Hold down Aim, when doing the jump @0:30 to prevent going through the wall. This will prevent you from doing the rest of the Large Route and can cost
you some time, since the next Doorclip (during the miniboss) is somewhat inconsistent to get.

===Radio Tower OoB (Small)===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10

Next up you have to get past the radio tower door. If you did "Radio Tower OoB (Small)", you can choose to extend that OoB to avoid the next door clip. The alternatives are to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] near the radio tower door.

====Choice 1: Radio Tower Door Clip (Tackle Flip)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10

====Choice 2: Radio Tower Door Clip (Step Clipping)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHti5BhaBqs

==Radio Tower to Monastery Exit==
For console and people who are not confident with skywalking: After the radio tower, continue as per normal until you make past the pilot and the guy holding a shield and you will be at a campsite. From here you want to buy Dirty Tricks. You'll have two other skill points as well, which are commonly used for Pain Tolerance and Ammo Capacity. Once you're done you can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]] to save some time.

===Rope Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: ??60 Seconds??
* Time per attempt: ??15-30s??
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJPGdhS9OAk

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After this, you will get the rope arrows, fight some dudes and climb up into the building. Next you can choose to skip using the rope arrow to get across the bridge.

===River Jump===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds (Quickest) / 4 seconds (safest)
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds (If you fail) (almost impossible to fail "safest" method)
* Console Difficulty: 3/10 (Quickest) 1/10 (Safest)
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxuXrsu2wKE
Tip: If you can't always get the jump to the rock in the middle, begin by jumping onto the small rock ro your right, then jump on the one in the middle.
Is basically not failable and you only lose about 1 second opposed to the direct jump.
*Video Needed*

After some more platforming, you'll approach the Monastery where you can do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]].

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After entering the monastery, you can choose to do the Monastery skip.

===Monastery Skip (#1)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-EHGm818KA

===Monastery Skip (#2)===
* Time Saved: Depending on Combat RNG (see explaination below)
* Time per attempt: Depending on where you Fail.
* Console Difficulty: 1/10
* PC Difficulty: 1/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSFpoM5HFZY
* Explaination: This version does not actively save time! If it's an option for you depends on you performance in the two fights
you are skipping this way. *Note* Video does not show optimal route / execution.

After opening the second window and finishing part 2 of the Bell puzzle, 5 enemies will spawn. Take care of them and wait for the checkpoint.
'''Reload that Checkpoint, or else the next hallway won't load'''

After this, continue until you have completed the monastery and the waterfall/parachute sections and you'll be ready for shanty town.

==Shanty Town==
We don't call this place Skip City for nothing. Lots of options here, it will help to look at other's runs here, because doing some skips means you don't have to do others. The first one is everyone's favourite skip, the Spud Slide (Mash inputs while entering the crawlspace and pray to whatever it is you pray to.)

===New Fire Arrow Skip (Pc / PS4 Only)===
* Time Saved: 4 Minutes
* Timer per attempt: 5 seconds
* PS4 Difficulty: 2/10 (mostly luck based)
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Spud Slide===
* Time Saved: 22 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 20/10
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.twitch.tv/brsmstr/c/2756782

There's a trick you can do while entering the crawlspace at the start of Shanty Town, by hitting an input on the right frame you can make Lara move much faster than normal. It was thought that the only input that could be used was tackle. However, runners have had success with multiple inputs, leading to the current belief that the frame is more important than the input used.

===Fire Arrow Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 7/10 '''not recomended'''
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Shortly after, you'll approach the shanty town gate and trigger some combat, next up is the shanty town gate clip.

===Shanty Town Gate Clip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for PC, 20 seconds for console (with tackle flip), 5 Seconds (with scramble + Tackle clip).
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 7/10 (tackle flip) || 1/10 (scramble + lunge clip)
* PS4 Difficulty: 9 / 10 (tackle flip) || 1/10 (scramble + lunge clip)
* PC Difficulty: 6/10 || N.A. (scramble + lunge clip)
* Video (Pause buffering method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jetcq7fe4IE
* Video (Scramble + lunge method): '''Video Needed'''
* Text tut (Scramble + lunge method): Jump (facing away from the gate) as close to the gate as possible (if you see the thorns of the gate,
that's a good sign). Now scramble backwards and as soon as this animation is finished hit 'Lunge' followed by hitting '''back''' a few Frames
later (between 10 - 40)

After the gate clip PC and console have different routes, you will have your first choice of route for Shanty Town. PC has a different route and should go for choice #3.

====Choice #1a: AKheon Clip====
* Time Saved: 6 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds
* Console Difficulty: 1/10 (impossible on PS4/Xbox One as the gap that you can clip through no longer exists)
* PC Difficulty: 2/10 (Easy on 60FPS almost impossible on 200FPS)
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cGQY8euYR8

====Choice #1b: Tin roof Clip (PC / Ps4 Only)====
* Time Saved: 6 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds (if wrong set-up) / 40 seconds (if you fall into the room below)
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: N.A.
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOtR1qKSR50
* Note: Video showing input coming soon. Tutorial in Video-description.

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 1====
* Time Saved: 5 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4aH74r1lbk

====Choice #3: The Big One (PC Only)====
* Time Saved: 25minutes.
* Time per attempt: 1:30 minutes.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqvsySfTDb0

After making your choice, you will make it to the platforms where Grim is and will have another choice. Certain conditions cause the bridge to despawn if you reload, or on some PC setups, if this is the case, you will have to use Grim Skip 2.

====Choice #1: Bridge Jump(old gen console only)====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 2====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESd7S81YPdY

After all of that, you've got one more easy trick to do to get out of shanty town, using the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]] to get across the bridge.

===Shanty Town Bridge Float===
* Time Saved: 20 seconds.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjoStkEDxyE

==Geothermal Caverns==
Now you get to play normally for a while after all the shanty town craziness. Just one skip here, Run all the way through until you get to the part where you find your friends, and you can choose to do the friendship skip. This trick seems to be much easier to do on PC than console.

===Friendship Skip (Method #1)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Friends saved: 0
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds (10 seconds if you fall)
* Console Difficulty: 8/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quI04nRknIg

===Friendship Skip (Method #2)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Friends saved: 0
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds (10 seconds if you fall)
* Console Difficulty: 4/10 '''recomended'''
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: '''Video Needed'''

==Solarii Fortress Approach to Helicopter==
Yet again, just one small skip here. Worthy of mention though because there's no risk of getting sniped. There are some important [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloads]] though, so it will be worth checking an up-to-date run.

* Time Saved: 10 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds per clip attempt, 30 seconds lost if you miss the jump back in bounds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 7/10 -> Can't be done with Scramble + Lunge clip, has to be Pause Buffered!
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTXphI2mzT8

===Helicopter Warning (Xbox One / PS4 Only)===
Just before you jump into the helicopter change the saveslots. In just this one Cutscene the game has 5 different point where it can
crash without a reason. After this cutscene, three more will follow. Don't skip these too early as it will increase the risk of crashing
the game and corrupting your savefile. The crash can also occure in the following stealth section.
Crash probabilty: ~30%
'''Note''': When your game crashed in the helicopter cutscene, it is permitted to pause the timer.

==Helicopter to Alex==
Some very interesting skips here. After the helicopter cutscene you'll go through a stealth section and eventually end up back outside. You then have another chance to use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]]. It doesn't save any time, but it's easy, and looks cool, so you should totally do it. After the cutscene on the gondola you'll rope arrow off and climb a ladder, and you'll be ready for the Air Boat skip.

===Air Boat Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2wNQ_FzIWQ

===Teleport Skip===
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts: 15 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 9/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98ydfmWt31M

After this you will continue normally until they get the new bow and make it to the bunker. Because of the relative inconsistency with the door clip involved, the PC version is much easier than the console version here because they can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC only)|CA Clip]].
Note PC has a different route available that will lead to the research base directly.

===Lara Skywalker===
* Time Saved: 15 Minutes.
* Time per attempts: 1:30 Minutes.
* Old gen Console Difficulty: 8/10 -> Old gen uses a different setup. It's slower, but more consistent. It also takes longer per attempt. (Must use the updated version) ::Video Needed::
* PS4 Difficulty: 8/10
* PC Difficulty: 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEnGTikBYGg
* There is an updated version of this skip which is around 15s faster: Waterfall --> Skywalk to reseach base --> Fast travel to beach --> Cutscene Skip --> Teleport Skip --> Get upgraded bow --> Fast travel to research base

===Bunker Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: ::Video of door clip method needed::

Right after the bunker skip, console runners can do the Alex Skip.

===Alex Skip(Old Gen console only)===
* Time Saved: 4 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yo59WJK_bc

After Alex has be killed or skipped (We're such nice guys.) continue until you reach the research base.

==Research Base to Mathias==
Once you've gone through the research base normally for a bit, you'll arrive at the elevator puzzle. PC runners can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC / PS4 only)|CA Clip]] here. Console runners need to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Grenade Clipping (Door Clip Method #2)|Grenade Clipping]]

===Elevator Skip PC only version===
* Time Saved: 3:01 minutes.
* Time per attempts: 3 seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 1/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Elevator Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds for PC / PS4, 10 seconds for console.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 0/10 (Using CA-Method)
* PC Difficulty: 0/10
* Video (Console method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82J1yWmp-mc

Right after the elevator skip you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to skip the research base fight.

===Research Base Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

After that there's only one major skip to go for. Pc players that went for the Lara Skywalker skip don't have the rope ascender and are forced to do the cage puzzle skip.

===Cage Puzzle Skip (mandatory when you went for Lara Skywalker)===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: 40 Seconds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 8/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 9/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EESCY8zcPKU

===Final Walkie Talkie Skip===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: N/A only one attempt possible.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnlgfm4_q-Q

===Final Gauntlet Skip===
* Time Saved: Lots. 10 minutes?
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10 (impossible to break sequence PS4/Xbox One )
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

And you're done! Hope this helps some budding runners get started. Just remember that this only covers the major skips. There's a bunch of small time savers and checkpoint reloads everywhere which save 1-10 seconds each, so make sure to check out some runs! If you have any questions, check out:
https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/tomb_raider__a_survivor_is_born.html

Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route

2016-06-26T22:23:19Z

TheArtisticBallistic:

{{Contents}}
Welcome! If you've been linked here you may be interested in running Tomb Raider 2013! Excellent choice! This page will take you through the main part of the game and help you choose which skips and tricks you will and won't do during the run. There will be relevant links to the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]] page for each skip where it's relevant.

The "compulsory" elements of TR2013 are generally very linear, but because of how many skips there are, you often have to choose which skips you will and won't use for each run. Some skips are really tough, and you may wish to omit them while you're still learning. And sometimes you will have to choose between two different skips. For each skip there will be an approximate "time saved" and "time per attempt" figure. The time per attempt is timing failed attempts, so if the skip saves 10 seconds and the time per attempt is 30 seconds, you need to get it first try or it will cost you time.

This page will help you choose which skips you will do each run, based on difficulty and payoff in chronological order. This will just cover major timesavers and skips. For the small time savers check an up-to-date run and/or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloading]]

==Intro==

===Intro OoB (PC only)===
Right after pulling out the spike you get a checkpoint. When you reload this checkpoint it is possible to get off a jump that gets you OoB. You should bind jump to mousewheel, otherwise it will be too hard to do.
* Time Saved: 1:30 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for the jump (Note once you die or get inbound during this skip you have to restart the run since you only have one shot at this)
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 10/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4n_e2ilUSo

==Bambi to Old Ruins==
After you kill the deer is your first major skip. Rather than going back to the campsite use your preferred [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] method to clip through the door near where you got the bow.
*Note It is advised to use Method #4 on PC and PS4, since it's by far the easiest for these platforms

===Deer Door Clip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Old-Gen Consoles Difficulty 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty 6/10 (Tackle-Flipping) 1/10 (Scramble + Lunge Method)
* PC Difficulty 4/10 (Tackle-Flipping) 1/10 (Scramble + Lunge Method)
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu2SP-SJfiY
Requires checkpoint reload before or after killing the 3 jumping wolves to prevent game crash

===Binary Singularity (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 40 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 10 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty TBA
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frBA6d_Ic2g

===Whitman Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 8 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lm_eVRk5Nw

==Old Ruins Escape to Broken Bridge==
After escaping the old ruins PC runners can do the House Skip. Much harder than it looks, there's no reason this skip shouldn't be possible on console, but it seems to be much harder for some reason.

===House Skip===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Old-Gen Consoles Difficulty: TBA
* PS4 Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

After the house skip, play as normal until the "The pack's up there somewhere." line. Go into the house up the cliff and try your hand at the wolf skip. ::Video Needed::

===Wolf Cave Approach===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Wolf Cave Skip (PC only)===
* Time Saved: 1:45minutes/2:15minutes Slow/Fast route (has to be timed again)
* Time per attempt 1 minute
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 , 10/10 Slow/Fast route
* Video Slow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0I2SezG3h4 Video Fast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWxSdIRWyWs

===Tutorial Climb Skip (PC, PS4 only)===
* Time Saved: 4Seconds.
* Time per attempt 4 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10 -> It's random if it works for you. Framerate has a big impact on this.
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMAWKPNZGhQ

===Bridge Skip (PC, PS4 only)===
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts 15 Seconds
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: N.A.
* PS4 Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07li8xcn1M

==Base Approach to Radio Tower==
Once you enter the base before the radio tower and progress a little you will see a guy pushing a barrel. Up the stairs to the right is a door which can be clipped using [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]].

===Base Approach door clip===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Immediately after the previous skip (Or after climbing through the duct if you didn't do the last skip) you can choose to either do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flip]] through the second door in the room, or you can do the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8 assault rifle wall clip].

====Choice #1: Assault Rifle Wall Clip====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8

====Choice #2: Base Approach door clip #2====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 (not recommended)

Continue into the next room and you will have a choice to either complete the combat here as per normal or clip through the final door to skip killing a couple of guys.

===Pipe Skip (PC Only)===
+ Time Saved: ??15s??
+ Time per attempt: ??5-10s??
+ Console Difficulty: N/A
+ PC Difficulty 8/10
+ Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43I-dwfyr80

===Combat Skip===
* Time Saved: 10-30 seconds. (Depends on platform and combat RNG)
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10

After exiting the base, crossing the beam and performing the QTE, you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to save a few seconds.

===Radio Tower OoB (Large)===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video .:Needs new video, doesn't show optimal route:. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo
Large OoB is the fastest route!
Tip: Hold down Aim, when doing the jump @0:30 to prevent going through the wall. This will prevent you from doing the rest of the Large Route and can cost
you some time, since the next Doorclip (during the miniboss) is somewhat inconsistent to get.

===Radio Tower OoB (Small)===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10

Next up you have to get past the radio tower door. If you did "Radio Tower OoB (Small)", you can choose to extend that OoB to avoid the next door clip. The alternatives are to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] near the radio tower door.

====Choice 1: Radio Tower Door Clip (Tackle Flip)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10

====Choice 2: Radio Tower Door Clip (Step Clipping)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHti5BhaBqs

==Radio Tower to Monastery Exit==
After the radio tower, continue as per normal until you make past the pilot and the guy holding a shield and you will be at a campsite. From here you want to buy Dirty Tricks. You'll have two other skill points as well, which are commonly used for Pain Tolerance and Ammo Capacity. Once you're done you can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]] to save some time.

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After this, you will get the rope arrows, fight some dudes and climb up into the building. Next you can choose to skip using the rope arrow to get across the bridge.

===River Jump===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds (Quickest) / 4 seconds (safest)
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds (If you fail) (almost impossible to fail "safest" method)
* Console Difficulty: 3/10 (Quickest) 1/10 (Safest)
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxuXrsu2wKE
Tip: If you can't always get the jump to the rock in the middle, begin by jumping onto the small rock ro your right, then jump on the one in the middle.
Is basically not failable and you only lose about 1 second opposed to the direct jump.
*Video Needed*

After some more platforming, you'll approach the Monastery where you can do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]].

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After entering the monastery, you can choose to do the Monastery skip.

===Monastery Skip (#1)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-EHGm818KA

===Monastery Skip (#2)===
* Time Saved: Depending on Combat RNG (see explaination below)
* Time per attempt: Depending on where you Fail.
* Console Difficulty: 1/10
* PC Difficulty: 1/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSFpoM5HFZY
* Explaination: This version does not actively save time! If it's an option for you depends on you performance in the two fights
you are skipping this way. *Note* Video does not show optimal route / execution.

After opening the second window and finishing part 2 of the Bell puzzle, 5 enemies will spawn. Take care of them and wait for the checkpoint.
'''Reload that Checkpoint, or else the next hallway won't load'''

After this, continue until you have completed the monastery and the waterfall/parachute sections and you'll be ready for shanty town.

==Shanty Town==
We don't call this place Skip City for nothing. Lots of options here, it will help to look at other's runs here, because doing some skips means you don't have to do others. The first one is everyone's favourite skip, the Spud Slide (Mash inputs while entering the crawlspace and pray to whatever it is you pray to.)

===New Fire Arrow Skip (Pc / PS4 Only)===
* Time Saved: 4 Minutes
* Timer per attempt: 5 seconds
* PS4 Difficulty: 2/10 (mostly luck based)
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Spud Slide===
* Time Saved: 22 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 20/10
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.twitch.tv/brsmstr/c/2756782

There's a trick you can do while entering the crawlspace at the start of Shanty Town, by hitting an input on the right frame you can make Lara move much faster than normal. It was thought that the only input that could be used was tackle. However, runners have had success with multiple inputs, leading to the current belief that the frame is more important than the input used.

===Fire Arrow Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 7/10 '''not recomended'''
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Shortly after, you'll approach the shanty town gate and trigger some combat, next up is the shanty town gate clip.

===Shanty Town Gate Clip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for PC, 20 seconds for console (with tackle flip), 5 Seconds (with scramble + Tackle clip).
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 7/10 (tackle flip) || 1/10 (scramble + lunge clip)
* PS4 Difficulty: 9 / 10 (tackle flip) || 1/10 (scramble + lunge clip)
* PC Difficulty: 6/10 || N.A. (scramble + lunge clip)
* Video (Pause buffering method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jetcq7fe4IE
* Video (Scramble + lunge method): '''Video Needed'''
* Text tut (Scramble + lunge method): Jump (facing away from the gate) as close to the gate as possible (if you see the thorns of the gate,
that's a good sign). Now scramble backwards and as soon as this animation is finished hit 'Lunge' followed by hitting '''back''' a few Frames
later (between 10 - 40)

After the gate clip PC and console have different routes, you will have your first choice of route for Shanty Town. PC has a different route and should go for choice #3.

====Choice #1a: AKheon Clip====
* Time Saved: 6 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds
* Console Difficulty: 1/10 (impossible on PS4/Xbox One as the gap that you can clip through no longer exists)
* PC Difficulty: 2/10 (Easy on 60FPS almost impossible on 200FPS)
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cGQY8euYR8

====Choice #1b: Tin roof Clip (PC / Ps4 Only)====
* Time Saved: 6 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds (if wrong set-up) / 40 seconds (if you fall into the room below)
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: N.A.
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOtR1qKSR50
* Note: Video showing input coming soon. Tutorial in Video-description.

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 1====
* Time Saved: 5 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4aH74r1lbk

====Choice #3: The Big One (PC Only)====
* Time Saved: 25minutes.
* Time per attempt: 1:30 minutes.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqvsySfTDb0

After making your choice, you will make it to the platforms where Grim is and will have another choice. Certain conditions cause the bridge to despawn if you reload, or on some PC setups, if this is the case, you will have to use Grim Skip 2.

====Choice #1: Bridge Jump(old gen console only)====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 2====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESd7S81YPdY

After all of that, you've got one more easy trick to do to get out of shanty town, using the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]] to get across the bridge.

===Shanty Town Bridge Float===
* Time Saved: 20 seconds.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjoStkEDxyE

==Geothermal Caverns==
Now you get to play normally for a while after all the shanty town craziness. Just one skip here, Run all the way through until you get to the part where you find your friends, and you can choose to do the friendship skip. This trick seems to be much easier to do on PC than console.

===Friendship Skip (Method #1)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Friends saved: 0
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds (10 seconds if you fall)
* Console Difficulty: 8/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quI04nRknIg

===Friendship Skip (Method #2)===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Friends saved: 0
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds (10 seconds if you fall)
* Console Difficulty: 4/10 '''recomended'''
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: '''Video Needed'''

==Solarii Fortress Approach to Helicopter==
Yet again, just one small skip here. Worthy of mention though because there's no risk of getting sniped. There are some important [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloads]] though, so it will be worth checking an up-to-date run.

* Time Saved: 10 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds per clip attempt, 30 seconds lost if you miss the jump back in bounds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 7/10 -> Can't be done with Scramble + Lunge clip, has to be Pause Buffered!
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTXphI2mzT8

===Helicopter Warning (Xbox One / PS4 Only)===
Just before you jump into the helicopter change the saveslots. In just this one Cutscene the game has 5 different point where it can
crash without a reason. After this cutscene, three more will follow. Don't skip these too early as it will increase the risk of crashing
the game and corrupting your savefile. The crash can also occure in the following stealth section.
Crash probabilty: ~30%
'''Note''': When your game crashed in the helicopter cutscene, it is permitted to pause the timer.

==Helicopter to Alex==
Some very interesting skips here. After the helicopter cutscene you'll go through a stealth section and eventually end up back outside. You then have another chance to use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]]. It doesn't save any time, but it's easy, and looks cool, so you should totally do it. After the cutscene on the gondola you'll rope arrow off and climb a ladder, and you'll be ready for the Air Boat skip.

===Air Boat Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2wNQ_FzIWQ

===Teleport Skip===
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts: 15 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 9/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98ydfmWt31M

After this you will continue normally until they get the new bow and make it to the bunker. Because of the relative inconsistency with the door clip involved, the PC version is much easier than the console version here because they can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC only)|CA Clip]].
Note PC has a different route available that will lead to the research base directly.

===Lara Skywalker===
* Time Saved: 15 Minutes.
* Time per attempts: 1:30 Minutes.
* Old gen Console Difficulty: 8/10 -> Old gen uses a different setup. It's slower, but more consistent. It also takes longer per attempt. (Must use the updated version) ::Video Needed::
* PS4 Difficulty: 8/10
* PC Difficulty: 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEnGTikBYGg
* There is an updated version of this skip which is around 15s faster: Waterfall --> Skywalk to reseach base --> Fast travel to beach --> Cutscene Skip --> Teleport Skip --> Get upgraded bow --> Fast travel to research base

===Bunker Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: ::Video of door clip method needed::

Right after the bunker skip, console runners can do the Alex Skip.

===Alex Skip(Old Gen console only)===
* Time Saved: 4 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yo59WJK_bc

After Alex has be killed or skipped (We're such nice guys.) continue until you reach the research base.

==Research Base to Mathias==
Once you've gone through the research base normally for a bit, you'll arrive at the elevator puzzle. PC runners can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC / PS4 only)|CA Clip]] here. Console runners need to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Grenade Clipping (Door Clip Method #2)|Grenade Clipping]]

===Elevator Skip PC only version===
* Time Saved: 3:01 minutes.
* Time per attempts: 3 seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 1/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Elevator Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds for PC / PS4, 10 seconds for console.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 0/10 (Using CA-Method)
* PC Difficulty: 0/10
* Video (Console method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82J1yWmp-mc

Right after the elevator skip you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to skip the research base fight.

===Research Base Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

After that there's only one major skip to go for. Pc players that went for the Lara Skywalker skip don't have the rope ascender and are forced to do the cage puzzle skip.

===Cage Puzzle Skip (mandatory when you went for Lara Skywalker)===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: 40 Seconds.
* Old Gen Console Difficulty: 8/10
* PS4 Difficulty: 9/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EESCY8zcPKU

===Final Walkie Talkie Skip===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: N/A only one attempt possible.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnlgfm4_q-Q

===Final Gauntlet Skip===
* Time Saved: Lots. 10 minutes?
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10 (impossible to break sequence PS4/Xbox One )
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

And you're done! Hope this helps some budding runners get started. Just remember that this only covers the major skips. There's a bunch of small time savers and checkpoint reloads everywhere which save 1-10 seconds each, so make sure to check out some runs! If you have any questions, check out:
https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/tomb_raider__a_survivor_is_born.html

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2016-06-26T16:28:22Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Solutions */

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot and around 150 FPS are recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on LOW! framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 150FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof instead of jumping.

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time, do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she lands Lara will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at some point she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2016-06-26T16:27:47Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Solutions */

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot and around 150 FPS are recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on low framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 150FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof instead of jumping.

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time, do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she lands Lara will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at some point she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2016-06-26T16:25:38Z

TheArtisticBallistic:

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot and around 150 FPS are recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on low framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 170FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof instead of jumping.

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time, do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she lands Lara will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at some point she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2015-02-16T13:28:57Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Solutions */

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot. An average framerate of 170 is recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on low framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 170FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof instead of jumping.

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time, do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she lands Lara will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at some point she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route

2014-12-30T16:20:06Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Wolf Skip (PC Only) */

{{Contents}}
Welcome! If you've been linked here you may be interested in running Tomb Raider 2013! Excellent choice! This page will take you through the main part of the game and help you choose which skips and tricks you will and won't do during the run. There will be relevant links to the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]] page for each skip where it's relevant.

The "compulsory" elements of TR2013 are generally very linear, but because of how many skips there are, you often have to choose which skips you will and won't use for each run. Some skips are really tough, and you may wish to omit them while you're still learning. And sometimes you will have to choose between two different skips. For each skip there will be an approximate "time saved" and "time per attempt" figure. The time per attempt is timing failed attempts, so if the skip saves 10 seconds and the time per attempt is 30 seconds, you need to get it first try or it will cost you time.

This page will help you choose which skips you will do each run, based on difficulty and payoff in chronological order. This will just cover major timesavers and skips. For the small time savers check an up-to-date run and/or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloading]]

==Intro==

===Intro OoB (PC only)===
Right after pulling out the spike you get a checkpoint. When you reload this checkpoint it is possible to get off a jump that gets you OoB. You should bind jump to mousewheel, otherwise it will be too hard to do.
* Time Saved: 1:30 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for the jump (Note once you die or get inbound during this skip you have to restart the run since you only have one shot at this)
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 10/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4n_e2ilUSo

==Bambi to Old Ruins==
After you kill the deer is your first major skip. Rather than going back to the campsite use your preferred [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] method to clip through the door near where you got the bow.

===Deer Door Clip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty 3/10
* PC Difficulty 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu2SP-SJfiY
Requires checkpoint reload before or after killing the 3 jumping wolves to prevent game crash

===Binary Singularity (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 40 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 10 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty TBA
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frBA6d_Ic2g

===Whitman Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 8 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lm_eVRk5Nw

==Old Ruins Escape to Broken Bridge==
After escaping the old ruins PC runners can do the House Skip. Much harder than it looks, there's no reason this skip shouldn't be possible on console, but it seems to be much harder for some reason.

===House Skip===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

After the house skip, play as normal until the "The pack's up there somewhere." line. Go into the house up the cliff and try your hand at the wolf skip. ::Video Needed::

===Wolf Cave Approach===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Wolf Cave Skip (PC only)===
* Time Saved: 1:45minutes/2:15minutes Slow/Fast route (has to be timed again)
* Time per attempt 1 minute
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 , 10/10 Slow/Fast route
* Video Slow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0I2SezG3h4 Video Fast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWxSdIRWyWs

===Tutorial Climb Skip (PC only)===
* Time Saved: 4Seconds.
* Time per attempt 4 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMAWKPNZGhQ

===Bridge Skip (PC only)===
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts 15 Seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07li8xcn1M

==Base Approach to Radio Tower==
Once you enter the base before the radio tower and progress a little you will see a guy pushing a barrel. Up the stairs to the right is a door which can be clipped using [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]].

===Base Approach door clip===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Immediately after the previous skip (Or after climbing through the duct if you didn't do the last skip) you can choose to either do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flip]] through the second door in the room, or you can do the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8 assault rifle wall clip].

====Choice #1: Assault Rifle Wall Clip====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8

====Choice #2: Base Approach door clip #2====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 (not recommended)

Continue into the next room and you will have a choice to either complete the combat here as per normal or clip through the final door to skip killing a couple of guys.

===Combat Skip===
* Time Saved: 10-30 seconds. (Depends on platform and combat RNG)
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10

After exiting the base, crossing the beam and performing the QTE, you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to save a few seconds.

===Radio Tower OoB (Large)===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video .:Needs new video, doesn't show optimal route:. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo
Large OoB is the fastest route!

===Radio Tower OoB (Small)===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10

Next up you have to get past the radio tower door. If you did "Radio Tower OoB (Small)", you can choose to extend that OoB to avoid the next door clip. The alternatives are to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] near the radio tower door.

====Choice 1: Radio Tower Door Clip (Tackle Flip)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10

====Choice 2: Radio Tower Door Clip (Step Clipping)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHti5BhaBqs

==Radio Tower to Monastery Exit==
After the radio tower, continue as per normal until you make past the pilot and the guy holding a shield and you will be at a campsite. From here you want to buy Dirty Tricks. You'll have two other skill points as well, which are commonly used for Pain Tolerance and Ammo Capacity. Once you're done you can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]] to save some time.

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After this, you will get the rope arrows, fight some dudes and climb up into the building. Next you can choose to skip using the rope arrow to get across the bridge.

===River Jump===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds (If you fail)
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxuXrsu2wKE

After some more platforming, you'll approach the Monastery where you can do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]].

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After entering the monastery, you can choose to do the Monastery skip.

===Monastery Skip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-EHGm818KA

After this, continue until you have completed the monastery and the waterfall/parachute sections and you'll be ready for shanty town.

==Shanty Town==
We don't call this place Skip City for nothing. Lots of options here, it will help to look at other's runs here, because doing some skips means you don't have to do others. The first one is everyone's favourite skip, the Spud Slide (Mash tackle while entering the crawlspace and pray to whatever it is you pray to.)

===New Fire Arrow Skip (Pc Only)===
* Time Saved: 4Minutes
* Timer per attempt: 5seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Spud Slide===
* Time Saved: 22 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 20/10
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.twitch.tv/brsmstr/c/2756782

There's a trick you can do while entering the crawlspace at the start of Shanty Town, by hitting tackle on the right frame you can make Lara move much faster than normal. PC runners can achieve some small level of consistency by binding tackle to the mouse scroll wheel and using that to "mash". Console runners just have to mash and pray.

===Fire Arrow Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Shortly after, you'll approach the shanty town gate and trigger some combat, next up is the shanty town gate clip.

===Shanty Town Gate Clip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for PC, 20 seconds for console.
* Console Difficulty: 7/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video (Pause buffering method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jetcq7fe4IE

After the gate clip PC and console have different routes, you will have your first choice of route for Shanty Town. PC has a different route and should go for choice #3.

====Choice #1: AKheon Clip====
* Time Saved: 6 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds
* Console Difficulty: 1/10 (impossible on PS4/Xbox One as the gap that you can clip through no longer exists)
* PC Difficulty: 2/10 (Easy on 60FPS almost impossible on 200FPS)
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cGQY8euYR8

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 1====
* Time Saved: 5 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4aH74r1lbk

====Choice #3: The Big One (PC Only)====
* Time Saved: 25minutes.
* Time per attempt: 1:30 minutes.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqvsySfTDb0

After making your choice, you will make it to the platforms where Grim is and will have another choice. Certain conditions cause the bridge to despawn if you reload, or on some PC setups, if this is the case, you will have to use Grim Skip 2.

====Choice #1: Bridge Jump(console only)====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 2====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESd7S81YPdY

After all of that, you've got one more easy trick to do to get out of shanty town, using the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]] to get across the bridge.

===Shanty Town Bridge Float===
* Time Saved: 20 seconds.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjoStkEDxyE

==Geothermal Caverns==
Now you get to play normally for a while after all the shanty town craziness. Just one skip here, Run all the way through until you get to the part where you find your friends, and you can choose to do the friendship skip. This trick seems to be much easier to do on PC than console.

===Friendship Skip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Friends saved: 0
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds (10 seconds if you fall)
* Console Difficulty: 8/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quI04nRknIg

==Solarii Fortress Approach to Helicopter==
Yet again, just one small skip here. Worthy of mention though because there's no risk of getting sniped. There are some important [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloads]] though, so it will be worth checking an up-to-date run.

* Time Saved: 10 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds per clip attempt, 30 seconds lost if you miss the jump back in bounds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTXphI2mzT8

==Helicopter to Alex==
Some very interesting skips here. After the helicopter cutscene you'll go through a stealth section and eventually end up back outside. You then have another chance to use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]]. It doesn't save any time, but it's easy, and looks cool, so you should totally do it. After the cutscene on the gondola you'll rope arrow off and climb a ladder, and you'll be ready for the Air Boat skip.

===Air Boat Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2wNQ_FzIWQ

===Teleport Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts: 15 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98ydfmWt31M

After this you will continue normally until they get the new bow and make it to the bunker. Because of the relative inconsistency with the door clip involved, the PC version is much easier than the console version here because they can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC only)|CA Clip]].
Note PC has a different route available that will lead to the research base directly.

===Lara Skywalker (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 15 Minutes.
* Time per attempts: 1:30 Minutes.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEnGTikBYGg
* There is an updated version of this skip which is around 15s faster: Waterfall --> Skywalk to reseach base --> Fast travel to beach --> Cutscene Skip --> Teleport Skip --> Get upgraded bow --> Fast travel to research base

===Bunker Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: ::Video of door clip method needed::

Right after the bunker skip, console runners can do the Alex Skip.

===Alex Skip(console only)===
* Time Saved: 4 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yo59WJK_bc

After Alex has be killed or skipped (We're such nice guys.) continue until you reach the research base.

==Research Base to Mathias==
Once you've gone through the research base normally for a bit, you'll arrive at the elevator puzzle. PC runners can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC only)|CA Clip]] here. Console runners need to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Grenade Clipping (Door Clip Method #2)|Grenade Clipping]]

===Elevator Skip PC only version===
* Time Saved: 3:01 minutes.
* Time per attempts: 3 seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 1/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Elevator Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds for PC, 10 seconds for console.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10
* Video (Console method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82J1yWmp-mc

Right after the elevator skip you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to skip the research base fight.

===Research Base Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

After that there's only one major skip to go for. Pc players that went for the Lara Skywalker skip don't have the rope ascender and are forced to do the cage puzzle skip.

===Cage Puzzle Skip (mandatory when you went for Lara Skywalker)===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: 40 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: ?/?
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EESCY8zcPKU

===Final Walkie Talkie Skip===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: N/A only one attempt possible.
* Console Difficulty: ?/?
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnlgfm4_q-Q

===Final Gauntlet Skip===
* Time Saved: Lots. 10 minutes?
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10 (impossible on PS4/Xbox One as there is no checkpoint/cutscene trigger on the platform with Mathias)
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

And you're done! Hope this helps some budding runners get started. Just remember that this only covers the major skips. There's a bunch of small time savers and checkpoint reloads everywhere which save 1-10 seconds each, so make sure to check out some runs! If you have any questions, check out:
https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/tomb_raider__a_survivor_is_born.html

Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route

2014-12-30T16:13:55Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Lara Skywalker (PC Only) */

{{Contents}}
Welcome! If you've been linked here you may be interested in running Tomb Raider 2013! Excellent choice! This page will take you through the main part of the game and help you choose which skips and tricks you will and won't do during the run. There will be relevant links to the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]] page for each skip where it's relevant.

The "compulsory" elements of TR2013 are generally very linear, but because of how many skips there are, you often have to choose which skips you will and won't use for each run. Some skips are really tough, and you may wish to omit them while you're still learning. And sometimes you will have to choose between two different skips. For each skip there will be an approximate "time saved" and "time per attempt" figure. The time per attempt is timing failed attempts, so if the skip saves 10 seconds and the time per attempt is 30 seconds, you need to get it first try or it will cost you time.

This page will help you choose which skips you will do each run, based on difficulty and payoff in chronological order. This will just cover major timesavers and skips. For the small time savers check an up-to-date run and/or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloading]]

==Intro==

===Intro OoB (PC only)===
Right after pulling out the spike you get a checkpoint. When you reload this checkpoint it is possible to get off a jump that gets you OoB. You should bind jump to mousewheel, otherwise it will be too hard to do.
* Time Saved: 1:30 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for the jump (Note once you die or get inbound during this skip you have to restart the run since you only have one shot at this)
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 10/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4n_e2ilUSo

==Bambi to Old Ruins==
After you kill the deer is your first major skip. Rather than going back to the campsite use your preferred [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] method to clip through the door near where you got the bow.

===Deer Door Clip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty 3/10
* PC Difficulty 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu2SP-SJfiY
Requires checkpoint reload before or after killing the 3 jumping wolves to prevent game crash

===Wolf Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 40 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 10 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty TBA
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frBA6d_Ic2g

===Whitman Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 8 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lm_eVRk5Nw

==Old Ruins Escape to Broken Bridge==
After escaping the old ruins PC runners can do the House Skip. Much harder than it looks, there's no reason this skip shouldn't be possible on console, but it seems to be much harder for some reason.

===House Skip===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

After the house skip, play as normal until the "The pack's up there somewhere." line. Go into the house up the cliff and try your hand at the wolf skip. ::Video Needed::

===Wolf Cave Approach===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Wolf Cave Skip (PC only)===
* Time Saved: 1:45minutes/2:15minutes Slow/Fast route (has to be timed again)
* Time per attempt 1 minute
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 , 10/10 Slow/Fast route
* Video Slow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0I2SezG3h4 Video Fast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWxSdIRWyWs

===Tutorial Climb Skip (PC only)===
* Time Saved: 4Seconds.
* Time per attempt 4 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMAWKPNZGhQ

===Bridge Skip (PC only)===
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts 15 Seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07li8xcn1M

==Base Approach to Radio Tower==
Once you enter the base before the radio tower and progress a little you will see a guy pushing a barrel. Up the stairs to the right is a door which can be clipped using [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]].

===Base Approach door clip===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Immediately after the previous skip (Or after climbing through the duct if you didn't do the last skip) you can choose to either do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flip]] through the second door in the room, or you can do the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8 assault rifle wall clip].

====Choice #1: Assault Rifle Wall Clip====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8

====Choice #2: Base Approach door clip #2====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 (not recommended)

Continue into the next room and you will have a choice to either complete the combat here as per normal or clip through the final door to skip killing a couple of guys.

===Combat Skip===
* Time Saved: 10-30 seconds. (Depends on platform and combat RNG)
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10

After exiting the base, crossing the beam and performing the QTE, you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to save a few seconds.

===Radio Tower OoB (Large)===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video .:Needs new video, doesn't show optimal route:. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo
Large OoB is the fastest route!

===Radio Tower OoB (Small)===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10

Next up you have to get past the radio tower door. If you did "Radio Tower OoB (Small)", you can choose to extend that OoB to avoid the next door clip. The alternatives are to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] near the radio tower door.

====Choice 1: Radio Tower Door Clip (Tackle Flip)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10

====Choice 2: Radio Tower Door Clip (Step Clipping)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHti5BhaBqs

==Radio Tower to Monastery Exit==
After the radio tower, continue as per normal until you make past the pilot and the guy holding a shield and you will be at a campsite. From here you want to buy Dirty Tricks. You'll have two other skill points as well, which are commonly used for Pain Tolerance and Ammo Capacity. Once you're done you can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]] to save some time.

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After this, you will get the rope arrows, fight some dudes and climb up into the building. Next you can choose to skip using the rope arrow to get across the bridge.

===River Jump===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds (If you fail)
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxuXrsu2wKE

After some more platforming, you'll approach the Monastery where you can do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]].

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After entering the monastery, you can choose to do the Monastery skip.

===Monastery Skip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-EHGm818KA

After this, continue until you have completed the monastery and the waterfall/parachute sections and you'll be ready for shanty town.

==Shanty Town==
We don't call this place Skip City for nothing. Lots of options here, it will help to look at other's runs here, because doing some skips means you don't have to do others. The first one is everyone's favourite skip, the Spud Slide (Mash tackle while entering the crawlspace and pray to whatever it is you pray to.)

===New Fire Arrow Skip (Pc Only)===
* Time Saved: 4Minutes
* Timer per attempt: 5seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Spud Slide===
* Time Saved: 22 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 20/10
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.twitch.tv/brsmstr/c/2756782

There's a trick you can do while entering the crawlspace at the start of Shanty Town, by hitting tackle on the right frame you can make Lara move much faster than normal. PC runners can achieve some small level of consistency by binding tackle to the mouse scroll wheel and using that to "mash". Console runners just have to mash and pray.

===Fire Arrow Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Shortly after, you'll approach the shanty town gate and trigger some combat, next up is the shanty town gate clip.

===Shanty Town Gate Clip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for PC, 20 seconds for console.
* Console Difficulty: 7/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video (Pause buffering method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jetcq7fe4IE

After the gate clip PC and console have different routes, you will have your first choice of route for Shanty Town. PC has a different route and should go for choice #3.

====Choice #1: AKheon Clip====
* Time Saved: 6 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds
* Console Difficulty: 1/10 (impossible on PS4/Xbox One as the gap that you can clip through no longer exists)
* PC Difficulty: 2/10 (Easy on 60FPS almost impossible on 200FPS)
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cGQY8euYR8

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 1====
* Time Saved: 5 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4aH74r1lbk

====Choice #3: The Big One (PC Only)====
* Time Saved: 25minutes.
* Time per attempt: 1:30 minutes.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqvsySfTDb0

After making your choice, you will make it to the platforms where Grim is and will have another choice. Certain conditions cause the bridge to despawn if you reload, or on some PC setups, if this is the case, you will have to use Grim Skip 2.

====Choice #1: Bridge Jump(console only)====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 2====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESd7S81YPdY

After all of that, you've got one more easy trick to do to get out of shanty town, using the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]] to get across the bridge.

===Shanty Town Bridge Float===
* Time Saved: 20 seconds.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjoStkEDxyE

==Geothermal Caverns==
Now you get to play normally for a while after all the shanty town craziness. Just one skip here, Run all the way through until you get to the part where you find your friends, and you can choose to do the friendship skip. This trick seems to be much easier to do on PC than console.

===Friendship Skip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Friends saved: 0
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds (10 seconds if you fall)
* Console Difficulty: 8/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quI04nRknIg

==Solarii Fortress Approach to Helicopter==
Yet again, just one small skip here. Worthy of mention though because there's no risk of getting sniped. There are some important [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloads]] though, so it will be worth checking an up-to-date run.

* Time Saved: 10 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds per clip attempt, 30 seconds lost if you miss the jump back in bounds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTXphI2mzT8

==Helicopter to Alex==
Some very interesting skips here. After the helicopter cutscene you'll go through a stealth section and eventually end up back outside. You then have another chance to use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]]. It doesn't save any time, but it's easy, and looks cool, so you should totally do it. After the cutscene on the gondola you'll rope arrow off and climb a ladder, and you'll be ready for the Air Boat skip.

===Air Boat Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2wNQ_FzIWQ

===Teleport Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts: 15 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98ydfmWt31M

After this you will continue normally until they get the new bow and make it to the bunker. Because of the relative inconsistency with the door clip involved, the PC version is much easier than the console version here because they can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC only)|CA Clip]].
Note PC has a different route available that will lead to the research base directly.

===Lara Skywalker (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 15 Minutes.
* Time per attempts: 1:30 Minutes.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEnGTikBYGg
* There is an updated version of this skip which is around 15s faster: Waterfall --> Skywalk to reseach base --> Fast travel to beach --> Cutscene Skip --> Teleport Skip --> Get upgraded bow --> Fast travel to research base

===Bunker Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: ::Video of door clip method needed::

Right after the bunker skip, console runners can do the Alex Skip.

===Alex Skip(console only)===
* Time Saved: 4 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yo59WJK_bc

After Alex has be killed or skipped (We're such nice guys.) continue until you reach the research base.

==Research Base to Mathias==
Once you've gone through the research base normally for a bit, you'll arrive at the elevator puzzle. PC runners can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC only)|CA Clip]] here. Console runners need to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Grenade Clipping (Door Clip Method #2)|Grenade Clipping]]

===Elevator Skip PC only version===
* Time Saved: 3:01 minutes.
* Time per attempts: 3 seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 1/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Elevator Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds for PC, 10 seconds for console.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10
* Video (Console method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82J1yWmp-mc

Right after the elevator skip you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to skip the research base fight.

===Research Base Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

After that there's only one major skip to go for. Pc players that went for the Lara Skywalker skip don't have the rope ascender and are forced to do the cage puzzle skip.

===Cage Puzzle Skip (mandatory when you went for Lara Skywalker)===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: 40 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: ?/?
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EESCY8zcPKU

===Final Walkie Talkie Skip===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: N/A only one attempt possible.
* Console Difficulty: ?/?
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnlgfm4_q-Q

===Final Gauntlet Skip===
* Time Saved: Lots. 10 minutes?
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10 (impossible on PS4/Xbox One as there is no checkpoint/cutscene trigger on the platform with Mathias)
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

And you're done! Hope this helps some budding runners get started. Just remember that this only covers the major skips. There's a bunch of small time savers and checkpoint reloads everywhere which save 1-10 seconds each, so make sure to check out some runs! If you have any questions, check out:
https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/tomb_raider__a_survivor_is_born.html

Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route

2014-12-30T16:02:29Z

TheArtisticBallistic:

{{Contents}}
Welcome! If you've been linked here you may be interested in running Tomb Raider 2013! Excellent choice! This page will take you through the main part of the game and help you choose which skips and tricks you will and won't do during the run. There will be relevant links to the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]] page for each skip where it's relevant.

The "compulsory" elements of TR2013 are generally very linear, but because of how many skips there are, you often have to choose which skips you will and won't use for each run. Some skips are really tough, and you may wish to omit them while you're still learning. And sometimes you will have to choose between two different skips. For each skip there will be an approximate "time saved" and "time per attempt" figure. The time per attempt is timing failed attempts, so if the skip saves 10 seconds and the time per attempt is 30 seconds, you need to get it first try or it will cost you time.

This page will help you choose which skips you will do each run, based on difficulty and payoff in chronological order. This will just cover major timesavers and skips. For the small time savers check an up-to-date run and/or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloading]]

==Intro==

===Intro OoB (PC only)===
Right after pulling out the spike you get a checkpoint. When you reload this checkpoint it is possible to get off a jump that gets you OoB. You should bind jump to mousewheel, otherwise it will be too hard to do.
* Time Saved: 1:30 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for the jump (Note once you die or get inbound during this skip you have to restart the run since you only have one shot at this)
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 10/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4n_e2ilUSo

==Bambi to Old Ruins==
After you kill the deer is your first major skip. Rather than going back to the campsite use your preferred [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] method to clip through the door near where you got the bow.

===Deer Door Clip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty 3/10
* PC Difficulty 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu2SP-SJfiY
Requires checkpoint reload before or after killing the 3 jumping wolves to prevent game crash

===Wolf Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 40 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 10 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty TBA
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frBA6d_Ic2g

===Whitman Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 8 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lm_eVRk5Nw

==Old Ruins Escape to Broken Bridge==
After escaping the old ruins PC runners can do the House Skip. Much harder than it looks, there's no reason this skip shouldn't be possible on console, but it seems to be much harder for some reason.

===House Skip===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

After the house skip, play as normal until the "The pack's up there somewhere." line. Go into the house up the cliff and try your hand at the wolf skip. ::Video Needed::

===Wolf Cave Approach===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Wolf Cave Skip (PC only)===
* Time Saved: 1:45minutes/2:15minutes Slow/Fast route (has to be timed again)
* Time per attempt 1 minute
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 , 10/10 Slow/Fast route
* Video Slow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0I2SezG3h4 Video Fast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWxSdIRWyWs

===Tutorial Climb Skip (PC only)===
* Time Saved: 4Seconds.
* Time per attempt 4 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMAWKPNZGhQ

===Bridge Skip (PC only)===
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts 15 Seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07li8xcn1M

==Base Approach to Radio Tower==
Once you enter the base before the radio tower and progress a little you will see a guy pushing a barrel. Up the stairs to the right is a door which can be clipped using [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]].

===Base Approach door clip===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Immediately after the previous skip (Or after climbing through the duct if you didn't do the last skip) you can choose to either do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flip]] through the second door in the room, or you can do the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8 assault rifle wall clip].

====Choice #1: Assault Rifle Wall Clip====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8

====Choice #2: Base Approach door clip #2====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 (not recommended)

Continue into the next room and you will have a choice to either complete the combat here as per normal or clip through the final door to skip killing a couple of guys.

===Combat Skip===
* Time Saved: 10-30 seconds. (Depends on platform and combat RNG)
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10

After exiting the base, crossing the beam and performing the QTE, you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to save a few seconds.

===Radio Tower OoB (Large)===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video .:Needs new video, doesn't show optimal route:. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo
Large OoB is the fastest route!

===Radio Tower OoB (Small)===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10

Next up you have to get past the radio tower door. If you did "Radio Tower OoB (Small)", you can choose to extend that OoB to avoid the next door clip. The alternatives are to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] near the radio tower door.

====Choice 1: Radio Tower Door Clip (Tackle Flip)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10

====Choice 2: Radio Tower Door Clip (Step Clipping)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHti5BhaBqs

==Radio Tower to Monastery Exit==
After the radio tower, continue as per normal until you make past the pilot and the guy holding a shield and you will be at a campsite. From here you want to buy Dirty Tricks. You'll have two other skill points as well, which are commonly used for Pain Tolerance and Ammo Capacity. Once you're done you can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]] to save some time.

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After this, you will get the rope arrows, fight some dudes and climb up into the building. Next you can choose to skip using the rope arrow to get across the bridge.

===River Jump===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds (If you fail)
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxuXrsu2wKE

After some more platforming, you'll approach the Monastery where you can do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]].

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After entering the monastery, you can choose to do the Monastery skip.

===Monastery Skip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-EHGm818KA

After this, continue until you have completed the monastery and the waterfall/parachute sections and you'll be ready for shanty town.

==Shanty Town==
We don't call this place Skip City for nothing. Lots of options here, it will help to look at other's runs here, because doing some skips means you don't have to do others. The first one is everyone's favourite skip, the Spud Slide (Mash tackle while entering the crawlspace and pray to whatever it is you pray to.)

===New Fire Arrow Skip (Pc Only)===
* Time Saved: 4Minutes
* Timer per attempt: 5seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Spud Slide===
* Time Saved: 22 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 20/10
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.twitch.tv/brsmstr/c/2756782

There's a trick you can do while entering the crawlspace at the start of Shanty Town, by hitting tackle on the right frame you can make Lara move much faster than normal. PC runners can achieve some small level of consistency by binding tackle to the mouse scroll wheel and using that to "mash". Console runners just have to mash and pray.

===Fire Arrow Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Shortly after, you'll approach the shanty town gate and trigger some combat, next up is the shanty town gate clip.

===Shanty Town Gate Clip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for PC, 20 seconds for console.
* Console Difficulty: 7/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video (Pause buffering method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jetcq7fe4IE

After the gate clip PC and console have different routes, you will have your first choice of route for Shanty Town. PC has a different route and should go for choice #3.

====Choice #1: AKheon Clip====
* Time Saved: 6 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds
* Console Difficulty: 1/10 (impossible on PS4/Xbox One as the gap that you can clip through no longer exists)
* PC Difficulty: 2/10 (Easy on 60FPS almost impossible on 200FPS)
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cGQY8euYR8

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 1====
* Time Saved: 5 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4aH74r1lbk

====Choice #3: The Big One (PC Only)====
* Time Saved: 25minutes.
* Time per attempt: 1:30 minutes.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqvsySfTDb0

After making your choice, you will make it to the platforms where Grim is and will have another choice. Certain conditions cause the bridge to despawn if you reload, or on some PC setups, if this is the case, you will have to use Grim Skip 2.

====Choice #1: Bridge Jump(console only)====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 2====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESd7S81YPdY

After all of that, you've got one more easy trick to do to get out of shanty town, using the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]] to get across the bridge.

===Shanty Town Bridge Float===
* Time Saved: 20 seconds.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjoStkEDxyE

==Geothermal Caverns==
Now you get to play normally for a while after all the shanty town craziness. Just one skip here, Run all the way through until you get to the part where you find your friends, and you can choose to do the friendship skip. This trick seems to be much easier to do on PC than console.

===Friendship Skip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Friends saved: 0
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds (10 seconds if you fall)
* Console Difficulty: 8/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quI04nRknIg

==Solarii Fortress Approach to Helicopter==
Yet again, just one small skip here. Worthy of mention though because there's no risk of getting sniped. There are some important [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloads]] though, so it will be worth checking an up-to-date run.

* Time Saved: 10 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds per clip attempt, 30 seconds lost if you miss the jump back in bounds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTXphI2mzT8

==Helicopter to Alex==
Some very interesting skips here. After the helicopter cutscene you'll go through a stealth section and eventually end up back outside. You then have another chance to use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]]. It doesn't save any time, but it's easy, and looks cool, so you should totally do it. After the cutscene on the gondola you'll rope arrow off and climb a ladder, and you'll be ready for the Air Boat skip.

===Air Boat Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2wNQ_FzIWQ

===Teleport Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts: 15 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98ydfmWt31M

After this you will continue normally until they get the new bow and make it to the bunker. Because of the relative inconsistency with the door clip involved, the PC version is much easier than the console version here because they can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC only)|CA Clip]].
Note PC has a different route available that will lead to the research base directly.

===Lara Skywalker (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 15 Minutes.
* Time per attempts: 1:30 Minutes.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEnGTikBYGg

===Bunker Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: ::Video of door clip method needed::

Right after the bunker skip, console runners can do the Alex Skip.

===Alex Skip(console only)===
* Time Saved: 4 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yo59WJK_bc

After Alex has be killed or skipped (We're such nice guys.) continue until you reach the research base.

==Research Base to Mathias==
Once you've gone through the research base normally for a bit, you'll arrive at the elevator puzzle. PC runners can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC only)|CA Clip]] here. Console runners need to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Grenade Clipping (Door Clip Method #2)|Grenade Clipping]]

===Elevator Skip PC only version===
* Time Saved: 3:01 minutes.
* Time per attempts: 3 seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 1/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Elevator Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds for PC, 10 seconds for console.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10
* Video (Console method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82J1yWmp-mc

Right after the elevator skip you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to skip the research base fight.

===Research Base Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

After that there's only one major skip to go for. Pc players that went for the Lara Skywalker skip don't have the rope ascender and are forced to do the cage puzzle skip.

===Cage Puzzle Skip (mandatory when you went for Lara Skywalker)===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: 40 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: ?/?
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EESCY8zcPKU

===Final Walkie Talkie Skip===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: N/A only one attempt possible.
* Console Difficulty: ?/?
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnlgfm4_q-Q

===Final Gauntlet Skip===
* Time Saved: Lots. 10 minutes?
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10 (impossible on PS4/Xbox One as there is no checkpoint/cutscene trigger on the platform with Mathias)
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

And you're done! Hope this helps some budding runners get started. Just remember that this only covers the major skips. There's a bunch of small time savers and checkpoint reloads everywhere which save 1-10 seconds each, so make sure to check out some runs! If you have any questions, check out:
https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/tomb_raider__a_survivor_is_born.html

Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route

2014-12-30T15:48:55Z

TheArtisticBallistic:

{{Contents}}
Welcome! If you've been linked here you may be interested in running Tomb Raider 2013! Excellent choice! This page will take you through the main part of the game and help you choose which skips and tricks you will and won't do during the run. There will be relevant links to the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]] page for each skip where it's relevant.

The "compulsory" elements of TR2013 are generally very linear, but because of how many skips there are, you often have to choose which skips you will and won't use for each run. Some skips are really tough, and you may wish to omit them while you're still learning. And sometimes you will have to choose between two different skips. For each skip there will be an approximate "time saved" and "time per attempt" figure. The time per attempt is timing failed attempts, so if the skip saves 10 seconds and the time per attempt is 30 seconds, you need to get it first try or it will cost you time.

This page will help you choose which skips you will do each run, based on difficulty and payoff in chronological order. This will just cover major timesavers and skips. For the small time savers check an up-to-date run and/or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloading]]

==Intro==

===Intro OoB (PC only)===
Right after pulling out the spike you get a checkpoint. When you reload this checkpoint it is possible to get off a jump that gets you OoB. You should bind jump to mousewheel, otherwise it will be too hard to do.
* Time Saved: 1:30 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for the jump (Note once you die or get inbound during this skip you have to restart the run since you only have one shot at this)
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 10/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4n_e2ilUSo

==Bambi to Old Ruins==
After you kill the deer is your first major skip. Rather than going back to the campsite use your preferred [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] method to clip through the door near where you got the bow.

===Deer Door Clip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty 3/10
* PC Difficulty 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu2SP-SJfiY
Requires checkpoint reload before or after killing the 3 jumping wolves to prevent game crash

===Wolf Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 40 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 10 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty TBA
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frBA6d_Ic2g

===Whitman Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 8 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lm_eVRk5Nw

==Old Ruins Escape to Broken Bridge==
After escaping the old ruins PC runners can do the House Skip. Much harder than it looks, there's no reason this skip shouldn't be possible on console, but it seems to be much harder for some reason.

===House Skip===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

After the house skip, play as normal until the "The pack's up there somewhere." line. Go into the house up the cliff and try your hand at the wolf skip. ::Video Needed::

===Wolf Cave Skip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Tutorial Climb Skip (PC only)===
* Time Saved: 4Seconds.
* Time per attempt 4 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMAWKPNZGhQ

===Bridge Skip (PC only)===
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts 15 Seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07li8xcn1M

==Base Approach to Radio Tower==
Once you enter the base before the radio tower and progress a little you will see a guy pushing a barrel. Up the stairs to the right is a door which can be clipped using [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]].

===Base Approach door clip===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Immediately after the previous skip (Or after climbing through the duct if you didn't do the last skip) you can choose to either do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flip]] through the second door in the room, or you can do the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8 assault rifle wall clip].

====Choice #1: Assault Rifle Wall Clip====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8

====Choice #2: Base Approach door clip #2====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 (not recommended)

Continue into the next room and you will have a choice to either complete the combat here as per normal or clip through the final door to skip killing a couple of guys.

===Combat Skip===
* Time Saved: 10-30 seconds. (Depends on platform and combat RNG)
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10

After exiting the base, crossing the beam and performing the QTE, you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to save a few seconds.

===Radio Tower OoB (Large)===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video .:Needs new video, doesn't show optimal route:. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo
Large OoB is the fastest route!

===Radio Tower OoB (Small)===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10

Next up you have to get past the radio tower door. If you did "Radio Tower OoB (Small)", you can choose to extend that OoB to avoid the next door clip. The alternatives are to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] near the radio tower door.

====Choice 1: Radio Tower Door Clip (Tackle Flip)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10

====Choice 2: Radio Tower Door Clip (Step Clipping)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHti5BhaBqs

==Radio Tower to Monastery Exit==
After the radio tower, continue as per normal until you make past the pilot and the guy holding a shield and you will be at a campsite. From here you want to buy Dirty Tricks. You'll have two other skill points as well, which are commonly used for Pain Tolerance and Ammo Capacity. Once you're done you can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]] to save some time.

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After this, you will get the rope arrows, fight some dudes and climb up into the building. Next you can choose to skip using the rope arrow to get across the bridge.

===River Jump===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds (If you fail)
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxuXrsu2wKE

After some more platforming, you'll approach the Monastery where you can do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]].

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After entering the monastery, you can choose to do the Monastery skip.

===Monastery Skip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-EHGm818KA

After this, continue until you have completed the monastery and the waterfall/parachute sections and you'll be ready for shanty town.

==Shanty Town==
We don't call this place Skip City for nothing. Lots of options here, it will help to look at other's runs here, because doing some skips means you don't have to do others. The first one is everyone's favourite skip, the Spud Slide (Mash tackle while entering the crawlspace and pray to whatever it is you pray to.)

===New Fire Arrow Skip (Pc Only)===
* Time Saved: 4Minutes
* Timer per attempt: 5seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Spud Slide===
* Time Saved: 22 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 20/10
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.twitch.tv/brsmstr/c/2756782

There's a trick you can do while entering the crawlspace at the start of Shanty Town, by hitting tackle on the right frame you can make Lara move much faster than normal. PC runners can achieve some small level of consistency by binding tackle to the mouse scroll wheel and using that to "mash". Console runners just have to mash and pray.

===Fire Arrow Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Shortly after, you'll approach the shanty town gate and trigger some combat, next up is the shanty town gate clip.

===Shanty Town Gate Clip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for PC, 20 seconds for console.
* Console Difficulty: 7/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video (Pause buffering method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jetcq7fe4IE

After the gate clip PC and console have different routes, you will have your first choice of route for Shanty Town. PC has a different route and should go for choice #3.

====Choice #1: AKheon Clip====
* Time Saved: 6 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds
* Console Difficulty: 1/10 (impossible on PS4/Xbox One as the gap that you can clip through no longer exists)
* PC Difficulty: 2/10 (Easy on 60FPS almost impossible on 200FPS)
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cGQY8euYR8

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 1====
* Time Saved: 5 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4aH74r1lbk

====Choice #3: The Big One (PC Only)====
* Time Saved: 25minutes.
* Time per attempt: 1:30 minutes.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqvsySfTDb0

After making your choice, you will make it to the platforms where Grim is and will have another choice. Certain conditions cause the bridge to despawn if you reload, or on some PC setups, if this is the case, you will have to use Grim Skip 2.

====Choice #1: Bridge Jump(console only)====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 2====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESd7S81YPdY

After all of that, you've got one more easy trick to do to get out of shanty town, using the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]] to get across the bridge.

===Shanty Town Bridge Float===
* Time Saved: 20 seconds.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjoStkEDxyE

==Geothermal Caverns==
Now you get to play normally for a while after all the shanty town craziness. Just one skip here, Run all the way through until you get to the part where you find your friends, and you can choose to do the friendship skip. This trick seems to be much easier to do on PC than console.

===Friendship Skip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Friends saved: 0
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds (10 seconds if you fall)
* Console Difficulty: 8/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quI04nRknIg

==Solarii Fortress Approach to Helicopter==
Yet again, just one small skip here. Worthy of mention though because there's no risk of getting sniped. There are some important [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloads]] though, so it will be worth checking an up-to-date run.

* Time Saved: 10 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds per clip attempt, 30 seconds lost if you miss the jump back in bounds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTXphI2mzT8

==Helicopter to Alex==
Some very interesting skips here. After the helicopter cutscene you'll go through a stealth section and eventually end up back outside. You then have another chance to use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]]. It doesn't save any time, but it's easy, and looks cool, so you should totally do it. After the cutscene on the gondola you'll rope arrow off and climb a ladder, and you'll be ready for the Air Boat skip.

===Air Boat Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2wNQ_FzIWQ

===Teleport Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts: 15 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98ydfmWt31M

After this you will continue normally until they get the new bow and make it to the bunker. Because of the relative inconsistency with the door clip involved, the PC version is much easier than the console version here because they can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC only)|CA Clip]].
Note PC has a different route available that will lead to the research base directly.

===Lara Skywalker (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 15 Minutes.
* Time per attempts: 1:30 Minutes.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEnGTikBYGg

===Bunker Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: ::Video of door clip method needed::

Right after the bunker skip, console runners can do the Alex Skip.

===Alex Skip(console only)===
* Time Saved: 4 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yo59WJK_bc

After Alex has be killed or skipped (We're such nice guys.) continue until you reach the research base.

==Research Base to Mathias==
Once you've gone through the research base normally for a bit, you'll arrive at the elevator puzzle. PC runners can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC only)|CA Clip]] here. Console runners need to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Grenade Clipping (Door Clip Method #2)|Grenade Clipping]]

===Elevator Skip PC only version===
* Time Saved: 3:01 minutes.
* Time per attempts: 3 seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 1/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Elevator Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds for PC, 10 seconds for console.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10
* Video (Console method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82J1yWmp-mc

Right after the elevator skip you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to skip the research base fight.

===Research Base Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

After that there's only one major skip to go for. Pc players that went for the Lara Skywalker skip don't have the rope ascender and are forced to do the cage puzzle skip.

===Cage Puzzle Skip (mandatory when you went for Lara Skywalker)===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: 40 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: ?/?
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EESCY8zcPKU

===Final Walkie Talkie Skip===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: N/A only one attempt possible.
* Console Difficulty: ?/?
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnlgfm4_q-Q

===Final Gauntlet Skip===
* Time Saved: Lots. 10 minutes?
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10 (impossible on PS4/Xbox One as there is no checkpoint/cutscene trigger on the platform with Mathias)
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

And you're done! Hope this helps some budding runners get started. Just remember that this only covers the major skips. There's a bunch of small time savers and checkpoint reloads everywhere which save 1-10 seconds each, so make sure to check out some runs! If you have any questions, check out:
https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/tomb_raider__a_survivor_is_born.html

Tomb Raider 2013

2014-08-18T09:33:52Z

TheArtisticBallistic:

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2014-08-18T09:12:43Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Solutions */

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot. An average framerate of 170 is recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on low framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 170FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof instead of jumping.

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time, do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she Land she will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at somepoint she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2014-08-18T09:12:09Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Problems */

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot. An average framerate of 170 is recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on low framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 170FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof instead of jumping.

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she Land she will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at somepoint she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2014-08-18T09:10:56Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Solutions */

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot. An average framerate of 170 is recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on low framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 170FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. In case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof and I can't get a jump

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she Land she will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at somepoint she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2014-08-18T09:10:33Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Solutions */

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot. An average framerate of 170 is recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on low framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 170FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Slightly change up your timings until Lara grabs the roof.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.
*Lara will strech out her arms immediatley when she is going to grab the roof. So right after jumping you will know if she makes it or not. in case she doesn't strech out her arms immediately there is a small chance to still make it by slightly pressing left or right midair. (Do never let go of forward though).

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof and I can't get a jump

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she Land she will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at somepoint she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2014-08-18T09:07:05Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Solutions */

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot. An average framerate of 170 is recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on low framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 170FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will affect the probabilty of getting through the door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Practice the timing and you will be fine.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof and I can't get a jump

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she Land she will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at somepoint she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2014-08-18T09:05:53Z

TheArtisticBallistic: /* Solutions */

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot. An average framerate of 170 is recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on low framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 170FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually going through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will afect the probabilty of getting through a door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Practice the timing and you will be fine.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof and I can't get a jump

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she Land she will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at somepoint she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2014-08-18T09:04:24Z

TheArtisticBallistic:

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot. An average framerate of 170 is recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt this over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on low framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 170FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually go through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will afect the probabilty of getting through a door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Practice the timing and you will be fine.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof and I can't get a jump

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she Land she will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at somepoint she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2014-08-18T09:04:02Z

TheArtisticBallistic:

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot. An average framerate of 170 is recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Deer Door Clip==
You can attempt them over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on low framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 170FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually go through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will afect the probabilty of getting through a door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Practice the timing and you will be fine.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof and I can't get a jump

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she Land she will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at somepoint she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route

2014-08-18T09:01:06Z

TheArtisticBallistic:

{{Contents}}
Welcome! If you've been linked here you may be interested in running Tomb Raider 2013! Excellent choice! This page will take you through the main part of the game and help you choose which skips and tricks you will and won't do during the run. There will be relevant links to the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]] page for each skip where it's relevant.

The "compulsory" elements of TR2013 are generally very linear, but because of how many skips there are, you often have to choose which skips you will and won't use for each run. Some skips are really tough, and you may wish to omit them while you're still learning. And sometimes you will have to choose between two different skips. For each skip there will be an approximate "time saved" and "time per attempt" figure. The time per attempt is timing failed attempts, so if the skip saves 10 seconds and the time per attempt is 30 seconds, you need to get it first try or it will cost you time.

This page will help you choose which skips you will do each run, based on difficulty and payoff in chronological order. This will just cover major timesavers and skips. For the small time savers check an up-to-date run and/or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloading]]

==Intro==

===Intro OoB (PC only)===
Right after pulling out the spike you get a checkpoint. When you reload this checkpoint it is possible to get off a jump that gets you OoB. You should bind jump to mousewheel, otherwise it will be too hard to do.
* Time Saved: 1:30 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for the jump (Note once you die or get inbound during this skip you have to restart the run since you only have one shot at this)
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 10/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4n_e2ilUSo

==Bambi to Old Ruins==
After you kill the deer is your first major skip. Rather than going back to the campsite use your preferred [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] method to clip through the door near where you got the bow.

===Deer Door Clip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty 3/10
* PC Difficulty 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu2SP-SJfiY
Requires checkpoint reload before or after killing the 3 jumping wolves to prevent game crash

===Whitman Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 8 seconds.
* Console Difficulty N/A
* PC Difficulty 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lm_eVRk5Nw

==Old Ruins Escape to Broken Bridge==
After escaping the old ruins PC runners can do the House Skip. Much harder than it looks, there's no reason this skip shouldn't be possible on console, but it seems to be much harder for some reason.

===House Skip===
* Time Saved: 30 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUz5ci9aRY8

After the house skip, play as normal until the "The pack's up there somewhere." line. Go into the house up the cliff and try your hand at the wolf skip. ::Video Needed::

===Wolf Cave Skip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIndeCfWczA

===Tutorial Climb Skip (PC only)===
* Time Saved: 4Seconds.
* Time per attempt 4 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMAWKPNZGhQ

===Bridge Skip (PC only)===
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts 15 Seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07li8xcn1M

==Base Approach to Radio Tower==
Once you enter the base before the radio tower and progress a little you will see a guy pushing a barrel. Up the stairs to the right is a door which can be clipped using [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]].

===Base Approach door clip===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Immediately after the previous skip (Or after climbing through the duct if you didn't do the last skip) you can choose to either do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flip]] through the second door in the room, or you can do the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8 assault rifle wall clip].

====Choice #1: Assault Rifle Wall Clip====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EttNFijssM8

====Choice #2: Base Approach door clip #2====
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10 (not recommended)

Continue into the next room and you will have a choice to either complete the combat here as per normal or clip through the final door to skip killing a couple of guys.

===Combat Skip===
* Time Saved: 10-30 seconds. (Depends on platform and combat RNG)
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10

After exiting the base, crossing the beam and performing the QTE, you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to save a few seconds.

===Radio Tower OoB (Large)===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video .:Needs new video, doesn't show optimal route:. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBorEwHoNJo
Large OoB is the fastest route!

===Radio Tower OoB (Small)===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10

Next up you have to get past the radio tower door. If you did "Radio Tower OoB (Small)", you can choose to extend that OoB to avoid the next door clip. The alternatives are to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] or [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Tackle Flipping (Door Clip Method #1)|Tackle Flipping]] near the radio tower door.

====Choice 1: Radio Tower Door Clip (Tackle Flip)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10

====Choice 2: Radio Tower Door Clip (Step Clipping)====
* Time Saved: 1:50 minutes
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 3/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHti5BhaBqs

==Radio Tower to Monastery Exit==
After the radio tower, continue as per normal until you make past the pilot and the guy holding a shield and you will be at a campsite. From here you want to buy Dirty Tricks. You'll have two other skill points as well, which are commonly used for Pain Tolerance and Ammo Capacity. Once you're done you can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]] to save some time.

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After this, you will get the rope arrows, fight some dudes and climb up into the building. Next you can choose to skip using the rope arrow to get across the bridge.

===River Jump===
* Time Saved: 5 seconds
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds (If you fail)
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxuXrsu2wKE

After some more platforming, you'll approach the Monastery where you can do another [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Slide|Dirty Tricks Slide]].

===Dirty Tricks Slide===
* Time Saved: 15 seconds
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 0/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10

After entering the monastery, you can choose to do the Monastery skip.

===Monastery Skip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-EHGm818KA

After this, continue until you have completed the monastery and the waterfall/parachute sections and you'll be ready for shanty town.

==Shanty Town==
We don't call this place Skip City for nothing. Lots of options here, it will help to look at other's runs here, because doing some skips means you don't have to do others. The first one is everyone's favourite skip, the Spud Slide (Mash tackle while entering the crawlspace and pray to whatever it is you pray to.)

===New Fire Arrow Skip (Pc Only)===
* Time Saved: 4Minutes
* Timer per attempt: 5seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0DNrHJkRg

===Spud Slide===
* Time Saved: 22 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 20/10
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.twitch.tv/brsmstr/c/2756782

There's a trick you can do while entering the crawlspace at the start of Shanty Town, by hitting tackle on the right frame you can make Lara move much faster than normal. PC runners can achieve some small level of consistency by binding tackle to the mouse scroll wheel and using that to "mash". Console runners just have to mash and pray.

===Fire Arrow Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10

Shortly after, you'll approach the shanty town gate and trigger some combat, next up is the shanty town gate clip.

===Shanty Town Gate Clip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds for PC, 20 seconds for console.
* Console Difficulty: 7/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video (Pause buffering method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jetcq7fe4IE

After the gate clip PC and console have different routes, you will have your first choice of route for Shanty Town. PC has a different route and should go for choice #3.

====Choice #1: AKheon Clip====
* Time Saved: 6 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds
* Console Difficulty: 1/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10 (Easy on 60FPS almost impossible on 200FPS)
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cGQY8euYR8

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 1====
* Time Saved: 5 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4aH74r1lbk

====Choice #3: The Big One (PC Only)====
* Time Saved: 25minutes.
* Time per attempt: 1:30 minutes.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqvsySfTDb0

After making your choice, you will make it to the platforms where Grim is and will have another choice. Certain conditions cause the bridge to despawn if you reload, or on some PC setups, if this is the case, you will have to use Grim Skip 2.

====Choice #1: Bridge Jump(console only)====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A

====Choice #2: Grim Skip 2====
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESd7S81YPdY

After all of that, you've got one more easy trick to do to get out of shanty town, using the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]] to get across the bridge.

===Shanty Town Bridge Float===
* Time Saved: 20 seconds.
* Time per attempt: N/A (Only one chance per run)
* Console Difficulty: 2/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjoStkEDxyE

==Geothermal Caverns==
Now you get to play normally for a while after all the shanty town craziness. Just one skip here, Run all the way through until you get to the part where you find your friends, and you can choose to do the friendship skip. This trick seems to be much easier to do on PC than console.

===Friendship Skip===
* Time Saved: 1 minute.
* Friends saved: 0
* Time per attempt: 2 seconds (10 seconds if you fall)
* Console Difficulty: 8/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quI04nRknIg

==Solarii Fortress Approach to Helicopter==
Yet again, just one small skip here. Worthy of mention though because there's no risk of getting sniped. There are some important [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Checkpoint Reloading|Checkpoint Reloads]] though, so it will be worth checking an up-to-date run.

* Time Saved: 10 seconds.
* Time per attempt: 1-5 seconds per clip attempt, 30 seconds lost if you miss the jump back in bounds.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTXphI2mzT8

==Helicopter to Alex==
Some very interesting skips here. After the helicopter cutscene you'll go through a stealth section and eventually end up back outside. You then have another chance to use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Dirty Tricks Float|Dirty Tricks Float]]. It doesn't save any time, but it's easy, and looks cool, so you should totally do it. After the cutscene on the gondola you'll rope arrow off and climb a ladder, and you'll be ready for the Air Boat skip.

===Air Boat Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 5/10
* PC Difficulty: 5/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2wNQ_FzIWQ

===Teleport Skip (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 20 Seconds.
* Time per attempts: 15 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98ydfmWt31M

After this you will continue normally until they get the new bow and make it to the bunker. Because of the relative inconsistency with the door clip involved, the PC version is much easier than the console version here because they can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC only)|CA Clip]].
Note PC has a different route available that will lead to the research base directly.

===Lara Skywalker (PC Only)===
* Time Saved: 15 Minutes.
* Time per attempts: 1:30 Minutes.
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty: 8/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEnGTikBYGg

===Bunker Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 15 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 2/10
* Video: ::Video of door clip method needed::

Right after the bunker skip, console runners can do the Alex Skip.

===Alex Skip(console only)===
* Time Saved: 4 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 30 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 10/10
* PC Difficulty: N/A
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yo59WJK_bc

After Alex has be killed or skipped (We're such nice guys.) continue until you reach the research base.

==Research Base to Mathias==
Once you've gone through the research base normally for a bit, you'll arrive at the elevator puzzle. PC runners can use the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#CA Clipping (Door Clip Method #3, PC only)|CA Clip]] here. Console runners need to use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Grenade Clipping (Door Clip Method #2)|Grenade Clipping]]

===Elevator Skip PC only version===
* Time Saved: 3:01 minutes.
* Time per attempts: 3 seconds
* Console Difficulty: N/A
* PC Difficulty 1/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDt_sQE7hE

===Elevator Skip===
* Time Saved: 3 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 3 seconds for PC, 10 seconds for console.
* Console Difficulty: 3/10
* PC Difficulty: 0/10
* Video (Console method): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82J1yWmp-mc

Right after the elevator skip you can use [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques#Step Clipping|Step Clipping]] to skip the research base fight.

===Research Base Skip===
* Time Saved: 2 minutes.
* Time per attempt: 5 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 4/10
* PC Difficulty: 4/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiMFr23xPM

After that there's only one major skip to go for. Pc players that went for the Lara Skywalker skip don't have the rope ascender and are forced to do the cage puzzle skip.

===Cage Puzzle Skip (mandatory when you went for Lara Skywalker)===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: 40 Seconds.
* Console Difficulty: ?/?
* PC Difficulty: 7/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EESCY8zcPKU

===Final Walkie Talkie Skip===
* Time Saved: 10 Seconds
* Time per attempts: N/A only one attempt possible.
* Console Difficulty: ?/?
* PC Difficulty: 9/10
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnlgfm4_q-Q

===Final Gauntlet Skip===
* Time Saved: Lots. 10 minutes?
* Time per attempt: 20 seconds.
* Console Difficulty: 6/10
* PC Difficulty: 6/10
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrSxQ3IED0

And you're done! Hope this helps some budding runners get started. Just remember that this only covers the major skips. There's a bunch of small time savers and checkpoint reloads everywhere which save 1-10 seconds each, so make sure to check out some runs! If you have any questions, check out:
https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/tomb_raider__a_survivor_is_born.html

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2014-08-18T08:51:43Z

TheArtisticBallistic:

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot. An average framerate of 170 is recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some of them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Door Clips==
You can attempt them over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on low framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 170FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually go through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will afect the probabilty of getting through a door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Practice the timing and you will be fine.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof and I can't get a jump

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she Land she will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at somepoint she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2014-08-18T08:51:07Z

TheArtisticBallistic:

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot. An average framerate of 170 is recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Binding jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run.

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Door Clips==
You can attempt them over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on low framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 170FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually go through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will afect the probabilty of getting through a door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Practice the timing and you will be fine.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof and I can't get a jump

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she Land she will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at somepoint she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2014-08-18T08:50:30Z

TheArtisticBallistic:

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot. An average framerate of 170 is recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Bidning jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Door Clips==
You can attempt them over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on low framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 170FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually go through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will afect the probabilty of getting through a door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Practice the timing and you will be fine.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof and I can't get a jump

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Binding jump to mousewheel makes this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get closer
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the gate! Try getting even closer!
* Reload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Get Lara out of the injured state so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.
* Note that for the PC route fire arrows aren't technically needed to finish the game. The only place where fire arrows are mandatory is the enterance of the caverns which can be skipped with the Shanty Town OoB. However it is better to have them because you can save time later on burning down debree with a fire arrow instead of the torch.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and you hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's quite easy but you will have to get used to it first.

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence, she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and keeps getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* Going for a scramble jump will increase your chance of making it over the fence of the bridge
* A good way to make her land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she Land she will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at somepoint she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheel makes it easier in case Lara got stuck at the side of the bridge.

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2014-08-18T08:29:52Z

TheArtisticBallistic:

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot. An average framerate of 170 is recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!
Bidning jump to mousewheel makes a couple of skips a lot easier and is really comfortable in general throughout the run

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Door Clips==
You can attempt them over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on low framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 170FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually go through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will afect the probabilty of getting through a door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Practice the timing and you will be fine.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof and I can't get a jump

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Bining jump to mousewhele can make this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get close enough
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the get, try getting even closer
* Redload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Heal you so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's super easy you will have to get used to it first though.

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and I keep getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* A good way to make her Land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she Land she will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at somepoint she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheele makes the jump in case you got stuck at the side of the bridge a lot easier

Tomb Raider 2013/Getting Started

2014-08-18T08:28:53Z

TheArtisticBallistic:

Just to clarify... the only rule when learning a speedrun is: Do whatever you enjoy, some people enjoy doing runs right away without using any skips/glitches. Some people prefer to practice many skips before they attempt a run.

Important to know: This run depends on FPS a lot. An average framerate of 170 is recommended. This means you will have to run this game with vsync = off!

The goal of this section is to point out the most rewarding skips and tricks to learn for starters. In addition to that there are lists of common problems people face with solutions that hopefully will help you out. On the [[Tomb Raider 2013/Selecting a Route|Selecting a route / Skips]] page you will find all the major skips labeled with a difficulty. We will have a closer look on some them here in chronological order.

==General Time Saving==
A list of the easiest ways to save time
* Checkpoint reloading. You can find the checkpoint reloads which save time here: [[Tomb Raider 2013/Techniques|Techniques]]
* The general rule in this game is: When going uphill jumping is faster. When you're going down hill, you are in a cave or it is windy scrambling is faster.

==Door Clips==
You can attempt them over and over again without dying. There are also multiple door clips during the run and it's a trick you have to master before you attempt the fire arrow skip.

===Problems===
*Lara gets into the door but then pushed out again.
*Lara moves away from the door instead of going through.

===Solutions===
*Make sure Lara is as close to the door as possible before you attempt the actual clip. A good way to get her close is a scramble into the door. Note that Lara is closest to the door right before she is standing straight again. This means that you should start the door clip during the last part of her standing up animation.

*A good trick is to always end your clipping attempt with holding forward. In case you are glitched into the door but didn't make it quite through, holding forward while pressing jump can solve the problem.

*The door clips work best on low framerates. Some of the skips in this game however require a framerate of about 170FPS. If your framerate is above 200 you are much more likely to get pushed away from the door than actually go through.

*Hitting the correct frames is humanly impossible. This trick does have framerate RNG so don't worry if you can't get it 100% consistent. However changing direction with the correct rythm will afect the probabilty of getting through a door. Try to go from spamming back and foward slowly to as fast as you can to get a feeling for the best rythm

==House Skip==
It is only one jump you will have to get right. So there is not a lot of memorization invovled.

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't do the scramble when landing on the edge
* Lara always falls down instead of jumping from midair
* Lara doesn't grab the roof

===Solutions===
* This skip doesn't work when there are enemies near by. In order to get this right you will have to kill the 2 enemies before that quickly. In case you didn't kill them quickly enough additional guys show up, you will have to kill them too.
* The secret for this skip is in the timing of your scramble and jump. When you scramble and jump but Lara falls down you pressed jump too late. If you get a jump but Lara doesn't grab the roof you either pressed jump too early or you were not close enough to the edge when you hit scramble. Practice the timing and you will be fine.
*You should have at least 60FPS for this otherwise it won't work.

==Wolf Cave Approach==
A neat skip that invovles smart use of terrain. You won't have to learn any crazy glitches or tricks for this.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't grab the small roof and falls down
*Lara slips off the big main roof and I can't get a jump

===Solutions===
*The only difficult part in this is the jump from the fence to the small roof on the side of the house, having the correct camera angle will decide wether she grabs the roof or falls down.
*Take your time do it step by step. Jump on the fence. Press forward to press yourself against the wall. Add right while keeping forward pressed. Face the small roof with the camera and press jump.
*You don't have to get off a jump from the main roof, it is only a little bit faster. Instead you can slide down the roof towards the rope. Or jump to the rope directly. But if you really want to get the jump off the big roof to the rope binding it to mousewheel makes it a lot easier.

==Radio Tower OoB==
Probably the easiest way to get OoB in the game

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't step up the ledge, she just keeps jumping
*Lara falls down the hollow rock and I fall down completely while trying to get up
*Lara gets back inbound when I try to jump from the hollow rock into the wall

===Solutions===
*Lara has a different posture when there are enemies nearby. If you use a practice save file where you have killed the enemies already the set ups for getting oob can be different
*Your positioning and camera anlge will determing wether Lara steps up the ledge or does a jump, you can try and aim for different spots to slightly change the way Lara faces until the step up becomes consistent.
*When you fall into the hollow rock, you can use the rocks shadow on the wall to get an idea of your positioning
*Holding aim while midair will make you stick landing in this game, if you keep getting inbound try to hold aim while midair. This will make the landing into the wall easier and can prevent you from getting inbounds again.

==New Fire arrow Skip==
This skips a lot of slow sections plus cutscenes you don't really want to watch. Just keep in mind that you will have to go for the shanty town door clip after this because you don't have fire arrows.

===Problems===
*Lara doesn't get enough height
*Lara get onto the roof but keeps falling down again

===Solutions===
*This skip is all about the set up, watch videos of other people doing it or try to aim for different spots until you find something that works out best for you. There is framerate RNG invovled in this, not getting it 100% is normal.
*When Lara is on top of the roof always keep aim pressed. In order to step up to the balcony you will have to turn her around and press foward so you are pressing her against the balcony. As long as you press aim you can not fall down. Pressing jump however will make her fall down again unless she steps up onto the balcony and getting out of the glitch. So do only press jump when you are lined up with the balcony pressing forward. Bining jump to mousewhele can make this easier.

==Shanty Town Gate Clip==
It skips a really long fight, and if you went for fire arrow skip you have to do this anyways

===Problems===
* I can do deer door clip but Lara just won't get through this gate
* The game didn't give me fire arrows after clipping through the gate
* Enemies are attacking me all the time halp!!!

===Solutions===
* Getting close enough to the gate can be tricky. Many runners perfer the very right side of the gate to clip through
* Scramble won't work to get Lara close enough to the gate you will have to use jump in order to get close enough
* The main reason Lara doesn't get through is because you are not close enough to the get, try getting even closer
* Redload checkpoint before you attempt the clip. It will A: Give you more time for the clip because enemies are further away. B: Heal you so clipping becomes easier.
* When you start killing enemies and get a checkpoint and then clip through the gate there is a very high chance you don't get fire arrows, always reload checkpoint instead of killing enemies should give you fire arrows 99% of the time.

==Elevator Skip PC version==
This skip is ridiculous. It skips an entire puzzle with one of the easiest tricks in the run

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't get into the staircase
* Lara gets into the staircase but won't drop down

===Solutions===
* Make sure Lara lands as close to the corner as possible, and hit scramble when the grating is bent down to the max.
* Never let go of forward
* When you are glichted into the staircase, pressing jump will make her drop down.

==Research Base Fight Skip==
Saves a good amount of time, once you know how it works it's super easy you will have to get used to it first though.

===Problems===
* Lara just won't step up the freaking thingy
* Lara glitches into the construction but ends up inside instead of ontop.
* How do I even????

===Solutions===
* The trick here is again the step up animation that will get Lara gliched into the construction. In order to make Lara do that step up animation you will have to get close enough to the wooden post. Jumping and then pressing left midair is a very effective way to do so.
* When Lara doesn't come out on top but instead is inside of the construction it means that she was facing too much to the left. Aim a bit to the right while setting up, when you jump and press left to get close enough to the post she will face more to the right and you should get out on top.
* 1. Position yourself at the right side of the post. 2. Aim a bit to the right. 3. jump and press left a little so you will land close to the post. 4. Press jump again (or spam) right when she lands while pressing left, this will make her do the step up animation. 5. When she steps up press and hold forward. 6. Once she appears on top never let go of forward and spam scramble until she doesn't get draged back anymore.

==Final Skip==
You can fail this like 100 times before you start losing time

===Problems===
* Lara doesn't stay on the fence she always falls down T.T
* Lara doesn't jump far enough and I keep getting stuck at the side of the bridge

===Solutions===
* A good way to make her Land on the fence is to start pressing aim while mid air. Once she Land she will automatically aim with her weapon and the result is like an aimbot for sticking landings
* When you get to the side of the bridge it is totally fine. But never ever let go of forward. Pressing forward and left will make her move to the left side. If you then start turning your camera slowly to the left(ccw) at somepoint she will stop floating and land. Be prepared for that moment she lands because you have to press jump immediately to get over the fence or she will drop down
* Having jump on mousewheele makes the jump in case you got stuck at the side of the bridge a lot easier