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	It's also recommended to put B as a second bind for Chaos Mode. This switches an empty bind to the "Toggle Walk" action, meaning you'll never get that accidentally. You can do something similar to disable summoning the Watcher.		It's also recommended to put B as a second bind for Chaos Mode. This switches an empty bind to the "Toggle Walk" action, meaning you'll never get that accidentally. You can do something similar to disable summoning the Watcher.
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		+	=== Settings ===
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		+	Certain settings need to be disabled for the optimal experience:
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		+	Subtitles: Subtitles will disable your minimap during gameplay. This can be very annoying especially for new runners
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		+	Game Tips: Game Tips take up to 2 seconds to load in which the player cannot open the menu. This can easily be avoided by disabling Game Tips.

	= Before you start =		= Before you start =

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 Darksiders gives 2 bindings for every action, which ends up being incredibly helpful. Here are the most common rebinds you'll want to try out:
-Block/Dash: Left Alt and Down Scroll
+{| class="wikitable"
-Use Gear: Middle Mouse Button and Up Scroll
+|Function
-Focus: Shift and Mouse 4
+|Keybind 1
-Jump: Space and 4
+|Keybind 2
-Next Gear: F/G and 5
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-Wrath Power Mode: Caps Lock and Mouse 5
+|Jump
 Splitting up the inputs for Infinite Jump dashing allows us to be more flexible and consistent with all of the midair movement. The jump and next gear will end up being preference, it's been about a 50/50 split with runners so far.

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 For faster resetting/launching of the game, it's recommended to rename the startup video files. You can find these in the game's install folder under \media\videos, you want to rename 7 files: AMD_Logo_movie, Kaiko_logo, main_menu_intro, start_screen_intro, THQ_LOGO1280x720, THQNORDIC_LOGO_Color_white, and Vigil_Logo1280x720. This skips the long series of movies on starting the game, and about 5 seconds each time you quit out to the menu. Renaming any other files affects scenes during gameplay, so we don't encourage that.
-Timing is done with the in-game timer. It's active anytime the game world is running, meaning in-game cutscenes count toward your time, but menus, Vulgrim's shop, and movie cutscenes do not. All movie cutscenes can be skipped by holding RMB. The game's difficulty settings don't have an impact on the time, so everyone plays on Apocalyptic. The only difference is that enemies deal more damage to War, so while learning it's advised to play on Easy for the couple of fights that might be tough. Be sure to disable subtitles in the game options, when they're present it hides the minimap, which you'll use through a lot of the run to keep track of where you're going.
+Timing is done with the in-game timer. It's active anytime the game world is running, meaning in-game cutscenes count toward your time, but menus, Vulgrim's shop, and movie cutscenes do not. All movie cutscenes can be skipped by holding RMB. The game's difficulty settings don't have an impact on the time, so everyone plays on Apocalyptic. The only difference is that enemies deal more damage to War, so while learning it's advised to play on Easy for the couple of fights that might be tough.
 === Glossary ===

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 *Q-mode: Aim mode. Gets canceled with weapon attacks, but not Gear usage.
 *Gear: Sub-weapon.
 = Before you start =

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 This guide will cover the Warmastered Edition of the game on PC, using the most current version. Keyboard and mouse are the preferred method for speedrunning, as it allows for more precision and extra keybinds that make the run much faster. The spec requirements are not demanding, but if you notice excess loading hiccups while playing, lowering the Texture Quality in the advanced options settings should alleviate them. Framerate is incredibly important, however, it affects things like attack speed and the physics glitches, so if you're getting under 60-100 it's recommended to play in a lower resolution window so that the tricks work properly.
-Timing is done with the in-game timer. It's active anytime the game world, so in-game cutscenes count toward your time, but menus, Vulgrim's shop, and movie cutscenes do not. All movie cutscenes can be skipped by holding RMB. The game's difficulty settings don't have an impact on the time, so everyone plays on Apocalyptic. The only difference is that enemies deal more damage to War, so while learning it's advised to play on Easy for the couple of fights that might be tough. Be sure to disable subtitles in the game options, when they're present it hides the minimap, which you'll use through a lot of the run to keep track of where you're going.
+For faster resetting/launching of the game, it's recommended to rename the startup video files. You can find these in the game's install folder under \media\videos, you want to rename 7 files: AMD_Logo_movie, Kaiko_logo, main_menu_intro, start_screen_intro, THQ_LOGO1280x720, THQNORDIC_LOGO_Color_white, and Vigil_Logo1280x720. This skips the long series of movies on starting the game, and about 5 seconds each time you quit out to the menu. Renaming any other files affects scenes during gameplay, so we don't encourage that.
 === Glossary ===

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	= The route =		= The route =
−	[[Darksiders/any%\|Any %]]	+	[[Darksiders/any%\|Any%]]

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 This fight is broken into two parts. The first is to kill 10 zombies, at which point a big blue enemy will drop in and you have to kill it to progress. War's sword is exceptionally weak, to the point where throwing the tables and chairs in the room does vastly more damage to the big enemy. For this reason, avoid breaking any of the furniture on the right side of the room, since that's where you'll be teleported to for the second part.
-Dash in toward the group at the opposite side of the room, then use sword canceling to take out all of the zombies. Which ones get up and how they move is random, so there's not a perfect strategy other than trying not to break your furniture-ammo. Once you kill 10, a cutscene starts after a few seconds, dropping in the new enemy. Dash left and mash action to pick up and throw the tables. When you make it to the left side of your area, head back slightly and throw the piano, then loop back to the right and throw the remaining tables. Chairs also do decent damage, the advantage to tables is that it's a guaranteed stagger on a direct hit and there's one attack to hope to interrupt. Once you've thrown most everything, he should either die or fall into a stunned state, at which point it's safe to kill him with your sword. After it's killed, head to the right to the barrier while you wait for it to drop.
+Dash in toward the group at the opposite side of the room, then use sword canceling to take out all of the zombies. Which ones get up and how they move is random, so there's not a perfect strategy other than trying not to break your furniture-ammo. Once you kill 11, a cutscene starts after a few seconds, dropping in the new enemy. Dash left and mash action to pick up and throw the tables. When you make it to the left side of your area, head back slightly and throw the piano, then loop back to the right and throw the remaining tables. Chairs also do decent damage, the advantage to tables is that it's a guaranteed stagger on a direct hit and there's one attack to hope to interrupt. Once you've thrown most everything, he should either die or fall into a stunned state, at which point it's safe to kill him with your sword. After it's killed, head to the right to the barrier while you wait for it to drop.
 Sword dash right once it's down, then navigate this hallway and jump up the stairs. A trick for setting up sword dashing in the next section is to hold Focus as soon as you jump up the broken stairs, walk to the right past the wall partition, then dash backwards to the far wall before dashing left. War will lock onto a ghoul, but holding left will still give you good dashes. Stay locked on and alternate to backdashes when necessary, switching between the two angles to get around the next corner and across the room to load the next cutscene.
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 If you're able to make it up, walk around the tree and dash to the orange orb. Use it to reach the upper level and dash to the first Armageddon Blade shard. From there walk to the left and forward, jumping onto the very edge of the house, turn and look at the lamppost on the sidewalk. There's a big platform to our left, but a big invisible wall extends from our position out toward the lamppost, we'll need to jump and wing around it, but will need to delay the wings so that they last long enough. Jump out, do a late double jump and delayed wings, making sure you still have a good amount of height, and face very slightly into the invisible wall. At some point you should see War start to move left, quickly spin your camera and float straight onto the edge. You're rather safe here to dash forward along the house and up to the next cement slab.
-This next jump justifies Choking Ground's name, you need to line up on the end of a vague edge, use focus and time your jumps into a dash to make it onto an invisible platform that lets you traverse out of bounds. The upside is that the cement gives us lines to align ourselves and there's a small trick to find the edge of platforms. It's easiest to go backwards, so line up facing off of the platform, toward the cliffs, and choose one of the middle lines to make sure you're straight. When you get near the edge, if you dash backwards, then let go of all movement keys during the dash, you'll be on the very last pixel of ground without falling off. Walk forward a couple of taps and you should be in a spot that won't make you walk off the cliff and also gives enough distance for the jump. Your destination is basically the same height as this platform, so you'll want to jump back and do a delayed second jump, with basically the same timing as the earlier jump into the house, and then dash a little after the peak of that. If things go well, you'll be standing in midair above the cliff and can continue. If you failed, you'll generally be stuck in midair and need to reload to get another try.
+This next jump justifies Choking Ground's name, you need to line up on the end of a vague edge, use Focus and time your jumps into a dash to make it onto an invisible platform that lets you traverse out of bounds. The upside is that the cement gives us lines to align ourselves and there's a small trick to find the edge of platforms. It's easiest to go backwards, so line up along one of the middle lines facing off of the platform and turn around with S, then hold Focus. When you get near the edge, if you dash backwards, then let go of all movement keys during the dash, you'll be on the very last pixel of ground without falling off. Walk forward a couple of taps and you should be in a spot that won't make you walk off the cliff and also gives enough distance for the jump. Your destination is basically the same height as this platform, so you'll want to jump back and do a delayed second jump, with basically the same timing as the earlier jump into the house, and then dash a little after the peak of that. After landing in midair, walk backwards and look to your immediate right at the cliff, there are a couple of distinct rocks and the invisible platforms slope up into them. Walk forward into the cliff until you see the back of War's foot disappear past the texture, this is pretty near the edge of the platform, so rotate your camera into the cliff to see the bridge to the right. You should be able to double jump out and use the wings to make it. Aim somewhat left, there's an invisible wall at the far right of the guardrail.

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	=== Choking Grounds ===		=== Choking Grounds ===
−	This area is the first place where people start getting stuck on the speedrun route. There's a couple of minutes of precise jumping that force a reload if messed up.	+	This area is the first place where people start getting stuck on the speedrun route. There are a couple of minutes of precise jumping that force a reload if messed up. When you fade in keep dashing forward until you hit a cutscene showing spooky skeleton warriors. Hold shift, W, and A so that, when the cutscene ends, you'll lock onto a nearby bat for Sword Dashing. You'll want to watch the minimap here, switch from W to S when you're lined up between the bat and the yellow quest marker to start going backwards. You want to head just to the right of the fountain and through the big gate, letting go of A as you pass through. The targeting can jump depending on the bat's movement, further adjustment might be necessary to keep heading toward the marker. As you head downhill, look for a spot of some rubble on the right side of the minimap, this is the trigger for the autosave and is the point where you want to let go of focus to turn around and blow the Horn at the Golem. The angle isn't very important, as long as you're close enough it'll work. Hold RMB and mash Esc during the cutscene to pause and reload your save. The reload will load the next section of the level that we'll access OoB.
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		+	Hold S after reloading, then Focus and Sword Dash up the slope and head left into the small nook. There's a large slab of cement leaning against the cliff, walk up and stand near the right edge of it. A bit farther to the right is a group of pipes extending out of the cliff, you can use these to line up for the next jump. Find the spot that the pipes come out of the cliff and move the camera so that it's lined up between War's right shoulder and his head, then press against the cliff to make sure War is facing where the camera is. Hold Focus, then hit Space and D at the same time, getting a side jump with full momentum like we did in the cave earlier. Delay your second jump until you're at your starting height, then use the midair dash sideways to make it onto the rocks on your right. If you miss, take note of whether you were too far forward or back, the two big rocks that extend lower than all of the others was our goal. Most of the time, a short jump is caused by misalignment, so correct it based on that and try again. The other common mistake is to mistime Space or D and either walk down the cliff or not have momentum at the start of your jump.
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		+	If you're able to make it up, walk around the tree and dash to the orange orb. Use it to reach the upper level and dash to the first Armageddon Blade shard. From there walk to the left and forward, jumping onto the very edge of the house, turn and look at the lamppost on the sidewalk. There's a big platform to our left, but a big invisible wall extends from our position out toward the lamppost, we'll need to jump and wing around it, but will need to delay the wings so that they last long enough. Jump out, do a late double jump and delayed wings, making sure you still have a good amount of height, and face very slightly into the invisible wall. At some point you should see War start to move left, quickly spin your camera and float straight onto the edge. You're rather safe here to dash forward along the house and up to the next cement slab.
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		+	This next jump justifies Choking Ground's name, you need to line up on the end of a vague edge, use focus and time your jumps into a dash to make it onto an invisible platform that lets you traverse out of bounds. The upside is that the cement gives us lines to align ourselves and there's a small trick to find the edge of platforms. It's easiest to go backwards, so line up facing off of the platform, toward the cliffs, and choose one of the middle lines to make sure you're straight. When you get near the edge, if you dash backwards, then let go of all movement keys during the dash, you'll be on the very last pixel of ground without falling off. Walk forward a couple of taps and you should be in a spot that won't make you walk off the cliff and also gives enough distance for the jump. Your destination is basically the same height as this platform, so you'll want to jump back and do a delayed second jump, with basically the same timing as the earlier jump into the house, and then dash a little after the peak of that. If things go well, you'll be standing in midair above the cliff and can continue. If you failed, you'll generally be stuck in midair and need to reload to get another try.