Revision as of 07:51, 11 December 2014

If a trick applies to only some versions of the game, note which ones that is.

Enhanced movement

One of the most important things for a speedrun is being able to navigate through the world as quickly as possible. Following tricks should help you with that.

Statue glitch

This is probaly the most useful glitch for speedrunning this game, as it boosts your movement speed by a lot.

This glitch only works for the survivor class, as you have to use the class's special ability (crouch). You are also required one of the three statues (frog, cat or spider). You can buy one at Ars Magicana in Rivertown (usually a cat statue) or do the quest for Nericon's Garden to be rewarded with a frog statue.

To execute this glitch, start by using the statue. While the animation is still playing, you have crouch. Then use the statue again to leave the morphed state. If the glitch worked correctly you should be crouched once you morphed back. Now simply uncrouch and you should move a lot faster.

I do not know how this glitch actually works, but I do have a theory.

When you crouch your speed gets reduced a certain amount. Using the statue sets your speed back to normal, so when you morph back, you're at normal speed again. The game for some reason forgets to uncrouch you, so as you are still crouching when you morph back, you can uncrouch, which adds to your speed.

If this is what is actually happening, then it might be worth trying to get other movement reducing effects on you, befroe executing this glitch.

Pyramid trowing

At the beginning of the game you are given a pair of teleport pyramid, that teleport you from one to another.

The most straight forward use, is placing them to avoid backtracking, but the opposite is possible a well.

You can use throw one of you pyramids a long distance and then teleport to it. To do so you have to open you inventory and grab one of the pyramids. Then hold shift to freely scroll through the world. If there is a wall or other obstacle in your way, you can move further away from it, while it is still between you and your detination.

When you scroll through unexplored areas, you either have to memorize the exact timing when to stop and drop your pyramid or use a slightly different methode.

The skill Wizard's Sight grants you vision of areas you haven't explored yet (note that entities are not shown). You can use the skill as often as you want, as long as you keep holding shift. When you have found the place you want to teleport to, grab our pyramid. Either open you inventory before or move your cursor over an element of the UI to avoid your camera resetting. If you move your mouse anywhere that's not part of the UI, the camera jumps back to your character, so you have to hold shift again when your mouse leaves your inventory. Place the pyramid and use the one you still have.

Note: Starting a cutscene or a dialog does not stop the timer on the pyramid flying. For a run it is a good idea to throw your pyramid before starting longer cutscenes.

Refill stamina

This glitchs allows you to refill you stamina, when it's empty. Note that tihs requires the crouch skill, so it only works for survivor.

Simply make your stamina hit 0 while your crouching. Sometimes it will refill it, instead of uncrouching you. Probably this happens when it gets to exactly 0 and you attempt any stamina-consuming action.

Item duplication

Each of the following duplication methodes have their own uses.

Negative Input

This methode is most useful for quickly creating big amounts of the same item. The drawback is, that you need at least two of the item.

To duplicate the item, simply drop the item on the floor or into a container, while holding the Crtl-Key. This allows you to split the stack. Instead of entering a positive number, you have to enter a negative number. This glitch also works for trade windows.

When accepting, two things will happen:

1. The amount of items in your inventory will be determined the following way: You'll keep the origial stack plus the number you have entered.

2. A stack of items will be dropped. The stacksize will change this way: for entering a number n [-1 > n > -256], 256+n items will be on the floor. For n < -255 about 65000 will be dropped.

Containers

The advantage of this method is that it also works for single and unstackable items. To execute it, you need an empty container.

Open both your inventory and the container, then grab and hold the item with the mouse while hovering over the containers inventory. Pause the game (spacebar) and open the main menu (esc). Let go of the mouse button and close the menu. When you unpause the game, you should have the item in both the container and your inventory.

This also works for duplicating containers which contain items.

Save and Load

This method works similar to the previous one but takes longer as you have to save and reload the game. The huge advantage is the fact that you can move items between savegames.

Open your inventory and grab the item. Hold mouse click until you have opened the menu (esc). You can now let go. Now load the savegame you want to transfer your item to (quickload also works). While the savegame is loading go back to holding mouselick, so once the savegame is loaded, you'll still have it in your hand. If you don't do so, the item will be placed in your inventory.

Out of Bounds

The game offers two methods to get out of bounds. For one, you can glitch out of many dungeon walls, which then lets you explore the surroundings. The other way is to use you teleporters to access "maps", where you can find many of the dungeons used somewhere else.

Teleporting through walls

As far as walls are concerned, this game appears to be a bit broken. If you know how to, you can get through most of them.

For most wall types corners "pointing" southwest are the most reliable, although almost every wall works. For simplicity I will refer to the sides as right (where you are) and left (where you want to get to). All you have to do, is placing a pyramid in the very corner of the right side and use it. Every second teleport will teleport you to the left side, every other to the right side. So you can place you second teleporter on the left side, use it, grab the teleporter on the right side, use it again and pick up your second pyramid. Now you completly moved to the other side.

For a run this can be used to teleport through walls, for which you usually had to take a long way around. One area this applies to are the forts at the end of the game. Fortunately the walls in the fort are easy to get through.

Maps

For each main area in the game (like Verdistis, the Wastelands etc.), there exists an area south of the map, where all dungeons are located. Every dungeon, basement etc., you get no loading screen for when entering, can be found in said part of the map.

Another thing to be found there owrth mentioning are items. Instead of just creating items, that get spawned as part of a quest or event, the game moves them to you. They are already on the map. You usually find all the items related to the area you are in at one spot in the OOB.

To acess these areas, simply walking there doesn't work, as they are blocked of by invisible walls. These wally however do not completely block your path. As you scroll a bit farther past them, dropping your pyramid becomes possible again and you can teleport past.

Miscellaneous

Stealing items

To avoid being caught when trying to steal an item, you have to make sure, you are not seen by the owner.

If this is not possible, there's a little trick you can use. Look for a container you can take with you (e.g. the chest in the room you start out). Simply open the inventory of said container and drag the item you want to steal into its inventory. Now as you move out of the NPC's vision, you can just take the item from the container.

Infinite experience

The skill Resurrection brings back dead enemies to fight with you. While this is not too great, you can use a trick to farm experience.

Simple resurrect a bunch of enemies in a cave, sewer etc., then exit the cave and reenter it. The enemies that prevsious were friendly, now turned hostile again. This allows you to kill them anffor their experience once again.

Skip cinematic

After you have gathered the Council of Seven, there will be a movie scene which is about 45 seconds long.

This cinematic can be skipped by alt-tabbing out of the game and reopening it. Not only does tihs save some time, but it also saves your ears, as cinematics are not affected by the sound settings.

Quick casting

Using this glitch, allows you to cast your spells a lot faster. For it to work you need the Lightning skill.

Choose the Lightning skill as your active spell and bind the skill you want to spam to an hotkey. Now spam Lightning to attack an enemy and then change your skill using the hotkey. You can now cast the spell a lot faster than you are supposed to.

I have tested this for Meteorstrike and Hellspikes and it worked.