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= General Information =
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== General Information ==
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
  
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=== Glossary: ===
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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.
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*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.
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=== Glossary ===
 
*Focus: This game's version of Z-targeting, activated by holding Shift or toggled with F. Locks onto the closest enemy and generally behaves as a Zelda Z-target would.
 
*Focus: This game's version of Z-targeting, activated by holding Shift or toggled with F. Locks onto the closest enemy and generally behaves as a Zelda Z-target would.
 
*Q-mode: Aim mode. Gets canceled with weapon attacks, but not Gear usage.
 
*Q-mode: Aim mode. Gets canceled with weapon attacks, but not Gear usage.
 
*Gear: Sub-weapon.
 
*Gear: Sub-weapon.
  
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== General Tricks and Glitches: ==
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=== Keybinds ===
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Listed in order of appearance, covering what is required on the any% route.
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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:
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=== Sword-Dashing: ===
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[[File:Darksiders_Sworddash.gif|right]]
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This is the main form of movement for the first third of the run, it chains the sword uppercut with War’s dash to move much faster than normal. It’s performed by holding Focus (Shift), then dashing (Alt) with A|S|D to go backwards or sideways, then holding LMB to interrupt the end of the animation with the sword uppercut. Continue to hold Shift, a direction, and LMB while tapping Alt to cancel the sword uppercut into as many dashes as you want.
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The main limit to this skill, one you’ll see repeatedly anytime Focus is involved, is that you can only move sideways or backwards. Forward uses a different dash that can’t be chained, so it’s important to practice your movements and learn how to use the minimap effectively. The other hindrance is that, since Focus locks on the closest enemy, there are some sections where backdashing isn’t a viable option.
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Rebinding dash to your mouse’s scroll wheel is highly recommended, since you’ll be able to spam dash much faster. This guide will assume dash is on Alt and Down Scroll. A free-scroll mouse makes this trick even more effective.
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=== AirBlock: ===
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In the prologue, War is able to gain some additional height in the air by Blocking (Alt). In order to block in the air, you have to let go of all movement keys, most easily done by rocking your hand from W to Alt and back. If you start a sword swing just before, you can get a little additional height, as well.
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=== Carglitch: ===
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A physics glitch that causes thrown cars to get stuck partway into the wall, making a platform for War. It’s done by tossing a car at a wall from a short distance and while airborne so that it gets damaged before War’s throw animation completes, forcing the car model to load in with the door on the other side of the wall as the main body. After the throw is complete and as long as your framerate is high enough, it will stay stable due to however the game does physics. There are two instances of this glitch, each with their own setup.
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=== Sword Canceling: ===
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[[File:Darksiders_SwordCancel.gif|right]]
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While attacking (LMB), if you tap Block (Alt) and follow with LMB as soon as you release block, War will cancel the first swing and be able to immediately start a second swing. Repeat this Alt-LMB combo as soon as your sword hits the enemy to deal way more damage than the game intended. The maneuver is awkward at first, it helps to start slow and work on consistency before spamming, the key is reducing the block time as much as you can. One trap people get caught in is to alternate between each, which means you either won't have your sword hit or your block time will be much too long. It's best to confirm the hit, then tap Alt and hit LMB as you release it. If you get stuck in the block animation, it's from not releasing Alt fast enough.
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=== Savewarping: ===
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A common speedrun exploit usable in a few areas of Darksiders. Making manual saves and reloading them is first done to move you across a room, but expands to load back in-bounds or skip to the destination when going through warp paths. Autosaves serve similar purposes and are used much more commonly than manual saves.
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=== Fast Bomb: ===
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Hitting a tossable sticky bomb with War’s sword before throwing it, so that it explodes almost instantly. Done by canceling out of sword swing with the Action (E) button, entering Q-mode, then throwing the bomb as soon as possible.
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=== Infinite Jump: ===
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The main method of breaking the game, the refinement of this trick over the years has completely transformed the run. While in mid-air, using a Gear with MMB (also recommended to bind to Up Scroll), then swapping Gears and jumping on the same frame will make War do a fresh ground jump. This requires 2 Gears and some rebinding to perform. The action “Next Gear” can be pressed at the same time as jump to easily perform the IJ on keyboard. Some runners have used F for Next Gear and Space for jump, two of us use 4 and 5 for Next Gear and the second Jump binding, respectively.
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However you bind it, the instructions are pretty simple: Start on your first Gear (Horn or Gun), Double Jump in the air, use the Gear with Scroll Up, then press Jump and Next Gear 3 times and you should see War double jump again. The subweapon will get canceled with Jump and Next Gear, giving you the IJ, the next 2 presses of those keys rotate the Gear selection back to the first slot, letting you repeat the whole process. With the recommended bindings, the inputs are Space, Space, Up Scroll, F + Space, F + Space, F + Space, which you then repeat with Up Scroll, F + Space, F + Space, F + Space as much as you need.
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[[File:Darksiders_InfiniteJump.gif|center]]
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From there, adding movement and midair dashing are the next steps. The skips in this guide will first teach the game forward, once you get a feel for the geometry of each area and can do the technique consistently, it’s not too difficult to transition to more advanced infinite jump movement.
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Note: To gain the maximum height it is not helpful to spam the buttons. If you use the weapon when War begins his flip you should get the optimal height bonus.
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A lot of time in the run depends on how efficient one can Infinite Jump. Learning how to correct screw ups and how to be consistent are key to a good run!
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|Function
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|Jump
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|Space
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|4
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|Left Alt
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|Up Scroll
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|Next Gear
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|F or G
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|Focus
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|Mouse 5
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=== Gundash ===
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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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[[File:Darksiders_Gundash.gif|right]]
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Another trick that’s fairly easy to pick up and enables very fast and fluid ground movement. Once you get the gun after clearing the second dungeon, it’s performed by holding Focus, moving backwards or sideways, then jumping, dashing, and shooting, all in quick succession. The gun will preserve your aerial momentum for a couple of seconds, so once you land, repeat the jump, dash, shoot process again to continue. This trick uses Focus, but is free from the normal limitation of needing an empty area since the gun won’t cancel the Q-mode. In areas with enemies, activate Q-mode and follow the normal steps for gundashing.
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=== Horse Height Boost: ===
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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.
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If War summons his horse while pressing against certain walls or in certain areas, he’ll get teleported into the air and jump off the horse. This is useful in one area so far, getting to the final boss without needing to go into the shadow realm.
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=== Settings ===
  
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Certain settings need to be disabled for the optimal experience:
  
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== Prologue ==
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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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=== First Fight: ===
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The goal of this fight is to kill the Car Thrower on top of the bus. Normally, he won't jump down until the first wave of minions is killed, but damaging him directly will force him to jump at you. During the intro cutscenes, hold D and tap Alt to dash to the right and end up near a lightpost. Grab the lamppost with the Action button and strafe back to the left until you're standing on the far left crack in the asphalt. The Car Thrower will still be in a roar, wait for his hands to go back in front of him, then throw the lamppost with Q-mode.
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Once he recoils, stand still and hit Block (Alt) just as he's landing to counter, then spam V to go into Chaos form. This position should get a hit as you land from the Chaos Form, after which you can do the fast combo of LMB RMB LMB to kill him. Untransform with V and dash forward to the right side of the bus in front and wait for the cutscene.
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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.
  
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Once the cutscene is finished, dash forward and slightly towards the building on the right, then hold focus. Doing this sets you up to always target an enemy in the starting zone, otherwise you have a risk of getting a bad camera angle. Since you're facing backwards, hold S and Sword-Dash to the end of the block, then hold A to go left into the cutscene.
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= Before you start =
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[[Darksiders/General_Tricks_and_Glitches|General Tricks and Glitches]]
  
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=== Golem Skip: ===
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= The route =
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[[Darksiders/any%|Any%]]

Latest revision as of 16:40, 20 December 2017

General Information

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.

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.

Glossary

  • Focus: This game's version of Z-targeting, activated by holding Shift or toggled with F. Locks onto the closest enemy and generally behaves as a Zelda Z-target would.
  • Q-mode: Aim mode. Gets canceled with weapon attacks, but not Gear usage.
  • Gear: Sub-weapon.

Keybinds

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:

Function Keybind 1 Keybind 2
Jump Space 4
Block/Dash Left Alt Down Scroll
Use Gear Middle Mouse Button Up Scroll
Next Gear F or G 5
Focus Shift Mouse 4
Wrath Power Mode Caps Lock Mouse 5

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.

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.

Settings

Certain settings need to be disabled for the optimal experience:

Subtitles: Subtitles will disable your minimap during gameplay. This can be very annoying especially for new runners

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

General Tricks and Glitches

The route

Any%

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