The new skip, dubbed "Sugar Free Temple Skip" by those who found it, is a way to % warp to the end of the mission "Complete Monk Temple Tests", the second temple mission in the game, which is also only a few missions away from the end of Act 1. Previously in this category we % warped to the first full temple mission "Find Oracle in Temple" using the pretty new "Volcano Skip", after having previously % warped to "Destroy Eggs in Nest" using Cave Skip. Now, Volcano Skip is still in the run, but we go straight to the temple after the first arena fight, using strats used in regular Any%. The key difference in the new route, is taking an "invulnerability" state (we shorten to "invuln 1") all the way to temple, allowing us to rolljump through the ocean to it, before switching to a different "invuln 2" state which has slightly different properties, like being able to ledge-grab, activate cutscenes, activate side-missions. Keeping this invuln 2 state, we then do Volcano Skip slightly different to before, making sure to stop by a side-mission in the desert where we then go from "invuln 2" to a "mission failed" state, by activating and failing a side-mission whilst invulnerable. You'll see after this point Jak darkens when driving the Dune Hopper. After performing Volcano Skip, and reaching the end of the mission in the temple, dodging a cutscene trigger along the way, we then enter the oracle cutscene that gives you Light Jak Regeneration. However, because of our "mission failed" state, we can move in the black screen and die. After a lengthy black screen and skipping the cutscene that eventually plays, Jak respawns outside of the oracle room. This is the key breakthrough, as previously there would be no way to exit that room without either going out of bounds (not allowed) or exiting the intended way. Once we're outside the room, we can then simply climb up to the rotators, load in the nearby bridge by dying (after grabbing a checkpoint up there), and then cross it to the elevator on the other side, which takes us on to Subrails and the rest of the game. It's hard to say how much this skip saves after only a few days of playing with it, but it's at least 3 minutes. This makes sub 30 a very real goal in this category now.
The new skip, dubbed "Sugar Free Temple Skip" by those who found it, is a way to % warp to the end of the mission "Complete Monk Temple Tests", the second temple mission in the game, which is also only a few missions away from the end of Act 1.
Previously in this category we % warped to the first full temple mission "Find Oracle in Temple" using the pretty new "Volcano Skip", after having previously % warped to "Destroy Eggs in Nest" using Cave Skip.
Now, Volcano Skip is still in the run, but we go straight to the temple after the first arena fight, using strats used in regular Any%.
The key difference in the new route, is taking an "invulnerability" state (we shorten to "invuln 1") all the way to temple, allowing us to rolljump through the ocean to it, before switching to a different "invuln 2" state which has slightly different properties, like being able to ledge-grab, activate cutscenes, activate side-missions.
Keeping this invuln 2 state, we then do Volcano Skip slightly different to before, making sure to stop by a side-mission in the desert where we then go from "invuln 2" to a "mission failed" state, by activating and failing a side-mission whilst invulnerable. You'll see after this point Jak darkens when driving the Dune Hopper.
After performing Volcano Skip, and reaching the end of the mission in the temple, dodging a cutscene trigger along the way, we then enter the oracle cutscene that gives you Light Jak Regeneration. However, because of our "mission failed" state, we can move in the black screen and die. After a lengthy black screen and skipping the cutscene that eventually plays, Jak respawns outside of the oracle room. This is the key breakthrough, as previously there would be no way to exit that room without either going out of bounds (not allowed) or exiting the intended way.
Once we're outside the room, we can then simply climb up to the rotators, load in the nearby bridge by dying (after grabbing a checkpoint up there), and then cross it to the elevator on the other side, which takes us on to Subrails and the rest of the game.
It's hard to say how much this skip saves after only a few days of playing with it, but it's at least 3 minutes.
This makes sub 30 a very real goal in this category now.
Finished watching the previous and now u got the WR. Nice strat gg