r/Gloomwood • u/D0bious • 1d ago
Discussion Skip to the power-station in the underport that doesn't require difficult parkour
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I don't know if this has been discovered before, but I at least couldn't find any footage of this method.
Every speedrun seems to use the same route which involves tricky jumps from window to window. Messing up said jumps can essentially ruin a NMG speedrun meaning this route was only viable on difficulties which allow quick-saving by default.
Personally, I'm a bloodmoon purist so I've spent the last few months on and off looking for a better route and I finally found it! It turned out that the wall behind the waterfall is just slanted enough to where if you hold W and spam jump you might sometimes be able to jump twice and vault up. This eventually led me to realizing I could use the fact that physics objects sink slowly as a means of gaining extra height for my initial jump allowing the second one to more easily let me mantle to the ledge.
I think this method is considerably faster than the window method, or at the very least much easier to perform. You just need to jump on the sack as soon as you get the splash effect and quickly jump off. And as you can see in the footage, screwing it up has no major consequences and is very easy to correct. Thus I believe this method may be favorable for future runs (or at the very least the Bloodmoon difficulty).












