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Hardest CK2 jump / shortcut MTC

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In the Moscow Tantalus Center (CK2) there's a extremely hard jump which shortcuts the entire level. I don't know if it has been done on purpose, but after a lot of attempts I finally made it.

I can't find this shortcut back on KeenWiki, so I wonder if anyone can actually do the jump.

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Wow! I had no idea this jump was even possible. If it was extremely difficult, I'll bet it wasn't intended as a shortcut, but merely as something irritating. ("Look, if only I could make this jump, ... ")

I do believe you, but a video would still be nice. :)
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What program do you guys use for vids?
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Post by VikingBoyBilly »

There's a jump similar to this on keenQ that drove me bonkers :stoned Doesn't even come close to the stuff in smile though.
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JackDaniels wrote:What program do you guys use for vids?
DOSBox has a built-in video recording thing. I don't remember what its default hotkey is.
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Post by MortimerInBlack »

Yes, those low-ceiling jumps are possible thanks to a glitch. You press CTRL right as you fall--you fall a few pixels but jump anyway in a little quirky mid-air hop. It is possible in K1 - K3, but hard to time right.

I remember commenting once about it, how it would be evil to make mod levels that took advantage of it. I'm pretty sure it's a glitch and not intentional, cuz that thread was talking about how its lame to make levels that require use of a glitch.
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MortimerInBlack wrote:Yes, those low-ceiling jumps are possible thanks to a glitch. You press CTRL right as you fall--you fall a few pixels but jump anyway in a little quirky mid-air hop. It is possible in K1 - K3, but hard to time right.

I remember commenting once about it, how it would be evil to make mod levels that took advantage of it. I'm pretty sure it's a glitch and not intentional, cuz that thread was talking about how its lame to make levels that require use of a glitch.
Now I feel really bad because level 16 of my CK2 levelset had 3 of those jumps in it :mort

I uploaded the video. Check my first post.
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I think you could certainly add those jumps to a custom level, but not to reach something needed to finish the level. As a mandatory jump this kind of jump is way too hard for most people I think.
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and i find 2 spaces width ceiling jumps hard enough...
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It's a neat trick.
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Post by Levellass »

Knew of the glitch, but not of the application. ALways assumed the jump was possible somehow though.

This needs to be incorporated into a speedrun.
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Levellass wrote:Knew of the glitch, but not of the application. ALways assumed the jump was possible somehow though.

This needs to be incorporated into a speedrun.
Are you willing to try this 50 times and then hoping you won't get killed by the Elite Vorticon? :)
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Post by Levellass »

Of course not, that's why I said 'should be' instead of 'I have'

Of course, you could always stitch together a video of the jump and a successful Vorticon passing.
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Post by Xarthok »

With the new TAS tools available, I'm attempting to TAS Keen 1-3 now.
Anybody know the exact key combination to perform this jump and does it work on every corner?
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