Manifold Garden

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Possible speed tech found? Fast fall onto stairs seems to have you slide. Is this intended?
On my second playthrough, [playing on the highest graphical settings, mouse sensitivity set to 88, no inverted camera axes], on the part of the game where you start being able to change cube colors with beams. After I place the red cube in the next spiral staircase room to go through the door in the room with the red and blue cubes needed to open the next door, before you get the blue cube to open said door. I went off to the right side in the next room trying to find a way to fall faster down the stairs, and I dropped off the right side in a sprint (holding shift the whole time), and when my character touched the stairs, the "fall" speed and sounds didn't stop until I hit a horizontal surface. I effectively "slid" down the stairs at fall speed, and it was very fast! Could be new speed tech, if somebody wants to try to figure out how it works. I immediately saved and closed the game so that I could post here. Maybe the order of gravity shifts impacts it. I climbed up the right wall, fell off and turned around to reset gravity to the same direction as the stairs, ran off the edge onto the stairs and the slide started.
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NeonSilver Apr 21 @ 11:09am 
I was able to reproduce this effect in the same room after reloading game. I was standing on the stairs (looked like maybe yellow floor? possibly green?), shifted gravity to the right wall, which was purple, and then fell off the side and reset the gravity back to the original direction as the stairs before I hit the purple floor (the wall). When I run of onto the stairs, the speed lasts until I am either hitting a solid surface, going against the stairs (like turning around and trying to fall UP the stairs), or if I stop running or let go of forward, of course.

It sort of looks intended, given the behavior, but it's still cool! If it's an exploit, it could make for more fun speedruns ^w^
Californ1a Apr 21 @ 11:55am 
The speedrun's already very optimized for fast falling. I assume the area you're talking about is at around 10:35 to 11:10 in this run? https://www.speedrun.com/manifold_garden/runs/y8p82gdz

However, most runs are in Any%, not All God Cubes, so they're much shorter.

If you open the console with tilde (~, under Esc) and type in "toggle_beta_message", you can get a display showing the room name/number you're currently in, so you can say what exact area you're in.
Last edited by Californ1a; Apr 21 @ 12:05pm
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