Tutorial Strategies

## Walking Boost

During the tutorial walking segment, position yourself in front of one of the two outer NPCs (wearing yellow, big guy is too slow) and you will gain a slight boost to your walking speed. Cut corners to ensure you don't "slip" out, and if you do, you can often reposition yourself in front of the other outer NPC. Balance yourself on the NPCs to keep this walking boost throughout the entire walking segment and you can save roughly 15 seconds. This is the optimal tutorial strategy for the Glitchless category,

## Railing PBC

During the start of the tutorial walking segment, there are a few places where you can PBC through the railing to void out, which breaks Cal out of the handcuffed walking animation. You can either PBC at the 2nd post on the left (immediately after spawning in), or use the railing on either side of the staircase. The post PBC is much faster, but also seemingly harder to pull off. Use whatever you are most comfortable with. This is the optimal tutorial strategy for the Restricted category.

## Twin Launch (PBL)

Immediately after spawning in, turn around to face the twins. Walk towards them, turn on slow mode, and PBC as soon as you hear & see Cal getting pushed. Immediately turn off slow mode after PBCing, and you should launch away from the walkway and void out. This accomplishes essentially the same goal as the Railing PBC, but is the fastest way to void out. This is only useable for the Unrestricted category, as PBLs are banned from Restricted (and obviously Glitchless).

If you feel confident with PBLs, you can do a 2nd launch off of the Twins to launch as close to the Scanner/Bridge as possible. This is seemingly luck dependent, although there is benefit to aiming for a consistent setup. For the 2nd Twin Launch, it seems best to use the left most Twin (when turning around to face them), and to have him push Cal outwards (away from the right most Twin). This also requires multiple PBCs. Best input seems to be to PBC as Cal first gets pushed, turn off slow mode, and PBC as soon as you see the freeze frame. If executed perfectly, you can reach the elevator in less than 45 seconds. It should be noted that this launch is extremely random, and the below clip has never been replicated exactly.

## OOB PBC Path

After voiding out during the tutorial walking segment (not possible in Glitchless), you can either just run through the rest of the tutorial normally, or use some PBCs to reach an OOB path that saves a few seconds. At the top of the first staircase, PBC through the railing on the right. Head to the corner ahead of you, and do a strafe jump through an invisible wall. There is no floor here, which is why we need to jump. Position yourself towards the corner in this "hidden room", and PBC through the wall back in-bounds. If done perfectly, this saves about 3-5 seconds from just running the normal way.

## Scanner Skip

If you were able to void out during the tutorial walking segment (not possible in Glitchless), then you can do this trick to skip the scanner on the bridge before the elevator. Look at the floor of the bridge, and double jump once you reach the 3rd circle on the floor. You should jump right over the trigger that causes the scanner "cutscene". Continue onwards toward the elevator.

## Optimal Tutorial Combat

### NJ

After first meeting the Senator, you will be ambushed by Stormtroopers jumping off the Yacht. For the first 3 troopers, force pull them into your saber attack. There will then be 2 troopers that jump down at the same time. Saber attack on of these as they are jumping, and follow-up on the 2nd trooper with a back stab. There will be another group of 2 troopers to jump down next. You can repeat the saber attack & backstab, but it's actually faster to force pull one of these troopers into your saber attack. If done correctly this single attack should kill both troopers. The final 3 troopers will all jump at the same time. Perform a holding Force Push to push all 3 of them off as they are jumping to the platform. If you don't kill a trooper in a single hit, use a jumping attack for your 2nd attack, as that will not trigger the "execution" animation.

### NJ+

Since Warrior is enabled by default, most of the Stormtroopers will be replaced with Shield Stormtroopers, making tutorial combat harder for NJ+. You'll want to pull and stab the first 2 Stormtroopers like in NJ. Push the 3rd Stormtrooper and pull his shield to you, then just continually throw the shields at the Stormtroopers as they drop. I find it more consistent going from the right storm trooper to the left. The last group gets pushed just like NJ. If they start an attack animation the shield can phase through the Stormtrooper and mess up the strategy, losing you time.

For both NJ & NJ+, if you jump off the platform and void out as the last 3 troopers fall, you can start moving on the tutorial climbing section during the cutscene, saving 1-2 seconds. The timing on this can be finnicky, so don't worry if you don't get this everytime.

## Tutorial Climb Loading Trigger Skip

During the tutorial climbing section, you can skip the slowed down portion right before dropping into the rooftops, by jumping over/around the point where the two beams meet (see clip below). This can be used by any category.

## Tutorial Climb Skip

During the tutorial climbing section, you can skip the dropdown into "Rooftops" by jumping off early, and using the silo to break your fall. This will cause your respawn position to be at the start of the climbing section until you reach the next area loading trigger. This will also cause you to not gain any XP throughout the duration of this run. This makes this skip only really viable in NJ+, and Unrestricted (if you think you can do Coruscant Elevator Launch first try).