Returnal Fresh File Speedrun Tutorial

hello everybody my name is cave and I will be doing a guide for the fresh file run in return Ally I'm the world record holder in this category uh so I figured I'd make a guide before the PC version comes out so that anyone that wants to try this category uh can sort of follow along and hopefully this will help them out going into my sentence I've changed my controller settings to be custom and what I did is I made my Dash L1 my melee R1 and my use consumable up on the d-pad but you can make that Circle a square I just prefer up on the d-pad the reason we do this is so you can dmj easier using a controller I'll link a prison's video on dmjs in the description next we have on the gameplay tab I change my to Sprint to always Sprint and my minimap distance to 75 these are just quality of life things and lastly my cycle time is set to on this is required in order to submit a run uh to the speedrun site for us to verify so with all that I'll reset the cycle and we can go ahead and get this started honestly I have no notes written down I'm just kind of going to run through it and you know take it a little slow and explain uh what I'm looking for on my thought process or things of that nature I guess uh to begin with though you do have to make sure you're on a fresh file we can tell if you're not like all fresh files start the exactly the same so I'm gonna start you we're just going to dash through we have to use only the dash instead of dmj sets we don't have the melee unlocked yet so these first few rooms will always be the same in a fresh file so that's how we'll know when verifying if you're doing a fresh file or not here you're gonna grab the pistol choose the thing and here uh you can pick up the health if you're a beginner I strongly recommend you do however for time saved purposes I actually skip it and I'll show you where I scan Health later but again if you're just starting out I would strongly recommend you pick that up gear is our only unskippable custody of the whole game as of 3.0 no clue why they decide to make this one unskippable but uh here we are so let me do this and once it's done we're just gonna rush and pick up the team not actually going to kill any of these enemies it's very unnecessary we actually kill almost no regular enemies only in a bio five really or if we're in lockdowns to pick up the key and run back towards that door will reach this way again this is the only part of the game where all the rooms are exactly the same so here we actually have a quick skip normally you're meant to jump up there and run around but instead if you take that wide you can actually just jump onto that platform and dash regularly here we have a few more standard rooms and coming up we have our one and only intentional reset cycle of the run previously we used to actually fight this mini boss uh but it was discovered that it is much faster to just reset especially since our time is based off of uh the in-game timer so what you're going to do is as soon as you dash off the ledge you're going to pause uh and the reason you do that is because as soon as you're off the legend following the game will actually count you as entering the arena and will thus progress you so you're gonna reset cycle again immediately because uh you just lose time if you're inside the ship sure maybe it's like a little bit cheating but like that's just how we time it and if it's the standard for everyone then it's fine all right and since we did that we no longer have to fight that mini boss abandoning Helios heading towards White Shadow funny enough uh this room technically has optimal RNG you can get the door that's closer but uh I almost never get it here we're going to scan our alt fire as soon as you pick it up and shoot it you have to be aiming directly at it uh trackers will pretty much hit it for you if you're in the area at least highly effective and here we get our carbine make sure you're skipping all the cutscenes by the way you don't need to watch any of those and slow uh if you look in the bottom left corner next to our Dash cooldown you can see our alt fire for that very first carbine you have a couple options well by couple you have literally four you can get horizontal barrage which is by far the best you can get black shell or track is form which are like 2A and 2B or you can get shock and shock is the worst for this final uh what I did there in that room I did that fast I should have stopped and explained I did one dash at the start and from there I just kept holding forward on the d-pad and when you do that it'll put you on top of the teleporter scanner item that you pick up look and if you look down in mesh triangle you can actually activate the cutscene before you land which just saves a little bit of time it says from that distance Celine does the Superman landed here is that taking the teleport down we just jump and dash saves a little bit of time here you can get health if you're a beginner and you've collected enough obelites otherwise you just skip it protecting a strange energy reading putting a marker and I should have made note of this earlier I think that's my time you want to be looking out for the boss door and I'll explain why later but it is a nice little time save if you memorize where the boss door is and what teleport you're at so here is our boss store um I have not been paying attention but I want to say this is teleported three I'm gonna go so I know it's teleported three because it's the one before the house which will be coming up to in a second so here's our house this is a good place to check time for me my average house is 2 15 in my cycle timer which is really like I can't do the math I'm trying to it's like four minutes I guess is the math but anyways that's a good place to uh gauge your time I guess is if you're 215 there you're doing pretty good and here we have our sword drill I believe yes so what I do this is the path where I didn't take the health I'm gonna look for the tree out of me who is hiding oh there he is I'm going to focus this guy down first just so he doesn't bother me but I want to make sure I do is I actually take damage from him and the reason I want to take damage is so that I can scan Health in this room while I'm waiting for the lockdown or two here for this enemy we're going to Simply Dash when he does his very telegraphed attacks once he's buffered then feel free to use your own fire because he'll do more damage we're gonna check the gun see if it's a better carbine and I'm gonna run and scan to pick up health uh sorry if that was a lot at once but basically we're checking the gun to make sure we can get a upgraded carbine and then we're getting the health here so we have to wait for the doors to unlock anyways now that we have the sword we can dmj so the rest of our movement would now be dmj and again I'll make sure I link a person's guide to how to dmj in the description so we're going to run back to the teleporter we unlocked and the one you're always going to go to is T2 you're always going to go to this one first unless you have the boss store okay I'll grab this key first and then I'll explain the other path so we're gonna grab the key and then go back to the teleporter we just unlocked so earlier I said make sure you keep track of where the boss store is if you see the boss store before the house then you know you're gonna go to T3 if you see the boss store right after uh you go through this health pickup room that we're in right now you're not going to teleport at all you're just going to walk out and walk into that room if you see the boss store in this room right here you're gonna go to T5 and if the boss was actually in the same room we pick up the sword what you would normally do is run up the path and go to that teleporter which would become T6 and then from T6 you would teleport to T2 and then from T2 back to T6 so I'll show you what I'm talking about once we get up there but for now we took note it's T3 so if I was in a run I would immediately just go to T3 and this is also why we make our Baptist in 75 so that we have an easier time figuring out where we are uh the 70 the really the massive distance is really just to buy on one thing from here and jump up uh if you jump upstairs sometimes you can get some good jumps uh real quick this is the teleport you would take this would become T6 so you go to T2 and then back to T6 which would be this one uh which is about explaining if the boss story was in the same room where you got the sword is open good dmj through note that if you have the bat enemies as your enemies out there uh sometimes they'll follow you in here it's a bit annoying but here's our freaky fight we're gonna dmj forward and start mailing what I'm doing is I'm holding down the right Trigger or R2 and mashing my melee button and that allows me to take shots in between each my life now you may have just noticed that I melee the crew one of previous attacks uh that's because melee gives you iframes so if you line it up properly you can actually melee through Freaky's melee may have also noticed that when freaky did the Red Orb attack I weaved melees in and out and that's because that's intact I can actually hit you from all right so there I did not pair anytime if you're sketched out about doing Paris which is totally fine even eye chicken out of them uh you can just simply Dash away when you see freaky race Dion like this so that's one of the telltale signs you're looking for for freaky it's a freaky race that says arms it's gonna do a melee there's only about three attacks you have to move out of the way for again here's the Red Orb one so we'll melee Dash away loop around and do that in like a circle motion this week he's actually going super quickly if I'm seeing this attack but that's fine he's three so phase three uh three he's gonna do four actions so the actions will either be the melee um a Teleport or that blue attack so here we got the best one which is two melees in the blue attack and after four actions three people bring out these purple orbs or you need to dash away and weave in and out of them also just a quick thing to make note of is make sure you're using your alt fire on cooldown the only time I don't do it is at the end of phase one and that's because I'd rather have it at the start of phase two for some reason bosses get like a little bit of super armor towards the end of phases uh anyways once the boss is dead they'll drop the key so just hover over them and hold triangle and then we're gonna go to the teleporter and from here you're always going to go to five because five is where your uh portal will be if you're ever confuse which way to go you're going to want to go to the one where there's less enemies because they'll usually be enemies from the other side and that's buying one uh I think I hope this video is going well so far uh I don't know how long oh looks like it's 12 minutes so in my head I was guessing an hour that might be true when you go through the teleporter you can hold forward it'll actually move so you can see like normally you end up like right there but since I was holding forward I ended up here um and oftentimes you can actually get all the way up to this calibrator so I'm gonna hold this again this and hold and scan our health in point to note you're probably going to want decent health for ixion ixion's a bit of a tough one for fresh file runs so uh if you see any easy to grab Health uh definitely don't be afraid to go grab that because that amount of time loss is insignificant to a death time loss uh in this desert we're just going to be dmj this is also a great place to practice dmjs if you're new to speedrunner returns in general since there's a lot of open space you can chain them together and you're just going to want to try to find the big light and head in that general direction I got pretty lucky got a straightforward path uh however this time we have to go like left to right and you can actually kind of kitty corner uh you have to be careful because sometimes the desert will slow you down if you get too far out of bounds but yeah here we're gonna scan the house so you can pick it up here we got track of swarm which is probably the second or third worst ideally you want void beam number one um or horizontal barrage and shock stream are really good everything else is just like kind of worse and here's our next skip normally you're meant to run all the way up to that staircase where you'll get a cutscene but if you come here and start shooting at the severed it'll actually give you a cutscene you can skip it and it'll bring you right forward there so I have to pick up the hall so you could just start trying to shoot at the seven from as far back as you can some easy health now we're just going to get our climb up uh this part's pretty self-explanatory just get through the rooms as best you can try not to get hit uh these turrets I'll take it slow just so I can do a good ixion those toys can be annoying sometimes and do decent damage coming up we have another chance here you can pick up Health if you want uh if you have the awful lights to do so and here we have to teleporter um when I'm doing runs I think I try to be at this teleporter at like nine minutes if I'm at 8 30 my Run's going crazy but if it says nine like 9 20 I think is a pretty decent range and again I feel bad to say decent like these are decent ranges for me um if you're again just started don't you know don't feel discouraged or anything like that uh it's all about making progress you know I've been doing these fresh file runs like pretty much non-stop since the game came out so it's uh I have a little bit under my belt all right one more teleporter and we'll be brought to ixion's Arena I hope this video is easy to follow along foreign at some point or maybe I'll separate each biome and show a more in-depth one or a more serious one where I'm not stopping to explain but um you know if anything maybe I can have like one of my record videos linked and you can sort of compare uh this one to a full speed one anyways come in here let's get the cutscene and here's ixion off rip make sure you're using your all fire and weird enough Excel is the one boss that has a credible box so you actually want to try to aim for the head uh also as a quick note you may actually pick up the Hall of secret this is literally the only point we're gonna use we will never use this gun anywhere else in the Run uh it's also far better than the pistol or the carbine so don't you know don't look for other guys once you pick up the Hall of Seeker you just roll with it um the carbine is not as good against Xeon and the pistol is certainly is not um so yeah just we strongly recommend using phase one kind of self-explanatory just you know use your ball fire and pull down anything for the head and try to take too much hits yourself for the start of phase two we have What's called the side scroller or some Auto scroller basically Excel is going to stay here in the middle until you do a certain amount of damage and here is where we use melee for example so I'm going to dash in jump over to avoid taking an extra hit and start meleeing um that might look quick we'll be able to show it again at the start of phase three it's ideal if you have your all fire at the start because it makes it faster but the reason we jump into melee is because here we can't actually attack Axion so the point is to get to this part as fast as possible so we can get back to hurting Mexico uh and melee just happens to be faster so that's why it's important to have good health when trying to fight Dixie on or why I mentioned at the start you know like you want to make sure you have good health because you're just you're going to take damage using the Bailey's threats uh you may also notice I don't miss a whole lot of overloads it's just you know it's small time safe but it helps phase two uh not too different for phase one besides the start there you can use audio cues to figure out where he's gonna land if you want to get some shots in early here you may see I have my thing back but I'm not going to use it and that's because XL is already so low that I'm just gonna fire away for the rest of this so that I'll have the all fire for the start of the next phase which will get me past the auto scroller quicker so that's just something I try to do um I think that's one of the neat things about this run is you can gauge how your runs going and you can use different strategies it's all fire Dash and jump in and start mailing away and now phase three of vixion is where things get a little tricky start them so keep melee get free damaging once it gets the stored out we're gonna Dash away and the first attack is always going to be this if you come in get some more free meleeves here and then Dash away once again and now we're going to dash back in uh you may have to take one hit here I haven't oh okay I almost never do that that first one's kind of tough to reliably block I forget how many I just went but it's always the same number of shots he does here you want to stay close and then dmj away if you don't do that you'll start teleporting around and it's slow and it's tough to hit him and note that's always the same order of attacks and that's vixion uh the attacks are always in the same order once you kill xion he's gonna drop artifact some can be helpful some cannot uh this one is not because I'm never gonna have that many obelites uh but that was ixion you might have to watch it back I I was that phase three is kind of tough to explain everything at once but I hope I at least covered enough if you have questions about that just comment or join the speedrunner Discord I'll have the that link and I can answer those uh anyways now we have the ability to Grapple when you grapple you're invulnerable so it's nice for avoiding damage and it's also going to be a movement option we're going to do quite often uh because it's fast and brings you directly where you need to be the teleportation Gateway in the desert I start about three pick up your health and your calibrator man I had a really good fight and from here we're going to open up every chest we can and that's because we're looking for a carbide carbine is absolutely incredible for Nemesis uh the only guns we'll be able to find are the pistol and the carbine and the hollow Seeker uh do not bring a hall Seeker into the Nemesis fight I promise you it's it's not good you will be there for a while pistol is okay if you absolutely cannot find a carbine but also isn't that great so definitely try your best to look for a carbine that's actually the first weapon we skipped there uh you notice we just didn't even scan the rocket launcher and that's because we don't want it to ruin our uh chess rules because if you scan that rocket launcher now the rocket launchers appearing in chess and there we go we got our carbine and invested enough I actually got the only off fire that's able to hit Nemesis in phase three so I'll be able to show that off that's uh kind of rare honestly from here though all we're doing is we're just dmj and past every enemy and doing our best to get to where we activate the bridge as quick as possible here's another place uh fun fact if you cannot scan Health five on one and you're going for the crazy Strat where you don't scan Health at the beginning this is actually the other place you could you could do it if you don't get it in that bio why is he walking towards the door we're fine uh anyways that room is the other place where I would recommend scanning Health if you still haven't done it for some reason uh that's because you have to wait for that lockdown door to appear here we're going to uh dmj process Gap and hopefully make it saves a little bit of time and now we have the tower Tower is notorious for RNG we can either get fast Tower or slow Tower I got slow Tower because as of late slow Towers all I seem to be able to get um you can tell uh the archives making a little tough to see anyways all right leave me alone okay now that we're here uh I just wanted to show how you can tell what's faster slow Tower okay when you're about here if you look at your map you can sort of see the general direction of where you're going to be going um if you see it's going towards the right that means you got slow Tower which I mean it's life that's how that's how these roguelikes RNG work in speed runs you're going to get the bad energy sometimes um it is like 20 25 seconds slower but again that's just how it is um but you can tell especially because you can see the little Health icon up there on the bottom right here so that's how you know you got slow Tower if you got fast Tower you'd be able to come right about here ish I don't know it's somewhere around here and look up and you'll see gravel points and you can grab it all the way up but here we're gonna go ahead and go through this little Tower the entire city this is still Tower because we have to go through these non-dash rooms and there's just no shortcuts so not too worried about taking Health uh Nemesis once you get the hang of it kind of easy and I also have two health files so not particularly worried about dying yeah hoping about jinxing myself but it should be good all right and here's a cool I'm glad I got this one for the video um so what you can do here is come here look up and jump and you can actually grapple onto this and get some free adrenaline here because they usually put two turrets right next to each other here do your best try not to get hit those suicide box I've definitely lost a lot of help getting hit by some of those broadcast and we'll continue our way up here every now and then you might see me mixing jumps um if you jump at the right time you actually keep a lot of momentum and it'll let you um I don't describe it I think it's a subconscious thing I do anyways skip cutscenes we're on nemesis just keep aiming at the big red point and honestly if you just move left and right you're gonna Dodge most attacks uh you're gonna want to use your all fire on cooldown and just keep moving left and right Dash backwards when you need to and fly backwards I mean like Dash like to the left or to the right through missiles uh since Dash does give you those High frames and yeah like I said wow I cannot believe that didn't hit me um I'll be honest I dashed way too early all right let's face one um really not much excited to say about Nemesis phase two is coming up um as of late I've gotten Nemesis glitch every time so let's see how it goes oh my God we didn't get nemesis glitch if you haven't watched any of my streams recently I have had notices glitched like five times in a row uh so that's cool yeah we get to do regular nemesis um if you're getting Nemesis glitch the only tip I can give you is just keeps running back and forth as you shoot uh the lasers won't hit you you know what lasers are talking about if you've seen the Nemesis glitch all you need to worry about is Dashing back through the red laser which I can't really showcase here since I don't have it but basically the yellow lasers that the enemies on the sides are shooting uh you don't need to worry about those just keep strafing like this back and forth and they shouldn't pitch you and when the red laser gets too close uh make sure you dash away or Dash through it and starts draping in the other direction I don't know if I explained that right but in my head it makes sense so I'm hoping I'm hoping I gave a decent enough visual oh here's a tricky one so Nemesis will do this sometimes uh he teleported away but his attacks are still going can be a bit of a pain so I always try to watch out for them like that that's crazy but I have to help out so I'm kind of chilly uh it only really happens when he's doing that attack there where he has the two lasers that go back and forth anyways he teleported we go to his new location and and now on the phase three and phase three is the reason why I say absolutely find a carbide for Nemesis in this Fresh Fire run um with carbide you can hit him all the way from the back here you'll also notice I can actually use the alt fire because I got the one that's able to actually hit him from this far so this should be a decent paste phase three hopefully unless the carbine sucks here we just sit all the way in the back make sure you don't fall down off the bottom and we're just gonna aim from all the way back here you just have to dash through these lasers uh try your best to avoid Platforms in the way of you and when the laser hits look around for a new platform to go to here I'm going to try to grab another one probably because this one's a little low whoopsies I need to see that laser gun but yeah all you do is you just need to dash through the yellow ones once you get the timing right it's not too bad and yeah there is Nemesis and that also concludes act one so if you made it this far you know I hope your Run's going good I hope I've done a decent enough job explaining everything you know dmj up here Mass triangle and there you have it look I mean shoot that was like less than 27 minutes and I stopped to explain stuff so that's not too bad um you may ask all the time I said like 25 something and I said this was less than 27. that's because we did that reset at the beginning and when we're verifying we add together that first reset and whatever your end time is so just take note of that it's also if you're starting it's entirely okay to submit runs where you die you know just make sure you include everything and we'll you know we'll piece it together we'll add the time is up we can verify that for you um it's totally okay to start runs off where you you know you die once or twice it's part of the learning process anyways here's our other unskippable cutscene of the game so you know this is your time to take a quick you know if you're quick enough if you speed them on real life you can go take a bathroom break or something like that once the screen turns black uh you're going to want to get ready you can start skipping the cut scene so you can Skip One and then skip a second one and now we are in act two and familiar looking lands act two we're gonna start all crippled we're gonna walk forward and from my return to Earth change pick up this health thing sometimes it's a glitch where it's not gonna let you hit triangle if that happens just jump once and then hit triangle some more uh that'll get it to work oh actually happened to me that's so funny so here you might have it where you can hit triangle here all you got to do is just jump and hit triangle gun you'll be good wow what are the odds what are the odds of that happening here we're gonna just keep on trucking and we're going to pick up our last weapon of the game coming up actually weapon is a bit notorious in my streams for specific traits that I may or may not have slanderous PowerPoint about but here is our driver so let's see oh what do you know it has the trade so pilot web sucks pilot web will ruin your run it'll give you a bad time um that's not what you want but it's what we got so we're gonna have to take it because this is all we can take uh you're also going to want to look at the bonus damage projectile speed pollen duration useless traits you want as many points as possible into bonus damage but that's how you actually look for a good pylon is you want bonus damage and you want uh literally any other trait besides pylon web when I say literally I mean genuinely anything besides pylon bed pylow web uh useless anyways final four we have to go get two keys to open the door this is where a lot of RNG comes into play for the run because you have one required lockdown between these two rooms and then you have rooms that can give you lockdowns but you don't necessarily like have to have lockdowns in I don't know how to describe that basically like this room for example could have had an enemy that locked me down but it didn't and so I got a no lockdown biome4 area which is crazy I should have taken this one seriously I can't believe I'm wasting my time doing this guide uh no lockdown biome Force very very rare uh and when it happens you save a lot of time but we have to go through a whole nother one right that was the first one so now we have a whole nother section since we didn't get the required lockdown in that one it's going to happen at the end of this one uh so we're only hoping for one lockdown and that's we gotta log down thankfully it's the shortest one uh when you have that Health thing there that one's by far the easiest one to get through all you need to do is kill that Health pylon oh okay well never mind we got two lockdowns this is awful this quite frankly is bad uh here I'm gonna actually take that driver it had worse damage but it didn't have time on them uh and no panel web helps us for the longevity okay you may have gotten a glimpse of the lockdown enemy it was that fella uh if you want to do the full strats for um for Hyperion which I'm gonna do you normally want to try to focus a lot that'd be a bit more than I am right now but I really want to showcase the uh this boss fight as well as I can so I'm kind of not doing good so I'm kind of messing around when it comes to this enemy uh sometimes do my best to not take actual damage all right so that was just slow quite frankly but I did it to save help for that enemy uh go put up a shield so we want to make sure you go up and mail it at Shields you can go back to doing pylon damage as quick as possible and here's our required fight you can actually critical hit this enemy so try to aim for the head and watch out for its malignant attacks sometimes it'll have the uh you know like the count on hit sometimes it'll have the missiles that follow you this one seems to have the gate that follows you around that one's not too bad just have to keep moving and make sure you just keep pylons on his head and try to criticize it this is the required lockdown by the way uh I previously mentioned it but this is the one it is so you can come here you know for it oh there we go that's a you know one damage more and also doesn't have final web so we'll take that from here on out you're only going to use a pylon you're never going to use any other guns so don't bother like don't bother picking up a carbine or a Hulk definitely not a hollow seeker and handgun uh we just don't need them anymore once you got our two keys uh also to note at the end you're always going to teleport to uh teleported three this will bring you back to the door so when you finish off getting this key at T4 you'll go to T3 and when you finish again this kits you probably go to T3 anyways we've got a dmj up these stairs and do the shore hops try to get an extra bounce there I kind of did it you may have saw a couple really quick ones yeah anyways here if you don't see a teleporter animation movies are following me sometimes there'll be a transporter there if you see that take that otherwise you know a bit of a shortcut a bit of a speed Runner trick you want to jump here jump up on this look up jump and you can grapple under here which saves a little bit and here comes Liberian oh boy is this fight a fight is a speed run so what you'll do is from start uh when you're doing fast you can hit this twice but I'm just gonna try to do some explaining before we get into Hyperion basically oh we may like hyperia there's there's no there's no nice way to put it if you want to go fast you're gonna you're gonna have to mail it Hyperion which you might be is like wow uh doesn't he have those spikes he does Hyperion does have those spikes we try to find our way around it though and hopefully I can do a decent job explaining it and hopefully actually doing it uh this is definitely the fight that I struggle with a lot um so you know don't worry if it takes you practice but from up here you can shoot like three pylons and uh uh piping to get damaged and we're gonna dmj up and start all firing all right so there I dashed away at a specific time and I know what the time is because you can see like white lights up here behind it's gonna happen again okay so I see you saw like white lights up here and that means that it's gonna do the um it's gonna do that Spike attack and if you have a good enough driver it's good enough all fire and don't waste too much time you'll get this glitch where Hyperion stops attacking you so from here again I'm holding down R1 and just mashing melee and that's phase one that was a perfect phase one no damage that's what you want to do here start of phase two I'm gonna go and use my All Fire and here you're gonna back up a little he's gonna do these red orbs Spike's gonna spawn under as we're going to approach and from here we're just gonna mail it um I always forget those spikes those will hit you if you're not careful but note that once you dash in after like two melee spikes will fit now here what we're gonna oh I blew it uh what you're supposed to do there is get in between Hyperion and the organ and you can actually stop hyperia from getting back onto the organ I will try to find a video of me doing this bite where I managed to do it and link that in the description it'll be called like perfect Hyperion if I did something um but I guess since I did do that I can kind of give you a general idea of this fight if you don't want to do the mailing strats if you just started I would recommend you don't honestly and what you should do is just stand all the way here in the very back and just kind of loop in service you're going to stand try stand in between these two here you just go back and forth and jump when you need to and keep pylons on them but yeah phase three starts going to kind of do the same thing all fire pylons on them and do melees at the start when he's in the center area you can get a lot of free melees gonna do something divides come Dash away Dash back in uh and now since I have a lot of Health uh I might go ahead and show some crazy like I don't even attempt this too often but just just in case you want to try it uh so here you can kind of weave that if you have a lot of Health you can do this you can lean back and forth you're gonna get hit make sure you dash in when you see the white lights behind them because that means spikes are coming and you can kind of do that you can get away with it because you have a lot of help and that was honestly a crazy Hyperion for this video uh I'm gonna link something still that shows a slightly better phase two um because I didn't trap Hyperion like you're meant to but yeah uh there you might have saw I faced a certain direction as I fell and dashed a certain way and that just brought us directly to where we wanted to be without having to um do the Superman Landing I was able to dash directly to the grapple and grapple here again I was holding forward as I teleported in so that I got to these quicker and yeah we're in biome five wow that Hyperion that was a good showcase Iberia uh yeah anyways let's do bio five final five kind of a similar idea as biome four except this time we need three keys uh one is gonna be behind a sort of challenge wave Rush room and the other two are behind um Regular rooms I guess again you're kind of hoping to get no lockdowns is going to be a required lockdown at the end of each but um everything up to then our lockdowns that aren't necessarily required uh so yeah for example uh off riff we already got a lockout which is not good uh if you know I'm gonna go ahead and because I want to make sure I finish these runs I want to clear out some of these enemies the lockdown enemy is always going to be the one that's spawning in so here's my lockdown enemy it's usually gonna be that that blue orb thing don't know any I know none of the official names of these enemies except for the bosses they all are just animals to me so I'm sorry if rocking any official names in bio5 also don't be worried to run towards the door even if you see those red spawning enemies uh sometimes they just don't actually spawn lockdown enemies again uh the reason we have our our map widen is so we can have an easier time seeing where our required door is you're always going to want to go through the light blue doors and here's our required lockdown we have to fight one of these malignant staffers these have weak points so try to aim at the head and besides that you know these these ones actually offer a lot of Health pickups you can weave in some melees if you're uh if you're nice with it like I am I'm kind of nice with it so I'm allowed to do things like that and once you're done fighting yeah you can dmj pick up some health and then pick up our keys the keys will always come after finding those enemies whoops here's our first key and we're always going to go back to T1 after each of these rooms since that is our Hub of biome five oh that was nasty okay my movement's a little crisp um anyways this section is the same idea as the last one we were just in uh you're hoping for no lockdowns and just go to the required doors wow this run uh stinks quite frankly RNG wise has not been ideal don't know how else to say it don't know how else to say so I'll just say it the RNG has not been great anyways uh we kill the lockdown enemy once it spawns you know feel free to clear out some of the other ones while you wait for it to spawn just to make it easier for you and then we're back fighting one of these guys uh I'm gonna aim for the head oh it's gonna you know fire out some melees when possible ooh because I tried not to hit by that because that's massive damage all right well that was good all right um so the reason why we do these two rooms before we do oh also I'll show you something real quick you can actually there's some cool Tech here if you uh you DMG here you can if you're matching triangle you actually pick up the key as you skirt over that so in one fluid motion would look something like this um but yeah you're looking for upgraded drivers from those enemies that's why we do those two rooms before the challenge room because if we get a driver with more damage that's just super sick uh more damage and doesn't have time on web make sure it does not happen on the web I am begging you to make sure it doesn't have pylon web and here we go here we have our boss room uh so our goal here kill everything as fast as we can try not to take too much damage obviously um a good trick is to you know melee the ones with shields put in like two bullets and then go to the next one phase two have a lot of the robot flying guys these are also different every time you'll get a different batch of enemies do I have a health file still man where is our other guy all right and there's a lot of Health around the stadium so feel free to pick those up they're pretty uh lenient with them and here you'll get like two to three enemies some mix of the severed and the orb guys these these uh it's everyday actually melee pretty good if you mix in melee and uh driver hits you can get through them really quickly so you saw there I was intermixed in melee attacks and uh driver shots and I was able to erase that set for pretty fast there you saw it in action with the key itself but once you finish that we're gonna go directly to the key don't pick up the dread bound or the artifacts who cares about those useless biome six is free uh yeah we're gonna come up here open the door no boss very sick skip all cutscenes we don't care we already saw them when we did our beautiful casual playthrough uh you know I recommend doing a casual play too it's fun uh you're gonna look straight ahead will you come off that platform don't look around don't pick up that we don't really need it your driver's fine your driver I promise you is quite enough for this biome and now we get big dmjs uh you may have noticed those malfunction missiles was following me uh do not get hit by those if you get a dash or melee cooldown malfunction your run is going to be miserable you're not gonna have a good time when you can't dmj anymore because you got hit by a malfunction missile this biome is great to look for uh places where you can grapple up ahead says you won't have the lower whatever it's called gravity no just bring you directly to the place so it's a little quicker and yeah here big skip coming up big skip everyone get excited normally you're meant to jump down there fight an enemy uh get the upgrade but with the magic of dmjs you can just get across and go ahead get your little orb thing delphic visor man these have actual names huh that's crazy uh so now we're gonna try to hit these orbs within the first few shots can't keep on trucking keep on dmj oh man this video is not even gonna be an hour long that's cool I I really hope I did a decent job explaining everything again if you ever have questions about uh you know things you should be doing ideas um how to get started Kathy feel free to leave a comment here or I'll have our speedrunner Discord for this game Linked In the description um you can join that one too and we have a lot of people who are be willing to answer any questions you might have anyways once you fall down that second hole take the pass that's not where the Golden Gate thing is um because we need to go pick up our key for the smile oh save it here sometimes this guy will wake up uh but sometimes he does so just something to look out for I also often pick up the key from this way so I can see if there's any missiles coming for me uh like malfunction once and then I can actually Dodge them anyways once you get the key hit that teleporter and we're gonna dmj all the way back now let's go for grapples on the way back most of the rooms have good grapple points for when you're coming backwards oh that's good malfunction missiles surely none of those will hit me as I try to uh oh omni's gonna make it oopsies we're fine not worried anyways uh probably could have made that if I dmj'd a little better or closer but that's fine come here open up our door and now we are entering our final fight of the Run we've made it you've made it I've made it uh and I hope you're excited to finish your Eternal run so we're gonna fall down Skip One Last cutscene and here's opium start hit these orbs I'm gonna put one pylon on every single thing oh shoot I have chocolate uh so once you put one orb on each or one pylon on each use your all fire and then just make sure you uh keep hitting these orbs to keep the spots showing and keep pylon damages on them God I explained that awful uh basically these orbs reveal the weak points put one into each point uh for this one I'm gonna put two up there because that one's kind of out of the way from the others uh and then use your Auto fire to do and make sure you always have one of these orbs hit so that the pylons uh let's have the weak points stay up there we go that's what I was trying to say I'm sorry my mind's frazzled I've been talking for 50 minutes straight and while also trying to do the speed run anyways last phase last phase has two tricky points namely these bottom two so here I'm gonna try to actually Focus these block two points with my old fire first uh because three points up there it'll be fine you'll hit those it's these ones on the bottom I don't know where that one went I'll be honest this is part of the issue with opioid so he doesn't want to focus yeah there it is you want to focus on those points first uh once you kill opion what kind of dmj back here and start running at this tentacle and we do this because fallen down this final hole from the back uh is quicker than doing it from the front so once it's down we Dash forward um aim ourselves in this direction I think it's if you're looking forward you turn backwards to like five o'clock ish uh I'll just re-watch it try to figure it out and I've been looking for an outcrop like this one of Dash melee that's crazy I've never actually gotten that high up before um I did that wrong I'll link a better video on how to do it and from there we're going to dmj towards this and time yeah oh your time will just be the last time showing in the last frame and yeah that is our maternal fresh file speed run again um if you have any questions feel free to comment them if you have any concerns comment though if you have any ideas comment them uh we're a young Community we're trying to grow uh if you're watching this because you're running on PC I'm excited to learn with you I think you know PC is going to open up a lot of opportunities for us um I'm gonna link the Discord in the description our returnal speed running Discord you can feel free to join there where we will answer your questions way faster um and yeah I guess that's it thank you everyone for watching

Channel: cavemakesraps

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Keywords: returnal, speedrun, returnal speedrun, tutorial, guide, speedrun guide, world record, returnal guide, returnal world record, returnal speedrun world record

Id: wkFet6nAmKs

Length: 52min 36sec (3156 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 24 2023

Reddit Comments

[u/derni0001]

Been stuck on biome 5 for weeks. Never thought of just sprinting through most of it.

[u/Drucko1]

That guy has some skills and knowledge. Have the platinum a few months now but love watching videos like this.

[u/Ash_Truman]

Your controller mapping is very smart, will definately try that one. I have R1 dash now, after playing half of the game with dash on O, but im not sure about shooting with my middle finger.

[u/lunarhostility]

This is a great tutorial, highly recommend the remapping and settings changes even for folks just trying to get through the game casually.

[u/B-love8855]

Yo cave awesome tutorial! Can’t wait to watch! Hopefully it will make be a better player