Alter Echo - Citadel: Inside shortcut @DukeSetz
Alter Echo - Citadel: Inside shortcut  @DukeSetz
Uploaded March 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here are two tricks to speed up this somewhat tedious level, one small and one big, bypassing probably the hardest fight in the game. In both cases, you use the Morph Pounce to jump further than normally possible.

Morph Pounce: [ youtube.com/watch?v=4EqND43sh4M ]

On level 48, you can Morph Pounce on the first stealth track to reach the higher path a little quicker, avoiding the slightly longer path and stealth track.

The main meat of this video is after the first battle, where we can jump past a spawner to proceed right to the end of the map. After the long descending stealth track, get on the path and Morph Pounce forward over the spawner. You have to do this from the stealth track right in front of the health node, but it's extremely easy to leap over to the walkway across the gap. Once you land on this long and winding platform, you can just walk up and toward the elevator to finish up.

This is easy and fast, and makes this entire area less risky. It likely saves over a minute or two. Since the fight you skip here combines some of the most irritating enemy types in a confined space, it's hard to keep yourself healthy anyway, so ignoring it entirely is unbelievably useful.
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