findlestick | God of War 3:R - New Regenerating Magic (for *New Game* speedruns, w/ weapon-switching) @findlestick | Uploaded January 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
New regenerating magic (Army of Sparta) for *New Game* speedruns, with weapon-switching.
(Works on God of War 3: Remastered (PS4) and also works on PS3 (aka non-remastered version).
If you want to learn all the glitches, skips and glitch-techniques that my colleagues and I have found in this game. You can check-out our GoWIII Glitch FAQ, if you're interested: gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps3/943928-god-of-war-iii/faqs/59988
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Points of interest:
1. You can leave the 'Army of Sparta' tutorial during a New Game-speedrun, in doing so, you not only skip it (thus, saving time) but you also get early regenerating magic.Thus, quickly completing bosses, trials, general battles etc.
Everything loads normally afterwards; it was previously thought that the areas toward Peirithous wouldn't load if this skip was done during a New Game.
2. The skip is done by doing a Double-glide long jump along the side of the arena, by barely glancing a few pixels along-the-way to where the fence will rise.
*NOTE*: When doing the Double-glide long jump, don't try to land, and jump from the edge of the arena, *it can't be done*. Instead, you have to barely touch the top-edge of the arena *while you are gliding*. Doing this will reset your jump count, so you can then do another glide, then double-jump, then glide again.
3. Until now, New Game-speedsrunners who attained regenerating magic at the 'Soul Summon' tutorial, had to surrender the ability to switch weapons, because that tutorial forces you to have just one weapon equipped (until Hercules). Since weapon-switching is used for crucial jump-techniques (used for skips), it meant that you also surrendered your ability to do those techniques.
In short, New Game-speedrunners had to decide: get regen but have no jump-techniques that use weapon-switching. Or have jump-techniques, but have no regen. Now we can have both.
So, after you kill Hades, attain swim-glitch and skip the Soul Summon tutorial so that you can keep weapon-switching with your regenerating magic.
4. When you return to the 'Army of Sparta' arena (after having killed Hades), the enemies will still be there, as will the fence. Fortunately, all the solid collision that earlier surrounded the arena isn't there now. So you can just jump around the fence and either fight, or skip the boss fight like normal.
If you high jump to where a Cerberus are sitting, you can very easily jump on-top-of the collision above the fence. So there could be a way of skipping the room behind the large door, during a New Game-speedrun.
5. At the end I show an example of an old skip I found, that previously wasn't compatible with regenerating magic.
Time to test for other New Game-skips...
New regenerating magic (Army of Sparta) for *New Game* speedruns, with weapon-switching.
(Works on God of War 3: Remastered (PS4) and also works on PS3 (aka non-remastered version).
If you want to learn all the glitches, skips and glitch-techniques that my colleagues and I have found in this game. You can check-out our GoWIII Glitch FAQ, if you're interested: gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps3/943928-god-of-war-iii/faqs/59988
twitter.com/findlestick
Points of interest:
1. You can leave the 'Army of Sparta' tutorial during a New Game-speedrun, in doing so, you not only skip it (thus, saving time) but you also get early regenerating magic.Thus, quickly completing bosses, trials, general battles etc.
Everything loads normally afterwards; it was previously thought that the areas toward Peirithous wouldn't load if this skip was done during a New Game.
2. The skip is done by doing a Double-glide long jump along the side of the arena, by barely glancing a few pixels along-the-way to where the fence will rise.
*NOTE*: When doing the Double-glide long jump, don't try to land, and jump from the edge of the arena, *it can't be done*. Instead, you have to barely touch the top-edge of the arena *while you are gliding*. Doing this will reset your jump count, so you can then do another glide, then double-jump, then glide again.
3. Until now, New Game-speedsrunners who attained regenerating magic at the 'Soul Summon' tutorial, had to surrender the ability to switch weapons, because that tutorial forces you to have just one weapon equipped (until Hercules). Since weapon-switching is used for crucial jump-techniques (used for skips), it meant that you also surrendered your ability to do those techniques.
In short, New Game-speedrunners had to decide: get regen but have no jump-techniques that use weapon-switching. Or have jump-techniques, but have no regen. Now we can have both.
So, after you kill Hades, attain swim-glitch and skip the Soul Summon tutorial so that you can keep weapon-switching with your regenerating magic.
4. When you return to the 'Army of Sparta' arena (after having killed Hades), the enemies will still be there, as will the fence. Fortunately, all the solid collision that earlier surrounded the arena isn't there now. So you can just jump around the fence and either fight, or skip the boss fight like normal.
If you high jump to where a Cerberus are sitting, you can very easily jump on-top-of the collision above the fence. So there could be a way of skipping the room behind the large door, during a New Game-speedrun.
5. At the end I show an example of an old skip I found, that previously wasn't compatible with regenerating magic.
Time to test for other New Game-skips...
