Uploaded October 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This trick allows you to morph through ladders, and trigger minor visual and control glitches by confusing the game with switching player states.
When on a ladder, you can go up a little bit and then drop down to have Kate step onto an invisible floor slightly above the ground. From here, you can activate the ladder again to have her hold herself up by just her arms as if she was about to start climbing.
To pass through a ladder, rapidly switch between grabbing and letting go of the ladder while pressing forward, causing Kate to continue moving into it while cancelling the grab animation. This allows you to move into areas that are typically blocked by invisible walls and drop out of the map, which I illustrate with the ladder next to Chief Billingham. Morphing into this ladder causes Kate to get stuck, but some messing around inside of the area pushes her out and to the floor directly below--which seems to have a death field now.
Since there aren't many ladders in the game, the usefulness of this trick becomes questionable and its inconsistency would mean numerous attempts in any speedrun setting. Moving upward seems impossible, so a room would somehow need to fill the criteria of having a ladder in the top level with a room directly underneath it--all under the assumption that the level places that ladder against an obstacle or wall. Unfortunately, I don't believe there are any parts of the game like this, but if it did, this could potentially save several minutes in a speedrun.
Otherwise, I found a weird visual glitch that had affected the reflection on the window near Chief Billingham, making it like looking into a hall of mirrors.
There are other small glitches you can do with the ladder trick involving the MAVI. Simply add "1" (quick select for the MAVI) into the "run forward, grab ladder, drop" system to get her to hold her hands up in first-person view without the MAVI. It's impossible to get out of this mode using any controls you have, so throwing yourself into the water is the way to fix it. The view returns to normal after this but you can see the MAVI is fully expanded on her hip, meaning the game had some kind of weird disconnect between activating it and grabbing the ladder.
A similar glitch properly places Kate in MAVI mode--but this time in third-person view without the ability to move the camera. She floats along the ground with the MAVI expanded on her hip like before, and again the only solution is to dunk her in the water.
This trick allows you to morph through ladders, and trigger minor visual and control glitches by confusing the game with switching player states.
When on a ladder, you can go up a little bit and then drop down to have Kate step onto an invisible floor slightly above the ground. From here, you can activate the ladder again to have her hold herself up by just her arms as if she was about to start climbing.
To pass through a ladder, rapidly switch between grabbing and letting go of the ladder while pressing forward, causing Kate to continue moving into it while cancelling the grab animation. This allows you to move into areas that are typically blocked by invisible walls and drop out of the map, which I illustrate with the ladder next to Chief Billingham. Morphing into this ladder causes Kate to get stuck, but some messing around inside of the area pushes her out and to the floor directly below--which seems to have a death field now.
Since there aren't many ladders in the game, the usefulness of this trick becomes questionable and its inconsistency would mean numerous attempts in any speedrun setting. Moving upward seems impossible, so a room would somehow need to fill the criteria of having a ladder in the top level with a room directly underneath it--all under the assumption that the level places that ladder against an obstacle or wall. Unfortunately, I don't believe there are any parts of the game like this, but if it did, this could potentially save several minutes in a speedrun.
Otherwise, I found a weird visual glitch that had affected the reflection on the window near Chief Billingham, making it like looking into a hall of mirrors.
There are other small glitches you can do with the ladder trick involving the MAVI. Simply add "1" (quick select for the MAVI) into the "run forward, grab ladder, drop" system to get her to hold her hands up in first-person view without the MAVI. It's impossible to get out of this mode using any controls you have, so throwing yourself into the water is the way to fix it. The view returns to normal after this but you can see the MAVI is fully expanded on her hip, meaning the game had some kind of weird disconnect between activating it and grabbing the ladder.
A similar glitch properly places Kate in MAVI mode--but this time in third-person view without the ability to move the camera. She floats along the ground with the MAVI expanded on her hip like before, and again the only solution is to dunk her in the water.
