Uploaded March 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A leftover debug mode in Saira lets you move through or around whatever scenery you want, ignoring typical collision. I believe this was supposed to be removed from the final product.
First, on any screen in the game, bring your mouse cursor over the window and press F12. Saira will teleport to your cursor for as long as you hold the button, and while she's like this, she will pass through walls or floors, meaning you can skip over obstacles.
Additionally, if you have a planetary system selected in your cursor while on the map screen, you can press F12 to travel to it instantly, without waiting for the ship to actually move along the path and without the standard loss of ship battery power.
Since this is of course a cheat, it can't be used in valid speedruns, but it makes testing and experimentation very easy.
Keep in mind that the game's screens are very rigidly constructed with no extra areas beyond what you normally see, meaning that it's very easy to use F12 to push Saira into a screen that has no data. When this happens, the game crashes and kicks you back to the main menu, so maneuvering in Developer Mode must be fairly precise.
A leftover debug mode in Saira lets you move through or around whatever scenery you want, ignoring typical collision. I believe this was supposed to be removed from the final product.
First, on any screen in the game, bring your mouse cursor over the window and press F12. Saira will teleport to your cursor for as long as you hold the button, and while she's like this, she will pass through walls or floors, meaning you can skip over obstacles.
Additionally, if you have a planetary system selected in your cursor while on the map screen, you can press F12 to travel to it instantly, without waiting for the ship to actually move along the path and without the standard loss of ship battery power.
Since this is of course a cheat, it can't be used in valid speedruns, but it makes testing and experimentation very easy.
Keep in mind that the game's screens are very rigidly constructed with no extra areas beyond what you normally see, meaning that it's very easy to use F12 to push Saira into a screen that has no data. When this happens, the game crashes and kicks you back to the main menu, so maneuvering in Developer Mode must be fairly precise.
![Double Dive Lock [glitch] - Dark Storm VR Missions](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gslDgaV6RdY/mqdefault.jpg "Double Dive Lock [glitch] - Dark Storm VR Missions
Abusing another glitch with the Dolphine Dive, you can repeatedly leap forward and completely lock down your camera, making it impossible to regain mouse control.
Find a space to run and sprint, followed by a dive. In the middle of the dive, press sprint again to pseudo-cancel the dive, hold it, and then press Ctrl to dive again. If timed correctly, youll perform another dive before the first one has ended, allowing you to float along with a constant dive. Do it enough times and the camera will get confused, thinking youre still in a dive animation and preventing you from moving it at all.
Again, this is another issue with the dive not stopping extra player actions in the middle of it. In this case, though, it breaks and doesnt properly end the original dive. This is pretty serious only because camera movement is disabled when diving, thus if the dive never completes, you will never get camera control back. Ironically, you still have all of your movement capabilities unrestrained, so you can continue to perform this glitch.
Camera locking is a pretty serious problem and sometimes you have means of fixing it because camera systems are pretty robust but the only solution here is to reload the checkpoint.
I think Ill probably find a few minor things inside of this glitch that may be exploited in other ways, simply because the dive is the most vulnerable player state at the given time.
These clips were recorded in Prototype 0.6.7.
I actually enjoy this game a lot even though its in a pretty glitchy state right now, and Id love to see it finished. If it looks interesting to you, be sure to check out the Kickstarter or download the demo on Steam and try it yourself.
Kickstarter: [ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1201252455/dark-storm-ascension ]
Steam: [ http://store.steampowered.com/app/395150/ ]")
![Sprint Aiming [glitch] - Dark Storm VR Missions](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iDaWSYGF3Uw/mqdefault.jpg "Sprint Aiming [glitch] - Dark Storm VR Missions
This is an interesting animation glitch that allows you to sprint from inside fine aim mode.
You can trigger this glitch anytime you have a gun with leftover ammo. Fire off a few shots in fine aim mode and then reload. Shortly after Amber ejects the magazine, hit Shift to begin sprinting. If done correctly, your movement speed will double, allowing you to run and sorta aim simultaneously. If you begin sprinting too early into the reloading animation, Amber will exit fine aim and sprint as normal.
I feel like this happens because of some sort of hiccup in the animation system (like incorrect ordering), which seems to be a common problem. Since it only happens at a certain phase in the reloading animation, its possibly a result of the separation of Ambers upper body from her lower body. I believe theyre independent for better animation, and I would imagine the reload animation temporarily interrupts fine aim, only to return back to it. When you interrupt that reload animation, though, it continues holding the fine aim view.
This is pretty simple to perform, but it isnt extremely useful. Firing kicks you out of sprint mode, meaning it cant be used for both speed and offensive. Nonetheless, it could be used along with the infinite stamina trick to have permanent fine aim sprinting. In fact, the reload animation might actually help you to perform the infinite stamina trick, but I havent tested it.
Infinite Stamina: [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uY7A4_Up1w ]
These clips were recorded in Prototype 0.6.7.
Despite the video, I actually enjoy this game a lot even in this pretty glitchy state, and Id love to see it finished. If it looks interesting to you, be sure to check out the Kickstarter or download the demo on Steam and try it yourself.
Kickstarter: [ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1201252455/dark-storm-ascension ]
Steam: [ http://store.steampowered.com/app/395150/ ]")
