God of War: Ascension - new break-out glitch (using air sheathe)
50Here's a new trick in Ascension that gives you the ability to break-out from generic prompts around the game without any resource cost and you can also do it on NG+. In other words, it's a more convenient universal break-out than what upgrade break-out is (regarding prompts at least).
If you jump in the middle of certain sub-weapon attacks, Kratos instantly starts sheathing his sub-weapon in air. The sheathing animation is still active for a little while after landing, which is good because it's glitchy and influences Kratos' mechanics, allowing him to examine generic prompts while doing attacks. Long story short, if you air sheathe, land, then sprint, examine a prompt and then jump at a correct timing, Kratos does the jump slightly after the R1 prompt has been examined and breaks out.
Break-outs aren't known to be too useful in Ascension because the game loves to stop time entirely while activating prompts, meaning that even though you break-out, you can't move Kratos or do anything extra during the prompt activation. However, this new trick seems to work on another type of prompt that I didn't get upgrade break-out to work on previously, meaning that new results are inevitable.
Also, since you only need a sub-weapon to do this glitch, this means break-outs can now be done from as early as Chapter 1 in this game.
Unfortunately my PS3 disc drive broke while testing this glitch... I'm just going to go ahead and blame Ascension for this probably unrelated incident, because hey, it's Ascension. But this means that beside these glitch clips, there will be no further break-out testing until I can get this situation fixed somehow, which might take some weeks. So the true potential of this new tactic and if it can be adapted for even more situations will remain a mystery for now.
What follows are some semi-random tests around the game:
0:00 - Chapter 2 switch break-out. Not useful since time stops.
0:17 - Chapter 3 switch break-out. Not useful since time stops. But you get a neat graphical side effect of the ladder never rising up.
0:49 - it looks like we can now break out of a weapon pick up prompt. The weapon just disappears in sheer air.
1:02 - you can break out of all the element pick-ups and completely skip their intro animation. The results vary a bit depending on the element, though. I only tested it at Lightning and Soul. At Lightning, you never get the Lightning power, and while the combat music begins, no enemies ever appear. So you're stuck (unless you jump out of the room).
(Not on the vid: at Soul power, the cutscene of Kratos picking up the power is skipped and he probably never gets it. But enemies do appear, so you can beat the tutorial and don't get stuck. Kratos is stuck with a single element during the tutorial, depending on what you had equipped at the time.)
(Also, I wonder if this new trick would allow you to skip getting Fire element in a New Game run? Would be cool to finish the game neutral element.)
1:39 - Chapter 12 switch break-out. Can avoid descending deeper into the level by jumping off the elevator before it goes. This leads to Kratos becoming stuck at the higher level.
2:06 - Chapter 12 snake heads break-out. You can move during this break-out, leading into some awkward situations with the moving level architecture.
2:20 - if you jump off the chandelier platform before it descends, you can backtrack and see that the preceding corridor has no special textures for mist effect. Yeah yeah, you're never supposed to visit that area while mist is active...
The snake heads are also glitched up and keep emitting some extraneous mist graphics forever while being broken. I tried to do this glitch multiple times to keep overlapping the mist effects, but it didn't seem to do much.
3:05 - Chapter 27 closing big door to the right. Works. Time is stopped.
3:16 - Chapter 27 picking up Eyes. Works. Time is stopped.
(Not on the vid: breaking out of any prompt that requires continuous input doesn't really glitch up. The mini-game just ends early.)
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God of War: Ascension Glitch FAQ:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps3/667703-god-of-war-ascension/faqs/70507
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