pussinscreen/jak-project

Reviving the language that brought us the Jak & Daxter Series

jak-project's Issues

Glitchless Build

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Honestly... Not really....

Describe the solution you'd like.

The idea is to patch all found glitches and exploits in the original Jak series games that are considered mostly harmless or beneficial in some regards, i.e. patch legacy glitches that are sometimes used intentionally by the community (primarily speed-runners) or considered not worth patching in the main project.

The benefits for this feature is twofold;

1. Reinvigorate speed-running of the game with a new category that renders old speed-running tech and strategies redundant. Possibly even introducing a need to find new unknown glitches and exploits (even if these are introduced as part of the build itself... In which case I can make a sequel... 😉).

2. Provide newcomers with a more polished experience, higher likelihood that "jank" and other oddities will not occur.

This will stay as a fork from the original project as fixing some of these bugs / glitches / exploits could prove volatile to the main build of OpenGOAL and its gameplay. It may also lead to a Ship of Theseus issue where replacing original components and mechanics from the game flies in the face of game preservation and may lead to "fun" or "OG" mechanics being removed. However patches may be cherry-picked if needed and the community considers them beneficial to the main project.

There will be no official "release" of the glitchless build until all items in the additional context below have been completed and I've created an actual official build (v1.0 as it were). Once this is done there will be no further patches or code changes made in order to preserve consistency. Instead, as hinted at before, a v2.0 can enter development with further patches and such applied. The idea is that when this releases, it is flawless in regards to glitches and exploits as at the time of the release. Throughout development I'll keep the associated branch synced with the master branch of the main project so as many QoL improvements and other features are included as possible.

Please be sure to mention anything I may have missed in the comments below, I'd love to discuss all of this! 😀

Additional context

The following is a list of things to be patched or fixed in this build;

• Remove known death warps through the addition of more checkpoints or removal of troublesome ones
• Remove boosted / extended uppercuts (might tie into "standing" status below, also properly tracking Jak's true position in height coming off a ledge, geometry in some areas needs to be revised too or rather how Jak interacts with slopes)
• Remove goggle/zoom walking
• Remove faster "tap" swimming
• Remove water skipping through well timed jumps in the water
• Remove short "standing" status time window once Jak is immediately off a ledge (should fix goggle walking and other exploits)
• Add more aggressive bonking when performing attack actions near walls
• Remove ability to cancel the fall damage animation by using the goggles
• Remove movement boosts from cancelled momentum (portals, cutscenes and such)
• Remove quad jumping (any attacks after firing yellow eco mid-air)
• Remove all known flut flut and Zoomer OoBs
• Remove standing status for flut flut following a ground pound on sloped walls / edges
• Revise geometry in all levels and hubs, adding invisible walls and ceilings to places we don't expect Jak to be
• Extend the water area around Geyser rock such that "swimming into the void" should be no longer possible
• Fix the audio bug in geyser where approaching the first power cell with play hints off, jumping over it but not collecting it, turning play hints on, then collecting it before hitting the ground results in missing audio and a broken play hint
• Fix the skip for cutscene on the first powercell using ground-pound and fall damage, in fact fix fall damage skips for powercells entirely
• Patch geometry / place invisible wall to stop door skip on Geyser
• Fix stuck camera on tree near scout-fly in Geyser Rock
• Review all exploits found here and make sure they're no longer present
• Review all exploits found here and make sure they're no longer present

Edit 1; Finished off the list of things to do and added more context into what the finished build will look like, also invited people to make suggestions.

Edit 2; Still adding to list, it's going to be huge... I won't make note of any of these edits in the future.