Redguard:Glitches/Tech

Between the UESP's existing article about glitches and the surge in glitch hunting research done through the Moist Redguard Speedrun Challenge, there are now tons of glitches in Redguard. The goal of this page is to compile technical and historical info for every glitch no matter how insignificant or obsolete it is.

This process involves documenting glitches that are common knowledge, finding old videos/info about long-forgotten glitches, and discovering new glitches.

Glitch Hunting

Full Article: Glitch Hunting

We have an ongoing project to discover new glitches through community collaboration. Theorized glitches and potential leads for solving how to perform those glitches are detailed in the full article. This project additionally explores the full potential of glitches that have already been discovered through proposed experiments to try out.

Glitches

Glitches fall under several different categories:

• Movement: Glitches that exploit Redguard's messy controls.
• Clipping: Glitches that result in the player moving out of bounds or moving through walls/obstacles.
• Hardware: Glitches that are specific to the hardware of a specific DOSBox configuration or physical copy of the game.
• Graphical: Visual glitches.
• Misc.: Glitches that fall under no clear category. This will be used less frequently as we organize the glitches further.

Glitch	Category	Description
Enemy Push Clip	Clipping	Standing with your back to a wall and spamming the sheath button while an enemy lunge attacks you will push you backwards through most walls and objects.
Object Push Clip	Clipping	Wiggling in between objects with strange collision behavior while your sword is out will sometimes push you through nearby walls and objects.
Sheath Glide	Clipping	Unsheathing your sword and then pressing and holding Sheath + Forward + Jump + Walk during the animation will buffer a fast forward glide that is unaffected by gravity, can clip through many objects and terrain, and buffer a jump at the end.
Terrain Zip	Clipping	Sheath Gliding on a walkable slope causes you to clip through it, zipping up to the terrain height at the end of the glide. This can be used to pass underneath walls and other objects.
Jump Spam Clip	Clipping	Spamming Jump while running forward on sloped objects like bridges will often cause you to clip through the floor. This does not work on terrain slopes.
Double Jump	Movement	You can jump again while already in the air.
Walk Slide	Movement	Jumping while running forward with Walk Mode on will cause jumps to glide forward without gaining height. The speed of this glide is unaffected by slopes.
Moonwalk	Movement	Tapping back and immediately pressing Jump + Forward will cause a brief moonwalk slide and buffer a jump at the end.
Climbing Zip	Movement	If two ledges are close enough to each other, you can zip up/down to a nearby ledge while climbing on a different one. The scaffolding at the end of the game is a prime example of this.
Fast Combat	Movement	Jumping and attacking in the air back and forth with precise timing can trivialize most combat situations.
Slope Climb	Movement	While the Resurrection glitch is active, the player can walk up slopes that normally force the player to slide, allowing access to many unintentional areas.
Resurrection	Misc.	Quicksaving during your death animation and reloading that quicksave will cause you to stay alive with zero health, allowing you to continue playing normally.