Can the whole prologue be skipped with other method than using saves?
Every time I restarted the game, I had to go through the whole "walking cinematic" with Dr. Reed, where the game doesn't prompt any means to skip it.
The reason why I'm asking about not using a save method, is because of the use of mods: he game crashes when loading an unmodded game or one that won't coincide with game's mechanics.
I was wondering if devs made about some deep mechanism about it (maybe a hidden console thing, starting the game with parameters, etc) though I haven't found any so far.
Game has some modding potential, but it seems that nobody made a mod to skip the whole prologue (starting at Sarif, augmented, 6 months later).
Best Answer
It does not seem so. However, by using a glitch, you can skip most of it.
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An alternative, though not ideal, is to install the Map Selector mod. After all, debug menus are dev/cheat tools.
If never played before, the player would have the power to be auto-spoiled by the places the player would go through canonically. Also, once inside the menu, the player cannot exit the menu until choosing a map!
Lucky for me, I finished this game a long time ago, and judging by the start of the map selector's menu, it's in canon-chronological order. Also has an unused, more tutorial-oriented version of the prologue-escape map.
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