Guide for Weaponless A ending Nier Automata Speedrun

Due to the old guide being somewhat outdated, this video goes over a lot of tips and tricks for the weaponless A ending category for Nier Automata speedrun. It does not go over the opening shmup or GRUN as it is similar enough to the Any% route, only difference being keeping 9S on passive for GRUN in weaponless instead of switching him to long range in Any%. I mainly watched Kasserne's, Marbles, and Amei's weaponless runs when coming up with the route. Links to those runs are here: Amei's current wr run -    • NieR: Automata [A]ny% (Weaponless) Speedru...   Kasserne's old wr run -    • NieR: Automata: Weaponless [A]ny% 1:40:32.510   Marble's run with mansplaining -    • NieR: Automata We[A]ponless Speedrun in 1:...   The skips in the run are the weaponless versions of Crane skip, Bridge skip, Factory Out of Bounds, Engels pipe swag, Engels stairs double lift, Desert teleporter out of bounds, Barricade skip (full), Desert Housing skip, Adam pit voidless and not voidless, Desert savescum (Box clip), Amusement Park Discovery Cutscene skip, Half Coaster skip, Full Coaster skip, Beauvoir/Auditorium door clip (failed attempt), Pascal's Village deathwarp, City Engels hole (schloop), Mom skip, Rainbow Road, Forest Castle skip, A2 arena escape, Flooded City Discovery Cutscene skip, Mansplaining, Mooks room, 9S room, Deep Factory skip v2 (failed attempt), Shabu skip, Factory Out of Bounds (with stubbies nearby). Timestamps for different parts of the video: Introduction - 0:00:00 Necessary settings before starting - 0:01:58 Unequipping weapons, Silo 1 fight, and weaponless combat explanation (dashpunching is done because of pushback (where hitting an enemy pushes 2B backwards) not knockback (where you stumble after getting hit by something)) - 0:04:40 Marx 1 fight - 0:10:21 Crane skip - 0:13:20 Dash punch explanation - 0:15:49 Silo 2 fight - 0:18:37 Bridge skip - 0:20:25 Factory Out of Bounds - 0:24:35 Silo 3 fight - 0:26:49 Marx 2 fight (forgot to say that you move the pod up and down to avoid 2B butt swiping you) - 0:29:46 Engels RNG - 0:33:53 Engels stairs double lift - 0:36:33 Prologue ending (with Engels double hit attempt) - 0:39:15 Menu boss - 0:41:09 Access points partner dialogue cancel attempt - 0:44:09 City Ruins side quests optimizations - 0:45:33 Desert Camp buys - 1:02:56 Desert teleporter out of bounds - 1:05:59 Barricade skip - 1:07:23 Desert sand sliding (includes left, right, and stoopid slide) - 1:09:27 Desert Housing skip - 1:15:35 Adam pit fight - 1:20:07 Desert escape - 1:26:38 Desert savescum (Box clip) - 1:28:44 Amusement Park Discovery Cutscene skip - 1:31:39 Half and Full Coaster skip - 1:32:08 Beauvoir Boss fight - 1:37:13 Beauvoir/Auditorium door clip attempt - 1:40:28 Pascal's Village deathwarp - 1:42:06 City Engels routing - 1:46:00 City Engels hole - 1:48:46 Negotiations fight - 1:51:26 Bunker partner dialogue cancel - 1:54:40 Pascal's Village buys (the ending g is for t+5, t+3 only needs at least 3.5k or 8.5k depending on if you have a shockwave chip that is less than or equal to 8 cost) - 1:55:56 Mom skip - 1:57:25 Commercial Facility partner dialogue cancel attempt - 1:58:35 Forest route - 1:59:20 Rainbow Road - 2:01:27 Forest Castle skip - 2:02:26 A2 boss fight - 2:03:50 A2 arena escape - 2:05:14 Pascal's village dialogue cancel attempt (shoot/punch stubbies) - 2:06:24 Emil dialogue cancels and buys - 2:07:20 Flooded City Discovery Cutscene skip - 2:09:54 Shore fight - 2:11:20 Copied City movement - 2:14:08 Mansplaining - 2:16:29 Adam Copied City fight - 2:18:20 Yorha commander dialogue cancel - 2:19:25 Analyzing current trends partial route - 2:19:46 Mansplaining explained (to the best of my ability) - 2:21:24 Entering Deep factory optimizations - 2:25:16 Mooks room void out - 2:27:16 9S room void out - 2:28:03 Deep Factory skip v2 attempt - 2:29:08 So-shi fight - 2:32:04 Shabu skip attempt - 2:34:01 Factory Out of Bounds with stubbies - 2:36:02 Burning Camp route - 2:36:43 Resistance Camp fight - 2:38:08 Boss Rush fight explanations (sorry about audio increase) - 2:40:31 Boku-shi fight - 2:42:30 Core 1 fight - 2:43:15 Core 2 fight - 2:44:25 Eve phase 1 fight - 2:45:53 Eve phase 2 skip - 2:46:43 Eve phase 3 and 4 fight - 2:47:15 Credits - 2:49:16 Beauvoir phase 1 fight possible improvements - 2:55:57 Eve phase 1 platform skip attempt - 3:00:12 2B combat explained - 3:05:12 Resistance Camp clip out (Flooded city side) - 3:08:10 Final comments (you fuse t+2 into t+3 during Pascal's Village deathwarp part not during Flooded city discovery skip) - 3:08:50