Jump glitch

The jump glitch is a technique in Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain which allows a single player to access normally inaccessible places that can only be accessed with a teammate and/or to gain access to certain areas that normally require a player to go through a circuitous process to access that place.

Method

Face the object you wish to traverse, roll and hit the X button as your character's back hits the ground. This may require significant amounts of practice and as such it will make certain objectives much more difficult.

• Equip a back or auxiliary weapon
• Roll with the circle button
• Hit the circle button again
• Press the X button when your agent's is on the ground
• This will cause your character to jump if done correctly
• Activate the flashlight to make things easier. The X button should be pressed when the light points at the ground.

Objectives for which this glitch works

Carthage, Michigan: Quarantine Zone

• Retrieve Broussard's laptop

Sana'a, Yemen: Taherir Palace

• Destroy SCUD missile mechanism

Taguang, Myanmar: Irawaddy Basin

• Recover black box flight recorder

Is the glitch useful outside of team objectives?

• In Carthage, Michigan: Quarantine Zone, the player can use the same technique to recover C4 charges from a building that is usually only accessible online. These explosives can be used to blow open a gate leading to Andre Proust without requiring the character to access the train tunnels.
• In Carthage, Michigan: Warehouse District, the player can again acquire C4 from the train's rooftop in the tunnels. Plant a charge in the furnace room to quickly kill the ALA death squad without needing to fight them directly!
  • Using this method to take out the squad causes the building above to be partially destroyed by the explosion, and the debris will unfortunately also block this exit, requiring you to make a slight detour. With the help of your team, you can climb inside that same building using a hole in its left wall. Inside there is a box with some items including an MGL.
• In Mazyr, Belarus: Krivorozhstal Mill, the third worker (the one that's outside, behind the barrels) is close to a place where you can lift a teammate up. There's a vent nearby. If you follow it, it leads to a platform with items. It remains unknown if this ledge can be accessed using the jump glitch, and it's also unknown what exactly the items are.
• In North Atlantic: Lorelei Salvage Rig, the player can also use this to access Mujari's location from the topside deck and this allows one to access a 10,000 point flak jacket.
• In Tokyo, Japan: Murakawa Tower, it may be possible to bypass the security level even when the alarm is triggered using this glitch.
• In Samaschki, Chechnya: Ivankov's Home, the player can access Ivankov's house using this method instead of shimmying across a pipe opposite said character's house.
• In Sana'a, Yemen: Arms Bazaar, it is possible to enter the bus right next to the player and explore it with this technique.
• Completing Sana'a, Yemen: Taherir Palace while tackling this objective is rather tricky. Because Zohar's death will automatically fail the mission, extensive practice is required to destroy the SCUD missile.
  • It is also possible to leave the balcony and explore the area using this method.
  • If the player happens to jump off the palace from the area where the copter will arrive before the aircraft appears, mission failure is automatically triggered.
• In Kiev, Ukraine: Chechen Terrorist Base, the player can use this to access Rodion Ushakov's tank.
• It is impossible to complete both the objectives in Mazyr, Belarus: Belaya Vezha and Kiev, Ukraine: Chechen Terrorist Base even with this technique.

Guide

A walkthrough for the method can be found here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b6x6glLz7Q