Elden Ring speedruns are getting faster and faster, with the latest world record managing to get a time under 13 minutes.
If you haven’t been paying attention to Elden Ring Any% Unrestricted speedruns, it’s time to get on it. The current world record is from Distortion2, and comes in at 12 minutes and 13 seconds. Just two weeks ago, the speedrunner had a time of just over 22 minutes, which means Distortion2 shaved off a whole 10 minutes in quite a short period of time. The run is also an incredibly wild one to watch, as it involves a technique known as the zip glitch.
The zip glitch is a weird one, and it’s not currently known why it happens, but essentially it works like this: it’s a frame perfect glitch where if you move in a precise way while blocking, the idle animation is broken, shooting you across the map. If you watch the run you might notice that the character falls from high up, but no fall damage is received, likely because the game thinks the model has not moved upwards. This allows runners to zip across the map, skipping large sections of the game.
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