These glitches take advantage of a quirk where the game can sometimes lose track of a player's true position in the world. Just days later, though, Distortion2 had already taken that time down to 28:59 by using "wrong warp" techniques. That led to the first public, sub-hour Elden Ring speedrun by Twitch streamer LilAggy on March 9, just 12 days after the game's release. Soon, though, players were dipping into old Dark Souls speedrunning tricks to bypass tough bosses or reach new map sections via careful, barely survivable jumps. Just days after Elden Ring's late February release, players marveled at traditional deathless runs that clocked in at just under 2.5 hours. So let us help you out with a quick primer on the short history of Elden Ring speedrunning thus far and the glitches and exploits that are driving players through the Lands Between in ever-shorter amounts of time. Given that, the fact that the speedrunning community can now demonstrate a complete start-to-finish Elden Ring run in under nine minutes might be a little surprising.Įven for experienced Elden Ring players, watching Distortion2's takedown of the game in 8 minutes, 56 seconds-a run in which he doesn't attack a single enemy-can be confusing. This record has been a long time coming.Further Reading Elden Ring review: Come see the softer side of punishing difficultyIn the nearly two months since Elden Ring was released, the average player has reportedly needed dozens of hours to finish the "main story" portion of the game. and various other games for years, uploading his first Super Mario Bros. Kosmic has been speedrunning Super Mario Bros. any % category with a time of 4:56 and 548 ms, got that time 11 months ago, so you can see how long it takes for these records to be achieved. Darbian, who currently holds third place in the Super Mario Bros. Since then, runners have taken turns in the spotlight, slowly perfecting the run over hundreds of attempts. It was as long ago as 2010 that legendary Mario speedrunner AndrewG first hit a sub-5-minute run. Top runners are at a point where they can only hope to improve their times by shaving off milliseconds. speedruns, speedrunners have been whittling down the world record for well over a decade. speedruns won't even recognize when it happens.Īs YouTuber and speedrunning historian Summoning Salt points out in his thorough analysis of Super Mario Bros. When Kosmic says he's tied with the TAS run at 4-1, that means his inputs are matched up exactly with the program's and he can't physically do any better.įrom there, Kosmic continues to nail everything almost perfectly, slipping up so minorly that most viewers who aren't familiar with the nuances of Super Mario Bros. is 4:54 and 30 ms, according to TASVideos. Right now, the theoretical fastest time someone can beat Super Mario Bros. People can use a tool to program exact inputs in games, which can be used to figure out the best possible time that a game can be completed. TAS stands for tool-assisted speedrun, and that's exactly what it sounds like. NES controllers are coming to Nintendo Switch along with 20 NES gamesĪfter clearing the first level perfectly, nailing the second level, and clipping the wall to warp into the first level of world four, Kosmic says he's "literally tied with the TAS."
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