Elden Ringis a widely popular game that has a myriad of different ways to play and things to do - and one of them is speedrunning. The speedrunning community loves to take a massive game likeElden Ringthat usually would take players scores of hours to complete and boil it down to a playthrough that doesn’t even touch the half-hour mark.
When it comes to speedrunning, the key is for players to look for every single possible way to skip things, shorten the amount of time it takes to do certain things, and cut corners in any way possible. Thecurrent world record for speedrunningElden Ringis incredible and clocks in at under 9 minutes, which is incredibly fast, considering how vast the world is and how many tasks the player needs to accomplish to actually finish the game.
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The speedrunning community thanks players like Redditor Luvonir, who discovered a great way to skip the chest opening animation in order to save a few precious seconds during a run. The clip shows the player jumping onto the chest and then inputting the open chest button right as they walk off of the chest and run away from it, causing the animation to skip, but the contents of the chest still to go intothe player’s inventory. In this way, players can loot chests without having to wait for the lengthy animation to play through, saving time.
The speedrunning community is made up of a bunch of individuals that are very dedicated to their craft, exemplified bythisCupheadspeedrunnerthat took their laptop on a mountain hike with them and completed an 8 hour speedrun while hiking. So, when someone finds a tactic or strategy that helps cut time and do things faster in games, the speedrunning community gets especially excited to try it out and decrease their best times.
Elden Ringis a vast game that can take quite a long time to beat - and as players have found out, it isn’t even possible tofinish the game 100% in a single playthrough, as there are multiple endings that must all be achieved in order to finally complete the game. Speedrunners are able to manipulate certain things and use speedy strategies to cut this time down though, and this chest animation skip will definitely come in handy for that.
Players like Luvonir and speedrunners can look forward to discovering many more such strategies forElden Ringin order to try and finish the game as quickly as possible.
Elden Ringis available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S.
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