
He had, however, been caught by the French player Seeker who held the new record at 6:46 minutes! First player down under 30 minutes, he then perfected his run to beat the game in less than 7 minutes.

Until recently, this is the player Distortion2 who was the master of it on Elden Ring. When we see the level of players capable of exploiting the slightest interaction to advance faster, we understand that it is a question of a real discipline. The players therefore have a field day in this category which offers us quality entertainment. In short, everything is allowed apart from cheating, including skipping quests, even those in the main story.

Simply put, players have the right to exploit all native systems and flaws of the game to move faster, and all that matters is arrive at the end of game screenregardless of its completion rate. Official speedrun leaderboards for Elden Ring opened today, so Hazeblade is now officially the fastest Elden Ring player.For those uninitiated in the world of speedrunning, the “ Any% Unrestricted” is the most permissive, therefore generally the most spectacular but also the one that gives the best final results. A recent patch from FromSoftware rebalanced the game, which many suspected would require new speedrunning strategies.Īs speedrunner LilAggy told Eurogamer: "On the bright side, pretty much all of the glitches we have been using to skip through the game are still working, so it's really just a matter of figuring out what the best thing to defeat the bosses with is now." What's also notable is that Hazeblade is still playing the game on Patch 1.02 by not updating the game, in order to use old exploits. Interestingly, he doesn't choose the Samurai class at the start like other speedrunners have (he goes with Warrior instead), but he does still pick up the Icerind Hatchet weapon that's proven popular for its freezing ability.Ĭheck out a video of Hazeblade's run below. dWmzEBwXt6- Hazeblade MaTo see this content please enable targeting cookies.

World First Sub-25 minute Elden Ring Speedrun using a really stupid glitch we call "The Zip".
