Elden Ring Invader Helps Player Skip Chunks of the Game

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There are options for both cooperative play and PvP in Elden Ring. Players can team up to take down bosses or difficult dungeons, and players can also duel each other for runes or just invade a player and ruin their day. In an odd twist, two players have found a way to combine both parts of Elden Ring's multiplayer in order to skip gigantic chunks of the game.

Elden Ring has an unorthodox approach to its multiplayer system. Players have to use consumable items in Elden Ring to access multiplayer functions. While a lot of players have taken issue with the accessibility of Elden Ring's multiplayer, it has still allowed for some of the most memorable experiences in the game, such as getting invaded, dueling, and then losing thousands of runes, preventing leveling up, and then seeking revenge on the invader. But instead of dueling when an invader stepped into a player's world, the Elden Ring player and the invader worked together to use the game's animation locks to skip a lot of the game.

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In a video posted to Reddit by user Mr_Pixelboy, the players use a stunlock animation from a critical hit in order to survive a fall down an elevator shaft that is normally not accessible until late in the game at Leyndell, Royal Capital. By invading for PvP instead of cooperating, the players are able to target each other, which makes this whole thing possible. By using this trick, both players survive the fall down the elevator shaft and are now able to skip a huge part of the game. This is just one of many areas that can be skipped for speed runs; another discovered skip in Leyndell allows players to skip part of the sewers in Elden Ring.

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