Elden Ring Player Clips Through Gate in Shunning Grounds

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Part of what makes FromSoftware's games so exciting is how much content is created and discovered outside the game itself. Elden Ring is a great example of this, as players continue to find secrets, process lore, delve into PvP, and more. Now that many Elden Ring players have finished their playthroughs, speedrunning has grown increasingly popular. One new discovery could help these Elden Ring speedrunners, and it could help Elden Ring casual players, too.

Reddit user Opposite_Solution_38 shared a clip from Elden Ring this past week during which they discovered something strange. The title of their thread reads «I just clipped through the gate in shunning grounds by having my equip menu open?» and the video shows exactly that.

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In the video, the Elden Ring player is shown exploring the Subterranean Shunning Grounds, a dungeon below Lleyndel full of Omen enemies, sewers, and more. It's also quite labyrinthian, with players required to open a variety of gates and doors to access deeper levels of the dungeon. The player comes around a corner and sees an item to be picked up, only to be ambushed by an Omen. They then jump into their inventory while running back to try and equip some poison darts, only to walk through a metal gate as if it wasn't there.

How this glitch happened is a complete mystery at this point. Obviously, Elden Ring characters should not be able to run through a gate. That means that there was a glitch that somehow allowed the player to pass through, or the gate wasn't actually there, and a visual bug made it display in error. The player later confirmed they tried it again and weren't able to replicate the bug. Nevertheless, it's something that's going to lead to some