Elden Ring Trick Lets Players Skip Chest Animations
Elden Ring is 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 like Elden Ring that 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. The current world record for speedrunning Elden Ring is 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 into the 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 by this Cuphead speedrunner that 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
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