[Update]SpeedRun completely breaks “Aerdon’s Ring” in less than 30 minutes to become the King of Aerdon | 4Gamers

Although it is not a one-time clearance, the speed at which the RTA/IGT masters completely broke the “Elden Ring” (Elden Ring) is still within 1 hour as expected, just today (14) American players Distortion2 It is to advance his SpeedRun time record, from the original 49 minutes to 33 minutes in one fell swoop.

In fact, SpeedRun’s “Eldon’s Circle” has many techniques familiar to past soul players, such as closing and restarting the game in some places, which not only saves animation time, but also avoids enemy attacks, and even finds ” Jump King” BUG.

Distortion2’s SpeedRun challenge this time also adopted the background of a samurai, with the “frozen shell axe” as the main force, and the route is still to quickly reach the magic school in the lake area. After obtaining the key, go to the iron maiden hidden underground. The machine doll teleports to the volcano mansion (starts at 11:58).

When you come to the Volcano Mansion, the goal is to kidnap the girl dolls by the BOSS, in order to quickly get to the Yatan Plateau where the king city is located (the general route needs to obtain the talisman), and then there is the magical reopening of Dafa, through the portal of the four bell towers. The starting point of adventure leading to Fam Yazra.

In the end, jump over the wall to reopen, which can completely avoid the battle with Grafley (starting at 36:24) to save time and face the final BOSS Radagan. Compared with the previous challenge, Distortion2 saves the time of fighting bosses such as God Skin Noble and Baizhi at the Volcano Mansion, making the SpeedRun route more perfect.

According to the live record of Distortion2, the time he completed the challenge was 35 minutes and 15 seconds, but the time recorded in the game save was 33 minutes and 55 seconds. If the mistakes are subtracted, the speed may be able to be pressed within 30 minutes.

And such a time record seems to be similar to the Any% record of works such as “Sekiro: Shadow Double Death” or “Dark Souls 3”, which shows that RTA/IGT masters are very accustomed to tackling From Software’s works from generation to generation, always Can find the fastest solution to jumping levels to beat the king.

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Update: 2022/3/14 18:30 PM

Not long ago, Distortion2 updated his personal best IGT time record, which is already under 30 minutes.