Yesterday, YouTuber and speedrunner MitChriz beat Elden Ring in simply 12 minutes and 32 seconds, setting what seems to be a brand new file within the “any% unrestricted” speedrunning class for the sport.

To drag this off, you most likely already guessed that there have been some shenanigans and trickery occurring within the run. And you’d be appropriate. MitChriz used an Elden Ring speedrunning trick referred to as “zipping” to primarily teleport all over the world. This protects a whole lot of time in comparison with operating all over the place and even utilizing your trusting, double-jumping horse.

Utilizing this trick, MitChriz was in a position to bypass the Limgrave part of the sport after which popped straight over to Liurnia, the place they use a now accessible waygate to entry a late-game space. Utilizing the zipping trick, they then skip previous all however one of many bosses and attain the ultimate boss in file time. Utilizing the zip trick they skip previous that boss combat too and end the sport in below 13 minutes.

And right here I keep in mind final month once I thought beating Elden Ring in 37 minutes was quick.

You is perhaps questioning: Wait…what’s zipping? Properly, it’s a speedrunning method that has grow to be extra widespread just lately amongst runners targeted on setting new file instances within the any% unrestricted class for Elden Ring. On this specific speedrunning class, gamers aren’t required to finish all of the steps, get all of the runes or do anything that’s often wanted to progress by the sport. The principle aim in most of these runs is to simply attain the tip and get to the credit as quick as doable utilizing any technique and methods you may.

And additional, within the unrestricted class actually wild and difficult strategies like zipping—which requires a beefy PC—are allowed.

Before somebody will get indignant at MitChriz for utilizing glitches or methods to beat the sport, do not forget that this is only one sort of pacerun class that exists for Elden Ring and that different gamers are on the market setting instances for runs that contain beating each boss or by no means taking injury, and so forth.

I now await somebody beating Elden Ring in below 10 minutes.