Elden Ring speedrunners had been pressured to scramble for a brand new technique when the sport’s 1.03 patch hit final week. That replace closely nerfed varied speedrunning crutches utilized by document holder Distortion2, which has naturally led to a scramble to seek out higher methods to interrupt the sport. Elden Ring gamers could have already got discovered a solution: make the horse fly.
It is exhausting to trace precisely who found the glitch first, however the earliest video dates to March 17. It really works like this: In sure areas of the map, you could dismount Torrent instantly earlier than letting it plunge to its dying. Then, if you spawn the horse in once more, it will be capable to run throughout the sky, pegasus-like.
That makes it sound simple. It is apparently a fairly tough glitch to tug off, and might solely be executed in particular areas of the map. The afore-linked video exhibits a “launch level” outdoors Volcano Manor, but it surely’s additionally achievable in Mountaintop of Giants. Distortion2 has been pulling it off on Capital Outskirts.
On Distortion2’s Twitch stream, a variety of experimentation is going on, but it surely’s as but unclear if the flying horse glitch will provide any tangible advantages to speedrunners (to not point out the truth that it will doubtless be patched as soon as FromSoftware notices). It is doable to gallop beneath a lot of the Leyndell Royal Capital, however rising safely again onto the map seems to be the subsequent impediment to beat. “At this level I do not know if doing this might be sooner than simply going by this place usually,” Distortion2 stated on stream.
The glitch additionally gives entry to some interiors utilizing Torrent, although how this might be helpful, once more, has but to be established. Regardless of the case, it won’t be lengthy earlier than the outdated sub-30 minute Elden Ring speedrun could be matched within the new 1.03 model of the sport.
