this ring of fire The speedrunning community is hungry for new exploits to hack the open-world FromSoftware game, and it may have just discovered one. As part of an ongoing $10,000 tournament, someone has found a way to replace the player character with the ability to walk on air and skip much of the recently released expansion. shadow of tree. Incredibly, the game isn’t over yet, but the community has found the “holy grail of DLC jumping.”
As first reported Game Radar+, the glitch (dubbed Legasus) involves interrupting the animation that summons the player’s Ghost Steed Torrent. Discovered by player Joo, the glitch can be activated in a variety of ways, including using the DLC’s perfume weapon or attacking the Grace Site where players can rest.
If the player manages to interrupt the mounting animation at the correct frame, they can achieve a “limited weightlessness” effect, allowing the player to walk on air. The initial animation is not cancelled, but “paused” while the player performs another action. This last point is especially important because in order to maintain the Legasus Effect, you can never be idle.
In fact, there are a million caveats to get Legasus working properly, you can read here, but the gist of it is that once you manage to activate the glitch, movement is no longer completely free. You can only move forward or backward, and you always have to do something like guard with a shield. If you idle, you’ll revert to the point where the glitch started, and if you accidentally break the effect elsewhere, you’re naturally at risk of falling to your death. Additionally, in order to turn, you have to use your bow, aim in the direction you want to go, and then dodge roll in that direction.
Once you get it working you can go very far, players have been using it to get into things like shadow of treeThe Abyssal Forest (This is obviously bad) while skipping the potentially troublesome parts of it. This is because you can also “uninstall” the torrent, which takes care of the rest of the summon animation and breaks the glitch exactly where you are, allowing players to strategically position themselves near a checkpoint to die and respawn there.
The tournament that led to this discovery was organized by Distortion 2one of the most well-known speedrunners in the FromSoftware directory, and a defeated one ring of fire and Nothing more than his character’s ass. The race will run until August 11th, challenge other runners to complete the race shadow of tree Under some brutal conditions that distort choice. The DLC must be completed at rune level 1 using weapons only found in the expansion, and players can only level up their Scadutree Blessing – one in shadow of tree——Each defeated boss fight will grant you a level.
Yeah, it’s fucking brutal, but it also looks like that The Masochist Gloves Loved by Soul Runners bear. Given these early results, it looks like the competition has achieved exactly what Distortion wanted it to do, kicking off a new race to find cool technology for the next great game ring of fire Run quickly.