Speedrunners are, to me, among the many closest our world has to wizards. By means of hours of devoted research, they’re capable of casually slip the bonds imposed by their simulated actuality. When a brand new approach seems, it may be like watching mages commerce round a brand new cantrip—a locked door clipped by way of right here, an enemy compelled to despawn there. However some strategies, like a newly-discovered Elden Ring speedrun tech that lets the participant stroll by way of the air, are like watching the excessive artwork of sorcery advance in actual time.
The place the common Elden Ring participant has to toil by way of a world of deadly terrors, the brand new exploit permits the speedrunner to take a look at all that and say, “Nah, I am going to simply go over it.” It is known as the “Legasus” glitch, a play on “Pegasus,” on account of the flying, and “leg,” on account of doing it along with your ft. The portmanteau is among the many speedrunner’s best loves.
Found and initially examined by speedrunners Joo, Lumi, and vir, the glitch “permits you to enter a restricted no-gravity state” by interrupting the animation that performs whereas summoning Torrent. Throughout the animation, the participant briefly triggers a collection of flags and results that they might usually by no means discover, as a result of the consequences are misplaced as quickly as Torrent’s summoning is full. Suspending that animation at a particular body earlier than the participant begins using Torrent, nonetheless, means these results—together with anti-gravity—stay lively till the animation resumes.
There are just a few methods to droop Torrent’s summoning. The best includes activating a Stonesword Key statue. Some in-game actions in Elden Ring put you in a state that “prevents sure actions from disabling others,” in response to vir’s glitch writeup. Typically the state solely lasts momentarily, however an oversight from FromSoft means Stonesword Key statues depart you within the state indefinitely, till you die, teleport, or decide up an merchandise. The state known as being “stoned,” which vir writes “is meant to be humorous. Please snigger.”
Whereas in a stoned state, whistling for Torrent after which interacting with a website of grace with very exact timing will activate the Legasus glitch. Alternatively, you possibly can completely time a insanity or sleep impact to set off on the mandatory body to droop Torrent’s animation. Both method, you are now capable of stroll weightlessly by way of the air. Here is a video of the glitch in motion:
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Sadly, the glitch ends as quickly as your character enters their idle animation, and you may solely stroll straight forwards. Fortunately, as you possibly can see in vir’s video above, you possibly can forestall your idle animation by blocking with a defend, and you may change your path by aiming a bow and rolling. No one stated sorcery was easy.
As famous by GamesRadar, the invention comes in the course of a $10,000 Elden Ring speedrun competitors. Elden Ring speedrunner Distortion2 posted a $10,000 bounty reward for whoever efficiently kills all Shadow of the Erdtree remembrance bosses at rune stage 1 within the shortest time earlier than August 12, 2024, utilizing solely DLC weapons, and leveling up the Scadutree blessing simply as soon as per boss killed. Hell of a problem, clearly, however it’s abruptly somewhat simpler. In the Discord for the speedrun competitors, Distortion2, who offered further testing for the Legasus glitch, wrote that it is “the holy grail of DLC skips,” permitting speedrunners “to straight fall into the later part of Abyssal Woods, and likewise probably opens up new routing choices.”
