We had a topic at the club before, asking people how long they thought it would take to get through Eldon's Ring of Law. I estimated my time at 150 hours, and now it seems that I was still too optimistic. A slow tune like mine can take up to 200 hours to clear.
So every time I see the big guy refresh the speed record of "Eldon's Ring of Law", I have a feeling that I can't say it. The big guys are constantly improving and optimizing the process in order to win the world number one, and I am playing through the game according to my own tune, exploring every part of the junction. Although our goals are not the same, I sometimes wonder if I can beat the game faster.
At my own pace, it may take a long time to clear the customs clearance
But now it seems that too fast is not a good thing.
However, some netizens feel that Distortion2's latest speed-through challenge is actually meaningless, why is this?
The map of "Eldon's Ring of Law" is so large, even if any boss does not play all the way to the horse, it is difficult to say whether it can run to the royal city in 7 minutes, and it is even more impossible to pass the level. That's why Distortion2 uses a lot of bugs in the hack to achieve such incredible results.
The most commonly used bug in this quick pass is a fast moving bug called "The Zip". When I watch distortion2's fast-track video, I wonder why he defends for two or three seconds and the character flies out of the way. I opened the game and tried it myself, but nothing happened, as if I wasn't playing the same game as the big guy.
According to Distortion2's explanation in the comments section, the principle of this bug is that the player maintains a defensive state and then moves, and if the two actions add up to exactly 139 frames, the character will be catapulted into the distance. The longer the movement, the farther the ejection distance.
If you want to trigger this bug frequently, you can try to set the game's graphics settings to a minimum to make sure that the game's frame rate is stable enough. Then use a custom metronome, set to 109 beats per minute, defend against 4 beats and then move, there is a high probability of successful triggering.
The second bug is the most common map teleportation bug in the Eldon Circle of Law Express. In the Speednet video, Distortion2 first uses the fast-moving BUG to reach the Four Bell Tower at about one and a half minutes of the challenge. Then, when using the bottom portal, the game is forced to be repulsed, and the character will be teleported to the later Sky City, eliminating the need for a large part of the process.
Even more outrageous than the two above, Distortion2 didn't hit any of the monsters during the speed pass, but instead used a BUG called "Megazip" to skip all the combat flow of the game.
The general principle is that when the player triggers the bug "The Zip", they press the forward button again for 12 to 14 frames, which will make the ejection distance 4 times farther than normal.
Perhaps because the scene is too far away from the character, the map at the boss's feet begins to disappear, triggering a fall judgment after a while. The player's character is catapulted rather than directly falling, so if properly controlled, the boss will fall to his death before the character lands.
This bug directly killed the nearby bosses
If you don't know the knowledge mentioned above in advance, you may be like me, excitedly clicking into the video and then completely unable to understand how this quick pass is.
After Distortion2 released the express video, some netizens felt that his express communication was meaningless at all. For example, this netizen feels that this express is just showing the code of "Eldon's Law Ring".
This netizen believes that there is no point in relying purely on bugs, and the fastpass should be a normal pass of the "Eldon Ring of Law" within a few hours.
This netizen named CyberSku11 thinks that there is no problem with using some BUGs when speeding up, but it is more or less a boss. This quick pass skips all the boss battles, and it's not as interesting to him as a video of a major boss kill.
Of course, there are also netizens who directly deny the significance of the existence of Express. He thinks it's fun to play honestly and play with friends. But he said he had spent 3,000 hours on Eldon's Ring of Law and was still online with friends... I'm not quite sure if it's fishing or if I blew a bull without knowing the game.
Don't look at the challenge of the game Speed, which has existed for so long, netizens still have different opinions about whether they can use BUGs in Speed. Some people feel that it cannot be used, because this is not the original intention of the creator, relying on the strength of the boss to have ornamental; some people think that it can be used, after all, the speed of the pursuit of speed, can find these bugs and successfully use is also a skill.
In fact, the classification of speed pass has been relatively clear a lot, and the above two types of views actually correspond to two different speed pass types.
For example, speedrun, a website commonly used by speed-sharing gangsters, there are usually several types of speed-through on it:
The first is Any. This is a very free quick rule, as long as the challenger does not use plug-ins, then no matter what way to complete the level, the challenge is successful, and various evil ways of playing may appear in Any% Speed. Distortion2 mentioned above is the Eldon Ring of Law speed pass that challenges under the Any% rule.
This is followed by 100%. This type of quick pass usually requires the challenger to collect all the items, or kill all the bosses, in short, the challenger is to completely complete a game, and the specific way to achieve it is determined by the actual situation of the game.
There's also a genre called Low%, which is the opposite of 100%, which requires the challenger to keep the game completion as low as possible while also completing the game quickly.
Finally, there's Glitchless, which requires challengers not to take advantage of any game bugs while playing speed.
The above 4 are just the most common types of speed, and if you break down into each game, there may be some unique speed type. For example, use only a knife to complete Resident Evil 3 Remake, a harmless pass of God of War, or a level 1 "Useless Man" to complete Dark Souls 3.
Individual games have different speed-through rules
However, Distortion2, a 7-minute "Eldon's Ring of Law" Any% express pass, is slightly special and can easily become a target for some netizens:
The popularity of "Eldon's Ring of Law" is too high, some netizens who do not understand Speedcom go to see the original video after watching the relevant reports, but find that Speedpass is completely different from what they thought, not relying on game skills to quickly pass the game, but the whole process is using the bug of the game, shouting and being deceived.
Netizens who were not cold to the speed pass, after seeing the report, found that such a good game fast pass was actually rolled up to 7 minutes, a good game not to enjoy, so anxious to pass the level of what to do? We have to stop this trend quickly.
Friends who know a little about the rules of speed and know what is going on with any% mode of speed, click in and find that the video is using bugs throughout the process, and even the boss battle has been skipped. While it's understandable that Any% is free, it seems a bit overdoing this time.
In the end, Distortion2, which should have reaped the joy of success and the blessings of others, had to deal with all kinds of negative news about the express communication on the Internet.
Just when I thought Distortion2 was going to be depressed for a while, he suddenly updated the Speed Pass video of Level 1 killing all the major bosses of Eldon's Ring of Law, which took 3 hours, 11 minutes and 59 seconds. Combined with the various malicious messages left by some netizens to him, it is difficult for me not to think about whether this is Distortion2's counterattack against these people, proving that I am not a person who will only use BUG to skip all boss battles and play games purely to pursue the speed of the level.
In the latest Crashpass video, Distortion2 doesn't use fast teleport bugs, but moves normally like a normal player. Maybe he doesn't want the latest video to be thought by some netizens that it is possible to pass the customs so quickly by removing the rush process by bugs.
This quick pass is not completely unused by some of the game's mechanics, such as the soul series's ancestral strong retreat game to save the opening time, and the forced retreat game to restore all enemy positions. If you had to remove even this, you might have to rethink the game's quick-track flow.
Because it can't be upgraded, Distortion 2's main weapon is the "Great Snake Hunting Spear" that can be obtained when fighting Blasphemous King Lakad, and the first boss to kill is also Lakkad. Don't look at the character is only level 1, but through the combination of various effects, two knives can end the second stage of the Full Moon Queen.
However, in this quick-pass challenge, Distortion2 also had many mistakes, stuck in the Valkyrie Marlenia for almost 20 minutes, and the audience in the live broadcast room watched him being killed several times by the Valkyrie's blood.
In fact, Distortion2 does not need to be so anxious to send videos to prove itself, after watching his YouTube channel, you can know that whether it is the Any% rule of the fast pass, the main boss kill fast pass, or the level 1 solo Valkyrie, he is already the most thorough researcher of the "Eldon Ring" fast pass.
Maybe he is worried that passers-by players think that Speed pass is a boring thing that will only try their best to exploit loopholes and specifically find bugs in the game. After all, the real speed pass is far more than the simple one shown in the video, which is a professional and interesting extreme challenge for the player.