An especially important discovery for speedrunners.

Image of the original Dark Souls, one of the most important video games in history.

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There is no doubt that Dark Souls is one of the best games in history, which turned out to be extremely revolutionary at the time, although many people did not know how to see it first. Even so, over time, and the launch of other games like Elden Ring, which made us fall in love from the first moment, as we told you in our analysis, and which made us this genre already became masssomething that we can see in their sales figures.

Even so, we can say that the original title of this renowned From Software saga remains very current today, with a large number of people playing it for the first time, but also many users who decide to return to it many years after its launch. to experience the title in a completely different way, something you can do if you use this exploit so curiouswhich basically allows you to destroy the AI ​​of certain enemies.

If you are a speedrunner this interests you and a lot

In the video below, from YouTuber “catalystz”, he explains this exploit in great detail, and what it can be used for specifically. Speaking briefly, and for everyone to understand, it was discovered a while ago that for certain situations, it helps a lot to switch weapons at specific times, or even enter the menu just right. before going into a fogbut the best we have not told you yet.

Shortly after, a speedrunner discovered how enemy detection worked, and we are talking about a system that works like a list, which is updated every certain number of frames. The trick is that by doing the aforementioned actions, so that you will have periods in which the player will not be perceived.

This may seem like it only works against enemies, but as the aforementioned video points out, there are also bosses that this exploit is very comfortable against. Of course, for practical purposes, this should only be used by speedrunners, since, in addition to being very difficult to execute, makes the game lose some essence.

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