Every second counts when youâre trying a world record, which means players tend to discover some bizarre tricks to shave off time. Resident Evil speedrunners have been mining tricks for years, but theyâre gaining new life with the re-release. The most entertaining one Iâve discovered is what some call âstair skating.â
This particular instance of stair skating is demonstrated by speedrunner Carcinogen
âAny time I run up and down stairs, youâll see a glitchy stair animation,â he told me. âStair skating allows for 1.5x faster movement on stairs by mashing ârunâ with tank controls. The faster you mash, the faster you go. Viewers on my twitch channel named it âstair skating.'â
Youâll remember Carcinogen from earlier this week, as he demonstrated how easy it was to break leaderboards for Resident Evil by tweaking values for how the game measures time.
Tapping a button as fast as possible isnât all there to stair skating, however. Carcinogen has developed specific hand techniques for the major gaming controllers, to ensure youâre getting the maximum number of taps out of your hand. He personally prefers playing on PlayStation.
Goofy? Yes. Effective? Absolutely. Annoying to pull off over and over again? Probably.
Carcinogen recently uploaded a bunch of other clever tricks for Resident Evil, including a way to skip the reload animation for firing a shotgun, which also requires a unique hand configuration:
Whatâs impressive about these and other techniques discovered by speedrunners is how theyâre born from desperation. Once a game has been supposedly âmastered,â itâs time to get creative.
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