On March 27th, gaming Youtuber Aaron (亜倫) has posted a video introducing a bug that can change the whole play experience of Elden Ring: the flying thunder god bug. With this bug, players can teleport to anywhere they want as long as they can locate the destination in their sight. As a game known for its difficulty, this bug can greatly reduce the difficulties faced while exploring Elden Ring, and provide a brand new route for speedrunners. Aaron named this bug the flying thunder god, it originally refers to ninjutsu in the manga Naruto that allows ninjas to teleport, so it's quite the same as what the Elden Ring bug can do in the game. (The video is in Mandarin Chinse, and further explanations are down below)
In the video, Aaron described in detail how this flying thunder god bug is triggered. All players need to cast this “ninjutsu” is a melee weapon, a random bow, and a BPM counter. Players first need to switch to the bow and aim at the place they want to teleport to, then switch to a melee weapon and dual-wield it. Next, we need to open the BPM counter and set a beat of 108bpm. At the first beat, players need to hold the defense and the slow walking button and take a small step forward at the fifth beat. At last, players need to release the two buttons at the sixth beat, and the teleportation error bug will be triggered. In the video, Aaron used this bug to jump directly in front of the boss Black Blade, if not exploiting the glitch, the player must pass a dangerous path with six eagles and an ancient dragon, it’s very easy to be killed by these monsters.
According to Aaron, the triggering of the Flying Thunder God bug is very stable, and there are no access errors or game save corruption problems at all. And the fault tolerance rate is very high, Aaron himself can already trigger the bug very stable after practice, he now can teleport every twenty seconds. About two hours after the video was released, the famous speedrunner Distortion2 used this bug to lift the speedrun record for the Elden ring to 22 minutes and 21 seconds, a record that was almost too hard to break. By using this bug, players only need to defeat two bosses to finish the game, even the inventor of the Flying Thunder God in Naruto, Tobirama Senju, will be shocked by such speed.
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