Many of the most important discoveries in human history have come through accidents or mistakes. Today we have huge advantages after what seemed like a blunder at first, but it was a huge leap forward.
Going down quite a few steps in historical significance, we find a important find for the speedrunners community. Specifically for the one dedicated to Metal Gear Solid, Hideo Kojima’s title for the PS1.
A streamer, during a game this weekend, has found out da totally fortuitous shortcut is formed through a door that, in principle, is closed. His reaction is equivalent to his feat.
last night i broke metal gear
get rekt speedrunners pic.twitter.com/6tqhBvP5LA– 🌙 boba 🖤 (@boba_witch) August 15, 2021
Boba found himself getting past the section of stairs that seemed endless on Shadow Moses Island. If we ascend and complete the sequence correctly, our enemy Liquid Snake will make things really difficult for us, firing at us from his helicopter as we descend down the front of the building.
After that, we can reach a bridge, which is next to a door that cannot be opened. Boba, after shooting at that exact point at the soldiers, was transported to the other side, skipping the entire stretch of descent with the helicopter shooting up.
Of course, this discovery caused quite a stir among speedrunners. We are talking about about 2 minutes of time that can be saved. In an attempt to replicate the event, up to fifteen speedrunners gathered for similar attempts at that point.
I hope you know there are 15 people in a discord call figuring out how to reproduce this reliably right now. pic.twitter.com/NoYRUNX1E2
– PreciousRoy (@preciousroy) August 15, 2021
I hope you know that there are 15 people on a Discord call who are figuring out how to reliably reproduce this right now.