An Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim speedrunner has reached stage 80 and killed the notorious Ebony Warrior in underneath 12 minutes, setting a brand new world document in the method.
As reported by GamesRadar, YouTuber nucular uploaded a video of the advanced however environment friendly speedrun and their defeat of the legendary Ebony Warrior, an enemy which solely seems at Level 80. Reaching this excessive a stage would normally take a number of hundred hours of regular gameplay, or a number of dozen of devoted grinding, however nucular’s technique takes benefit of some exploits to succeed in it in as soon as thought unimaginable speeds.
Their last time of 11 minutes and 47 seconds comes in a couple of minutes sooner than the earlier world document, which was set at 14 minutes and 27 seconds in 2021 by YouTuber Waz. Nucular used an identical technique of unexpectedly importing their Alchemy, Speech, and Enchanting expertise to flood expertise into their general stage, however added Heavy Armor and Block too to shoot to Level 80.
This prompted the Ebony Warrior to look and, in only one swift swing of an axe, the legendary enemy was vanquished. However nucular’s assured they will obtain the feat even faster, saying on Reddit it may be achieved in underneath 10 minutes utilizing this technique and that they will preserve pushing it decrease.
With The Elder Scrolls 6 nonetheless 5 years away no less than, followers have needed to discover their very own methods, like this, to maintain the ageing Skyrim entertaining. One other participant just lately accrued a 267,000 gold bounty murdering 5,000 NPCs in a quest to kill “the whole lot that was killable”, for instance, whereas one fan recreated the sport in Age of Empires 2.
Waves of sentimental followers just lately booted up their previous Xbox 360s and PlayStation 3s to “retire” their unique characters too, exhibiting how a lot Skyrim has remained in participant consciousness over its 12 years of being obtainable.
In our 9/10 assessment of the beloved position taking part in recreation, IGN stated: “Skyrim is a uncommon type of intensely private, deeply rewarding expertise, and among the best role-playing video games but produced.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.