After studying of a pivotal skip in speedruns of Alan Wake 2 enlargement The Lake Home throughout Superior Video games Performed Fast 2025 in early January, developer Treatment Leisure has promised to not repair the bug that makes the technique doable.
“Because of [the AGDQ 2025] run by suavepeanut, the Lake Home improvement group came upon that you would be able to truly work together with the elevator from the surface… and instantly determined that’s not one thing that will probably be mounted,” the studio stated via its official Bluesky account. “You’re welcome.”
The skip is mainly as Treatment described. At a number of factors throughout The Lake Home, gamers are required to experience an elevator between the varied flooring of the titular constructing. However by manipulating the elevator and selecting their desired ground from exterior the transport after the doorways shut, speedrunners are in a position to teleport between flooring quite than sitting via journey cutscenes.
Throughout their AGDQ 2025 efficiency, present world file holder for The Lake Home suavepeanut stated that each occasion of the skip, which will be “tough” resulting from having to press 4 buttons on the similar time, saves 20-30 seconds. Used efficiently as much as seven occasions over the course of the sport, this may shave comparatively big chunks of time without work a speedrun that takes lower than 20 minutes to finish.
It’s a uncommon factor for a serious studio to go away its recreation in a less-than-perfect state simply to fulfill a small group of diehard followers. Hole Knight speedrunners, as an example, play a a lot older model of the sport as a result of developer Group Cherry infamously patched out a variety of the bugs they used to beat the sport as quick as doable.
Treatment Leisure didn’t reply instantly to gamerlifemedia’s request for remark.
