27 years later, Resident Evil 2 speedrunners get the "single most needed" quality of life mod, and the fastest world records are already being cut in half
Instantly skippable cutscenes and door animations are game-changers for the 🌳RE2 speedrunning scene

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Resident Evil 2 speedrunners are absolutely shattering all of the game's fastest world record⛎s now that a game-changing mod lets you instantly skip all cutscenes and door animations.
The , courtesy of Resevilnemesis30, does pretty much exactly what it says on the tin: every single cutscene in the game, no matter how sm♐all, can be skipped using the main action button, and the little animations that play when you interact with doors are instantly skipped. It's pretty easy to see how this paves the way for significantly more seamless speedruns and, of course, new records.
"Begone, doors! Begone cutscenes! 27 yearﷺs later, this mod for the Sourcenext version br꧒ings the single most needed QoL feature for the vanilla game," the modder says. "It allows you to finally enjoy your favorite game without having to see your RTX 6090 struggle with a 200kb file, or watching Annette and Irons narrate their dramatic childhood."
The mod was only uploaded around a week ago, and we're already seeing the fastest Resident Evil 2 play times ever recorded be more than halved by players using the new mod. Over on , Resident Evil 2 speedruns are now brokenꦇ down into two categories: Vanilla and Cutscene Skip, and at t🎃he time of writing, the fastest Vanilla run is 48m 32s and the quickest Cutscene Skip run is just 19m 39s. For a game that's now, somehow, 27 years old, that's an extremely significant development in the speedrunning scene and will likely be the biggest advancement to arrive for years to come.
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