“Resident Evil 2 Speedrunners Embrace Beloved Mod 27 Years Later as Records Plummet”
Resident Evil 2 speedrunners are dramatically breaking the overall game’s quickest global records now that a revolutionary mod enables players to seamlessly bypass all cutscenes and door animations.
The Resident Evil 2 Door & Cutscene Skip mod, developed by Resevilnemesis30, accomplishes precisely what its name suggests: every cutscene in the game, no matter how minor, can be skipped with a press of the action button, and the brief animations triggered by opening doors can also be bypassed. It’s evident how this lays the groundwork for significantly more fluid speedruns and, undoubtedly, new records.
“Farewell, doors! Farewell cutscenes! After 27 years, this mod for the Sourcenext version introduces the most essential quality of life feature for the original game,” the modder explains. “It lets you finally relish your favorite game without enduring your RTX 6090 struggle with a 200kb file, or witnessing Annette and Irons narrate their touching backstory.”
The mod was recently uploaded about a week ago, and we are already witnessing the fastest Resident Evil 2 playthroughs being slashed by more than half thanks to gamers utilizing this new mod. Over on Speedrun.com, Resident Evil 2 speedruns are now categorized into two classes: Vanilla and Cutscene Skip, and at the time of writing, the fastest Vanilla run stands at 48m 32s, while the quickest Cutscene Skip run is an astonishing 19m 39s. For a game that is now, believe it or not, 27 years old, this represents an especially remarkable advancement in the speedrunning community and may very well be the most significant development for many years to come.
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