Metal Gear Solid players panic over new issue

Over the weekend, Twitch streamer Boba streamed while playing Solid metal gear for the first time ever, and after being attacked by guards, she turned to fight them. At this point, she accidentally ended up being pushed back through a locked door, discovering a new problem that could save a lot of time and that had AMS speedrunners go wild with the opportunities to save time.

In Solid metal gear, you eventually reach a section where you have to go up and down communication towers, fight a helicopter, climb a bunch of stairs, and even rappelling down a rope. It’s a lot. During this section, Boba was fleeing the guards and reached a locked door, so she turned to fight the swarm of angry armed thugs. In doing so, she received multiple bullets, being pushed back enough for Snake’s model to pass through the door and seemingly activate a trigger, let Boba jump the stairs and enter the outer area early. She celebrated with a song.

In an interview with YouTuber Drakon Astron, Boba explained that she didn’t think much about it at the time. “I thought it was something someone had probably done before, by accident.”

However, it was a great moment. No one had seen or documented this bug before and it seemed to let Boba skip a lot of the gameplay. Quickly, as images of the bug spread across Twitter and Reddit, the collective Solid metal gear speedrunning community lost their shit. Some felt that while this problem could be reproduced reliably, it could save up to two or three minutes. And, in a few hours, people had started to reproduce the bug, which some call the “Boba Skip”, although Boba herself wishes it was called “Kevin”.

Now, after reproducing the bug, players have started to theorize and investigate how this bug works, what it means for the game, and if it’s viable elsewhere. The players of the AMS The speedrunning Discord server is testing other locked doors and inaccessible areas of the game where this “Boba / Kevin Skip” could be used to save even more time. If some of these areas become skippable using this glitch, it’s possible that Boba not only found an interesting trick that saves a few minutes, but a whole new strategy that could completely change the way people run. Solid metal gear on PC and console.

Not bad for someone who doesn’t obsessively speedrun the game every day and in fact has never played it Solid metal gear before. According to Boba, a speedrunner said she liked that she found the bug because instead of a longtime speedrunner, she was someone who was just having fun with it. AMS.

“The best part is it ain’t a nerd that speedruned Metal gear for about a hundred years, ”the speedrunner told him. “It’s just that I’m having fun playing a video game and accidentally discovering this crazy thing.”