After learning the importance of crossing in speedruns of Alan Wake 2 expand The Lake House At the time of Horror Games 2025 in early January, the developer Remedy Entertainment promised not to fix the bugs that made the idea possible.
“Thanks to (AGDQ 2025) run by suavepeanut, the Lake House The development team found that you can interact with the elevator from the outside … and immediately decided that is not something that will be fixed,” the studio said. from his official Bluesky account. “You’re welcome.”
Crossing is the beginning as the Treatment described. At several points during The Lake Houseplayers have to ride the elevator on several floors of the church. But by taking control of the elevator and choosing their desired floor from outside transport behind closed doors, the rush hour can send messages on more floors than sitting by traveling.
During their AGDQ 2025 performance, current world secretary for The Lake House suavepeanut said that each instance of crossing, which can be “tricky” because of the need to press four buttons at the same time, saves 20-30 seconds. Effective up to seven times in the course of the game, this can shave off large chunks of time on a speedrun that takes less than 20 minutes to complete. .
It’s rare for a major studio to release its game in such a rare state just to please a small group of die-hard fans. Hollow Knight speedrunners, for example, play more version of the game because the developer Team Cherry infamously patched out many bugs that they used to win the game as soon as possible.
Remedy Entertainment did not immediately respond to Polygon’s request for comment.
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