A speedrunner set a new world record for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance DLC - before admitting the entire thing was faked.
As first reported by PCGamesN, speedrunner Mekarazium set a new world record for the Blade Wolf DLC in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance over the past weekend, beating it in just under 7 minutes at Summer Games Done Quick 2022.
Since speedrunning at the charity event, however, Mekarazium came forward to the event's enforcement team to admit the run was faked. Rather than completing the DLC live, as is standard for speedrunners at the charity event, Mekarazium pre-recorded their run and then stitched individual parts together, to make the run look much shorter than it actually was.
It's worth noting that Games Done Quick does actually feature a category for segmented runs, which are runs where the timer is paused at specific points. What's key here is that Mekarazium didn't notify the event's enforcement team that their run was pre-recorded and segmented, presenting it instead as though it was performed live.
"This is absolutely unacceptable and attempts to undermine the integrity of the speedrunning community that we love and support," the organization wrote in a statement. "We have removed Mekazarium’s runs from our YouTube archive, and will not permit him to run in the future."
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