After learning about a crucial jump in speedruns Alan Wake 2 Extension The lake house During Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 in early January, developer Remedy Entertainment promised not to fix the bug that enables the strategy.
“Thanks to [the AGDQ 2025] led by suavepeanut, the House by the lake “The development team discovered that you could actually interact with the elevator from the outside… and immediately determined that this could not be fixed,” the studio said via his official Bluesky account. “You're welcome.”
Skipping basically corresponds to the remedy described. At several points during The lake housePlayers must ride the elevator between different floors of the titular building. But by manipulating the elevator and selecting their desired floor from outside the transport after the doors close, speedrunners can teleport between floors instead of waiting for travel cutscenes.
During her AGDQ 2025 performance current world record holder for The lake house Suavepeanut said each skip, which can be “tricky” because it requires pressing four buttons at once, saves 20 to 30 seconds. If this is used successfully up to seven times over the course of the game, it can save a relatively large amount of time in a speedrun that lasts less than 20 minutes.
It's rare for a major studio to leave their game in less than perfect condition just to please a small group of die-hard fans. Hollow knight Speed runners, for example, Play a much older version of the game because the development team Cherry is known to have fixed many of the bugs they used to beat the game as quickly as possible.
Remedy Entertainment did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
