A speedrunner from the recent Summer Games Done Quick 2022 event has admitted he faked part of his run.
Russian speedrunner Mekarazium completed a live run of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance as one of a handful of online (rather than in-person) runs.
However, an extra run of the game’s Blade Wolf DLC was offered as a charity donation goal incentive, but Mekarazium has since admitted this run was faked using pre-recorded footage, as PCGamesN reported.
“The Blade Wolf DLC run incentive people paid for is a pre-recorded, segmented run,” Mekarazium later told the GDQ enforcement team. “I haven’t mentioned it anywhere, neither during the submission process or the email I sent to the [GDQ] committee. It was supposed to be a real-time run, but I’ve changed my mind at the last second after switching the saves.