Like a persistent rodeo rider, I'm back on my bull. You know how this one goes - can you beat Dark Souls 3... normally? I'm sure this will be a perfectly standard run where nothing out of the ordinary happens, right? Right?
All glitches/skips/exploits performed on a PS5 on current patch. Thanks to my good friend Suits for help with the teardrop glitch. Please like and sub for more fromsoft content! Read on for more info... you know you want to

A playlist of all the music used can be found here:    • Dark Souls 3 Normal Run Music  

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A big shout has to obviously go out to all the talented players who originally discovered or publicised some of these glitches/exploits. I don't claim to know who the originators of every one of these tricks is, but here are some of the research materials I used:

The most comprehensive video out there is Phobia's excellent compilation of DS3 glitches on current patch, which covers a lot of the content here including millwood greatbow, abyss and gundyr freezes, pontiff teardrop skip, siegward titanite dupe and more:    • Glitches you can do in Dark Souls III  

Ray Dhimitri has a compilation of boss cheese kills which is where I found the greatwood firebombs strat, so thanks for making my life a misery with that one:    • Dark Souls III - How Many Bosses Can ...  

set-up for the sage skip is shown here:    • DS3 Sage Skip Setup  

There are two different set ups for the Vordt skip, depending on whether you're playing on 30 or 60 fps
30 FPS set up:    • Vordt Skip Easy Consistent Set Up (Ch...  
60 FPS set up:    • Vordt skip setup for 60 FPS (PS5)  

Assault millwood greatbow set up here:    • Dark Souls 3 ｜ ASSAULT MILLWOOD GREAT...  

this is where I first saw the head spear throw weapon-swap:    • For my next trick i shall use telekin...  

How to trigger the phase 2 twin princes freeze:    • DARK SOULS 3: Lorian and Lothric, Twi...  

some general demos of weapon art swaps from PeachyMike:    • Dark Souls 3 Weapon art swap still wo...  


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