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Prolific Bethesda game speedrunner pekkanen has been on a quiet hot streak: Over the past two months, he has set nine world records in two categories of Fallout 4 speedrunning, first beating the competition before repeatedly lowering his own records.

The categories are Any% and Any% (No Intro), so anything goes, glitch-wise, while the latter category explicitly does not count time for Fallout 4's iconic, but slow-paced and largely on-rails pre-war playable intro. On March 4, he bested longtime runner tomatoanus' 33:51 Any% with a 33:44. Pekkanen then took the No Intro crown from tomatoanus 15 days later on March 19.

[WR] Fallout 4 Any% Speedrun in 31:18 - YouTube

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Since then, pekkanen has lowered his own Any% record five more times, and improved on the No Intro record twice.…