Bourgogne, FranceYo, This is just a quick lil post for 3 announcements.
First of all : I'm stepping down as a mod. It's been far too long I've lost interest in this game. And despite the small revival early January, I don't have the time to properly moderate a game, even for a small speedgame like PBoL. I wish this game the best and I'm really sorry if my lack of time and interest discouraged some people from running this game/submitting runs.
Directly tied to the first announcement, I'd like to welcome Zeee to the mod team. Zeee has been around since the beginning and very active in the past few weeks. I trust them in doing a better work moderating this game than I've been doing.
Third announcement : We have a discord. It's public now (you can find it directly on speedrun.com/PBoL or follow the link below. For now, I'm still listed as an admin on this discord, but I'll leave it in the hands of Yell0wRat and Zeee (who are already admins in the discord). Discord link : https://discord.gg/P5uqp5hmM5
Welp, that's all.
Looking at some of the Top 10 latests submitted runs, I've seen a somewhat considerable struggle on this part : people where usually waiting to be safe and avoid getting shot by the brute, so I wondered if you could jump just high enough to shoot a TP but low enough to drop back down before the brute's shot hit you. Without any surprise, it worked. But it felt faster, like really faster, so I decided to time it and compare it to the old strat (but the risky variation of the old strat).
Here's what I got : on average, you're about 1s faster with the new strat, whatever variation you use.
So I was thinking it could be a good idea to create a Skype group for any runners who would be interested.
So here it is : join.
25/12/2015
Added Sticky Thread for Pneuma : Breath of Life speedrun.com page changes.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all. ;)
For anybody who would be intestered by the PC version of the game, it is at 5$ (5€ for us europeans) right now on Steam. The offer ends December 1.
Simple question : Should we add ILs ?
I'd say yes, but I'd like to know what other mods/runners think about it.
Penns87 are you still alive ? I have submitted a run a few days ago and it still awaits for validation. Also I've seen some other runs of Pneuma that popped (thinking of 00Svo who got a 22:02 WR run).
If you don't have time to moderate this help, I can help you.
For some reasons, the total time I spend in loadings appears to be bigger than Penns87's... So here's a breakdown of my average time for each loading :
Prologue > Chap. 1 : 40s Chap. 1 > Chap. 2 : 34s Chap. 2 > Chap. 3 : 37s Chap. 3 > Chap. 4 : 20s Chap. 4 > Chap. 5 : 52s Chap. 5 > Chap. 6 : 61s Chap. 6 > Epilogue : 34s
That makes a total of : 278s (or 4m38s). Penns87's total on his PB is : 251s (or 4m11s)
Penns87 and any new runner, can you give a similar breakdown please. It is not a vital, but I'd like to see how and where it varies (and eventually understand why).
ps : Also, it can be helpful for you to know approximately your average total load time so you can estimate your IGT without having to calculate every time. ;)
If you have any suggesitions on the categories, speedrun.com/ots or anything ots related, I guess a Thread to regroup them all would be nice.
So I'm gonna start : Why not get this thread in the stickies ? ;)
