Illinois, USAWhy do the rules say you must start with empty inventory? You can set yourself up so you start with whatever you want (except on Prologue, Case 0, and Case 1) which would obviously be the fastest.
What about adding prologue to the individual level runs section then?
You are right, it wasn't there originally, it was probably added with the difficulty update as that is the only way to change difficulties and was what made me think about it as I switched back to Normal from Blackest Friday difficulty. I'm not too familiar with speed running modern games, how do we handle changes like this made through updates? As far as I know there weren't any glitches fixed or changes made to the gameplay with any updates so far. Do we just want to keep timing as starting at case 0? Or play with no updates installed? Would including the prologue portion now invalidate the current runs?
If you pick New Game instead of Case Select it will start at the prologue.
Are we not counting the prologue in NG+ runs? The 2 runs here so far jump straight into case 0, skipping the prologue.
