There's been a lot of talk in the Discord lately about 1.0 being cheating, so here's an "official" post asking for input on a new system that would satisfy everyone equally. I haven't thought about the main categories yet, so we'll stick to ILs for now.
First thing we need to do is actually understand what's wrong. The game has three major versions: 1.0 - Initial release 1.6 - ==The Ultimate Box. Nerfed vehicles to be more "noob-friendly". Made events easier. The PC game is this version. 1.9 - Current version. Allows online play, which enables lots of glitches. Added the Street Rod (best car for road rules by far). Increased the Cavalry's and SI-7's acceleration significantly.
With this in mind, we'll take the Cavalry Burning Route as an example. Say there are 3 runs - a 48s, 38s, and 45s. They were all near-perfect runs taking the same route, on the same platform, so how are they so different? Easy: the car is different, because of the game version.
In this situation, there are three options: make three cross-platform categories for each version and remove the PC/console categories, ban 1.0 and 1.6 from consoles and keep PC separate, or leave it and let people bicker in their disappointment.
Personally, I'd lean towards the first option. It would look something like this on each IL: 1.0-1.5 1.6-1.8 (PC) 1.9 Bikes
If possible, 1.9 would be added to all road rules but only the Cavalry and SI-7 Burning Routes. Not sure if speedrun.com allows for that kind of thing though.
Any thoughts? Ideas? Comments?
After seeing this and talking about it in the discord this is probably the best option for the IL's right now.
So the level leaderboards have been redone. This way 1.0-1.5 (Old Console Ver.) / 1.6-1.8 (PC) / 1.9 (Current Console Ver.) will all be split up. If you are wondering where all the car road rules will go they will be moved to 1.9 since all of them are console and they use the Street Rod which came with 1.9. Thanks burninrubber for bring this up so we could make the changes happen.
Quick post to touch on some little things that may not have been clear before: -The only Burning Routes that benefit from 1.9 are the Cavalry's and SI-7's. The rest are comparable to 1.6-1.8. -Unless you're using the Street Rod or Walmart WTR, Road Rules in 1.9 are comparable to 1.6-1.8. -For vehicles in 1.0-1.5, the lower the stats, the faster than their updated counterparts they'll be. Vehicles after the Takedown Dirt Racer (except the Racing WTR/PCPD Special) are comparable to 1.6-1.9.
That should be all for ILs. I've thought about the main categories and don't think it's a good idea to add version subcategories to them. TARS mentioned adding it as a variable instead; that seems to be the best option.
