One of the biggest parts that define the Duck Life 2 speedrun is the "Level upgrade cap system" being removed. This allows for you to train your skills to the maximum before even having to do a single race. The way you access this trick as runners of this game know is to... Beat the game normally Clear your file Boom the level caps are removed
The abuse of this system does not only stop at the removing of the level caps though After you beat the game normally you have access to extra bonuses that can usually only be accessed after beating the game. One of these things is the "Extreme Training" which makes the training sessions very uh...extreme. More importantly the training becomes amazingly fast. If you activate the Extreme training (Or any of the bonuses you get after beating the game) and clear your file...at the start of a new game the extreme training remains active. Playing through the game with the Extreme Training activated results in all the training minigames going exponentially faster than intended. I recently did a fun run with the extreme training activated and got a 20:55. A time that was impossible a week ago. With Extreme Training the run can be below 20 minutes with a good run, which is absolutely insane.
Now here is my side of everything, as the only active runner of this game at the moment. The removing of level caps can only be activated when you beat the game a first time Same with the activation of the Extreme training If we allow the level cap removing in the "Any %" category then I see no reason not to allow the Extreme Training (A real function that is programmed into the game). With all of that in mind I believe that a more appropriate name for the Duck Life 2 "Any%" would be along the lines of "Any%NG+" (Any percent New game plus). Many games have categories like that, which take advantage of a previous file to make a new game go even faster. Which is what we already were doing with the Level Cap removal. With turning "Any %" into "Any%NG+" we would turn the "All Level Upgrades" Category into the regular "Any%" (Which it in reality always was). Any%NG+ would remain the main category and we would still have an Any%
I realize that nobody really runs this game anymore, BUT, I still will wait for feedback on this before I take the action of changing the category names. And after a couple days if nobody says anything then I will continue to go fast and submit the name changes with my 20:55 (Which is a really beatable time) And of course feedback from people who actually would run this game would be most wanted.
-Chegg
