Hey all, we are pleased to announce this year's SourceRuns Marathon, beginning from September 11th and ending on the 13th! Like the last few marathons, you can submit any game and not just Valve or Valve related games/mods but those will have priority. So feel free to submit your speed game. Post your submission here. (Deadline on the 31st of August)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-yE3feICXiZsv2t0UVatX-TnLZAx1d-tSz48-e4i9oM

SourceRuns is a community of speedrunners who are focused on Valve games and their mods, such as Portal and the Half-Life series.

SourceRuns discord: https://discord.gg/sourceruns

Hey all, we have updated the rules for timing new runs, from now on you need to record your run with LiveSplit using the Lost Coast SourceSplit dll found in resources. This way everyone can submit accurately timed runs without having to assume when exactly you've hit the ending trigger in the metal box at the top of the map. Previous runs will not be affected by this change.

You can download it here: https://www.speedrun.com/tools/SourceSplit-17-4-2020_e6318.rar

To set up SourceSplit here is a guide written by Lyren https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qxA811Gpy5nGXQroc7PM0cIBwzg4CAZHrDz71KyL3vY/edit#heading=h.3ou8ja3orln

If you have any trouble setting up Livesplit you can join the SourceRuns discord and ask in #source-help https://discord.gg/sourceruns

Cheers, BitRain

I added a new category called Beta% In this category you complete the a beta version of the Lost Coast map called "hdrtest.bsp" that is bigger than the final release map and has more potential for cool launches and other challenging strats, I hope you'll find it to be an interesting challenge!

The rules are the same as Any%

You can see footage of the map here: Download the map here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwnhBOoyMtQGTWJzemdSaWRQZ3M/view and put "hdrtest.bsp" in the maps folder in your Lost Coast game files, then start the map by running "map hdrtest" in the developer console.

Here's an example run I just submitted, contains two strats, the obvious one and a more advanced one maybe someone can get https://www.speedrun.com/hl2lc/run/zxkjel5m

I've added a jumpless category because playing LC without jumping is actually pretty challenging and it might be fun for people to come up with consistent ways to do skips that require jumping without jumping.

So as an example I'll share my segmented jumpless LC run.

So the -7 version is a version of HL:S which was made in 2003 as a test build with all the maps ported directly from HL1 rather than the build date being the number of days since HL1's release, which is what almost all Source games use, this version confusingly lists it's version number as "-7".

You can download it here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-6YVWVW3gL2vFkYzPoMvf2RcuCfVI1da/view And the Tools Made by YaLTeR for the scripted category: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwnhBOoyMtQGS2RMam40SGZvaWM

It's a different category because it has it's own really great set of glitches that don't exist in the release versions of HL:S, here are a few:

Duckspamming plays a huge role in the most game breaking glitches in this version.

• Duckspamming against a sloped ceiling will let you cling to it and slide up it until you CEOoB through the roof

• Duckspamming into a prop then jumping will give you enormous height compared to normal Vertical Object Boost in the release versions.

• Duckspamming through a ceiling will pop you out of bounds very easily.

• Holding escape while duckspamming out of bounds will make you ascend slowly, which means you can go oob with duckspamming and then get back inbounds doing the same thing.

• This version's objects aren't always upright like the release ones are, you can pick up and throw around some boxes, barrels and even the cart in the test chamber.

• Jamming yourself between a wall and a prop and looking in the opposite direction from it will give you 2500 ups horizontally if done well.

• This version's bunnyhopping is more like GoldSrc bunnyhopping so you can easily reach 800+ ups just by strafing and jumping, that sort of thing in release HL;S would be unheard of.

You can find download links for this version of the game and it's scripted category tools in the resources section along with some other builds of Half LiFe Source.

NOTE: The duckspam (pausefloat) scripted command is bound to mouse5, you can change that in hl1/config/autoexec.cfg or by manually binding a key to +pausefloat like: "bind c + pausefloat".

As a way to keep the game interesting to run I've decided to add a glitchless% category. The rules are simple:

Don't use any glitches documented here: https://wiki.sourceruns.org/wiki/ OTHER THAN damage boosting and skipping parts of the map, because damage boosting is more of a way for the player to make use of a movement mechanic to their advantage and skipping parts of the map is fine as long as you're not using any glitches, the skip you've found is just a clever shortcut.

Have fun!

I removed Any% No Launch because the new strats that people found are pretty much the same as normal any%, so you can now use the fastest tricks you want :D

People keep telling me I just have to hold space to continually jump in Quake, regardless of the version I use, it doesn't happen, I can't find a setting or a bind for it anywhere, I'm fairly sure "_special" doesn't work, what's the deal with autojumping?