I had no idea changes in multiplayer affected campaigns. That's really bad design as some random nerf/buff to multiplayer might make a mission almost impossible to play. Is it possible to play different versions?

Hello!

So at the beginning of the map you'd usually raid the tomb right away to try to get a good artifact. Now, the arguably best artifact to get for speedrunning purposes is armageddons blade. It gives you an insane advantage early on to establish yourself on the map. A quite boring way to do this is to continually reset the run until you get it. This is time consuming and tedious.

How do we feel about starting the map on a save where the only thing you've done is to raid the tomb and get armageddons blade? So you don't have to try to get it over and over each time you want to speedrun the map? One issue with this is that you can then know what all the other artifacts are as well and play accordingly. I have one such file save and in that one I also know where book of earth magic is which can give me a very early town portal, which is also incredibly good for speedrunning.

100% what darkid is saying. Wanna add that it's somewhat known (I knew about it) and I've pulled it off in some practice runs (never in a record run I think), but if you jump too late you end up in the pit or have to adjust in-air and you mostly lose time. It's a risk/reward type of situation. There are many other similar small improvements that can be done to the current route that are mostly not done because messing it up loses so much more than what's gained from getting it right.

Well, I've done many of them myself, just wanted to know what they actually meant since it was just abbreviations. Thanks!

In the no WW% category rules it says: "You must do at least one : MS or LJ or ES or EW to submit in this category."

What is MS, LJ, ES, EW? If you use abbreviations, they need to be defined somewhere.

This game seems not so compatible with newer windows versions. Are there "definite" versions that are available online? Or perhaps add-on's to original versions that makes them better to play?

Thanks for the answers. Maybe I'll try to learn some GTA2 routing once I reach my goal with Braid running. I really enjoyed this game when I was young.

I follow this game and got the notification that Molotok had beaten the WR for all missions industrial. I knew Tezur0 had also gotten it recently. Then I see that it's 5 months old? Is this correct?

@Abzurd Probably because every seed can be so different. No point making a leaderboard for it. It would have to be one for every seed.

Ah, thanks, gonna try to follow his new twitch channel then 🙂 Did he give any reason for not wanting his runs here?

What happened with Jadin? I remember seeing him on a GDQ doing a Zelda any% NMG run. I can't find him on the leaderboard and his twitch account has been suspended.

So.. just contact an admin about this? Like PAC?

Myself and Darkid encountered an interesting issue when I posted my new run on both any% and RTA (as I wanted to updated my horribly outdated RTA time). My in-game timer was 4 sec ahead of p-why's previous WR any% run, but 2 sec behind in RTA. So when I posted mine to the RTA category it was ahead. We were puzzled by this, and discovered that all categories have to either be sorted by in-game timer (IGT) or RTA. Most Braid runners care little about RTA, so after talking together, and with p-why's blessing, we decided to remove the RTA category from the speedrun.com/Braid.

We've been able to add our RTA time to our any% runs for some time now, and nobody is racing Braid atm, so we feel the category serves no purpose. One small purpose it might serve is for players who want to optimize the puzzles themselves in the game and dislike players who takes pauses in-between levels or strait up hits the menu button to take a break. To address this, we have added a rule to the any% category that players "are not allowed to idle when the IGT is not running for extended periods of time" for all runs sub 26 min. The mods will judge what time will be interpreted as "extended", but we will be quite liberate here. If something suddenly happens that won't take too long in the middle of a run, we won't reject it based on that.

Good luck on future Braid speedrunning endeavors!

This website here: http://mariokartplayers.com/mkw/archives/00000134.html explaining what is a skip or not seems to need some fixing.

Looking for 3 others to share room. Tuesday to Wed (20th to 21st)

Ask and ye shall receive.

Nope, 100% is 100%. All stars.

fps should not matter as long as you use the in-game timer. It will follow the fps on your game.

If you get sub 26 runs, we'd like to see VOD's. Anything above that you need a screenshot of the speedrun screen with time as proof. It is possible to download hacks and hack the timer so that's why we want VOD's for top runs.

Good luck with your runs!

A video is preferred. I've tried to get a hold of cwolf, but I have not been able to do so in a long time. What was your time?

I see Braid was cut because "It's been done many times before". It was once before... But whatever...