Forum: Hotline Miami Thread: Require Verification? Started by: |
If you had taken a look at the top pinned thread here in the forum or at the category rules, you'd know that below a certain time (any time in ILs), people are required to post a VOD, and plenty of people add VODs even when they are not required, so moderation still happens on the board. The reason we have taken this route is because Hotline is horribly optimised on PCs, the game is pretty popular with speedrun beginners, with young people and with people from outside EU/NA, which means that a large part of submissions are from people who lack the know-how and/or the hardware to record their speedruns, and also most of them only do a couple of runs in their life. We do not expect these people to get a grip on OBS or buy a new computer, if they aren't going for competitive times. speedrun.com leaderboard settings also disappointingly binary. We can only turn on/off verification for the entire board, not for certain categories or certain time thresholds, so we went the route of just auto-verifying everything and then cleaning up behind them. If our leaderboard moderation style bothers you to the point that you do not want to play the videogame, I invite you just look for one of the many games, that value gatekeeping higher than helping people enjoy the game. |
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Forum: Supporter Thread: Thanks for all your feedback!! Let's talk about what's next :) Started by: |
Rather low priority but: Submitting a single run to multiple categories. Multi-game runs or multi-category runs can lead to PBs in multiple categories (3D Mario 1862 includes Mario 602 for example) and it's not even out of the ordinary that a single run would be a WR for two different categories, so if on the runs page it would show all of the categories it is submitted to, that would be nice. |
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Forum: Supporter Thread: Feedback Thread Started by: |
I've been meaning to open a thread about this actually. I see myself in a a similar spot to mkk. The supporter subscription is actually something I have been asking for (privately) ever since the Elo takeover and I did not expect any more perks out of it other than removing the ads. And I am not >really< mad about Ads having been introduced to the entire userbase. I have not used an ad blocker in my life, but this site actually on the edge rn. The problem is really the type of ads that runs here. The popup video ads in particular are stupendously annoying and probably a CPU hog. So while I welcome the introduction of the supporter subscription, this should come as a replacement of these awful, overbearing ads and not as an addition. I'm not saying get rid of ads altogether, but oh lord, just make them bearable. And find a cookie thingy where you can "reject all". Otherwise it's kinda hard to justify paying for the service, would honestly make me feel kinda complicit. I'm not as cynical as all the people getting angry about every update for no reason and I'm sure everyone working on the site is well intentioned, but this issue is where I draw the line personally. |
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Forum: Supporter Thread: Thanks for all your feedback!! Let's talk about what's next :) Started by: |
• Category Extensions should be properly merged into the main game, just how ILs are. • Every category should be able to be moved around between "Full Game", "ILs" and the extension's full game and ILs. (atm if you wanted to move a category to the extensions or god forbid the ILs, you need to just resubmit the whole thing) • The 'Leaderboards' dropdown menu should not link to the different boards and then list the ILs, particularly because often games have dozens of ILs, and ILs are usually the least searched for categories on a board. Maybe opening the menu should just list/link to the boards and have each of them expandable if one wants to open a specific category/level directly from there. • The date filter should include a "from" options additionally to its current "up to" option. Also the feature of just typing in a date should maybe work? At least I cannot get it to work. Also that feature should use the same date formatting that I have in my site settings, I get confused with the yyyy-mm-dd format. And lastly, I did not realise >until just now< that when you expand that thing to choose the date from the calendar, you can click on the 'Month Year' thing up top to zoom out and choose a year directly and stuff. I used to scroll throw every month of the year to go to 2015. All in all I love the filter but I hate everything about how it was implemented. • Filters should be moved out of the category panel into the game panels, so that you can apply a filter once, and then as you go from one board to the other (Full game to ILs, or taking my first suggestion into account also Full Game to Extensions), it retains the filters. Also this would make it so when you look at the IL board overview, it could also be filtered. • Speaking of overview, what about a Full Game run overview? And how about making that overview informative? Uh... lemme actually make a mock-up with my non-existent skills: • As per my second suggestion, "Levels" should become "Categories" and "Level Categories" should become "Variables" to resemble the structure of full game categories. Originally posted by Yummy_Bacon5• Checkboxes to decide on what categories a variable is for instead of the Category dropdown This, this and so much this. This should be extended to all the hard-coded variables like Milliseconds, Platform, IGT, Loadless... even "requires video". |
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Forum: Supporter Thread: Currently in Beta: Featured Run Started by: |
Seems like this isn't a featured "run" as much as a featured "PB". |
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Forum: Hotline Miami Thread: VOD requirements Started by: UrinsteinUrinstein (edited: ) |
Starting October 2021 VODs are also required to have game sound. |
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Forum: The Site Thread: Platform Requests / Tagging games to be part of a series / Adjusting game type or game title Started by: DangerlessDangerless |
Would like to request Hotline Miami ( /hotline_miami) to be added as a base game for its Category Extensions: https://www.speedrun.com/hmce |
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Forum: Hotline Miami Thread: All Levels IGT conversion Started by: UrinsteinUrinstein (edited: ) |
When you run an All Levels category, you will notice that the IGT is always a lot higher than during practice or in categories with menuing. That is because the timer runs in other places like the apartment and only gets reset after score screens and in the main menu. TheMetro: 8.5s (Richard cutscene + apartment) Tension: 11.75s (bar + Richard cutscene + apartement) Push It: 11.75s (bar + Richard cutscene + apartement) Assault: 43s (bar + Richter cutscene + Trauma dialogue + getting clothes) Safehouse: 71s (Showdown + bar cutscene) |
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Forum: ShootMania Storm Thread: Autosplitter Started by: UrinsteinUrinstein (edited: ) |
ContentsSetting up the AutosplitterBefore using the autosplitter, you need to change your comparison to Game Time. To activate the autosplitter just right click on Livesplit and go to Edit Splits... To configure the splitter click now on Settings. Another window opens with all available autosplitter settings. Importantly you can configure the splitter to split on specific CPs of specific maps. The following example will split when the runner reached Checkpoints 3, 7 and 10 on the first map of the run as well as the goal (of every map). All in all you can choose from 99 Checkpoints on 9 different maps. That number is chosen arbitrarily, but I reckon that should be enough. The multi-map functionality always runs in the background, but has no effect on single map runs, since all it does is pause the timer when you finish a map. Known Bugs• Resetting on the last CP of a map will cause a split as opposed to reset the timer. Other Issues:• The splitter only works in Single Map Local Games of Smoke's Obstacle TP (it does not work on servers or local networks). Disclaimer• I am neither a programmer nor an obstacler, so if you believe the splitter requires improvements, you are invited to make them yourself. Here's the GitHub repository: |
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Forum: The Site Thread: Update on the Moderation Rules Started by: |
Remember when "I'm reporting you to the speed police" used to be a joke? |
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Forum: Hotline Miami Thread: Community Best Segments Started by: UrinsteinUrinstein (edited: ) |
And I won't do other categories, because these two are the only optimised ones. I won't do these for level splits, because no top runner even uses those. |
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Forum: The Site Thread: Feedback thread Started by: PacPac |
The colour of links needs to be uncoupled from LB themes. Thankfully the design overhaul has made white the default colour for all plain text, however if you want a clean white font as your leaderboard's primary colour, you cannot distinguish links from plain text in forum posts or guides. The easiest solution would be to just give some distinguishable colour to all links globally on the site. Otherwise, one could add an extra setting on the LB themes to choose a colour for links in posts. |
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Forum: The Site Thread: Feedback thread Started by: PacPac |
This is probably a rare scenario, but at this very moment I would like a way to move full game categories into ILs. |
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Forum: The Site Thread: Feedback thread Started by: PacPac |
The variables page in Edit game needs a complete overhaul, it's a usability nightmare right now, even more so than before the new layout. First off, the binary choice between adding a variable to either all or only one category is nor very useful. If you want to add it to many, but not all categories, you end up having to make multiple copies of the same variable then add it individually to each category and the page just blows up and becomes hard to navigate. Generally everything just takes up too much space. When you add a simple yes/no variable then the whole page from left to right is mostly empty. That empty space is meant to be occupied by the few variables that come with rulesets, however even in those cases it's fairly useless as it only shows you the first few words: Sometimes the arrows to move an elements up and down the list don't work at all, instead just move it to some random position. I think optimally it would just be drag and drop instead, at least on desktop, and I don't know who would be daft enough to try and use this stuff on mobile. While these aren't on the variables page, timing methods suffer from the same problem of not being able to choose what parts of the game they apply to. Often you want RTA for full-game and IGT for ILs. But you can only activate the for the whole game. You can write it into the rules as much as you want but people will keep submitting RTA to ILs and IGT to full-game runs even if none such things exist. I'm tired of doing constant janitor work for people who cannot read rules, when this problem would be solved by simply making timing methods category specific or at least putting it on the category tab and splitting it between full-game and ILs. Lastly IL categories cannot be set as level specific AT ALL. If you happen to have two different types of ILs for your game and only one of them needs a split in categories, you're out of luck because every IL is gonna have it. I don't know what else might be wrong with all of this, but it's hard to even find out as everything is such a mess. It would be nice if more focus could be given to leaderboard moderation features on a site than is presumably about making and moderating leaderboards. Nothing along these lines has changed in the 4 years i have used this site. On an unrelated note, it would be nice to get a time frame filter for leaderboards, so you can get an impression of what the LB looked like 2 years ago, or maybe all runs that were posted in the last year. |
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Forum: The Site Thread: New site layout! Started by: PacPac |
@HowDenKingHowDenKing |
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Forum: The Site Thread: New site layout! Started by: PacPac (edited: ) |
The banner behaviour is peculiar. In widescreen the banner is really thin, but as you change the window size towards a portrait layout, it grows taller. On phones it's always taller in any orientation. Edit: I realise now that it just zooms in and out. Still meh. |
Forum: SpeedCon 2019 Thread: Feedback thread Started by: OnestayOnestay |
The events been great as always, arguably even greater thanks to the new location. Thank you to all the organisers. The minor complaints I have are about the stream setup. Like last year, the stream PC had astronomical loading times, creating freezing where I did not even know there was any loading done. That can be simply a waste of time in some games but also very irritating in others. I have grown to dislike the camera angle of the runner cam. It kinda fails to capture everyone's, uhh... "Schokoladenseite" (German > English) and it also fails to capture the crowd, whenever there is one. I suspect it would look better if it were placed lower. I didn't do any hosting this year, but (and I know I've said this before, sorry) I suspect that a pair of closed headphones could still be handy for the hosts. However this year there were loudspeakers on the tech station so I assume it was better than last year. And on the note of acquiring hardware, I would, once again, suggest to just slap an extra 5€ on the ticket price to allocate to hardware. Between all the other associated costs of attending no one will notice the difference. |
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Forum: Hotline Miami Thread: Best IGTs Started by: UrinsteinUrinstein (edited: ) |
Whether I'm doing runs or practice, I like to have my list of IGTs nearby to see how well I'm doing. So just in case anyone might find it useful, I'll post it here. Note that these are the fastest IGTs done during runs on kb&m and on some levels it is possible to go faster, while on all of them it is possible to go faster on cotroller. ContentsNG any%Metro - 32 Tension - 29 Push It - 10 Assault - 8 Safehouse - 84 Some clarifications: NG+ All LevelsMetro - 37 Tension - 39 Push It - 42 Assault - 99 Safehouse - 84 Some clarifications: |
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Forum: The Site Thread: Leaderboards moderation requests thread Started by: |
@Riekelt I pm'd Cryze on Twitter in September, didn't get an answer. |
Forum: Hotline Miami Thread: [VODs] Milestones and other important VODs Started by: UrinsteinUrinstein (edited: ) |
Never forget the greats. For speedlore reasons I wanna compile all important/interesting videos that we have from Hotline speedrunning. ContentsMilestonesThe first runs to get a sub whatever. Duke_Bilgewater - 2 Nov 2013 - NG+ All Levels - 24:46 link Dingodrole - 23 Jun 2014 - NG any% - 20:54 link snowfats - 28 Apr 2015 - NG+ All Levels - 23:55 link snowfats - 3 Sep 2015 - NG any% - 19:54 link snowfats - 8 Mar 2017 - NG+ All Levels - 22:58 link jackRite - 24 Nov 2017 - NG any% - 15:58 link Sub15 is soon. mightyjoey - 21 Feb 2021 - NG+ All Levels - 22:46 link Former WRsRuns that used to be the shit and exhaustive rerouting was required to beat them. cfb - 27 Dec 2013 - NG+ All Levels - 24:32 link Dingodrole - 3 Mar 2015 - NG any% - 20:07 link prokchor - 19 Aug 2017 - NG any% - 19:10 link jackRite - 5 Aug 2017 - NG+ All Levels - 22:55 link On-Site Marathon runs.SGDQ 13 - Duke_Bilgewater - NG+ All Levels - 29:08 link AGDQ 14 - Duke_Bilgewater vs cfb - NG+ All Levels - 27:06 vs. 25:46 link [FR] Stunfest 14 - Dingodrole - NG any% - 24:51 link [FR] Stunfest 15 - [Dingodrole - HM2 NG+ any% - 41:29 link SGDQ 15 - Duke_Bilgewater - HM2 NG any% - 46:51 link Calithon 16 - snowfats vs Duke_Bilgewater - NG+ All Levels - 25:30 vs 27:00 link* AGDQ 16 - snowfats - NG+ All Levels - 25:48 link Speedcon 17 - Urinstein - NG+ All Levels - 27:41 link ESA 17 - jackRite - NG+ All Levels - 25:05 link ESA 17 - jackRite - HM2 NG+ any% - 36:15 link Speedcon 18 - Urinstein - NG any% - 17:23 link [GER] Dokomi 18 - Urinstein - NG+ All Levels - 24:36 link [FR] Stunfest 18 - Dingodrole - HM2 NG+ any% - 40:23 link WASD 19 - Cursed - NG+ any% - 19:39 link Speedcon 19 - Urinstein - NG+ All Levels - 31:00 link ESA 19 - jackRite - NG+ All Levels - 24:42 link GDQ 20 - snowfats - All Masks - 24:42 link ESA Winter 20 - Cursed - NG any% - 18:08 link WASD 20 - Cursed - NG any% - 20:17 link WASD 20 - Cursed - All Masks - 33:14 link [PL] GSPS 21 - JACK4L - NG+ All Levels - 25:14 link [PL] GSPS 22 - JACK4L - NG any% - 19:13 link Random stuff[TAS] Buffet Time - NG+ any% - 16:36 link NG any% Tutorial - by Duke_Bilgewater link [Discussion] Sum of Best link [FR] [Discussion] NES Blog / Speed Game • (12 Jul 2013) link RealMyop and Lestat Vampire give commentary on Duke's 26:50 NG+ All Levels run, back then WR and still called NG+ any%. • (5 Mar 2015) link Dingo gives commentary on his 20:07 Ng any% (WR at the time). • (13 Jul 2015) link Dingo talks about HM2 speedrunning, which was 4 months old at the time. [Knowledge Dump] NASA 16 - cfb - Fortified Zone link [FR] [Discussion] Mach 1 link |