100% category discussion.
3 years ago
Florida, USA

After modding this game for almost two years and keeping a close eye on activity. I feel it's best to either drop 100% or move it. Aiming more towards Any% for all runners. The big issue is that there's so many ports for this game but not enough runners to have two categories like this. Tho it's more organized these days it's still all over the place. Trust me when I say this effects me a lot as well since I've ran 100% for most of the ports. I do feel this is for the best tho. At this point I sometimes get submissions of the same runs for both 100% and Any% just because it's essentially the same run if you don't want to bother with the skips. Any% works for all runners no matter how you play it. If you want a better time It'll only push you to progress and learn the skips and be the best you can be. I'm not even sure where 100% even spawned from but there's really no need for it. It just spreads out the leaderboards and divides out everything to where it's all over the place when in reality It's basically the same run minus the skips "which you don't have to do in Any% if you don't want too" and a window cutscene lol. I'm working on getting Autosplits set up for the 15th anniversary edition as well and hoping to move that to "Default" since it's the fastest port out there and not to mention it runs soooo much better than the Steam version. Let me know what you guys think about all of this.

Florida, USA

Another important thing I'll add is that your 100% runs would not go to waste. I'd put them in the Any% category. There's some runs on the leaderboards where runners have an extremely old time under Any% even tho their 100% time is faster. It's kind of a mess lol. I'll take the time to sort it out myself and get it all organized.

Japan

I agree with this suggestion. It's really true that leaderboards are hard to see. And the current 100% and any% are about the same. We may need to have this discussion again when there are more runners in this game, but I feel that any% is enough for now.

RetroBrando likes this
United Kingdom

Yeah I think with the amount of different ports we have the 100% category is unnecessary clutter and belongs better to miscellaneous. The strats that you do in 100% are still valid for any% (only difference being the arbitrary window cutscene), so it makes more sense to focus on any% for everyone and do whichever strats you like. It would also be nice for more of us (myself included when I go back to this game) to put time into learning the skips, some of which aren't super difficult but just make the run more reset heavy.

100% will still exist, just probably hidden under misc as Brando said, since lots of runners have put time into it. We just want the main focus to move towards any%.

Edited by the author 3 years ago
RetroBrando likes this

I agree too. The fact is the 100% category doesn't fit very well with a game who hasn't really any type of mathematical progression (collectibles, optional things etc...). Maybe a "skipless" category could exist but I guess in the end it really depends on players will ^^ For now, it seems like a logical idea to focus players on any%

In any case we're going to struggle with a game who has the potentiel to have a category for each freaking consoles I was released on. It'll be a mess no matter what we do =p

Edit: God damn it my posts are so sad... Got to put colors on this window.

Edited by the author 3 years ago
RetroBrando likes this
Florida, USA

Thank you guys for taking the time out to give your opinions here and on the Another World Discord. It seems most of the community and runners are all on the same page. I'll go ahead and update the leaderboards. :)