Just felt like starting a thread like this for people that want a speedrun that doesn't avoid playing the game. I'm new to speedrunning, so maybe this isn't something most speedrunners care about, but the game is fun to play and was wondering if it's worth it.
Some ideas: A no-skulls skipped run, no using heal/market nodes (if unavoidable, go through the 2nd portal), Level completion runs (you have to complete a certain number of levels [6 or 8 for example]. Skulls and challenges are counted as 2 levels for incentive). Deathless is another decent one, but I don't think it changes much from the original speedrun everyone does.
Just some ideas for playing the game AND being as fast as possible.
The point of speedruns IS to play the game, not avoid it. Adding challenges as categories is a neat idea but the community needs to agree with it. And seeing as this is a demo, I'm not sure this will happen. Also, about the "Just some ideas for playing the game AND being as fast as possible." This is literally the point of speedrunning. If we wouldn't want to play the game and go fast we'd just share a screenshot of the ending.
There are actually several community run challenge categories on the Discord server.
How about doing an OK landings only any% run as a category? or perhaps Jumper only run with items and without items as sub-category as well?
another idea: speed only under 99 meters a second.
speed under 99 m/s probably wouldnt work all that well since zoe naturally accelerates up to 106/107 m/s
Hitless is a good idea but also different caregories for the 3 difficulties would make so much sense. (Also Haste just got ported to console maybe we make a separate leaderboard for console and pc? Just my thoughts)
• All runs must use the Landfall Speedrunning Tools mod and keep the **QR code
