We have decided now that audio is instead now required for all runs,not just world record runs. Just like before the "temporary abolishment" of the rule before. Apologies for any inconvenience we've made with our previous change. Only runs from this day on is affected.. Cheers

The mod team has decided now that world record runs and only world record runs must have audio in them, otherwise it will be rejected.

All world records submitted and verified before today are not affected by this rule,so dont worry.

Thanks

ANDR0IDTest3r has been removed from the verifer role for not even watching the runs for verification. We are now looking for one new verifier on the main board. If you are interested and is aware that you need to watch a run before verifying it,contact LPatriot. Thanks

Update: We've found already a verifier. It is SuperTankh

They are in the misc list, similar to Harbour Loop

Soon Deluxe Editions for both tracks will be added to the category extensions like Harbour Loop,where you can play with any vehicle of your choosing instead of the x550r.

Happy running!

• Depatos

Hi. If the leaderboard runs are marked as using "IGT" above the times of runs,then when you submit a run there,fill in the IGT. If it says "Time",then fill in the "Time" instead of IGT when submitting a run.

This is to prevent issues with speedrun.com showing your run's rank as 1st or last when it isnt at all,or showing it as obsolete when it obviously is not.

Thanks

There is a new category on the misc list: Story Mode Classic. Its basically story mode any% BUT instead of going into a killing spree, reaching 6 stars, and having to find a tankh, you have to do the missions until you have reached the required target score! Its Any% but less boring and longer and just like the old days!

Note: The helicopter route in CBTF classic is prohibited, only the boat route!

Self explanatory. This has been decided by a 4-1 vote on the speedrunning discord.

All Achievements misc category will be renamed to 34/36 Achievements, You are not gonna be required to get Golden Globe and Turret Master (1,000 kills with auto turret) achievements,obviously you will need to unlock Golden Globe achievement in True 100%,Turret Master is no longer required in either 34/36 Achievements or True 100%.

If you havent noticed recently on the leaderboards within the following Categories "Ready Or Not Spec. Glitch" and "Remote Control Spec. Glitch". It is Now Prohibited to submit any runs in these categories.

a reason to this is due to the fact that these categories have no possibility for glitches to be performed in it,therefore it was decided to make these categories prohibited to submit any runs.

This decision was made by Depatos by the way,this could potentally change in the future,if so,this news Post will be deleted afterwards.

Have fun speedrunning!

The reasoning is because in all knockout campaign levels they always end at the same time,which means the first place can be held by basically everyone who submits a run.

They are still a part of the campaign episode runs and Golden Globe,obviously

Tanks fur reading,

DepatosTheZeroth

Self explanatory title

A curse upon the speedrunners of this game has been bugging us for a while now and that is our audio. Our recorders almost rarely record audio of our runs and this is getting annoying and has started to spread. A poll on the Discord server has decided that runs without any audio will be temporarily allowed for now. The rule will return when a solution is discovered.

If you have any runs without audio before you are free to resubmit it incase it has been rejected before.

Please dont take this as an advantage to splice your runs,if you do,i hope you get coal for Christmas

Signed,

SantosSapatos

Category extensions to this game are now available. These includes categories not fit for the main leaderboards or joke categories. Currently there are only 2 categories but more categories will be added soon.

https://www.speedrun.com/payback2ce

Reposted from forums

I am looking for 1-2 active moderators to watch over the leaderboards while I may be busy or not able to verify runs, make changes to the leaderboards, etc. If you believe that you are fit for this kind of responsibility, fill out this form, I will check every answer within the next 24 hours and give you a response right here on speedrun.com.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVqxL-SKbrVX2ymX_lnZpzp9dfwBAHf7P1pRH678KJQHkiUA/viewform?usp=dialog

If some of you have noticed, every run in Story Mode has been retimed, that may have caused some confusion, why did we do this and "why is my run slower/faster now if the in-game timer says i got x time?". I only realized this when I decided to retime Matthew's and OGolfer's 0:57 Caught by the Fuzz runs, and Matthew's run ended up being a 0:58 and OGolfer's - a 0:56. I was furious because how can 2 runs with the exact same time suddenly be 2 seconds apart? This has been a famous issue in Harbour Loop speedruns, where the second place run would be faster than the World Record, but the World Record had a faster in-game time displayed. Turns out, the in-game timer is broken! To make every run fair, we have retimed every Story Mode run, now every Story Mode run after this news post was made will be retimed so it is on the leaderboards with a fair time, so don't immediately trust the in-game time you get. If James fixes this timer bug, we will abide by the in-game timer, but the previous runs will be the same time they were.

We have also changed the way Story Mode runs are timed as a whole. Now, the run starts when the yellow arrow appears on the screen, and ends when the yellow arrow disappears.

Thank you for reading and happy speedrunning!

I've noticed that Harbour Loop, the track from Custom Mode, is often speedran by various individuals like ThomasM09 or AndroidT3ster. And it is probably more active than some of the categories we have had here before. We made up this decision pretty quickly, all that needed to be done is add the category, and the subcategories. It will be in the Misc. split tho since it's not eligible for the main leaderboards. Have fun!

Someone has archived the Ready or Not Spec. category, a category which was actually ran by people. So I have brought the category back for people to run in the future, but I do have one request:

Re-submit your runs so I can re-verify them and they can be on the leaderboard. Thank you.

There's a guide on how to time your run for the different types of game modes this game offers. Both future mods and players can reference it for timing their runs, which will create consistent timing across various runs.

The retimer i use to retime runs is currently not working as intended and i am therefore unable to retime runs. Please standby for a further update.

Please note that runs may take longer to be verified at this current time.

Changes have been made to the Payback 2 leaderboards in which a 'glitch' and 'glitchless' subcategories have been added to the Any% leaderboards. This was done 'in order to set the leaderboards up to currently known glitches such as the '$2 million phone' glitch in the Ready Or Not story mode chapter which is and will only be on the Spec subcategory, and minor glitches that can be used in both subcategories such as the 'Fence/Wall Clip' and 'Helicopter Street Spawn'. The 'Helicopter Street Spawn' is considered a glitch or bug since it is not meant to happen at all, however Tanks spawning and driving around when no wanted level has been achieved is not considered a glitch/ bug since they, like the Cop Car and Swat Van, are considered by the game to be police vehicles of which do extremely rarely drive around and patrol like a normal Cop Car. The same can be said for the Swat Van, you may very rarely find it on the street patrolling. But aside from that, any runner who may think their run is in the wrong subcategory from the leaderboard changes are to notify the head moderator who will look at the run and make a decision based on what they have seen.