Hello! Some new exciting news about PEPPERED speedruns!

Leaderboard changes

• The categories have been regrouped. The global category now reflects the route, containing the various endings for that route (where applicable, each unique route still retains its own category).
• Every ending has rule description with example of frame where runs should end.
• In some endings, the final frame was adjusted to reflect the moment when player control is no longer available and only cutscenes remain. For existing runs on leaderboard time was recounted.
• Starting from now, all the endings are presented on leaderboard as required and no further work or global changes are needed. Feel free to submit!

Autosplitter changes

• Autosplitter finished and tested for all endings.
• Autosplitter published on Github repository and accepted to Livesplit registry
• That means, there is no longer needed to inject script manually - just type "PEPPERED" in split settings and get autosplitter downloaded!
• Autosplitter is quite detalied and has many checkboxes. Feel free to download backed layout and splits - setup is available for every ending!

Other

• Posted couple of saves that I've made with PEPPERED Save Manager so you can with some prepared saves instead of empty list. Available here

That’s all. The changes are designed to make the game more accessible for new runners, so feel free to join and get PEPPERED!

Hello!

I've made some QoL stuff to make PEPPERED speedruns more comfortable and entertaining:

1) Autosplitter

Autosplitter is now available in the Resources section! https://www.speedrun.com/peppered/resources Already tested and polished for more than half of available endings and currently available for manual installation. As soon as I'll fix all the ending routes, I'm about to submit it to Livesplit repository. Support of endings is proven with new PBs ;)

2) Posted category splits

As soon as autosplit is quite detailed (it can capture almost all the scenes available in the game), I've posted some presets that include detailed subsplits

3) PEPPERED Save Manager

Handy tool that allows you to backup and quickly restore your savefile, allowing you to train some specific sections that aren't available by just starting from specific World (for example, getting Secret Ending)

4) Leaderboard changes

While showcasing the game to several people, I've got a feedback that 11 main categories is too much so I decided to move some categories to misc:

• Ending 1 and 2 don't really have a cool gameplay to showcase
• Endings 4 and 10 are just some kind of run interruption on the way to more interesting endings

Also made some minor rule adjustments to reflect current autosplitter flow. Just some shift of time when the run ends (currently affects only Ending 9)

5) What about endings 5-8?

I didn't forget about them, just didn't have enough time during the weekend. I feel myself that I should find and learn at least one nice regular ending in the "bad route" so I definitely will return to them in 1-2 weeks and will polish autosplitter, move categories and record the runs

6) Any questions?

Feel free to contact me in Discord @wdn2010 or DM any of the moderators on speedrun.com. Feel free to join developer's discord via link https://discord.gg/mggkDXpDXz, we are there aswell!