Inspired by @MsTruffles speedrunning this game I started running it too. After comparing our PBs with each other we noticed I am climbing ladders faster than she is. So I compared the time it takes to climb a ladder. For @SalsaFox, @Jean20B and @MsTruffles the climb took exactly the same time: 1.267 seconds while it took only 0.750 seconds for me.
We noticed my game is running at 120 frames per second while the game of @MsTruffles only runs at 60 FPS. This led me to the theory that my games just runs faster overall due to the higher framerate but I compared our walking speed and it is the same.
Does anyone have any idea what could cause this and how the fast ladder climb could be possible for everybody?
Update: I used an FPS limiter to set my framerate to 60 and compared the ladder climb and it was exactly 1.267 seconds. So the framerate is the cause.
I must add that I should technically be able to run this game at 120 FPS, but it's staying at 60 for no apparent reason.
And if I could run at 120, I don't think I would, at least with the current way the leaderboard is, because it would be unfair to other previous runners. Especially, Jean20B was running on Switch 1, which has a strict limit of 60 FPS.
Hi, thank you for pointing out this issue with the ladders.
I wasn’t aware of it until now, and indeed there’s nothing I can do on my Switch that would change the frame rate or the speed of the ladders.
Since running the game with a higher FPS cap gives an unfair advantage, I think it would be best to add a rule requiring the game to be run with a 60 FPS cap. Let me know what you think.
I think a 60 FPS cap is a good idea. I already set up a frame limiter so I can run the game at 60 frames per second. When playing on PC it would be good to enable Steam's FPS counter and capture it to verify the framerate.
(I've deleted my run submissions that were done at 120 FPS since they won't comply with this new rule.)
The framerate issue regarding ladders is even weirder than we thought. A speedrun colleague of mine wants to run the game as well. He capped the framerate at 60 but was still climbing ladders roughly twice as fast. After capping the framerate at 30 it was pretty much the same speed as all others runner, but not quite. His climbs were less than 100 milliseconds slower which doesn't sound much but over the entire run it can add up to a few seconds. I sent an email to the developer asking if they would be able to fix this issue but I'm not getting my hopes up for a reply.
This dev released 14 games between July 2021 and May 2024, and then released nothing else. I don't know if it says anything about the likelihood of getting a response ^^'
