Hello Everyone,

With the "Recent" update EA32 coming out (Yes I know I am behind, I have a full time job so be nice) there have been several major game changes. The biggest of these changes being the new Rarity system. These changes fundamentally change how a Ravenfield match plays out and thus changes every speedrun done on EA32 and beyond. This raises the question of how the leader boards should be managed to give everyone the best speed running experience.

There has been a change like this in the past. In EA 28+, the capture times for flags was made longer, thus making every run take longer. This means that up to the time that I am posting this, the fastest versions are the ones before EA28 (for example, I have set several records using EA26 even past the release date of EA30+). This comes with the problem that runners cannot experience updates without downpathing to speedrun.

With these two update changes in mind, with updates in the future, there should be discussion of when a leaderboard split should take place. With the way the developers are molding the game with updates, this will likely be a split between Pre-EA32 (which would use something like EA26 through Steam for the increased flag speed) and post EA32 until release. This would also allow the leaderboard to have a EA category and a full release category once the game comes out of Early Access.

Note that at the moment of writing, no changes or splits in the leaderboard will be made unless a plan is reached among runners on what to do. Please join the discord to discuss changes.

TLDR; The game is different now to past versions. A leaderboard overhaul is likely to happen sometime (at least to remove loading times)

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me on Speedrun.com or on Discord.

Thank you for reading,

Ivan and the Ravenfield Moderation Team