Welcome to the fourth article of the newsletter; Apologies for the big delay since the last one but hopefully things will speed up from now on. this time we have so much to cover so bare with me.
(notable) world records
12:10.600 Hotel Solo No Shop (Hotel-)
12:17.283 Hotel Solo Shop (Hotel-)
41:54.783 All Main Floors Solo Shop (Current)
movement
5:13.100 Backdoor Solo (Current) [3rd Place]
5:15.833 Backdoor Solo (Current) [4th Place]
5:16.800 Backdoor Solo (Current) [5th Place]
24:25.300 Mines Solo (Current) [5th Place]
12:35.025 Hotel Solo Shop (Hotel-) [8th Place]
12:47.567 Hotel Solo Shop (Hotel-) [11th Place]
12:49.600 Hotel Solo Shop (Hotel-) [12th Place]
12:57.600 Hotel Solo No Shop (Hotel-) [10th Place] đđđđ
13:04.133 Hotel Solo No Shop (Hotel-) [12th Place]
13:09.350 Hotel Solo No Shop (Hotel-) [16th Place] đ©
12:27.567 Hotel Duo No Shop (Hotel-) [5th Place]
17:36.983 Hotel Solo No Shop (Current) [5th Place]
game news
the devs are progressively been showing sneak peaks regarding the new upcoming update and a teaser was fully released on their channel a few days ago, definitely recommended to check it out.
other stuff
ok so, a lot of things genuinely happened but the main stuff is that a Mines World Record History Video was released, a new team based tourney is in the works and overall a lot of activity has recently started pouring in regarding the backdoors, with a few records here and there but, most importantly, legacy, especially with the new sns world record and a few runners wanting to lower their time aiming for sub 13.
info(how does this whole thing work?)
the newsletter is a nice and compact article that will come out bi-weekly(most of the times) to inform those who aren't active 24/7 in the community about game news, discoveries, movements on the leaderboards and much more.
for movement, only top 15 times on popular categories and top 3/5 on less known categories will be tracked. it serves as a highlight for underdog runners and world record grinders to give them the deserved recognition for their possible grinds.
for world records, its pretty obvious what's the purpose of the whole thing but (this also applies to movement) we won't track categories where there's less than 5 runs and such.
for game news, there will be any new things mentioned by the developers and rumored to be coming in the next updates for the game.
for other stuff, there will be extra things such as new strategies, discoveries and little new things that might interest everyone.
if there's any suggestion or if i missed something, feel free to contact me about it.
recently the CE page has been revamped to give out a hopefully better look in comparison to what it may have been before. Mainly a shoutout to @8y8x and @Nolyswag for being the lead of this revamp and shoutout to the rest of the team who contributed even a little bit to move those runs in the new correspondent categories of the revamped CE page.
happy speedrunning to you all!
With the new update containing a new mode we've come to some other changes and I am here once again to list all of them.
- THE HOTEL RUNS WILL BE VERIFIED AFTER THE APRIL FOOLS CHANGES WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE GAME.
- THE ROOMS RUNS BEFORE THE APRIL FOOLS UPDATE WILL BE VERIFIED AS THERE HAVENT BEEN ANY CHANGES BEFORE THOSE.
- RETRO MODE HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE BOARDS BUT ONLY SOLO RUNS WILL BE ACCEPTED UNLESS ANY CHANGES/STRATEGIES THAT MAKE CO-OP FASTER GET FOUND.
- NEW BACKDOOR ADDITIONS TO CATEGORY EXTENSIONS.
Also if you see your old runs be reverified don't worry about it as we're moving them into a much more organized category.
MAIN
As everyone might have already noticed in the past few days there have been tons of changes to the game along the addition of a completely new subfloor: The Backdoor.
With this new update there have been, as already mentioned, huge changes to basically the entire game and with those also come changes to the leaderboards.
As of currently we plan on, as already some have noticed since its been preemptively added, tracking most of the categories as if the leaderboards were ''wiped'' , like in the past with the changes to the jeff shop basically; Do not worry, no runs will actually be removed but will be stored as an archive in their respective category under the subcategory ''Versions'' while for future runs we will be counting them under the same subcategory but under the ''Current Patch'' category. This will be applied also to most, if not all, of Category Extensions.
Its also really important to note that as of currently, we are NOT ACCEPTING any runs other than The Backdoor as its very likely that some other changes will happen as well once ''The Hunt'' is gonna end, as already confirmed at least for The Backdoor, but for that we are already ready for a future new version subcategory.
TLDR
- ONLY THE BACKDOOR IS OPEN FOR RUNS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
- ALL HOTEL , and possibly other categories, RUNS WILL BE ARCHIVED ALONG CATEGORY EXTENSIONS
- SUPER HARD MODE!!! IS ARCHIVED AS IT IS NOT AVAILABLE ANYMORE
Welcome to the fourth article of the newsletter; Apologies for the big delay since the last one but hopefully things will speed up from now on. this time we have so much to cover so bare with me.
(notable) world records
