In case people didn’t know, the loads times between each console are different. I didn’t know this and got the Switch version and I’m not buying the same game twice just because I got the wrong version. Because of the load times, I wanted to see if we could get diffrent catagories for different systems. This would allow Xbox, PS, and Switch users to be able to run without having to worry about not getting any records. This would also make the community larger, allowing more optimizations to be found. Does this sound good?
Since it's the exact same route on a different console, I'm gonna say no for Any%, not gonna make 4 leaderboards for 1 category, it's messy as fuck. For there to be different categories there needs to be a difference in the actual gameplay. That said if you wanna see what the best Switch time or the best PS4 time is, etc. the site has a filter function to only show runs of that platform. Similar effect, less messy. (As for the optimizations argument, those get found in Individual Level runs anyway, which are already equal for all platforms)
That said I've been discussing the following categories with other runners:
- Shadow DLC (All 3 shadow stages from either a new or completed game)
- NG+ All Stages (All story, extra and secret stages on a completed save) These are way more friendly towards 'in-game time' as a timing method, allowing all consoles to be even. Once people actually get proper videos up for said categories I'm more than happy to add them to the leaderboards.
