ValhallaHey all!
After almost nine years, CastleMiner Z has received an update. Several of them, actually. These are existing community bugfixes released officially. While this is great for casual players and fixes issues like laser crashes, it's a bummer for speedruns as it patches out glitches like infinite ammo and crate duping. This isn't the end of our strats though, as Steam allows us to downgrade the game very easily to whatever's available on their servers. With that in mind, I figured it best to ask the community how you'd like to see the leaderboard change to handle this new version, or even other older versions.
Should we...
- Add subcategories and annotations - Each run will display what version it was run on and they'll be separated among more competitively fair groupings.
- Only add annotations - Each run displays its version and competes with all other versions. The best rises to the top.
- Do something else. Suggestions are welcome.
Working with subcategories may also allow us to consolidate Distance% into one main category.
It would be a pain to downgrade and lose laser weapon stability, though. Over the years, I've become aware of a relatively unobtrusive way to fix laser crashes. Since it's a memory bug, we can use a Large Address Aware patch to trivially solve this issue and make lasers more usable on older versions. So, would you be okay with allowing the Large Address Aware modification? This would become the only modification allowed in the rules. I've only personally tested it on 1.9.8.0, but I didn't notice anything unusual.
Even if this is old news by the time you're reading it, feel free to chime in!
We now have a Discord server for all things CastleMiner Z speedrunning!
I have a few things I still have to fix with this video before it's perfect, but I wanted to ask the community at large if there was anything glaringly wrong or out of place in the video.
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More specifically, when clicking on Scavenger, then going back to the mode selection and entering Endurance, the map that would've loaded into Scavenger will load into Endurance instead.
Rather than submit a run using this glitch, I figured I'd ask the community if this is considered outside the bounds of Endurance mode, or if this is something that could be used.
