I know this has come up a few times, but I want to bring up the topic of a 4Package% (or Any%) category. Reason being, we did one last weekend :)

I'm currently working on compiling together all the VODs and computing the actual final time (there's some missing footage due to a computer crash, but should be possible to cross-reference from other players online at the time). In the meantime, how do we feel about making a category to submit the run under?

On that same note, 12 people total participated total (no more than 7 concurrent, if I recall correctly). Is 9+ players an option for multiplayer categories?

@Almine (https://www.speedrun.com/user/Almine) found a very interesting bug during the intro, that allows for accessing the build menu and inventory before the run begins:

It looks like there are a few ways to exploit this, most importantly you can exit the drop pod before being able to move freely.

According to our rules, "The timer starts when the player is allowed to move freely or when the "skip intro" button is pressed". Since you can't move freely yet, I don't think this would require we start the timer, but it does allow for doing some actions "pre-run". What do we think about this?

Last week, I developed a mod for Satisfactory, called AutoSplitHelper, that facilitates making an auto splitter for the game (yay). However, technically our rules say that no mods are allowed. Can we amend the rules to allow this mod explicitly? (while I trust people not to use game-changing mods, we should probably still keep that provision in, of course)

The AutoSplitHelper script + mod, for anyone curious :) https://github.com/Epiphane/AutoSplitHelper#readme

Is there an official Satisfactory speedrunning Discord server? I'd love to have a place to share ideas, clips, and chat in a more casual environment.

If there isn't one already, I'd be more than happy to make it, just didn't want to duplicate someone else's effort 😅

This is probably a dumb question, but I'm trying out speedrunning for the first time and I can't figure out how people sync up their splitting software to the game.

Right now I'm using LiveSplit, and tried setting up a mouse button shortcut to start/split the timer, but it feels wrong because it depends on me hitting the button at the right time. Is there a better way?