FinlandI don't own any of the consoles, so I can't test anything. Everything I mention is based of videos or from Ben.
- Fade out door transition / area loading (console ports are slower in this)
- Fade out when dying and restarting from checkpoint (again, slower but only tiny bit)
- New pause screen
- Darkness removed from the Emerald Mines
- Music tweaked for minecart section
- 17 new achievements for PS4
To be continued...?
Release day: TBA.
I will update the platforms on this leaderboard when the console ports are released.
I'm super moderator of Super Skelemania leaderboards. Our community only uses in-game time for the runs and because there's no way to completely disable real time for the submitting the runs etc, I (and other mods) have to manually remove real times every time and inform the runners that it's not necessary to write the real time section.
There's other much bigger games that only uses in-game time (Celeste for example), it has to be real hassle to remove real times every time uninformed runner submits real time too, because they think that you need to fill out everything. :)
Unless I'm missing some setting, I have looked for it many times.
But anyways, I hope this thing would be somewhat higher priority, at least after redesign goes live.
Yesterday new update was released, that fixes incorrect "milliseconds".
Milliseconds in quotes, because it wasn't actually milliseconds, time was based on "in-game time system (steps) of which there are 60 of in a second" (quote by dev, Ben). Now, I did know that timer wasn't 100% accurate because of LiveSplit, but I didn't know how it was incorrect and I didn't mind it for most part. And IMO, forcing runners to use external timer because in-game timer is slightly incorrect is bit silly and raises the bar for entry if you're beginner speedrunner.
After discussion on Discord, Ben decided to fix it with latest update. It also includes credits skip feature and other miscellaneous things (more at the link on the top).
Every run (even obsoleted runs) that's older then July 18th and has milliseconds in their time, has been corrected. Exception is Skin% category, that timing was based of realtime. Time was recalculated by dividing old "milliseconds" with 30 and multiply by 100.
Make sure you have latest update!
Check that Steam has downloaded and updated the game or that you have latest version from Itch.io / Game Jolt.
EDIT: Also, when submitting the run, please include milliseconds from now on.
We got one screenshot only submission and I forgot that I had "Runs require a video" enabled in this leaderboard. So I accepted the time, because it's just placed in 4th place and seems reasonable time.
I hope that in the future, submissions would be mostly videos, because there's possiblity to cheat the timer with save reloading. That's why video proof was enforced before.
Maybe rule for mandatory video proof when time is top 1-3? I need to think about this later today.
Because of item dialog skip or aka pickup animation cancel, it's possible to steal the skin item.
Even though it's not real item, just silly easter egg, we had little conversation with benal about whenever or not this should be seperated category (100% + Skin). In conclusion, me and benal are agreeing with the 100% category change.
Changes are getting the skin item (it wasn't needed before, because it couldn't be collected until now) and route change, because unlocking the skin needs specific route for playing the gongs in correct order.
We are really small community, but I want to make sure that majority is okay with this. (I don't want to be dictator.)
My vote is yes.
Poll closes in around one week. If yes vote wins, the old runs will be archived (includes old 100% and skin% runs).
I made leaderboards for Super Skeleman's sequal "Skelemania" and started running the game this week too! There's few times outside of Speedrun community, but still needs more times. So check it out: http://www.speedrun.com/Skelemania
