also with regard to the rules whats your guys views on spawning in the artifacts? i want to start with a scorched earth speedrun but we used to spawn in the artifacts cause the game doesnt spawn some of them in until 20 minutes from entering a cave. I think this was fixed on the island but still exists on scorched earth

I don't think there will be drama again everyone who used to run it has moved on. there was a lot of drama back in 2020-2022 ish. TLDR is -really werid rules originally created by russian guy mod who disappeared around Ukraine war, i picked it up as mod with some german guy maverick. -everyone in the community disliked maverick. some disputes over rules/unfair use of rules.

-one day he submitted a few runs that clearly were cheated it least/he "couldnt explain". he was banned/kicked as mod

• i tried to remake the rules but gave up after since everyone else left by this point from a drama that was also going on

• a friend group of 3 were also trolling/racist/trying to dox people etc kept griefing the discords and spamming etc. first discord died cause the original owner gave them mod. thats the short version, also a load of the speedrun tech commonly used was patched at the time making the mostly glitchless runs hard to replicate.

I know there used to be a discord for ark speedrunning cause I ran it. Felt like going on nostagla trip and saw the new leaderboard, looks really good ty for fixing the mess that existed from back when i speedran this shit. I get if you dont want one given the history of this games discords.

We have redone the leaderboards due to there being major issues with the old ones sorry for inconvience, please feel free to ask any questions about it and the new rules here on in the discord

Frosty there is no editing files out side of the game for the dupe. EVERYthing I do/meekat (oooh scary name i cant mention pls dont ban me xd) is within the game application. all it does is change the INGAME settings to crash the game which rolls back the save file to when i last saved but because the ark data is saved in a different location it does not crash hence you get the dupe.

i will make a video on it if i have to prove it. no clue where this bullSh*t about editing game files came from.

oh and apparently SR.com removes self censored words so feel free to insert those your self whilst reading this.

bro all im saying is the dupe only works because the the terminal data is saved in a different spot so all we are doing in rolling back the save file by crashing it and then the terminal data stays up to date cause its saved elsewhere.

and **** off, I am going to continue to talk to the only person who is competent at this game and knows what they are doing. If you really think someone who is putting in twice the effort into his runs than anyone else has and is consistently trying to communicate runs strats and how and why the work should be banned you don' deserve to be a mod for this community

im just going to put this here, this is what Meerkat has to say about the patching of duping "@rossoserous reply to mav on forum that duping isnt going to be patched out because it is a fault of the game saving implementation by unreal engine and a bandaid fix isnt worthwhile for wc because it only affects singleplayer, where if a player decides to cheat its not going to be by crashing their game plus it being patched out doesnt matter with his ruleset of "current version or later", its not going to be unpatched, so once its observed to be patched, either a new strategy needs to be found or downpatching needs to be done to remain competitive (which he cant disallow because other highly affective glitches also get patched making competition impossible, eg cave dropping)"

so its unlikely they will patch it also considering it took them 6 years to patch the most basic stuff like artifacts spawning on time.

also with regard to having dino dropping in glitchless, if anyone walks in and out of a cave during a run they are going to trigger the dino drop if they have agroed any dinos in the cave. given the game is so poorly coded, i dont think as long as everyone agree's to it then a minor glitch that often occurs accidently and would ruin runs if it was banned should be allowed.

oh and somethings like dino dropping can be done completely on accident i would personally consider it not a glitch and allow it in glitchless since some runs will just accidently do it anyway.

my opinion is that we should allow it for any% as anything that is possible that the game allows should be allowed with no restrictions providing it does not involve third party programs.

however given that this would as you mention remove a large section of multiple runs there should be glitchless and any%.

the only other thing is whether or not we consider meshing a "glitch" because if we do almost every run completed would be in any%.

Since this game doesnt have an official speedrun discord. i thought i would make a sever for those interested. hopefully we can discuss strats/runs etc on this if anyone is interested https://discord.gg/Q3BEUxwfpz

is there an enforced difficulty for full campaigns or is it just whatever you want?

saw that new game+ was also a run option but are there specific settings required for it or is just choose what is best?

added one second to the time since you started one second late

wanted to give this speedrun a go but i was hoping there would be a lvl 30any% or a lvl 10% kind of thing. is there plans for this kind of run

also sorry for taking so long to verify I have been very busy

hey sorry for taking so long to verify your run, I had to retime it since you did not pause between load times so your timers time is time with loads and I removed 105 seconds from that for your time with out loads

i lowered it by 2 seconds since you stopped the timer late :)

start time on cutscene start pls

please start timer when cutscene starts