Recently, some disagreements took place within the staff of SpeedSouls that we were unfortunately unable to settle in an amicable way. As a result, we decided that it is better for us to migrate away from SpeedSouls and start a new community.

The vast majority of the former SpeedSouls staff, moderators, and active members of the community are participating in this migration.

This is a difficult transition for us, but we hope it will help us continue creating a space for all of us who are interested in speedruns of the games we represent. As of now, the game representation remains the same.

We have decided to name the new community Souls Speedrunning.

If you want to stay up-to-date with the developments of the Souls speedrunning world, share your progress with fellow community members, and ask for help, we invite you to join our new Discord server: https://discord.gg/6v5Z63zEQv

Effective January 1st, 2023

After having a lengthy discussion in the community, we have unanimously decided to BAN the use of PS WARPS (or Activity Card warps) in ALL categories EXCEPT Unrestricted (aka Unrestricted Any% and SL1), for the sake of the speedrun's longevity.

While Demon's Souls Remake has stopped being updated since December 2020, the Playstation 5 Interface hasn't, meaning that the Activity Card feature has changed slightly over the last few years, generally making them slower and more inconvenient in a speedrun setting, to runner's annoyance. We've also known in the mod team ever since launch that this feature would not be sustainable for the leaderboard, since being online is required, it means eventually this feature will be defunct once Playstation decides to stop supporting the PS5, even if it's in the distant future.

However, we didn't want to completely remove it, as it's still a unique feature to this game, and has some quality of life uses that are nice (reduces run-arounds in Nexus, keeps CRR setups between worlds, etc). So we decided to allow them in unrestricted, as it's a category intended to beat the game as fast as possible with no restrictions, despite how broken some strategies are, not to mention that the name of the subcategory preemptively fits this change.

Previous runs using the PS Warps even in banned categories will NOT be removed from the leaderboard. We believe every category world record that used to use warps and are now banned should still be beatable without them, as there's enough room for improvement. There are also small finds that allow us sort of replace a handful of the PS Warps, easing the transition.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the #des-remake channel of the Speedsouls Discord.