Greetings Helldivers!

Once again after a poll and discussion on the community discord - which everyone is invited and encouraged to join! - we have updated the difficulty variable to reflect what missions are available on which difficulties. To explain what this means, some mission types are not available in some difficulties, for instance Launch ICBM is not available in 1 | TRIVIAL. This meant that those slots on the boards would forever be destined to be empty. There is an image attached to illustrate. None of those slots would ever be filled.

Now, each mission only has those difficulties that are relevant to it. This means the levels board no longer differentiates between difficulties by level, but irrelevant difficulties no longer appear on the regular leaderboards.

Furthermore, we have decided to merge the amount of difficulties we support down. Earlier, we supported all difficulties 1-9. Because there isn't that much difference between a difficulty 1 or 2 mission for speedrun purposes, and keeping in mind that we want every level represented by at least one available difficulty, we have decided to slim the board down to only the even difficulties - 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9.

There is currently a poll ongoing on the discord about the fate of old runs that are now without a difficulty to support them. Will we leave them orphaned, or merge them together such that difficulty 4 runs will be allowed to join the difficulty 3 board? Vote now to make your voice heard!

Happy Helldiving!