Ontario, CanadaWelcome to our humble Competitive community of runners, enjoy your time here learn some games have some fun. And best of all BRING HOME THE PB'S! mhmmmmmm PB'S <3
Generally Tampering with anything outside the games normal means is considered cheating. This is as per Speed Demo Archives rulings as well as many other places. Everything done to a game be it glitching or whatever you do must be done within the game its self and with no other tools or programs tampering with it, to be considered valid on a competitive level.
Any further game specific questions should always be answered in the games specific forums.
Generally if no other known times are found to be faster/better then It can be classed as WR, but don't let that ruin the whole ideal of doing it. Remember much like anything else competitive we must remain Sportsmen like and enjoy the thrill of it. Also most people uncontested, try and perfect those runs to keep it that way but that doesn't mean someone else could potentially find something new out that may save some time. practice makes for improvement. <3
In summary as long as its the KNOWN FASTEST/BEST TIME then yes it can be called World Record, tho here we track our runs on a competitive and active manner amongst the community so we generally should not be super concerned about WR runs elsewhere unless we wish to aim our PB's higher for that goal. But everyone has their own goals and style for running.
As was stated by Klashik, Serious runners would find a way to invest into getting a decent capture card to record. Makes things allot easier and you are able to keep a local copy as back up just encase. <3
Mean time just set your PS4/Xbone to stream right to twitch, you do not need archiving on since it won't keep any vods longer then 2 weeks anyways. But once you do have a run(s) done you can go and highlight them and cut them out of the past broadcast and then submit those, just make sure the time is verifiable and maybe also locally record time as a percaution and submit that as well with the splits uploaded here https://splits.io/ maybe as well.
Well guess you need to find a game you enjoy or that you think you will find interesting to break apart and learn the tricks and mechanics for and learn more about creating and using starts for running and how to appropriately time and record runs, but the main thing to remember is always to have fun with it and take it step by step as you learn. <3
Another thing to note as well that may be of use if no actual video proof is available or to solidify the submission to a leaderboards would be to have some credible people that have seen the run and can vouch for it and also possible supply proof for it themselves? If no solid video proof that is credible then a run should not be posted to a leaderboard, having others vouch for runs to be submitted would mostly only apply to runs that were done with 2 or more people and if they can produce proof themselves.
Mostly just my thoughts, but it generally something I've seen allot of talk about.
Everyone needs to listen to the NIER OST <3 its so damn good, and if you loved Shadow of Colossus and it's OST then your guaranteed to love NIER's OST for sure, there is about 4 different variations to the OST besides the amazing original one.
I watched a lot of the runs and enjoyed them all, the only real thing that bothered me most times was the announcers being so awfully quiet you could not hear most times what they were talking about and when they read off donations that came in or other things that were important about the event.
One thing that kinda bugged me as well was the lack of updates on the schedule as I missed a few specific runs I wanted to see live, because the times were adjusted and not updated. Some of the runs happened allot later and others earlier then I saw on the schedule which caused some confusion for me and possibly others as well. Maybe more hands to handle that stuff might be needed next time around?
Generally I think it went well besides most times not having someone to sound check things, that could always be fixed and improved on for the next ESA. looking forward to the next one.
<3 This is a good thing then. Support is awesome and I find that an acceptable level Pac, thanks for the update on that as well. Good to see your back hope things went well for ESA I watched and had a blast.
Alice Madness returns will be interesting one to start with and SotN definitely will take some practice for sure but both fun games. I wish you best of luck with your running endeavors and go for the glod!
It's not about being worse then someone else it's about getting better on a personal level. Not everyone was good they they started, takes time and practice.
Anyways Welcome. <3
contact the people that manage the game, if they have a twitter then just send them a message or make a forum post about it. Else you can contact one of these people about further help. (staff)- http://www.speedrun.com/about
Well good luck that Flip. <3 I hope at some point I'll be able to record older games but need to track down the systems again and get a upscaler or something for them.
<3 well practice and love keeps things working hard and supported. I'm sure allot of us have diferent options that we looked at for capture cards but If you can get the money for one I recommend the one I use as its simple and records at high quality without any noticeable delays at all. If you'd also wanna be looking at upscalers/downscalers as well but I do not have any information in that area, since its more for older games being recorded.
what I'm using: http://gamerzone.avermedia.com/game_capture/live_gamer_hd
Obs does compress the video by a decent amount, considering that when I do 720p 4hrs or so which is roughly 5 gb in size roughly. But that also depends on quality you wish to record in besides resolutions as well considering I want to keep it as close to real as possible thats why the sizes are still large half the quality or even a bit less would drastically reduce the finial size by a few 100mb or more easily.
So I've been playing around here and there in Raid mode still because I always find it fun to come back to it and do some runs even just for an hr or so, But I'd like to start doing Medal % runs with a Partner on PS4 at some point.
If your interested in doing this let me know. You do not have to be using a max lvl character to start. Medal % criteria:
- complete the a full gauntlet on selected difficulty at the recommended lvl or below. (all stages/missions)
- Do not use Heals and revive crystals.
- Kill all enemies and complete the stages as fast as possible.
In order to get the 5th and finial medal for a stage you need to get the other 4, besides the 3 above ones I described the one you always get is the finish medal or w/e its called. You need the previous 4 to get the final medal.
Contact me on twitter preferred, and we can look at setting up some time to practice and try coop runs. We can also try for any % as well at some point.
I work 5 days a week, Thursday to Mondays normally. ( from 4pm till as late as 2am EST most days) I can set aside time after work or on my days off for this provided people are also serious about having fun and trying for some times on raid runs.
Anyways let me know. ~ M A S H
An Article content submission with some people to check them over etc as per Kirkq's suggestion sounds like a good idea, considering it would take stress off individuals to write and more allow others to link and rewrite the major article release with those snip-its others wrote in order to bring community related content about the speed running community(ies) together. Be very interesting to have because I always loved reading the short updates that SDA always has every week or so. I do not write much myself for article type stuff but I always like finding ways to help out and even sharpen my writing skills with things I find interesting or with stuff I work on. Having a way for others to submit links and a short description on speed running related stuff will help push content like this faster when the editor(s) can just summarize and write it to be more simple and informative.
You can also maybe look at having people submit example articles about a few things for a criteria to look for editors to do this. Could be a better way to find the people you want to work with.
Anyways just my thoughts and suggestions. <3
