For the main game: The intention was to have the competitive runners post videos so as to help each other out here and keep the steam leaderboards as the official ones. I'd like to hear other people's input on it though.

For the ILs, video evidence will be mandatory.

Concerning the time, my initial thought was that it started as soon as you entered Mission 0, stopped between mission completes and ended when you picked up the baby. When I added up the individual times in my PB and in Ikubi's PB though, they didn't add up to the final speedrun time (off by about 8-10s). I have a feeling the time for Mission 0 (and possibly even Mission 1) is omitted but I don't really have evidence for that since the times still didn't add up, just made a little more sense. It will require some looking into.

Ultimately, the Steam leaderboards will have the full rankings. Feel free to check them out.

Any%: http://steamcommunity.com/stats/673000/leaderboards/2236700

IL Total: http://steamcommunity.com/stats/673000/leaderboards/2214067

I'm aware that the mission complete screen and level select screen are off by a thousandth of a second, that's why I will be accepting only the time from the mission complete screen for the moment.

Discuss how you feel about that here.

Let's come up with some neat strats and glitches and have some fun, yeah? If you have any concerns about timing, categories, rules and whatnot, don't be afraid to post about it.

I'm aware that Steam leaderboards exist for this game! I'm hoping that High Hell's presence on speedrun.com allows for more competition and gives people a place to view routes for levels they're having trouble on. It will also encourage people to record their runs!

Good luck, friends!

Currently, the version of Cat Quest before the Mew Game update is the fastest. If you wish to try out that version or speedrun with us, follow these instructions. If you have no idea how you got here, buy Cat Quest on Steam, iOS, PS4, Android or Switch and play it.

1. Open the Steam Console (choose the easiest for you):

• open the Run window (win + R), type steam://open/console and press Enter.
• create a shortcut to steam on the Desktop, right-click and go to Properties, add -console to the target, click Apply and Ok and open the shortcut.
• run steam from a console with the -console option (ie: $ steam.exe -console).

2. Paste the following command into the console and press Enter:

• for PC: download_depot 593280 593281 7941355512749589113
• for Mac: download_depot 593280 593282 5724481506853978624

The steam console will start downloading the patch, however it will give you no indication of progress so you will just have to wait it out. Once it is finished, the console will print out a line that says something along the following: Depot download complete : "\Steam\steamapps\content\app_593280\depot_593281" (579 files, manifest 7941355512749589113)

3. Open the folder specified by the console and copy everything inside.

• There should be a folder called Cat Quest_Data, an executable called Cat Quest.exe and a steam_api.dll.

4. Navigate to your Cat Quest installation directory (\Steam\steamapps\common\Cat Quest) and:

• if you want to keep the most recent update so you don't have to re-download it, make a new folder and dump all of contents inside.
• if you don't want to keep the most recent update, delete everything inside.

5. Paste the depot files into the installation directory.

6. Exit Steam.

7. Navigate to your steamapps folder (\Steam\steamapps), look for appmanifest_593280 and open it in a text editor:

• look for StateFlags key and set its value to 4.
• look for UpdateResult key and set its value to 0

8. Save the file and re-open Steam. You've successfully downpatched your game!

To undo all of this, simply navigate to your steamapps folder (\Steam\steamapps), delete the appmanifest_593280 file and restart steam. As a disclaimer, I suggest you delete the game folder as well and let Steam download the game from scratch as it may screw with your achievement progress.

Let me know if anything if you have any questions, if anything needs to be changed or anything's not working for you.

I was able to perform a zip in Cat Quest during one of my runs and have since recreated it.

If you buffer a roll on the first or second frame (unsure of this at the moment but it feels right) that you can buffer one and enter / exit a building, you will zip across the map / through the building. The zip ends when you hit something you cannot travel over (if you have water walk, you can zip over water). It's a little tricky to get it the first time but once you get the feel for it it's not that hard.

The direction you zip in is very weird. I've mostly managed to zip left out of a lot of caves and ruins (as shown in the video), but I was able to hit a right-ward zip from the founder's cave, seemingly only after killing one of these guys (). This may or may have just been a coincidence.

The direction you roll on the buffered roll seems important but I don't have a lot of data on this so I can't speak too much about it.

The side you enter the cave / ruin in is important. If you enter from the bottom right and the zip brings you north west, you'll just hit the cave / ruin and stop. You'll notice your character be a little closer than how you entered.

You can softlock your game if you attempt zips without water walk or flying from certain caves / ruins. One of these ruins is Zeta Ruins; you will be teleported behind Cold Paw and not able to move.

This is all the info I've got. Mess around with it and report back if you find anything!

Let's come up with some neat strats and glitches and have some fun, yeah? If you have any concerns about timing, categories, rules and whatnot, don't be afraid to post about it.

I'll be posting my runs and findings when I have a chance.

Good luck, friends!

My split on Edea's death was 8m50s. I also made it to Lubella and killed her at 18m12s.

It's a lot of fun but you will quickly realize how few environmental sounds there actually are (ie. the elevators...).

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We answered you on stream but just in-case anyone else needs to see it: Launch the timer after the intro finishes stop timer when you kill The Soul

For future reference, most games have the rules for starting and ending in "View Rules" on the category/run page:

You can split whenever you want. I personally use the auto-splitter, zic3 splits when the soul combines with the player, some people split when they touch the floor or leave the arenas. It's up to you.

That one expired too help :(

It works on Brainfreeze.

Schedule works for me.

Eyecube crashes for me on PC pretty consistently.

Honestly don't feel it has any place in a run. If you quit out of the file you're doing a run on and go on another prepared file for whatever reason I'd, personally, consider the run void. It's a neat little "bug" or "side-effect" to mess around with though.

Nah, I couldn't get it working either. I looked into it very shortly and decided to split on my own.