Super late response, but I don't think there is a way to run it windowed in any stable way

Sounds like a huge pain to do and manage....Most people don't wanna do speedruns that just get deleted every week

This is normal and me and the person I run with call it "damage boost", it's an intended game mechanic and not a glitch. Provoking it on purpose is just clever use of the games mechanics to get a speed boost.

I agree with Voidspace, I don't think much would change at all in how we run the game.

I cannot underscore just how big a deal that even if external communication wasn't allowed it'd be virtually impossible to enforce and people 100% would abuse that

One concern about making items and furniture a category is the fact that as the game updates there will no doubt be more and more items and furniture added regularly....Which will make moderating and maintaining that kind of leaderboard a huge pain

I can't imagine the absolute chaos that would be trying figure out if people are using discord to communicate or not...it's not hard at all to filter that out of a recording. It also would just add more difficulties coordinating in an already RNG heavy game.

A massive part of speedrunning is that generally the rules are whatever the community agrees the rules are...The mods have extra sway in it only in that they can officially implement it, but that doesn't stop people from doing whatever they want regardless. In this community, we've all seemingly agreed silently that external communication is totally fine, just like how we view using beehives as illegitimate for a lot of run categories.

There is another thread suggesting the same thing already

I actually agree, this could be pretty fun and less challenging than Bestiary%

The fandom page has a lot of incorrect info, the official wiki is far more accurate

Work fine for me

You are allowing glitches and runners HAVE TO use bound glitch on Assurance cause its the fastest way to get to the facility.

I take it you're new to speedrunning? Because Any% is normally the default category and glitchless is only sometimes optionally added on a game by game basis...and Lethal Company is way too glitchy to have a proper glitchless category imo

Given the popularity of the jump puzzles like Leap of Faith and Kugane Tower...How is there not an official category for them? I mean they are big enough that they get large amounts of attention and speedrunning videos as-is

There are a bunch of singleplayer air-battle missions you can do, honestly they fit better than the current categories do

speedrun for kiling thargoids would be big, simple combat goals are probably the best thing this game has to offer in terms of speedrunning

that'd be awesome

Me and Pattyog had a rivalry going here a bit over a year ago where we were both swapping and fighting over 1st place for a good while trying to beat each other

Tbh I don't have the energy for it anymore until this game either stops updating or the RNG is reduced....

For context when we were racing over v.0.1.8 I have a logged amount of 321 runs for All Bosses and all that was just to submit like 3.......and I don't even think I logged 1/2 of my runs.

Honestly the game keeps getting updated into different versions and leaderboards over minor changes so often that I've been unable to motivate myself to keep running it.

That's not to mention how oppressively RNG it is.

How do you window the game? I can't seem to find any way to that doesn't involve downloading very fishy 3rd party software

I struggle heavily recording this game, otherwise I'd have way more runs. If I so much as tab out the entire game will crash, making it difficult to use OBS to record with it..since the game also blocks any inputs from reaching OBS. I have to start recording, launch the game, and do everything from there raw...it's...less than ideal.

I can't even do splits or anything, and my recording always seems less smooth and jankier than some of the runs I'm seeing posted on here...so...Whats your secret if there is any?

Makes sense to me