To our fellow community members and runners, lately the moderation team over on our Community Discord have been discussing the removal of the subcategory “Unscrew/Slasher” on the FNaF World leaderboards and have the “Damage” subcategory preceding ALL future runs on ALL categories from now on but not as a subcategory anymore. Now it’s important to know what we, as moderators, originally discussed so you understand the full context of why this consideration was being taken.

We, the moderation team, felt like the two subcategories themselves were cluttering the SRC boards (Screenshot provided by Dark: https://gyazo.com/7f5f12c4fb5a1c51eebc5bf6b6589ba6 however, due to the nature of the situation, while we try to keep decisions in the best interest for the moderation team and the general community, we ran a poll specifically for our FNaF World runners over on the Community Discord and the majority of our members wanted to keep the “Unscrew/Slasher” runs.

Now, for any long time members of FNaF World have or should’ve known, this is NOT the first time we discussed the ban on runs specifically using Unscrew, the last time being with GarlicBox on the 28th of November, 2017; however, due to the account being deleted, this post here: (https://www.speedrun.com/fnafworld/thread/arkg9) will be out of context and very outdated.

Why do I bring any of this stuff up? Well, it’s more or less the Unscrew/Esc Key chances being between 1-2% of success on instantly killing bosses regardless of the difficulty per use. With these sorts of odds at stake, this makes runs FAR MORE inconsistent and reliant on RNG than they ever were in the past regardless of how optimized the runs we currently have today. This is why as of recent events we considered cutting this subcategory entirely but with the majority opinion of our community members for this game wanting to preserve these runs, we had to come up with something for the best of both worlds.

Right now as it currently stands, a compromise the moderation team is considering moving ALL runs from the “Unscrew/Slasher” subcategory as its own category over on the FNaF World Category Extensions board to not only preserve the runs that our community members for FNaF World on the Community Discord voted for, but it also clears up the main FNaF World SRC board from being cluttered to help ease things up for our moderation team; however, there’s still concerns about community input over this matter, and this is where you guys comes in.

This will be an open discussion post, so feel free to leave your opinions whether this is one of our community mods adding more to the discussion or one of you, our dedicated runners of this game. Remember, us moderators will be relying on this critical piece of feedback as a means of discussing where the direction of this subcategory will go next and finalize the course of action from there.

We hope all of you stay safe and have a wonderful day!

As a runner of this game, granted a minimal runner, this decision would definitely satisfy both parties. As someone who doesn’t particularly have the fastest computer especially, it means I have slower loads but most notably that the water section in FNAF 57 is incredibly slow, which means that it’s impossible for me to ever get a competitive time in adventure which I feel is the true Any%(no major glitches), which means that I can’t exactly run a lot of categories on the boards including 100% or 157% or any ‘adventure’ categories. This means that I obviously only can do fixed party and considering then it is just running to the end it can be quite boring IMO sometimes. Unscrew gives a way for me to start risking more on runs to down the time and also means that technically it would be the true no major glitches any% fixed party version so it should be there. Moving to CE gives it a way to still be there for those with definitely worse computers but also keep round the technically main and would be fastest version of an Any% no major glitches also. I agree that the boards are definitely cluttered and adventure is definitely not only more proper and consistent but would also be more competitive thus should be the main boards. That’s just my opinion though, but I agree to move to category extensions.

-SWarMer

I used to be Unscrew's biggest advocator a long time ago when it was the hot topic on this board. When discussions of banning Unscrew came along, I was the only one who wanted it to stay, and I took it to my grave. I regret that decision now, and it's time this discussion is buried for good.

I could argue all day over why Unscrew is boring, or why it's a brutal, late-game run killer. But I know that there are people out there who like doing Unscrew in runs. And that's fine, and I think that you should have that option at your disposal. But to the people that do like these, you are a small minority in the current state of the game. I verify the runs that are submitted to these boards. I can guarantee that it has been a VERY long time since I've seen an Unscrew run. Sure, maybe before we split the categories into DPS/Unscrew, that would have been a different story. But now, Unscrew has fallen far into the back of everyone's minds. I think that shows that for most people, Unscrew is just inferior to DPS in almost every way. Unscrew is infuriating, it takes far less skill to pull off, and it's just... boring.

So, to the people who still full-heartedly argue that they enjoy Unscrew, and that they think it deserves a spot on the boards, I want to ask you: Why aren't you running it?

We can't make a new subcategory every single time we need to make a compromise. These runs should be moved to CE so that the people who have put the time into these runs can still get the recognition they deserve, and the people who enjoy Unscrew still have the option to compete. But Unscrew does not deserve a position on the main leaderboards.