Any difficulty, no bloodright missions (for obvious reasons), using IGT for calculation. We have this in Mech 2 as well except we use medium difficulty for those. I think it's a fun way to practice this game and still compete for the fastest time. The only problems would be the trials since hitting F12 at the end doesn't really apply, plus trial 3 can be skipped entirely, so you'd probably have to be in the middle of the campaign to accurately time it. Here's an example:

@MattyAlanEstock jet tapping is when you rapidly tap the jet key and you can basically jet forever; however, it isn't as effective on modern hardware, and it uses up a considerable amount of jet fuel, so I think it should be allowed more or less. A ban for it would not be easily enforceable.

I mean, sure, but what would the rules be? Obviously medium and no jet sliding, but should we allow for jet tapping, or no?

congrats, you tied lol

Would be cool to have these options for categories

Really solid time. I can't seem to get past 0:50

This time gave me loads of trouble this past year lol

They're more or less the same with the clans. I think jade falcon has a mad dog and the wolf has the timberwolf for the trial at the end. Aside from that, basically no difference.

You'd have to hit f12 every time, but it's a thing.

I guess to just check the legitimacy of the mech being used?

ok, so thanks to Alcom_Isst, we found out what the dropship hitbox is and.... well......

I've noticed a difference in medium and hard with trials only, and maybe sable flame for wolf? Aside from that, there's basically nothing different lol

Does anyone here know where I can hit the thing in a consistent manner? There have been times where I completely emptied my autocannons with both a stormcrow and a new strat I found with a jenner carrying a UAC20 on it, and it just refuses to take hits.

the thing with hard mode is that trials will take longer due to how many hits mechs can tank. That's literally the only difference between medium and hard mode

Another potential category should be just pure mission runs from either campaign. I understand that the timer is limited though in-game. Not sure my missions runs would count though since I set the difficulty on hard lol