god that randy guy is INSANE

happy birthday!

i think pretty much everyone leaves it as default, but i'd say whatever you feel comfortable with is probably best. I think default is passive?

i would say just start and dont worry about a lot of tricks and stuff, also joining the discord and asking stuff there is good, there is a link on the src page, and just i guess not being afraid to ask anything, there is some knowledge for this game that isnt always intuitive so just ask :D and just have fun :D idk discord is probably better just because more people wilkl see it !

I don't think that climbless being split is what we should be doing imo. Climbless changes 1 level (magma cone) and makes you do 1 different jump (Autumn plains jump). Where the big issue that comes out is the 90 min jump thing. There are a few skips (idol springs, groxu's breeze) that become possible/more viable with the 90 min jump. Waiting the 90 mins into getting into icy speedway on your first run for level storage is a huge problem. You wait the 90 mins, play for about 30 mins and then softlock your game on essentially a coin flip. You then have to wait again. This is where a thing like a 2 any clause for using the console injector could be useful and having the person have to show that they are typing slowmo 1 and their command history before runs for example. I don't think it should be split for similar reasons that nbs shouldn't be split if you don't do mouse and keyboard strats, or if you get rocket storage or not. Like what has been said earlier a split should happen when it completely changes the run, i.e., 100% vs 100% NLS

We defintely need a new guide just with all the mouse and keyboard stuff that has been found. Not sure if anyone really wants to as it takes a lot of time/effort to make one best thing right now would be to just watch top runs, see what they do and ask questions in the discord until a new one gets made

you have to manually split artisans, people do it after the timer stops in the balloon! Hope that helps

the timing method used for console is IGT (in game timer) in the top right of the guidebook. The RTA timer isn't used for leaderboard purposes just because it would be unfair to someone who played on ps4 vs ps4 pro, for example, where the loads would be faster. PC has a loadless timer but currently nothing exists like that for console. I would say probably best to keep the RTA timer going all the time but the timer we look at for saying who is 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc., is the timer in the guidebook (IGT) after a run, so be sure to show that at the end of a run