I am excited to introduce a new Fears to Fathom Speedrun page dedicated to housing all existing and new challenges. This category extension will streamline access to challenges as the Fears to Fathom series grows and more challenges are created.

Affected Challenges:

The following challenges will be transferred to the new category extension page:

• Ironman% (EP1)

• Leave% (EP4)

• I Can't See% (EP4)

• Fired% (EP4)

Action Required for Existing Runs:

If you have a submitted run in any of the above categories, you will need to resubmit your run on the new speedrun page. Affected runners will be notified directly. Once all runs are either resubmitted or runners opt not to resubmit, the Ironman% and other affected challenges will be archived on the original pages.

Main Speedrun Page Update:

The main Fears to Fathom speedrun pages will now primarily focus on the following categories, there could be exceptions:

 - (Survival | Death | 100%)

Why a Category Extension?

With more Fears to Fathom games and challenges being made, the category extension page will provide a centralized hub for all challenge-related content, making it easier for players to find and participate in them.

New Page Link:

The new category extension page is now live and linked above all episodes.

[https://www.speedrun.com/Fears_to_Fathom__Category_Extension]

The retiming was done a few days ago, I forgot to mention it here again. My focus will be shifted to creating playthrough guides for episodes 2-4 in preparation for episode 5 to come out. Please check the previous news post if you have not yet done so for more information about the retiming.

Now, this is a story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down, and I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there, I'll tell you how I retimed nearly 50 runs to make them fair.

I'm back!

It was brought to my attention that the timing of runs is inconsistent across the category, mainly due to an odd starting time chosen by the previous mods. But we're aiming to alleviate that issue!

Soon (over the next few days), we're going to retime the top 20 runs in each category. This may screw with people's rankings, but we believe it's the best course of action to take before the category gets too competitive. We're not going to change the start time of each run, but we'll enforce the specific start times much more precisely - down to the millisecond. There are hundreds of runs, so we can't reasonably do this for every participant, which is why the top 20 runs in each category are going to be directly adjusted.

Again, this shouldn't negatively affect anyone's run outcomes. It may change rankings for runs with extremely similar times, but no major changes will happen to the start/end times, and nobody will be put at a large disadvantage.

In the meantime, run verifications will temporarily be put on hold, so we can make sure that existing runs get the attention they need, and no mistakes are made. As soon as everything is in order, we will get back to verifying new runs with the new precise timings.

Sidenote, welcome to our newest mod, PPGDUD! They'll be helping with verification from now on, as well as adjusting existing runs in what I'm now calling "The Great Retime" (TGR) for the sake of efficient communication in the future.

As per usual, all channels are open to contact me directly if you have any suggestions, concerns, or death threats to send my way.

Happy speedrunning!

Heyo!

For the few dedicated runners of this community, you may have noticed that the moderators have become inactive. Luckily, I've made a ticket to take over the category, which has been accepted! I didn't expect the existing mods to be fully removed, but they unfortunately were.

If they contact me directly, they're more than welcome to rejoin the game as moderators, though I doubt they will as they've all been offline for over 2 months at this point. One of them for over 2 years!

Nonetheless, I can assure you all that the game page is in good hands. I also moderate the pages for episodes 2, 3, and 4, as well as the series as a whole, and the official Discord server for the game. I'm 100% certain that I will be able to look after the page, giving it the attention it needs. And that's started with a fresh coat of paint for the whole page! Let me know what you all think of the new design.

Any questions can be written below this post, or sent to me privately, and I will respond when I can.

Hey everyone, I just wanted to reach out and address something real quick. Recently there's been a lot of runs being submitted were the timer doesn't start until after the player has turned off the alarm clock and leapt out of bed. I've been retiming these runs and verifying them. That's not a problem. The problem that is currently appearing is that they're being resubmitted with their old, wrong, times. This takes time away from me verifying other runs. To the multiple people doing that, please stop.

Now, a question to the community as a whole: Should the rules be changed, and should the timer actually start when you first exit the bed? I pose this question because it is possible to move your character's head position in the cut scene before the timer has started. This let's you click the alarm clock and get out of bed as you're starting the timer. However, doing all that and starting the timer at the correct time can be tricky and lead to inaccurate times. Please let me know what you all think so we can change the rules accordingly. Thank you!