Excluded from Level Leaderboard The stage "A Way Out of the World" cannot be completed in any way and is more of a Score Attack than a Time Attack since you only try to stay alive as long as possible. Because of this I have decided to not include it on the Level Leaderboard here on Speedrun.com.
Playlist You can still find my times of all categories of the stage in the playlist below. ** https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIu4Xm07NlVu4JLGCwxlMYQsv2ZF7io8L ** ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Rules Just some few things so you know what is allowed and not.
"Infinite Hover Glitch" Is "Banned" Since the stage does not actually progessively get closer to you in any way, meaning if you stand still the distance to the "World's End" doesn't come any closer to you. Therefore the use of "Infinite Hover Glitch" is banned because you can otherwise just use it right from the start and stay in the air, never getting any bit closer to the bottom and hover in place. This is however not possible to do infinitely as you can read more about below.
Automatic Death You can't stay forever in the air with this glitch, because for some weird reason the game just kills your after around the 2 minute mark. Even if you can't abuse the glitch and cheese the stage forever it still takes away about 2 minutes of trying to climb higher and higher on the stage. This just takes away the skill nessecary to get a good start and staying alive and also just makes it less interesting overall. If you wish to use it, go ahead but I will not include any abuse of this glitch on this "leaderboard".
Below you can see the automatic death that I'm talking about.
Accidents Are Okay It's so easy to accidentally trigger this glitch by simply using Thruster and ride up some of the flatter surfaces in this stage. Therefore I will not just ban your run because of a simple mistake. What I ask however is if you notice the glitch happening to just quickly correct yourself and stop it. It's the abusing of the glitch to stay in the air for a prolonged period of time that I won't accept.
The Stage Doesn't Count Urgent Ascent Uses Normally all stages, at the end, will list the number times you've used Urgent Ascent throughout the stage. However in this case, "A Way Out of the World" simply doesn't keep a track of your uses of it. Regardless if you use Urgent Ascent or not it will always read "Urgent Ascent Activation: 0 time(s)" at the end.
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Leaderboard I've included a leaderboard in this thread below just in case people are interested in running this stage, even though it's not on the Level Leaderboard. If you have a faster time, let me know and I'll edit this to include your run.
Easy
- Nordanix- 5:25.425 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMx_K31elms
Easy, No UA
- Nordanix - 2:52.238 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZFuktiE6vM
Normal
- Nordanix - 3:56.786 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeO3ewPPZys
- Omyon - 3:40.000 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVSXt3Uv1ug
Normal, No UA
- Nordanix - 2:13.768 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFZo9EhMvy0
- 19 rr - 1:14.00 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaRZOvhY5gA&feature=youtu.be&t=6m43s
Quick Blink
- Nordanix - 3:43.540 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQc9GUAWIzE
Quick Blink, No UA
- Nordanix - 2:14.751 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=adI4bwMiH-g ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────