Lets make it clear. None of the other mods knew about S/Q being a thing till it was added. Another mod added it without talking to anyone.
The term WR is very odd. 1st place is better. Now if it's a very active game mode (or game) then yes, the term WR is a fact. I agree that one person doing it doesn't count.
Reminder Pokemon had been using IGT for years and realized that that was archaic with newer developments of the route.
They are now retiming every run to be RTA and accurate, as moderators it's your job to do what's best for the speedgame. I don't see how timing everything RTA "just isn't realistic." If there's other reasons, that's fine, but just because you're too lazy to do it is not a "realistic" reason for being against RTA. Especially if it's just "we've done this for years!"
Steam version didn't exist 10 years ago, now it does. If there's strategies that make the game go faster, they need to be addressed. If that means needing to change timing methods, then that's just what's going to have to happen.
This is RE4. We have a different set of rules. We're not going to redo all runs due to one person. So that's what this is about, trying to find a good compromise.
I dunno about "not realistic".
You totally could. Like, it's physically possible to do. Bigger leaderboards than this have gone through complete timing method overhauls multiple times, so that's less a case of "not realistic" and more a case of "cannot be arsed".
Frankly, I don't get what the big deal is about swapping timing method to accommodate new tech and all kinds of runs. The discrepancy between IGT and RTA isn't even that large in the first place. Considering RTA would allow you guys to consolidate the clusterfuck of categories you have down into something more manageable I think it makes a lot more logistical sense to go that route than to time some categories IGT and some RTA and yadda yadda.
S&Q or any% if you must insist, is really the only category that must be timed in RTA. Otherwise IGT is perfectly accurate.
Every RE4 runner also hasn't done an optimal run except for one runner in any%. New tricks get found, faster routes get made. You can't just pretend it doesn't exist because you're stuck in the past.
Not as of like, yesterday or something?
But yeah, this is pretty analogous to what Pokemon went through, and it was dumb when they opposed it then and it's dumb to oppose it now. The net result of what happened to Pokemon with it's timing method change was the games got faster, easier and more competitive due to having a more granular/accurate timing method. All this and more can be yours if you just stop being lazy and utilize the new tech at your disposal.
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