If you play on normal, you're choosing to go slower, thus your speed run is less valuable right off the bat. Sure, it can be executed well, but you're purposely foregoing speed for "challenge". I don't see the point in doing an intermediate difficulty. Fastest is amateur, that's for speed runs. Hardest is Veteran (or Pro on ng+ perhaps), and that is where you should be optimizing challenge speed runs. Normal is not fast, and it is not hard, so in my opinion, it's worthless.

If we change the LB for Normal and Veteran Difficulty, there's must be a LB for players who play Sheva and the ones who play Chris (NG+ Solo I mean). No?

Keep it like:

NG+ = Amateur

NG = Veteran

Add other difficulties to Misc.

NG in Amateur is nonsensical and offers little challenge imo.

I like what he said. Lets vote people.

why would hardest be standardized for NG? NG Isn't about skill, it's mostly about routing imo. Easy / Hard for each makes sense

NG Veteran is all about routing and the inevitable RNG too, and an alternative to NG+ which is the main attraction of speedrunning this. NG Amateur is routing and being faster because everything is weaker but why you would tryhard doing easy mode New Game having NG+ for that? Just my opinion.

IMO NG+ Isn't really fun at all because you have everything, whereas NG is a fresh file speedrun straight from the beginning of the game, and a speedrun implies going fast.

Has anyone completed a NG Veteran run so we can compare how much longer is than NG Amateur/Normal?

Amateur > Veteran And the competitive category should be the one with most runs.

I propose keeping NG Solo Amateur and Coop Veteran for competition.

^ he's right. The AI is worthless and would be way too hard on vet

Why is NG Coop Amateur misc when it has 4x as many runs as NG Coop Veteran?

Because those are the rules that have been set. I'm going to lock the topic now. Final results: NG solo-AM NG+ solo- AM NG co-op-Vet NG+ co-op-AM

Well I saw that already, but I don't have anything else to say ^^

I don't disagree about the difficulty choices, it's fine. I just regret that Amateur and Normal are secondary now, but we had to choose, and the challenge will be at its max on Veteran.

And yeah it's a good choice to put NG solo to Amateur, totally agree with that too.

It's fine.

Personally, I don't see why there can only be 4 main categories. NG Coop Amateur has a lot of runs, it should be un-misc'd. Everything else I'm fine with.

Because this is 1.) Easier and 2.) It will show the true skill of the players. NG vet: AM is WAY too easy. There's almost 100% no fear of deaths. So the players will have to show how good they are at being smart and staying alive. AM is just too easy. People who aren't even good at the game can get a 'WR' if they have a faster console/PC. Veteran however will make things a lot harder and more competitive.

And? More runs obviously means its not as miscellaneous as a "main" category. Misc categories should be reserved for less popular categories, not what some players deem "less skillful".