Hey everyone, I am writing on behalf of the mod team. As always, we try to make changes appropriate to community sentiment. The issue of using gvk’s mod to select Horde/Gauntlet lobbies recently came up, and we wanted to have a community vote on how we should move forward. To clarify, this involves accessing said lobbies through the “single player” option during a speedrun that requires entering said stages, something that is not normally possible without the mod.
As a reference, here as some arguments that have been presented regarding both sides:
For allowing:
- Makes it so the single player version of these categories are not reliant on internet connection to set up lobbies (this can be argued to make the category more accessible to those with worse internet)
- Makes it so you do not have to worry about friends joining the lobby during a single player run of those categories (this has no effect on multiplayer runs which retain the issue)
For banning:
- This menu provides an objective advantage in the speedrun that is only obtained through external manipulation of the game (not replicable on a vanilla copy). This would also mean that everyone would have to download and use the mod, since there is currently no known downside
- Not available on other platforms such as Playstation/Xbox
This is just a summary of some recent discussions, so we encourage users to contribute to the discussion by posting their opinions in this forum.
Please vote in the following poll to decide how we should proceed with the single player Horde and Gauntlet categories going forward.
https://strawpoll.com/X3nkPDeBKgE
We will tally the results of the poll on 5/21/25 11:59PM PDT
Results are in, votes are 5-3 in favor of banning the GVK mod menu from horde/gauntlet selection. Moving forward this will be the standard for runs. I will reach out to the one runner affected to discuss details on their runs. Thank you all for voting (this thread will now lock).
