Hi everyone,
Watching the current leader's run on YouTube, and I see they're enabling infinite ammo, infinite crafting, and one-shotting enemies under the "cheats" menu.
Now, I'm new to speedruns, but enabling cheats on purpose seems a bit lame in my opinion. But I guess it's one of those "if you're not enabling these, you're hampering yourself"-kind of things.
I'm okay with the infinite ammo/crafting part. That makes it easier to fly through and not waste time looking for resources. Kind of the same thing as not being dependent on coins in Mario, rings in Sonic, etc. But if the one-shot cheat is allowed, why not allow trainers for no reload because why waste time reloading? Or god mode, because why waste time healing yourself?
Technically, the rules don't mention cheats, sure. But come on? Are we even playing the game then?