RussiaOkay, thank you very much! I'll play some other version which would fit the requirements in my future runs.
Recently I got back to speedrunning Puzzles and recorded a speedrun for submission. Eventually it got rejected and the reason was "unofficial game release". So I had a question, what is considered to be an unofficial release specifically? As far as I understand in my case it's the Russian version of the game but the thing is I'd submitted runs on the same version of the game before in the years 2020-2021 (Beghouled, Seeing Stars).
Another question arises from the fact that multiple speedrunners are using a non-game-of-the-year edition with no achievements and Zombatar while having Michael Jackson as the dancer zombie additionally, which also affects his speed, yet the Steam version for me includes a game of the year edition by default with a dancer zombies re-skin. So is it allowed to use a non-Steam version in general or is it possible to switch to an older version of the game on Steam?
Thank you in advance.
For information: you can reset your app data in the settings and not reinstall the whole game. With the cloning it's even easier because you delete the cloned version and copy the game again.
What I'm trying to say is that there must be a category for the new save even if people find it long to reset. That's pretty much the vanilla while NG+ should be additional.
Isn't it tedious to play an already beaten game? I agree that it takes more time to reset your attempt but that's what speedrunning primarily is, it's getting fron the beginning of the game to the end having a fresh save file and in this game it is reasonable to play from scratch due to vehicles being saved after you have beaten the level.
Even if people don't want to lose their progress there are tons of apps which allow you to clone a game and have different progress in the two copies of it allowing to keep all data in the original version and reset the cloned one.
That's the problem of many mobile speedgames that the categories are aimed for NG+ ruining the initial idea of what a speedrun is.
It's a shame that this game doesn't have adequate speedrun categories and all of them are a basic playthrough of pre-emptively unlocked levels and prebuilt cars. These categories have almost no interest in contrast to if people had to build cars on spot. This would open the window to much competition in microactions and strats which parts are faster to place. That's how I used to speedrun this game before submitting many things to speedrun.com:
Actually all of them are different. One is laupig, the other one is jackzfiml and the third one is deleted.
Hello! I was thinking of speedrunning Candy Crush Saga and I found out that the levels which Android users on the leaderboard have are different from the levels of PC players in the top two places in Episode 1 category. The levels in my version are the same with these top position but I play on Android, not the PC. Could you tell me if there is any difference and if I should submit mobile runs to the main Episode 1 category even though there are PC players?
(Also sorry, made a typo in the title)
That's an inetersting method adding 1 hour for each collected star. We'll see how it works!
And if you provide me your guide, I will be pleased to try this category out!
Honestly, that's partially what category extensions exist for. You can add it there for not littering the main leaderboards
As far as I understand, Low% for this game would require to collect the minimum amount of stars possible. That's an interesting idea. I wish moderators would take your suggestion into account
I should also say that this TAS doesn't have fast transitions and a menu skip shown in cha0z's video, so it's not as satisfying as it could have been
