SwedenYou need a program called LiveSplit (or some other timer program) and in there you set up how many splits you want, and what you wanna call them. You also need to decide the hotkeys to control the splits with, I use numpad keys cause they're hard to hit accidentally
To make it show up in OBS, you add a Window Capture on the LiveSplit window. easy as that!
Check out this video for how to get a basic setup going
(the stuff before 24 mins is about speedrun.com and how to learn about a speedgame)
Uh stumbled on this comment a year later just cause I was wondering if people had done XCOM speedruns, but Enemy Within is an expansion on PC, but was released as a standalone game for consoles and mobile
So I guess it should be a category under this game? Assuming EW on console and mobile is the same game as EU with the expansion turned on in a savefile?
You don't have to split your videos into 10 second segments per level btw, if you do a bunch of levels in one go you can just use the same video link in every level submission :)
EDIT: also I added a bunch of categories just to see how it looks on the site, so might as well add them all in one go. Worst thing is it adds a horizontal scroll bar, but not that bad
Yeah could do that. Tell you hwat, do the runs and I'll add the categories as they come, feels a bit silly to have 30 empty categories ;)
Oh yeah! When I made the leaderboards, I actually asked for advice on how to set it up, whether to have worlds as "full game" or "levels", and whether to have true IL's in there. The problem is of course that there's 12 * 30 = 360 of the darn things, so the replies were just like "don't bother", since it would be pretty unwieldy in the speedrun.com interface
Also since I was the only runner, and only did world runs, it felt a bit silly to add stuff that no one was running (yet). So I added Any% as that's the "default speedrun", All Levels cause moving around save files is a hassle, and the world runs cause they felt like a more reasonable length (I haven't even completed world 5 myself)
Obvs there's not a huge amount of execution since it's fixed levels, but optimizing them (like how to do as few button presses/animations as possible) could be pretty fun. And there's already a level timer in the game
So yeah if people (meaning you for now hehe) want to do IL's it would be cool to track them somewhere, maybe something like a google spreadsheet (pinned in the forum for visibility) would be the easiest way? We'll work something out, lemme know if you have any ideas ?
All I know is it's BANNED, what god forsaken knowledge are you trying to protect us from?
I've never run the game, but in my mind having both no holds barred Any%, and rebranding NMMS to No Menu Storage feels like the best idea. It's cool to have a sort of "16 star" level run as a good entry point for new runners/watchers where you have a chill mix of glitches and gameplay. I can appreciate the "purity" argument, but arbitrary-feeling category lines will always be a thing in any speedrun that's not pure Any% (and often even when it is), ultimately it's down to what people want to run, and I've seen waaay worse category descriptions lol
Not familiar enough with the longer categories to know the impact it would have there, so gonna stay out of that discussion :)
That's actually a good point, that perhaps IL's aren't even really necessary! Since I'm thus far the only runner, and I'm only doing full world runs, maybe just keep focus on that. IL's would, as you say, be more about figuring out beforehand the most efficient way, rather than interesting execution.
The reason I put in each world as a "full game run" btw, is cause i was following what I saw in the Starcrafts and Warcraft III with campaigns as full categories. But as you say in those games each campaign is persistent in itself (stuff like items and XP you pick up), but doesn't carry over to the next, and with the way Starcraft II was sold, each campaign was a standalone release in the first place.
The NSMBW approach makes total sense for this. I was thinking more about run length than actual definitions, so I think I'll do this: Worlds as IL's, IL's as "default view", two full game categories, "all levels" and "beat the game" (there's skip tokens that you can collect and use, but would require messing with game files and stuff to get a fresh save)
Also thanks for pointing out the cut off VOD, twitch's new highlighter is so faffy
I set up leaderboards for Tumblestone yesterday, and I made "full game" categories for each individual world, as well as all worlds
It would make sense to have IL's too, there's even a level timer and everything, thing is there are 360 of them! How to best set them up, so it doesn't look too stupid and require scrolling for a year?
Wait a minute the minigames have timers included! Why obstacle courses?
IL's for this would make so much sense lol
Hi, I'm kinda interested in FPS speedruns and this looks fun and quirky, but it's not on sale anywhere. Is it abandonware and is there any legit-ish ways to get hold of it?
Skyner it's gonna depend on what the mods of the game think, basically. Audio is more important in some games than others, and it's gonna get more important the better your time is. It's pretty common for games to have a lower evidence requirement for slower times, so that people don't have to faff around too much just trying out the game. Also depends on how well known the game is, you need frame and input data for top SMB1 times just cause it's so much prestige involved
So yeah, try asking in the game's forum, and see if the rules can be made more specific. You could even write that when you submit the run, something like "sorry if game audio is important, I understand if you reject this and I'll include it next time" or something :)
