So a broader question to this community: I'm not able to get a response from either Zeal or Akers. Zeal has been offline for nearly a month, and Akers has been offline for 8 months.

1. I'm more than happy to step in as a mod here. But I realize I'm relatively new, so I don't wanna step on anyone's toes. The only recent runs I see are from @Zetnix, @gamejamcurator and @JSR. Then again, runs haven't been verified in a while so there may be more of you out there. Please let me know if anyone has a problem with this. If not, I'll put through the request to get added as a mod then we can go from there.

2. Is anyone married to the current layout? Level Leaderboards are usually meant for partial-game runs, not for splitting out squads. It might help the visibility of our community to have the runs moved to the Level Leaderboards. We could have Categories and sub-categories. The categories would be 2-Island Easy, 2-Island Hard, 4-Island Easy, 4-Island Hard, All Squads, and a Miscelanneous category. Once a mod I could move the runs over to the new layout so nobody's times would get removed.

Thoughts on #1 and #2? I really would love for this game to get more runners, and I think now is the time especially considering there are new people playing the game thanks to the awards it won last month.

Yeah. That makes sense to me. The part that does make that run interesting now that you have to play the final island completely though is making sure you haven't depleted your grid before you get there, so does require a good strategy. That said, I hear you about it. It would help clean up the board to move it to Misc.

A lot of the patching since then have been bug improvements, so I wouldn't recommend downpatching as stability is already an issue with the game even on the current version.

I know what you're saying about too many categories, but changing a run that uses an in-game mechanic to a miscellaneous category isn't what I would advise. Misc categories are usually for things where you're not running the full game (like a tutorial level or something like that, or a weird goal).

I did propose some changes in another thread on how to clean up the leaderboard (Category Layout Discussion). The custom vs custom no ice needs to be combined into one. And the Squad% without secret needs to go (you can unlock the secret squad in console if you haven't gotten all the achievements yet on your own). Also GameJam's 100% run needs to be on a 100% leaderboard, not in Squad%.

Part of it, yes, not many people running the game now. I think part of that is due to the leaderboard being a bit cumbersome. But there's really not any other way to categorize the run if you want each squad with 2E 4E 2H and 4H. Problem also is that there's not really much active discussion going on right now, so it's hard to figure out how to keep it clean and active.

So it's been a while since this thread has been touched, but given how things have slowed down a bit for most runners, I'd like to weigh in here (I didn't get the game until October, so I'm new to this community).

My thoughts:

1. Merge both custom squads into one leaderboard. being able to use frost mech is just a part of being able to run custom. Not enough people run both for it to be a separate thing.
2. Change the name of glitched% to Death Abuse%. It's not a glitch. It's working as designed when your mechs die.
3. Remove the Squad% without secret squad. If you wanna speedrun the game but you don't have secret squad opened you can type "makeitso" into the console and unlock them. Removes the need to have that in there. Besides, nobody has run it and it's an empty category.
4. Add a 100% category. This has been run by GameJam and is currently sitting as a one-off in the Squad% category.

Thoughts? FYI -- Would love to talk more with anyone in the ITB Discord. Check out the Challenge Runs channel for speedrun stuff. https://discord.gg/r6cm7CC

@Zeal_Iskander and @Akers

Would you guys like help moderating this game. I notice that neither of you are on the sr.com site very often, and I know there are at least 2 of us who have submitted run and they have been sitting in pending status for a while.

Please let me know. I would be more than willing to help.

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Also, shouldn't Glitched% be the Any% category? Considering it's the fastest way to beat the game

I mean, I was able to beat the existing WR (pending verification presently), but it took a much more optimized run due to losing a couple minutes on phase 1 of the final island.

We're changing the rules to allow the Flagellant in the Courtyard run. Thanks for the suggestion!

Hey guys. So I know the resolution to this has been to create the Glitch% category. I was doing a practice run of that myself, and it appears the game has been updated since the WR was created.

The only change is with the final battle. Phase 1 of the final battle if you take the intentional death it doesn't advance to phase 2 any more. Instead, it gives you a game over.

So my question: Should the existing category for glitch% be changed or altered? Or have a new glitch% now that the patch has been created?

I think it makes sense to allow this for the Crimson Court runs (seeing as how the WR is based on a broken version of the game anyways). :D

If it truly doesn't seem to make a difference then we can give the ok for everywhere else.

The more I think about it, the only place where I can see it making a large difference is in Miller%. The Flagellant is an OP character there because of his self-heal abilities in longer battles. They weren't able to nerf that like they did with the Leper's focus ability (whatever it's called).

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This is the most popular FTL discord and we have a Challenge-Runs channel where speedrunning is discussed as a part of that. https://discord.gg/0mMV9KdaDtPiS9uR ... but it's not dedicated to speedrunning

Hi. I am a supermod for Darkest Dungeon. https://www.speedrun.com/darkest_dungeon We would like to remove a supermod who has not accessed the site in over 2 years, and who we cannot contact elsewhere. Can you help please? The supermod I do not have access to remove is bootsanator. Thank you.

Hi mods: I'm gonna clean up the mods for this game. Right now it's mainly myself and Cmdr who are active. If you have not been on the site in over a year then I will be removing you as a mod. You probably won't see this until you log back into the site after the fact, but this is why.

I will also be adding one more mod from the active community. Please make sure you've joined the discord so that we can chat about any changes that are being made to categories and runs. Thanks.

https://discord.gg/FcBGXg3

Didnt know about that. Thanks for pointing it out. I'm hoping they'll be addressing it in a new patch. I'll look into it and get back to you

Anyone interested in trying a run that also completes all of the DLCs (Pirate's Cove and Ice Cream Headaches)?

I still have to get my Any% better, but I think a run with one or both DLC expansion levels completed as well would be fun.

We're holding a tournament this Saturday, Aug 11 at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern.

It will be a double-elimination tournament running Boss - Necromancer.

If interested, please reply to this post and we will get you added. It's just for fun, so come join the fun!

https://challonge.com/ddbnc

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Given the new categories that we are running and are wanting to run, I think it would make sense to re-organize the categories to the following (note the indentation. The idea is that you would have top-level categories to keep things organized). Note, Darkest mode unless specified:

• Boss% TOP LEVEL ---- Necromancer% (rename Necromancer% No Summons) ---- Necromancer% Open ---- Hag% ---- Swine Prince% ---- Siren% ---- Miller% ---- Baron% ---- Crocodilian% (this is the renaming of the current Courtyard% category)
• Map% TOP LEVEL (complete all achievement bosses within a map area) ---- Ruins% ---- Warrens% ---- Weald% ---- Cove% ---- Courtyard%
• Any% TOP LEVEL ---- Apprentice Bosses% ---- Veteran Bosses% ---- Champion Bosses% ---- Roster% (Radiant mode, bring all heroes to lvl6) ---- Darkest Dungeon% (Radiant mode)

I know many of these categories don't have submissions yet, but many of us are getting ready to run or have already run them. It'll be nice to have an agreed-upon category before they start getting run. Thoughts? Can we make this happen?