so true chat

here try the dead discord server u might get some luck asking there https://discord.gg/p2pCkPP9ca

bro bonked in 1.2 zeptoseconds🤣😭

just make legacy categories literally every game does that lol

glitchless is still beatable though, but the documentation for that would probably be very boring and linear since there's a grand total of one notable skip

soccerman611's 4th place run was the first one to use gear boosting (the tech to go faster when holding a gear by using an emote), also any% is kinda dead unless a lb reset happens since you now have to stand still to do a burger hop. if you still want to make a video though ur welcome to use all my footage

bad idea cause ur ping differences would make frogging either easier or harder so it would be unbalanced speedrunning

Really nice work man

cool! should've thought of that

alright so i just accidentally killed the category so dw about this anymore

i sold my soul and finally found a new skip

perfectly reasonable, especially with how much harder it is to do this if you're using a device that connects to the internet wirelessly

update: after some trial and error i found the best routes for this glitch. the timesaves are insane

a new skip has been found which has the potential if allowed to save a lot of time, give or take >3 minutes. the way it works is as follows:

1. disconnect from your internet connection and hit the red part to return to blastbang level select
2. head towards a designated arena fight and reconnect to the internet around halfway there
3. touch the teleporter to a fight and the glitch should work. if it doesn't, you'll either be sent back to blastbang level select before you can get to a teleporter or disconnect from the game entirely. (also, although not recorded in the video, you do get sent back to the arena fighter area, so no timewaste having to teleport back)

below is a video of the glitch being used effectively, more rerouting is to come

I don't have a different keybind for backspace (unsure if that's allowed), also as for burger hopping across the black stairs, it actually saves more time to just do the gear boost with /e dance2 since you can only cut corners slightly with a single burger hop

a sub 1:50 seems to be probably the final second barrier or something along the lines of that, but doing it is scary challenging. some of these parts like stage 7 and stage 1 took me over 50 tries to do once, so it's not looking too good. also, some splices might not be too clean, but it doesn't affect the time

the w1 runs that reset to save time should prob be removed since that isn't possible anymore

okay so this might be the most bullshit thing i've ever done, so let me try to explain my process and give tips as shown in the video.

1. the way to know when to jump is incredibly abstract. for me, i use visual indicators in the form of either when a spike passes a killbrick and then waiting for a certain amount of time, or just going when a spike is in a certain location.

2. this strat is still rng for an unfortunate reason. the shots that super distortio fire at you can kill you randomly, but you can increase your chances by staying as far back without falling off the platform.

3. follow my jump pattern. this should be a given but what i discovered works with better efficiency than anything else attempted so far.

that will be all. i'm not going to attempt 16 star but with this method you might be able to. good luck if your future endeavors entail this garbage lol edit: lmao

looks like timeline of events had quantum accidentally breaking the rules (use of defense orb), having their run verified automatically due to being a mod, eric referencing based off of that run (usage of power orb), and then having their run verified by quantum. welp, rip both runs lol