¤ Separate categories or leaderboards for each difficulty: Easy, Normal, Advanced, Expert Speedrunning on easy is not impressive IMO. Expert is. So let's add new leaderboards for each difficulty just like there are for a game like Mario Maker.
There are people who want to speedrun this game on harder difficulties, so let's let them.
¤ You may not change the difficulty. If we have separate categories, an easy one wouldn't be easy if you keep changing to expert. Mixed if anything.
¤ Purist/Glitchless speedruns. At least create a separate category/leaderboard for it. You're using exploits that are fixed in later versions to skip parts of the game. This should at least count like an any% category/leaderboard.
¤ Add a category/leaderboard for autoexec.cfg scripts. There are some that definitely make this game a bit easier. Example: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=487027371
Also, hi. I'm new here. I saw the speedrun on AGDQ and this one: Which is the reason I'm hoping to see these changes.
Btw I've shared this post to a few places, so you might be seeing a lot of new accounts here.