I've updated the discord link, the new one should work now, sorry for the delay.

Yeah, it depending on how you decide to time it, it can be a bit weird, when the game came out, I used RTA and did the first two splits after I hit leave island, the last one was when the cut scene started to play after the last turn. There is really no good way to do RTA splits, so use what ever you feel like would be best, and you can judge how well your doing in a run through that.

The reason why we decided to not go with RTA until it is fixed is simply because if you don't abuse the timer using the bug, it works perfectly fine, I really messed up the wording of the original post and seeing the response I really shouldn't have worded the way I did, because it does imply that the entire system is bugged, when in reality it works fine, as long as you don't abuse it. The reason for the post was to more or less warn people just in case we may have too. We have gotten in contact with the devs and and they are fixing it, and it is extremely unlikely we will have to reset the headboards like I implied, again, the wording of it was pretty poor on my part and I apologize for it.

I personally agree with you that we should have subcategories for normal, hard, different squads, etc, but the main reason that I at least I didn't wanted to have to many categories simply comes down to community involvement. Moving forward I feel that speedrunning Into The Breach will end up being a bit of a niche challenge run, and not to many people have really shown interest so I felt that it would be better to keep the categories to a minimum for the time being to keep the few people who will be speedrunning the game centralized around a few categories. This is subject to change, and if we get more people speedrunning the game we may add other sub categories etc. And I agree the IGT situation is kinda of unfortunate, we have gotten in contact with the developers, and its in the process of being fixed/overhauled but we don't really know how or if they will actually fix it so the way we time our runs may be forced to change depending on how they do it.

Thank you for your feedback, for me personally this is the first time I've moderated anything like this, and feedback and thoughts are always welcome!

Unfortunately this is an issue that we are still debating, we arn't even sure that we will be forced to do a reset, but for right now, Im just gonna say that yes it would still be wiped. In testing, we found that real time and in game has small inconstancy's with each other, sometimes its only a few seconds, one run I did, was around a 40 second difference. We were forced to pick a way of timing and stick to it because we could not figure out where the differences were coming from, so we decided to go with in game since its more convenient and in testing it was more accurate. I really should have added in the post that this is not guaranteed, and that this is still a debated topic, which is why I asked for feedback. I will say, that we will most likely not going to have a reset, the reason for making this post was simply to let everyone know ahead of time and to cover all of our basis just in case of an event where we may have too. For right now, it most likely won't happen, so don't worry to much about it happening.

To everyone who is thinking about running Into The Breach, or is currently running Into the breach, Their is currently a bug with the in game timer, which we use to time the runs. I will not specify this bug because it can be abused to affect your time. We have gotten in touch with the developers to get this fixed, but the problem is, when they do fix it, their will be a possibility of an entire leader board wipe. I do want to say that this will be a "all or nothing" situation. Either every single run will be voided, or none of the runs will be voided, depending on how the developers go about fixing the issue. The reason I want to bring this to everyone attention is because I can understand how disappointing it is to get a good run, and it be voided shortly after, so please take this into account if you decide to run the game. We will still be accepting runs until the issue is fixed, but just be aware that at any time, we may be forced to reset the headboards. I will make a post on the forums the day of the fix, to give everyone at least a day heads up on what our decision will be. Feel free to leave your thoughts in reply to this post. Until it is fixed, I will not explain what the bug is due to the fact that it can be abused. Thank you for your time, and I am extremely sorry for any complications that it may cause.

Edit: I worded this post extremely poorly. It is unlikely that their will be any leader board reset, and unless you abuse the bug, the timer works perfectly fine. The reason for this post was to simply cover our basis in the case that there is a drastic change in the way the developers change the timer, if they change it at all. Please do not worry that this will happen, as it is extremely unlikely.

While you can include a real time timer in your run, you will be place on your leaderboard by your in game time.

You would be correct, every run must be started with a fresh pilot.

That is what we are switching over to using, as we just got the access to the page yesterday, we are still in the process of setting everything up including the rules and how to time the game. We are also in the process of updating the times of the runs that need to go up, but that is how we are going to time the game moving forward.