New Jersey, USAIs the autosplitter enabled (in the "edit splits" screen) when this happens? Are you resetting the timer with a hotkey? If so, what key? What game version?
My assumption is you have whatever key you're using to reset the timer also bound to "quit". Please open the game console and type "bind key" (replace key with whatever key it is you're using, and remove the quotation marks), and hit enter. Let me know what it says.
Also if you want quicker answers/help, ask in the Discord server. https://discord.gg/JAUCEJmm2H
April 24th, 2021 (as written by @bill_play3 )
- The video submitted for runs must be hosted on a permanent platform. That means that whatever is linked in the submission cannot expire (like a Twitch VOD, for example). Twitch highlights and Youtube videos are recommended, but anything that doesn't expire will suffice
- Official dedicated servers are now banned from use for Co-op runs. Main reason for this is that timing such runs has always been a problem, since it's not always consistent who loads first, and it either leads to invalid submissions or to a lot of extra effort to verify a run
- Added the wait command and the -dev launch option (which changes the developer cvar) to the banned command list. I'm pretty sure this has been publicly discussed before, but it wasn't written down yet. Brief explanation about why these are banned: wait allows for some basic scripting and developer gives you extra information you couldn't have otherwise (and probably other applications i can't think of immediately)
- Last but not least, added some Markdown formatting to the rules so it looks a bit nicer
- Rules were also restructured/reordered for the sake of clarity
October 18th, 2021
- Demo files are now required for runs which meet a top X standard as described in this forum post
- Null cancelling movement scripts are now explicitly banned as it's now enforceable due to demos.
- Changelevel is temporarily unbanned for L4D1 v1.0 only to facilitate demo recording without losing time due to the lack of cutscenes (refer to forum thread for futher details/explanation).
January 1st, 2022
- Demos are now required for all submissions.
- Changelevel is now banned again for L4D1 v1.0.
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The category exists on this exact leaderboard, both in full game variations and individual campaigns.
I assume you were the one who asked this in the speedrun discord, but if somehow you weren't, the answer is no. Tank run is basically the same thing as a normal campaign run except you're limited to running on the TLS patches which means most huge skips are blocked, and all of the normal holdout finales just run on 10 minute timers which means you're literally just gonna be running in circles for 10 minutes until the escape vehicle arrives. There is hardly any skill involved and it would be very boring (not only to watch, but to run as well).
holy hell this is garbage why did I even upload this
Hey everyone,
We've made the decision to start requiring demos for all submissions instead of the current top X standard starting on January 1st, 2022 (0:00 NYC timezone). We are also going to be re-banning changelevel on L4D1 v1.0 on this date as well (more on that below).
The main reason for doing this is so that we can start releasing various features in the speedrun plugin (SST) such as autojump (for use in the bhop script category extensions) that has actual clientside prediction (so jumps aren't laggy in singleplayer or co-op). In addition, SST will also add the ability to toggle sv_cheats in singleplayer/co-op lobbies for practice. The move to demos being required in addition to video for all runs was going to happen at some point, so we figured we might as well do it sooner rather than later.
To be clear: this does not mean that using the plugin is required yet, however it's highly recommended because it makes recording demos for full-game runs much easier (in the event you need to use the main menu or map command to switch campaigns). Currently, with the plugin you still need to manually start recording demos, but after that it only stops if you run the command "stop" or if you restart your game. Without the plugin, demo recording stops any time you create a new server (i.e. going to the main menu or using "map" command mid-run).
For L4D1 v1.0, I strongly advise that you use the plugin so that you don't have to manually restart demo recording under a new name for each campaign switch (due to "map" command usage) now that changelevel will be banned again. Changelevel was temporarily unbanned when the demo rule first came into effect so that people would not lose time from having to restart demo recording on each campaign change (this was before the plugin was released). Now that this is no longer an issue, we are banning it again as there could be unintended side effects of using changelevel that makes the speedrun illegitimate (as seen in later versions of L4D1, and all versions of L4D2).
Once again, installation instructions are given on the plugin download page ( https://mikes.software/sst ). Make sure to use the -insecure launch option or you risk getting VAC banned when loading the plugin and connecting to a VAC secured server. If your old version installs are current, they will have game-params.txt in the base folder - simply just write -insecure in that file and always launch the game with run.bat. If not, ping me in the speedrunning Discord server and I'll send you the two files needed for this. You can verify that this worked by loading up singleplayer or a map server, and writing "status" in the console - it should state that the server is running in insecure mode.
If anything is unclear or you need help using the plugin, feel free to ping me (or mike :tf:) in #new-player-questions. I'll try to make a video at some point this week that covers this stuff in a little more detail but most people shouldn't have any troubles just following the instructions on the download page.
