Here is a thing. Emmy nightbloom is not a thing you have no control over.

Just got an 8:42 on beta branch on Iron fastmode. Requesting extra category (or categories) for beta branch runs, unless you'd rather i simply submit it to normal leaderboard.

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Edit2: Of course, as soon as i finish this and reload the game, there's a beta patch that makes fast mode even faster lol

Hi all, i'm going to make a post clarifying the reasons behind this category split, since it's better to do it now rather than after someone does a run, so they can't complain about being seperated into a different category just because their run utilised something so game changing.

We've been discussing recently about the Keyboard movement glitch (for those not in the know, you can run significantly faster using a keyboard, by simply press both a vertical and horizontal movement button and moving your camera to correct your direction), and we've decided to split speedruns of this game between Gamepad and Keyboard controls.

Initially, we considered simply splitting between Console and PC versions, however not only is there already many people running on PC with gamepad (which is, frankly, incomparaable to running with keyboard), and that (as far as we know) is the only significant difference between console and PC versions.

The solution we came to was to split between Gamepad and Keyboard control schemes. for clarification: multiple things count as "Keyboard" runs, rather than gamepad runs. Mapping keyboard inputs onto a gamepad via software counts as keyboard inputs, and will be categorised as such. Secondly, using both gamepad and mouse/keyboard control schemes during a single run will also count as a "Keyboard" Run, simply because somebody could use keyboard for the entire game (and be faster because of it), then switch to gamepad for the very end. these runs go into "Keyboard" since that is technically the fastest way to complete the game.

The reason we do a complete sweep over the entirety of Keyboard runs, rather than simply differentiating on whether the glitch is being used or not, is because chances are, you are utilising this glitch in spots during a speedrun if you're using keyboard for movement, regardless of whether you intended to or not.

Feel free to run the game using the glitch! technically, it does make the game faster by a significant margin, allowing you to not only run faster, but also avoid enemy encounters that you normally cannot outrun due to the movement speed increase.

Thanks all for your understanding on this issue, and feel free to ask any questions, Moderation team

ok so today i made an attempt of NG Agito. it went fairly badly(as expected), and then my controller died, so i didn't manage to finish, but there's something i noticed that makes the speedrun (in my opinion) significantly slower.

Namely, Iif I was to do a story mission and then repeat it from the title screen in Officer difficulty do you guys think it'd still be an "Agito" speedrun? this is pretty relevant because you don't get Shiva unless you do a certain mission on Officer difficulty. no higher, no lower. every mission played within the story would still, of course, be played on Agito. Shiva's ability to body everything on screen is pretty important in agito, more so than Cadet or officer, because relying solely on sights and Jack alone is pretty darn slow, not to mention Shiva is super fast anyway.

would really appreciate any input from you guys on this topic, since i plan on making another attempt soon, once i sort out my controller difficulties.