Hey ! I've received some messages to (new) players don't understand why the firsts places in Any% solo played as "coop", so, yeah, at the first look, it's hard to understand it's an 1 player 2 controller run, and this can be kinda disheartening to (new) people to learn the game.
SO, I've created variable for any% solo : 1 controller or 2 controllers Rules are like it sounds :
- for Any% Solo 1 controller, you have no right to use the 2nd controller to play an 2nd character
- for Any% Solo 2 controller, you CAN use the 2nd controller to play an 2nd character (as soon as you stay solo)
I aslo add variable for difficulty, it's more "aesthetic" on the leaderboard, keep the easy/hard differences, and add the "normal" difficulty if someone want to run it !
I wait your feedback (especially if you want to help me to write "better" rules (with better english than mine =D))
Sorry, I just saw your post, dunno why, I haven't the notification... I have add the "Special mode" in misc category, with same variable than Any% (Solo / Coop, and 1 or 2 controllers for solo) !
Nice, and maybe we have to discuss it now but after doing some runs and and thinking about it I dont think there should be a separate category for special mode. Literally the ONLY thing that changes is the run is getting the laser pistol instead of the normal flashlight pistol in the safe. At first it didnt even seem better to use that i thought it would be slower.. but if you charge the laser right and shoot at the correct times during boss fights it actually does end up being faster. How much im not sure maybe only 5 to 10 seconds but I do think its faster.
So we were going to do a special mode run and try to finally get under 24 minutes which were really close to... but if we do that or someone beats it solo I think it should still just be the normal WR it would just happen to be on special mode setting. Cause again its almost 99% the exact same run it seems arbitrary to have a whole new category when the run is basically exactly the same.
Any new thoughts on this? Im still not sure what would be best. We could keep it how it is but it just seems weird to me to have the fastest version of the run, which is literally exactly the same run the ONLY difference is you get a lazar on your gun instead of the flash light be a whole separate category. Or at least not a misc category. Maybe Special mode should just the default way to run it? Its not by much maybe only like 10 seconds, maybe a little bit more but the run is definitely faster with the lazer because you can kill enemies and the blob bosses faster with it.
