Friesland, NetherlandsRTA isn't a timing method indeed. RTA is an approach you take towards achieving a goal. (As opposed to doing it segmented, or SS, which might be defined differently than RTA). The timing method would be "real time" (so without the 'A'. Examples of other timing methods include: time without loads, in-game time)
RTA as a category name is dumb since it still doesn't explain what the fuck you're doing. It just says you're attacking a real time. If RTA has been used as a category name for longer than any%, then I say we abolish that first since it has been a problem for longer, and stop focusing on abolishing 'any%'. Because what are we trying to achieve in real time? I can achieve In-game 100% without finishing KYFC/EOTL/TE and it will still be RTA, and I have done so in the past.
RTA should be a suffix/prefix to the category name at most, which isn't needed for GTA since nobody does anything else (except for VCS, but it still isn't needed because nobody uses RT-timing there) (and if you look at HL2 for example you'll notice that there's an RTA and an SS split, same goal, different approach. (although technically HL2 uses RTA minus loadings.))
The decision to give me a 3 hour Far Cry 2 run instead of the way more popular SWAT run that's three times as short is... unexpected.
I'll gladly do Far Cry 2, but I would like an official statement as to why SWAT 4 was cut.
"instead of being different for no good reason. "
Tbh this should apply to all games, especially the super linear ones. Everyone should stop calling it any%, not just GTA people, thus resulting in GTA not being different at all. But before everyone can be the same in a good way, a difference has to be made first to stop people from being the same in a bad way.
[quote]"Beat the game is too long to say." Invalid as "Beat the game" has 3 syllables and Any% has 4. [/quote] Any percent flows off the tongue better than beat the game, to me. But that could just because I'm used to it/muscle memory (tongue memory?) Similar to how saying double-udouble-udouble-u has become so ingrained in my brain it's quicker to say than world wide web.
[quote]"It's traditional." We shouldn't care for this as it's a bad habit to hold onto bad traditions and sacrifice the clarity of the leaderboard. [/quote]Im all for dumping bad habits. Any% is another one of these SDA things that is just weird and might apply in some cases, but usually doesn't (remember when we used their timing method for VC and it came with all sorts of issues?). However, one could argue that GTA (at least 3D) actually IS one of the cases where any% as a term makes sense. I'm not going to though.
Beat The Game does make a lot more sense than any% as a name. I feel that people will abbreviate it to BTG though, at which point the questions "what does it mean?" still come in anyway, solving nothing. I've already seen numerous "what does hundo mean?". There's numerous other issues with calling it "beat the game" that I don't care to sum up here. Check my recent Twitter discussions if you want to know.
However, all these problems apply to interpersonal communication. Leaderboards are mass communication, so are marathon schedules. (Well, technically streams are mass communication as well, but they feel a lot more interpersonal). I prefer mass communication to be understandable, and we've seen there's a good amount of people who get confused at first by the phrase any%. It is debatable how many people are introduced to speedrunning via speedrun.com's leaderboards, but if even one person's confusion can be avoided by changing any% to beat the game on the leaderboards, that's good. No newcomer will ever ask what 'beat the game' means, unless they're one of the 'glitchrun so u no play game' people. Hence, I'm going to vote for
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Since my speedrun.com profile is being very inactive, I figured I post an update here about my games.
SWAT4: The game continues to prove it is brutal. VERY brutal. Getting a flawless run is hard, let alone getting a PB. I will continue to practice and do runs. I'm not going to comment on adjusting the estimate which is over 150% my PB time. We were told the estimate should take into consideration that things can go wrong, and SWAT4 is a game that can go horribly wrong unless I turn it into a lets play, especially Children of Taronne. I am confident, however, in my ability to not do a completely shit run at ESA.
Far Cry 2: The reason I haven't PB'd on this game yet, despite doing a shitton of offline practice and rerouting is precisely because of that: I'm rerouting the game to push the driving more to its limit, and can't be bothered doing runs where the first half of it is great and the second half is sloppy, and don't even have reference points for the very last shot of the game.
Octodad: A 5 minute game, and everytime I did derust runs of the game I got consistency to get within 30 seconds of my PB back in about half a day's worth of playing. I find it unneeded to relearn the game now when I will have to do so again anyway in the weeks leading up to ESA. I also don't see myself (or anyone, but I encourage people to try) beating my PB of this either, so if you're going to look at my speedrun.com profile for this, good luck finding progress.
"For everyones information Command Centre jump with box doesn't work with 60fps as Ewil tested it in his stream "
Wasn't this done on the segmented? How are we supposed to do this then? What's the FPS required for this trick
So the run seems to be stuck in verification purgatory. Somebody say something or I will reject it despite not knowing shit about this game.
From what I've seen, the difference between practice and ladder: ladder: Menuing in between each level practice: Automatic level transition. IMO menuing is an important part about runs but idk about this category as it seems pretty arbitrary to me to begin with.
Which you can't take because your guns are gone and pressing F takes you to somewhere else. Could maybe die during publicity tour or something though
Outsider perspective: I'd say any order is fine (any% before 100%), but if there's a strong preference among runners for 100% before any%, then do that.
Just draw a right triangle ABC on the sky in your head if you can't see the bush, where A is 90 degrees and is at the corner where the building wall meets the 'horizon' created by the barriers along the road and B is halfway through the line AD where D is the very top of the building's wall (ignoring the small ledge). Point C is roughly where the bush is so that's where you shoot.
Guess SA is just a poorly coded game (what a surprise)
http://www.speedrun.com/gtaiii/thread/13c5o/1#g6v05
I made a properly named thread for you since this isn't about Marked Man. Needed one of these anyway.
Post your tiny shit here that doesn't really warrant it's own topic.
