Missouri, USAHey, just noticed that the IGT times were removed and RTA is now being used to determine rank. I don't see anything on here about the change, why was this done?
Speedrunning isn't about being good at the game. It's about being fast at the game. If you're wanting to display your skill at d2016, that's great! You can do that all you want! This just isn't the place for that.
You can do speedruns on consoles, of course, no one's stopping you, but none of the tricks in this particular game are doable on console. That's just the way it is with this one. And we're not adding glitchless back unless the guidelines that have been given for doing so are followed, because we had it before, and it was a total clusterfuck with people ALWAYS complaining about something or other. People wanted to allow the BFG glitch because "It's not a glitch, it's an exploit." In glitchless. It's a total clusterfuck. You can do glitchless runs if you want to. You can submit them. We'll accept them under any%. You can do whatever you want when it comes to running the game. What you can't do is show up into a community that discussed this for the better part of a year and demand that we change our decision because of you. I'm sorry, but this is a game where it's simply impossible to be competitive on console in any%, and a game where we really tried to make glitchless runners happy for a very long time, and in the end it just couldn't happen.
Glitchless in this game is fucking cancer without even mentioning the fact that its pretty much impossible to define in d2016.
and...why would you want a console category? The game runs at 30fps on consoles, rendering most if not all glitches impossible, plus it's harder to aim, which would make the run take even LONGER.
again, if you'd ever seen a speedrun before you'd realize that almost every games speedrun has something that isn't really skill based and is just stupid. cuphead is no exception. it just comes with the territory of running games that some shit is just annoying to do. it is what it is.
that being said, i really don't think it isn't at all skill based. it takes timing and practice to be able to do consistently.
how is it a glitch? its an exploit, not a glitch, and it isnt even major, its just using the way the game handles switching weapons to your advantage. if you want to make a category without a trick that saves a ton of time on the bosses, have fun with your category that no one will run because its easy to do and saves a not-insignificant amount of time. its an incredibly simple trick to do, that isnt even breaking the game in any way, its just using the way the game works to your advantage. if any of you had ever speedrun any game ever you would know that speedrunning isn't about making 45 different categories so you can have your wr, its about beating the game as fast as possible, and making extremely arbitrary restrictions just makes people who would otherwise be interested in the run leave because...theres extremely arbitrary restrictions that dont make any sense whatsoever.
