Revamp & rules should all be done! Let me know if anything is broken or unclear.

One small note: Heartland got moved from a "full-game" run to an "individual level" run due to the way variables (for main game map and legacy) work on the backend. I could only apply each variable to either all categories or only one specific category but not a subset of categories, so there was no way to do "all but Heartland" that I could see, unfortunately. Rather than have a bunch of at best useless (and at worst confusing) options for Heartland, I moved to board to be an IL instead.

Alright!

Did a bit of a site revamp today and went through all the queued runs to verify/deny them. With the revamp, it changed some categories and variables around, so there's a chance that I messed up with manually converting runs to the new system. Please check over your runs and let me know about any issues you find!

Also, currently the full "co-op" and "boon" options are only available on Green zone runs. If you want to do those kinds of runs on other difficulties, feel free. Just lemme know, and I'll add the option in. I just didn't feel that there was a point to adding the same "empty" options to the top of every difficulty since it'd just add to the clutter. Please don't let this discourage you from running what you wanna run though. I'm happy to add in any option that people are running :)

Remember to check out the discord! I can't say that we mods will check back to this site every day, but if you drop by there and let us know there is a run to verify, it should be able to get checked within a couple days.

edit: also also, the old pre-update 25 leaderboard is still available under the "misc" tab! I didn't think it'd be easy to save, but it was actually trivial lol. History is preserved!

Only thing left is to get the rules added to all the categories...

Hey all,

Magik promoted me to mod status today, and I'm working through the queue of runs to be verified. I've been running this game for a while, so if you have any questions about sod2 or speedrunning feel free to contact me and ask.

Also, I set up a new discord server specific to sod speedrunning: https://discord.gg/AfPNfANduF . Feel free to join and let us mods know if there are channels or resources you'd like added.

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I'm not sure if its possible to sort of "save" the current leaderboards and make a whole new set, but having some record of the outdated times would be nice. We have wiped the leaderboards at least once in the past (with the juggernaut edition release, I believe), so this wouldn't be the first time. We wouldn't have to wipe with every update necessarily, but updates that seriously change game mechanics, especially to make things slower, should probably get a new leaderboard. For example, before update 25 you could do the tutorial to get many less hearts (19 on lethal, iirc) but now we're stuck with 28 hearts no matter what. It'd be impossible to beat those old times.

That said, I'm currently going through the backlog of submitted runs, watching them, and verifying them, so hopefully we'll get all the runs onto the leaderboard before we refresh it (whatever that looks like).

Boons are the community bonuses you get for completing a legacy. For example, when you start a new community and choose the builder boon, you'll have free power & water. Since the four boons make the game easier (especially the warlord boon giving you tons of grenades and ammo), the leaderboards are divided between runs with them and runs without them.

I did one test run of full game any%, and I think the category has a lot of promise tbh. Luck is much less of a factor since getting perfect room RNG would leave you with little gold to spend on upgrades. My one run was something like 4.5 to 5 hours, which unfortunately is a lot longer than I can really spend consecutively on a single attempt of a run. I was doing it half to test the category and half to get the <20 death achievement, so idk if I'll do it

On to my route: I unlocked Seth, but I don't think it was worth it. He is most effective in the first pyramid, which you probably beat before you have enough to purchase and upgrade him. It might be worth it to get some god (besides Redneck) for the natural buffs when you haven't played another god in a few runs. Also, I'm not sure if the payoff for unlocking the shop is worth it. It's 1840 for the shop plus more for each medallion which could all go towards stats. You skip three floors and a boss if you die, but with the extra stats, you clear those three floors and all subsecquent floors even faster (and with less chance of dying another time). As for which stats to get, I went up the tree to get the extra jump, and then I believe, I dumped the rest into attack, defense, and hp.

Good luck with your runs! I look forward to watching them :)

That's what I thought (and how I've been doing my submissions). I asked because another runner and I were discussing what the "single segment" meant, and we weren't 100% sure either way. Thank you for answering :)

Just for clarification, verified runs should have no cuts from the start of the first day of the contract until the after the IGT is shown at the end of the last day? For example, in my Rats run the restarted day is included and counted towards my total time, but in a recently verified run, failed/restarted days are not included. For multi-day contracts, can we restart days 2/3 until we get a time we are happy with (and not include them in our total time)?