Addition of Out Of Bounds as a variable to SS
6 years ago
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Over the past couple of weeks, there has been a lot of debate in the Portal 2 Community regarding Out of Bounds tricks in Single Segment. A while ago, users Krzyhau and Sunsetbear realized some ways to get out and back in bounds without saveloading, allowing for up to 2 minutes and 30 seconds of timesave, in maps such Column Blocker and Wall Button.

As a result of the debate, we have made the decision to make it a variable at this moment. When submitting a run, there will be an extra option that says "Out of Bounds". If you go out of bounds (this doesn't include pseudo-oob such as going above the ceiling in Secret Panel, you must be completely outside of the level), you must check this as "yes" (and we will check).

We will also allow the command "r_portal_use_pvs_optimization 0", which allows you to see out of bounds.

If you have any questions about this change, please feel free to ask, but I do not recommend arguing against this. Enough discussion has gone into this and this idea was near unanimously tolerated. However, if it seems that one category begins to overshadow the other, we may consider changing them into separate categories in the future.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
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Note: As of right now, due strictly to error on srcom's part, runs that include out of bounds are hidden, you have to go to "Filters" and re-select "Any" (Yes and No will be shown) for it to be shown. We may talk with srcom people later to try and get this issue resolved

EDIT: Resolved

Edited by the author 6 years ago
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