Hi,

I do play a lot Coop in Coop, and I'm disappointed by the lack of cooperative runs.

Will there ever be a category for these runs?

Search DSDA for listed co-op runs, if you'd like to submit one, I can add a category for it.

I was shocked to find no co-op category myself when I looked today. Is this still something that can be added? I also have no idea what DSDA is. Doom Speed Demos Archive?

Yes, DSDA is Doom Speed Demos Archive (https://dsdarchive.com/)

There's no coop because nobody has ran it. Getting multiplayer working properly either requires a LAN, or a very close ping. The ports with good netcode are pretty much all based off ZDoom, which changes some monster AI so it's not valid for speedrunnings.

I'd rather not cluster LBs on srcom any further. If you want to do runs that aren't present here - just go and submit them to dsda via doomworld.

Also it isn't really that difficult to run coop now on vanilla ports, since crispy doom works pretty good. But yes, there's no coop on srcom since it isn't that popular (in 4 years there were 0 requests) and when people really want to do it, they just do it the proper way - playing, recording a demo, submitting to dsda.