Legitimacy w/ FNaF 1 Any% PC Current Patch Runs
4 years ago
Maryland, USA

The topic of this thread is going to discuss what I was told about very recently regarding the speedruns sent to this leaderboard in regards to the loading times to all the Current Patch runs for PC in the Any% category.

I was told of the amount of anomalies this leaderboard by another moderator of the FNaF series, ZombieGabriel, through the concerns of another user who brought up this issue that was having ~7 second load times, with me and ZombieGabriel managing ~low 6 second loads and xDarkHeart's ~Mid to Low 5 second load times.

The runs in question were put on the spotlight for having ~1.5 second load times consistent throughout each of the nights in question, as to proving their own claims.. that's going to be quite the stretch considering these times seemed to have been drawn up from what the footage total was presented and not some accurate measurement.

A major thing I noticed is that the runs where these load times in question were this low were the runs that did NOT include a timer on the screen which would prevent splicing up footage because that would be fucking retarded and an absolute dumb move IF one were to do this.

However, there's also a clear difference with load times between Current and Legacy patch. Legacy patch has much faster load times, meaning the WR time on the leaderboard for PC Any% Legacy Patch makes a LOT more sense than the current patch and is reasonably understandable as to why it's much faster.

Current patch; however, is a completely different scenario entirely. With xDarkHeart having a time of 1:29, ZombieGabriel claiming he can definitely get 1:33, and for me, more than likely around those times too, we have this conflicting issue with what times are legit due to the increase in load times.

Since Current Patch can NEVER be faster than Legacy patch, that means if the WR is lower than Legacy patch, then more than likely that run is not legit, oh and if you want to know how fast the load time for the WR of Any% PC Current patch was? It was 1.132 seconds.

Unless there's some sort of load manipulation trick or anything, these sorts of runs are not legit by all means and the leaderboards will have to be reevaluated for further validity of each and every run here, and I'll leave a link below to my load time testing with my current PC stuff to get an idea of what I mustered, although not perfect, but outside of this test I got a mid 1:35 time, just to give you more perspective about this issue.

Loading Time Testing: https://twitter.com/SheppardKiller/status/1209895608519143428

Anyways, I'll leave this thread up to discussion with other community members and other leaderboard moderators, have a good Christmas or happy holidays (Which ever you prefer), and I'll leave this up to the people, and if anyone is willing to help the mods in fixing the leaderboards, that would be greatly appreciated. :)

DefaultGuy likes this
Germany

Although I agree with you 100%, I still think it'd be easier if you guys had a "time without loads" column, to make things fair, because not everyone has a heavenly NASA-level super computer.

Maryland, USA

If we do that, all the runs would be just about the exact same time, because we're all capped at 60 FPS unless you're on a bad PC which could cause the game to be slower, and I never made this decision when this was brought up, but this is unfortunately the fucking dilemma with games pre FNaF World because they're not even worth speedrunning in terms of value.