I think Tides of Darkness could be a good game to speedrun, but there aren't many times up here now. It would be more fun with some targets and competition. To help get things rolling, I'd like to offer prizes to the best new verified IL (individual level) records posted for each level before the end of March. :-)

Prize scale:

• 5 USD each for the top new times in Orc 1-10 and Human 1-10.
• 10 USD each for the top new times in Orc 11-13 and Human 11-13.
• 20 USD each for the top new times in Orc 14 and Human 14.

So if you managed to set new record times for every level, and nobody could beat any of them before the end of March, you would be eligible for all 200 USD.

These must be new runs, recorded and posted after this thread and before the end of March 2018 (UTC), and they must be the top in their category (per the rules below).

There are currently no rules defined for the IL categories. However, for the purpose of these prizes I will apply the following rules:

• Fog of War must be enabled.
• Time is measured from the last frame before the level appears, to the first frame after the victory message appears.
• You're not allowed to save and reload in the middle of a level.
• The War2Combat client is allowed.
• If I get a record instead of you, nobody gets that prize. (But if we tie, it goes to you.)
• If nobody beats a previous record, nobody gets that prize.

Prizes will be delivered by PayPal.

Tips:

• Don't forget to set the game speed to fastest.
• You can enter the cheat/chat/debug code "tigerlily" to enable level jumping, and then just enter "orc 1", "human 12", etc., to jump to a level at any time. (I don't consider this is a cheat because it's just used to go to the level, and doesn't affect gameplay at all.)

Full-game runs are a pretty huge commitment for this game, so I don't expect anybody to run them. But IF you do, and set a new record that stands through the end of March (as above), that's awesome! So I'll add some small prizes for those too:

• 50 USD for Best Full Human
• 50 USD for Best Full Orc
• 25 USD for Best Full Both

Additional rules for full runs:

• Timed from the beginning of the first level to the end of the last level, including loading times.
• Unlike with IL, you ARE allowed to save/load games within the same run.

Please remember to ensure that fog of war is enabled.

We've been importing some old runs from YouTube and SDA. Ignore these imported runs for the purpose of this contest.

This contest is now closed, and the leaderboards look so much better. ? Thanks to everybody who contributed runs.

@ZPR wins 200 USD for setting or tying the best time for every individual level! (We imported a few faster old level runs from @Stu, but those are excluded for the purpose of this contest.)

@RPGodfather wins 100 USD for setting our first single-segment full campaign run (50 USD), which included the first full human campaign run (25 USD), and for tying ZPR's ILs times for Orc 1, Orc 2, Orc 6, Human 1, and Human 2 (5 USD each).

Prizes will be sent sent within 14 days. (edit: They were sent on April 8th.)

(Note: in the case of ties in the future, prizes might only be awarded to the first person to set the tied score. Don't take this as a contrary precedent.)

Thanks for doing this! I definitely had fun with the runs. I'm gonna take a break from the game but I'll come back for the last few mission and Beyond the Dark Portal eventually.

Oh and I didn't do Orc 12 and both mission 13s so you save $30 :)

For the record, I posted another set of bounties on Reddit in October 2018: https://old.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/9kcyv4/bounties_for_new_warcraft_2_world_records_10_150/e6y7q2b/ It was shared in the War2.ru community: http://forum.war2.ru/index.php/topic,4503.0.html Whose competitive multiplayer Warcraft 2 player "Szwagier" won most of the bounties (and most of our leaderboards): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YYISKfVYixCjfKGv6oKkdovaw4IBEBxh2iImz3HTLcU/pub

I don't intend to post any more bounties for this game in the future.