Recently, the use of Overlays in IL runs was questioned in the MH Speedrun Discord community. This discussion lead to a community opinion vote on the inclusion of Overlays as "permitted mods." The outcome of that poll can be seen here: http://imgur.com/gallery/90E5pL5

The results showed a nearly 2:1 vote against the use of Overlay mods in IL runs. Between the poll results and feedback from community members in the community discord server, the use of Overlays is NOT PERMITTED. The Permitted Mods document has been updated to reflect this change, and can be viewed here: http://bit.ly/mhwpcmods

If you have further questions regarding the changes to IL runs, please reach out to a Mod or ask on the Discord (link in sidebar).

I'm curious to know how you would know if a run was done using an overlay? I know of some streamers who play the game casually and only use game capture to stream, and so they never show the overlay at all.

Sadly, we can't actually check that. We just have to hope that they don't do that.

All of this has come up in discussion in the discord before. We are aware that it can easily be hidden.

I guess I'll just stick to PS4 runs then. Less likely to be taken down for lucky plays or hunches w/ captures. I hope you guys don't have too much trouble with moderation.

Each run is looked at to see the damage numbers, and see if everything should be correct. You are welcome to post up PC runs if that is easier on you. As long as you're honest about not using mods to show hidden values (health, stagger values, etc) then you'll be fine.

Most the mods are also speedrunners as well, so we do know how the monster mechanics work. All runs so far, we haven't had the issue of people using Overlays.