Making Timer Optional (except for PC)
2 years ago
Italy

Hello :) As the title suggests, I'd like to propose to make the RTA timer optional (at the moment it's mandatory) for all categories ruled by IGT, which means everywhere except for PC (prior to Gemini's patch, the broken one, we know the deal). A few reasons for making it optional:

  • It doesn't count for the leaderboard time.
  • It doesn't prevent cheating or make the run more legit: the timer is literally put over the recording. You can't really tell if I'm splitting during the run or if I'm just recording the timer separately for a beatiful spliced performance. Since RTA is not used (except for PC, the broken one, we know the deal), the timer right now is just a decoration.
  • Depending on your hardware limitations (totally not talking about me), setting up a timer or recording from a PC or even just having a PC might be a problem.
  • I personally don't see any reason for having it mandatory: the other side of a mandatory thing is that if it is not set up exactly as required it will invalidate the run, and I would find quite frustrating to have a run invalidated by a useless timer.

Thank you for your attention.

Klumpackis and Kaladere like this
Italy

No, there's a misunderstanding. I'm not suggesting to remove RTA timer from PC. As the title says, my proposal is to make it optional for every other category.

EDIT: To clarify, I'd like the timer to become optional now, not when Gemini's patch will come out, since this thing is not related to and doesn't affect PC version.

Edited by the author 2 years ago
Vendettavic and Kaladere like this
Saskatchewan, Canada

I do agree with @Nazzareno. You could add the timer after the run and there isn't really a way to verify that, so it doesn't really prevent cheating (For everything but PC.) I would say its preferred to have it, but not mandatory (except PC where it's mandatory.) That is just my two cents.

Edited by the author 2 years ago
Vendettavic and Nazzareno like this
Spain

There´s logic in Nazz words, so i agree.

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United States

Because it is always been the norm, and yes 2021 someone can probably do an amazing splitting job that even with a timer on screen might pass or add the timer after the run , but it is a rule that takes 2 seconds to set up, and not even splits are actually needed but just a timer, I personally have ran games and this game on a super potato PC with a FloppyDisc Drive on it !!! and using livesplits or wsplits timer + a capture card makes no difference, the game will run fine and console times wont affect your recording hence the use of a capture card that puts the running game stress on the console and not the pc, I mean 2021 who has that old of a pc to not run capture card + timer but that can do an amazing splicing job/editing work? , again I think it is a tiny extra step for a speedrun, it shouldn't be that much of a big deal unless someone trying to hold their phone and record their tv screen playing the game. And most if not all runners for the game are streamers that run the game live, why not want to add a timer then if it is been streamed live?

Edited by the author 2 years ago
Italy

It makes sense. I'll withdraw my request.

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