Why is it that this run was accepted when a purchased animation was used to avoid taking damage and save time?

Shouldn't everyone be on equal footing in the standard categories? I really don't think it makes sense for anything in that vein to be allowed.

Something I also noticed: on popop614's run of Hecc, he had equipped Personal Slamo and was being nursed back to full health while making his way along the partially transparent path on hot pink. Now, while you might say it didn't have any real impact on his run since there wasn't any place after that where he could take damage, and he cleared the rest of it without any trouble, let me tell you that there are other towers where that could be the difference.

There should be a zero-tolerance policy for use of add-ons of any sort purchased from the game in runs. Coils and Personal Slamo are a no-brainer, but animations have their own impact in key situations and shouldn't be allowed to just slip on through.

hey, thanks for bringing this up. Was in a rush when i verified it so hadn't had the time to look that deep into it. I've brought the animation issue to the other mods and we have decided to just keep it as you can still take damage even while doing it and you can still avoid damage without the animation. Also it's just a cosmetic and doesn't really affect the game that much.

as with using personal slamo, we've decided to ban him through the use of any runs. Tbh i completely forgot that he existed as a gamepass.

hopefully, you respect our decision and continue your day. I appreciate that you brought this up as i completely forgot that they exist somehow.

Yes, but d3v1ous made use of the helicopter animation in a way that allowed him to take significantly less damage over any normal player. If you try it for yourself, you won't be getting anywhere near the same results, and that's pretty telling of it not just being for looks.

It adjusts your hurtbox. It's definitely got a utility to it. And that could have been a lot better if my clicking finger didn't tire out. It's more to give you the general idea behind it.

Outstretching your arms with T-Pose can make it so you wouldn't even touch, say, a poison block wall, such as the one you'd find on Wall Hugging in ring 3.

Hey, you're in charge and have the final say, but I sincerely hope you'll reconsider.

Oh, it spaced my mind to mention this earlier, but please bear in mind that there are other examples in which T-Pose could be used, but that one is fairly common knowledge, makes a huge difference, and is what immediately sprung to mind when I was thinking of how to showcase my point best.

If you do swing the balance in my favor, I think setting a standard of zero tolerance for add-ons really is the way to go about it. Then there aren't any grey areas to potentially be taken advantage of by those who would just do things because there isn't anything expressly stated to be against them.