I had a new category idea that requires glitchless completion of the game with all collectibles obtained with only one battery used while on insane difficulty without taking any damage. I have a run uploaded under these conditions that is not intended to be a speedrun. However, as its the only run of its kind, I'm now curious to see how this idea could evolve as its own category in the game as it requires further knowledge of the game in order to pursue a run of this caliber. As I mentioned, I already have a run of this kind uploaded In both commentary and non commentary format. I feel this would also be a good category for outlast 2 as well. These are the runs I mentioned. Thank you in advance

Commentary version:

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Whistleblower commentary version:

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I did something similar a while ago. While it is a good challenge, it's quite an annoying speedrun. GG, though. Best of luck getting them to add it :).

Thank you!

I wouldn't mind one, one battery feels like a stretch though, game can be beaten without Night Vision anyway No damage could also be removed, almost everyone one-hits you on Insane anyway, those Variants who don't could just be dodged. Some hits can already ruin a normal category, this rule would have been insane

The only problem is how do you even track what counts as damage

Getting hit while you are in control of the main character?

@DarkSR Perhaps any non-scripted interactions that cause the red borders to appear on the screen?

Hey there, sorry its taken me a few days to notice this.

In order for a category to be added in my eyes it needs to follow one main rule, that rule being "How different is it from the other categories."

While this is an interesting challenge run I will agree, I personally don't find this a very interesting speedrun. It wouldn't be a whole lot different from the Glitchless 100% category, maybe a 15-20 second difference optimally (less in Whistleblower probably) which isn't really enough to be warrant it being a separate category, especially since Glitchless 100% isn't a very popular category as is.

Most of the categories are very different from one another, which makes them all interesting to watch and play. For example something like All Chapters is very different from No OoB or FAC and Any% is very different from 100% ect. ect. and this doesn't seem to be all that different from already existing categorie(s).

Anyways I don't wanna ramble on for too long, but hopefully you understand what I'm getting at.

yeah of course I understand. Thank you for your response. I just thought it might be cool to see more runs like this as my runs seem to be the first runs of their kind to be uploaded. Perhaps some other kind of no damage insane category could be added that doesn't require 100% completion.

As for those who wondered what counts as damage, any unavoidable damage can be taken and obviously scripted cutscene segments don't count. Using glitches to avoid damage also voids the run of course as I meant for it to be glitchless as I mentioned.