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Thuringia, Germany

Hi fellow runners,

I recently did a "Shotgun only" speedrun on 'Assisted' and succeeded after running out of ammo in G1 Standard. Maybe it's doable without ammo duping or 'Out of Bounds' , but i'm not sure.

So my question is: could this potentially be added to the leaderboard as a category?

Potential rules:

*Shotgun only

*Assisted difficulty: no upgrades

*all defense items/other weapons are banned (with the exception of the rocket launcher in Leon A and B Tyrant fight to finish him off)

  • The starting handgun is allowed for Stair skating until you aquire the shotgun

  • wooden boards banned

  • Assisted difficulty: healing allowed, but only with single green herbs or red&blue herbs (no R+G+B, R+G, G+B)

OR: no healing items allowed

*no mods / item duplication

*no glitches/OoB

What do you think about this?

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Washington, USA

We only recently got Handgun only and it isn't as popular as I figured it would be. I feel like there would be even less of a demand for a Shotgun only category.

United States

Yeah, HG only itself isn't super popular so we don't see Shotgun or any other "weapon only" to be the same.

Pernambuco, Brazil

A “no damage” category would be better! Don’t you think?!

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United States

Until we see more popularity in the CE boards we have no plans on adding more categories.

Pernambuco, Brazil

Seems fair!! :)

Argentina

Hi. What about the no knife category? In the threads of the main and extension leaderboards, there is more people interesting in that category than the handgun only (I was surprised that you added HG only before no knife). With how broken and game changing the knife is, I think that deserves to be in the main page, but you decide.

Washington, USA

Like stated above, the new HG only isn't as popular as we thought it would be, and there isn't much activity on the CE boards. There isn't any plans to add a new category anytime soon.

Argentina

Mmmm but in previous posts they said that the no knife will come soon. And like I said, there is more people talking about no knife than HG only. If it's about the popularity, no knife should have been added before HG only. Also, the no knife category is much more optimizable and dynamic than HG Only; and can have much more runs to aproach high optimization in the strats. I posted one of the first thread requesting it, and you (Jadusable) and others talk about no knife like a "mandatory" category (no one used that word, but various argue that is a really game changing, more than NG+), but the HG only was debatable. Sorry, but this makes no sense. https://www.speedrun.com/re2remake/thread/lyp8h/2 (In this thread some users also said that they doesn't run the game because of the knife). https://www.speedrun.com/re2remake/thread/ukgk9 (Here, you were debating about the possibility of a HG only category, and also the no knife received more "popular support", and some of top runners like Orchlon).

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Belgium

Wait have you ran the hg only run? in the end category extensions just arent that popular. even the knife only which has always been a great run on all RE titles including this one isnt that popular.

Argentina

Knife only in this case particulary, is different of previous games; because the knife is really broken and even the any% runs use it in all bosses. It's contradictory negate it because of popularity, and doesn't add the category that had the most support in the first place (no knife).

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California, USA

You can run the game however you'd like, and you can post it all over the internet for the world to see. It doesn't need to be on sr.com for you to run it. A lot of people wanted categories on this CE board, yet there are barely any runs. Some of these categories have less than 5 runs, and the game has been out for months. There really is no point to adding any more categories.

Knife Only is a classic category in the resident evil series that should always be present and somewhat optimized. True Ending is kind of a weird combo category that can showcase the players skill in both runs, back to back. Handgun Only is a neat mix between a challenge run, and speedrun. Not as quick as Knife Only in this case, but still interesting. No Knife seems like you're not using the knife because you just don't want to. Not a challenge run, and it doesn't change much to the route either. Just makes it somewhat slower.

I see no reason to add that to an already inactive CE board.

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Argentina

Hi Maxylobes. I think you didn't read the threads that I linked. Even admins/mods and famous runners in the RE scene, like Orchlon; added their vote for no knife category. Your argument doesn't beat the fact that is rare that they didn't included the extension category that most people requested; there's even a marked/pinned thread in the main boards (made by CursedToast), and in previous threads, a mod/admin said that bot categories will come (YossyHop). No knife is the most closer category to the original RE2, and REs in general. It's not just a challenge run; this is the only RE where the knife is so broken that is used in all boss fights. Even some runners said that they don't run the game because of the knife. It's really interesting to see the optimization that the no knife runs can have.

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Argentina

it's just curiosity, because is the only reasonable thing that I think that can make you reject the categoty. You must pay or something, to the speedrun platform, to add categories? In that case, I really understand.

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Belgium

So you're saying admins/mods and famous runners added their vote? Where and when was this vote taking place lol. Also i see none of those commenting and screaming for this no knife to be added. Like Maxy said there is nothing stopping you from doing such a no knife run and posting it on one of your social platforms.

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Valhalla

Hi guys, any plan to add category extensions level runs for all DLCs (NG+) /(Cat ears). I remember someone suggested this, but nothing happened. Was this voted down and I missed it? Sorry if so. There is a good competition for the DLCs level run category, I guess the cat ears extension categories would have success too.

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Argentina

I linked the posts, read them. There are the comments from mods and runners. Why scoff when I'm talking with respect? And even with your jokes, you didn't made a solid argument. I can start to insult you and that will not make me right. That's a little immature.

Belgium

I have and you really overestimate the amount that asked for a knifeless category. not to mention overestimating the amount that look into category extensions. As stated before theres only like a handful of people on this side of the board so why bother with putting in even more categories? And yet again NOTHING is stopping you from running the game the way you want.

Not only that but how bout you do an actual knifeless run and show it on the board. maybe a video of said run could pursuade people in charge.