hey apparently any% is supposed to be played in offline mode. this is understandable, but i would suggest making a category for both off- and online mode and in my personal opinion online mode should be the "main" category considering how the 'strand' concept is so core to death stranding. anyway, rules are looking cool, gonna be interesting so see runs for this game!

The problem with an Online-mode category is that it is wildly inconsistent. Different players are going to have dramatically different runs, which I imagine will be frustrating both for the runner ("There was a ladder there last time!") and for other runners ("There wasn't a ladder there for me!").

I don't know to what extent it is even possible to account for/control the online element of the game. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable can chime in?

Couldn't that just be chalked up to rng? The game is also about being amply prepared for your trips, just because objects move around doesn't mean you can't have a fast run.

I think the rng aspect is what would make a death stranding speedrun fun. Also it requires the runner to improvise and adapt to what he’s given which makes for an interesting speedrun. As soon as there is a route down the offline run will be really stale and boring, but the online mode adds variance which makes each run more interesting!

yeah as long as we get an online category it'd be nice

edit: meh, it's probably fine that offline is the main mode, i changed my opinion :P