This is coming from a guy who tends to speed run more on consoles and portables, not so much on PC.
Recently I had to judge a new run of Shadow Complex Remastered but this new trick abuses a low framerate to make it possible, while normally that is OK, the method used requires tweaking the actual config files to make it happen.
Source (1:14 on Twitch timestamp)
It turns out you can get grenades WITHOUT the gold armour's ground pound by setting the game's framerate to 15-16 fps. This way it skips an important part where the grenade tile would normally push Jason upwards. This saves a reasonable amount of time.
I haven't made the final judgement whether or not to accept or reject this because the method is a grey area, are there any runs that have a similar treatment (tweak config files to get low FPS vsync) that ended up being accepted or not?
If it ends up being no, I'll have to move this to a misc category because it's technically game modification on one of the files but at the same time it's a faster route.
generally if framerate CAN affect anything there should be multiple categories for it. if necessary that means a category of each: as intended(either 30, 60 , pal, ntsc), vsync on, uncapped, vsync sub intended.
