The first set of DLC are on the boards guys!
Currently available are Jack’s 55th Birthday and 21, these are the most runnable options at the moment but don’t panic, we’ll probably (more than likely) be adding a few more of the DLC to the boards once we get some feedback and can hash out the details on that.
Jack’s 55th and 21 can be found in the level leaderboards, all the rules can be found in the usual sections but heres a quick rundown.
After discussion, the best way to handle Jack’s 55th and give people a couple of choices. There are two options for each of the six stages:
Category 1: All bonuses and features allowed. Literally use everything you can, all unlocks, bobbleheads, weapons, anything you like to get the fastest time. Use the in game time at the end, naturally.
Category 2: Rather than restricting a few bonuses and weapons, this one is completely vanilla, if you will. Meaning: You use only what is given in the item box for that level, so no golden blaster, no golden crowbar, circular saw, no bobbleheads in the map, no bonuses at all (time boosts, speed boosts, health increase, any of the blue item bonuses). You can use any other weapons and items provided to you in the map though, including red and blue blasters. Use the time at the end same again The times will be in reverse to what you normally see on the board, otherwise people are going to have to do math, it’s easier to just state the time that’s left at the end.
For 21, there are just 3 categories with basic rules. 21, Survival, and Survival+
The aim of it is to beat it as fast as possible, you can use all bonus cards you can unlock since well, you can’t restrict them unlike other DLCs.
The timing is RTA, and will be double checked by mods so don’t try changing it because we will check it and change it accordingly regardless. I recommend recording with the RTA on screen as it’ll make it easier to verify, we will still check nonetheless.
For all categories you need to start the timer the moment you press [F] or [X] or whatever button correlates to your use key from the loading screen (so not when you enter the DLC level, but when the Continue appears in the bottom right and you press the button to start, this eliminates load time differences coming into RTA)
For 21, you end the timer as soon as the final opponent is defeated (the spin blades STOPS spinning) that’s your final time, that’s what you submit with.
For survival and survival+ you end the timer the moment “Congratulations” appears on screen; I would say it doesn’t matter if you start it right as it appears or once it’s fully on screen, since it only takes about half a second for it to fully appear.
I'll be doing some Jack runs myself anyway so if you see them on there, use them as examples if you're still not sure.
Feel free to give feedback and let us know what DLCs you want and well, why you want them, as well as on what we’ve done here now.
Happy running people
Fresh Edit: Ethan Must Die is now live, both PC and console and each with two categories of Without statues and With statues.
More DLC will probably be added later on, but if it's something you want then everyone should voice it so we can take it into consideration.
Those are the criteria we have displayed and discussed yeah, are a lot of you really interested in running it I take it?
same,and there are already many people that already did a speedrun on it,it would be nice to have it here to submit the time,but i really dont get how the 2 other got put on here but the most easy to setup one did not,because it would be just with and without the statue and thats it
As noted in the edit of the main thread, Ethan Must Die is now live and open for runs, mainly due to popular demand from a lot of runners.
There are two categories, Without statues and With statues. Obviously one allows the item pickups from death statues, the other does not, simple as.
I highly recommend you record your setups if you're setting up for statues, just in case it comes to light there may have been some wrong-doing in setting up and we want to watch it back to make sure it's all legit. That's literally just my personal opinion and it's highly unlikely that'd happen, it is NOT a requirement, just remember that.
Have fun guys I look forward to seeing the runs soon!
i just submited my 6min 55sec run with statue,12h still waiting lol but its ok i understand i waited way longer for the full game submits i did
XTerminator do you know when the mods will look at the submits for ethan must die 20h passed im not complaining im just simply asking if you maybe know,its like no one is online today,sorry if im annoying (edit: 24h and still nothing?)
Patience is a virtue my man, I saw the forum post and the submission yesterday I just had little time to do stuff yesterday as it was a jam packed day, speaking only for myself of course; im in the process of reviewing it now
Not at all don't be, I'd like people to raise the point that their run hasn't been verified, but 24 hours isn't much, ive seen some runs be on there for a long time, if it gets to two days somethings up
you said if it gets to 2days,so my submit for no statue is now 2days i even submited a new one which is 1day old now for the same thing no statue
spynine01 he literally said "I'd like people to raise the point that their run hasn't been verified" and "if it gets to two days somethings up" so i did exactly that
I've been working most of the weekend, since Friday so haven't had time to look through much. But I'll be able to handle a lot later tonight and over the next few days.
