- It will probably be a good idea to add milliseconds to the IL runs , them being faster and easier to get closer times with IL runs milliseconds will mater when more people start to run them. or when people want to challenge times.
- Do we have any insight or info on difference of load times between consoles/PC and even different PC's. different PC's with different specs will have different load times. if possible a auto splitter that negates load times on PC or something for that would be best(sadly not something i know how it make) that or a way to calculate time without the loads.
From what I've found, Switch is the slowest in loads while Xbox Series is the fastest and PC is second, the time difference isn't that big yet but if anyone wants a catagory split, the mod is open to it. Also, highly agree on the millisecond recommendation, if this game gets popular, this will be needed
I believe it should be community decided of course if they should be split. But i clicked around a bit doing some quick testing on people playing it on different consoles(what i could find) and 5 different PC players to briefly test loads(all on the same load screen). and what i was able to pull was PC can be anywhere from 1 second to 6 seconds(probably depending on PC specs/speed) i wasn't able to find anyone playing on series X or XBONE. people playing PS4 version on a PS5 had just over 1 second load and switch had variable load times between 7 to 11 seconds. so my take from this is switch is certainly the slow but Xbox/ps5 and PC's(with a high spec PC) can have pretty close load times. but the switch is loosing a TON of time to everything else it seems 7 times how many ever loads will be a loss of many minutes. Just trying to help and gather info :D . I also wonder if physical to digital will make a difference?
Do you guys tried to calculate the loading time for pc on a fast ssd like an nvme one maybe it is faster than xsx times
Any of the videos I looked at didn't specify specs or drives. but i know on my PC(built in 2016) i get average load times of 3 seconds, My system only supports Sata SSD, which is what I have it installed to. and I am running ddr3 (1600)(16gb) ,amd 3+ FX-9590, GTX 1060(6GB). so someone else would have to test NVME or newer drive load times but I am guessing newer systems are the ones that have 1 second loads in the PC version videos I ran timers on. but hard to say with just quick tests and not more defined testing. TBH if anyone knows programing and can build a auto splitter to pause on loads for PC version that would be the easiest way to make accurate pc runs but then PC would for sure have to be seperate from others. but again i still believe that is a community decision and something to think about for the future
i will try with a sata ssd (kingston a400) on my PC (ryzen 7 2700x, 16gb ram ddr4 2133, rx 590 8gb) the pc that i used for speedrunning is a simple laptop so the loading times are longer i can also try with an m.2 ssd (dont have nvme sadly) but later because i dont have it right now
i also think the fps makes difference on how the enemies and other things appear, it also makes difference on the timer. for example, i played crazy cranes today and went full speed and @ around 20 seconds you are supposed to walljump off a blue container to a treetop but i did not have to do that and instead had an enemy on a perfect spot and could jump on top of it and get on top of the tree from there without slowing down at all, i watched your video and somehow you were already ahead enough on that part so that i only tied your 58s time, so i ended up having a time over 1 minute which for some reason was even slower than my pb. it made no sense at all. i've been having some fps issues with the game lately, as if it went down from 60fps to 30fps.
From running IL's for a period of time to get my times down. a few things that I noticed was if you keep restarting the stage multiple things happen. 1 the music will break sometimes. 2 the enemy cycles change. to get the enemy cycle back to what I learned and was used to I had to exit the stage or game to reset them. I have also noticed enemy cycles seem to be difference when you are not doing IL's but play the stages normally
So, EpicNeonNinjaMonkey do you have any plans on running more individual levels? or maybe any%? i am personally unable to record any% unless i use my phone to record it. even then i am unable to upload such a long video to youtube since i have not enabled it(i'd really like to tell you the reason but... let's just say i do not trust google corporation enough to do so)
I do plan on running more IL's and any% at some point. Just for the time being life is a bit to busy to do runs or such
I will await in excitement, how fast you will manage to go. Honestly my IL's are mostly far from perfect and they are all something i could achieve in quite a few tries, i personally think bouncy bouncy forest will be the hardest to get down to 1m07s or better. I wish you good luck in future runs.
Thank you for the good luck/fortune :D. I am excited to get back to it and also look forward to it :D. I just don't know when it will be yet.
Just replying to a post up above about loads, I'm running the Series X version right now and it's definitely not the fastest with loads. I'm losing about 3 seconds per level to the PC version (the WR run at least). Not sure if this is because of the version difference, or if it's the newer patch with DLC. I've noticed a few other small changes like health jars in different places.
It's because you play on console, load times on PC are faster. Interesting to hear about the other changes though!
