for the highest kill steak runs would the map resetting (which would send you back to the character screen setting kill streak to 0) also stop the kill streak continuing in terms of the speed run?

also unrelated but thought i might aswell use this thread do you need to press play inorder for the death% to be valid? since respawning will show that screen briefly but will then just respawn you in on its own

1. As long as the entire unedited run is submitted, this will still be valid.

2. Just being brutally honest here, the Death% is just a meme really, it was maintained by Mods who are not really active anymore and none of these runs were properly re-timed so they are not even accurate.

That aside, No, you don't have to press play manually for it to count. On regular killstreak/kills categories, this applies too. The timer starts on your first mouse/keyboard input, in the game.

However, It seems for death% the past mods accepted runs that die upon spawn, without any actual input, so I'm kind of forced to maintain that exception for that category only.

ah okay, thanks