Hello all!

As many members of the Neon Abyss speedrunning community may or may not be aware, we recently decided to change the category structure of the game. Myself, Mr. Blue and a couple other members brought up in the Neon Abyss SR discord (https://discord.gg/6FarHA3) that the layout, while okay, had some room for improvement and presented an alternative category structure. The community and mods responded positively so we set about finalising the structure and starting the migration process of old runs into the new structure.

This is now complete!

Below I'll list some notes for some of the major changes:

• Only 3 runs were invalidated. This was not due to the new structure, but rather the versioning of the game; new bosses were added which made old "All Bosses" runs invalid as new bosses were introduced (expanding the scope of "All Bosses").
• All empty categories were removed or rebranded to categories that seemed more accessible and/or standardised.
• Fluff, or deprecated sub-categories (such as Stable/Experimental), have been removed as they're no longer needed and fit into the two new main categories.
• The PC/console split has been moved to a subcategory so that there's no longer a need for double the categories (PC/Console for each).
• One category that changed a lot is Random Seed, and many runs that used to be categorised under it have been moved to the Set Seed category. Our thoughts from this mainly stemmed from the idea that Any% Set Seed will represent the conventional "Any%" category (i.e. use any means necessary to complete the game as fast as possible). To give Random Seed some more character and a different playthrough feel, we've decided to establish that the runs must be run on Normal difficulty without the use of bonuses (which caused some runs to be moved to Any%).

Outside of the last point, no major changes occurred and, as mentioned earlier, the only runs excluded are ones that have been deprecated due to the game's versioning.

We hope that everyone here enjoys the new, clean layout the restructure offers.

If you think a run has been miscategorised, please resubmit it or message a mod!

Please remember to read the updated category rules!!

Happy speedrunning :)