FinlandI've put the Abyss in the individual level leaderboard in 100 level segments. The rules are: Beat the Abyss levels X to Y. Timing is RTA. Timing starts from pressing continue on the Abyss and ends on the last hit of the last boss in the segment.
I have combined PS3/XBOX 360 and PS4/XBOX ONE as they are similar enough. This makes the leaderboard less cluttered. I have also changed PS2 to PS2SE (Special Edition) and made PS2DA (Dante's Awakening) which is the vanilla version only available on PS2. You can submit those runs there and now there is no need for another leaderboard just for Dante's Awakening.
I have put Bloody Palace in the Level Leaderboard and changed the timing method from RTA to IGT has it appears it is pretty consistent among different platforms. This way it is free of the other sub-categories (difficulty/platform). All BP runs must have the IGT at the end of the video.
I added all difficulties as sub-categories for fullgame and ILs. Thus most runs are now found under NG. NG+ Samurai is for completing a NG+ run on Way of the Samurai difficulty. It is noteworthy that you cannot do The Man with the Guardian Spirit on that difficulty more than once, so you simply don't need to do it in the NG+ run. I also added DLC Main Missions to ILs as well as all difficulties and Twilight variants of them.
Auddy has made an autosplitting load remover for the game in LiveSplit. It removes loads in blackscreens at the start and end of missions. It works for both 2006 and 2018 versions on PC. For whatever reason it only splits properly for me on the 2006 version on Dante NG Normal, but NG+ or Vergil runs don't split at the end. For me personally this is not a big issue and wiekds tested it and it worked just fine, so I assume others would also have it work, but not certain. From my testings the difference between RTA and RTA no load is about 30 seconds on Dante NG Normal. Not that huge, but this could make the two PC versions more fair in contrast to each other. Vote if you want RTA to stay as the timing that matters or if you want RTA no load as the standard.
As the vote decreed, I have separated all platforms into their own sub-categories. They will be displayed as Dante/Vergil NG/NG+ -> Difficulty -> Platform. I have also added a variable that everyone running the 2006 PC port should fill, which shows whether or not the player had StyleSwitcher installed. Have fun running!
Please read this and vote if you care for this game: https://www.speedrun.com/dmc3se/thread/so3nl/1#3xd0t Vote: https://strawpoll.com/72zrwcd2
(tl;dr: https://pastebin.com/83CC7eBY ) As I have been made the sole moderator of the game, I will make the desired and necessary changes to the leaderboards as follows:
The times will be split between platforms (PC and PS4). PC uses the LiveSplit RTA no load plugin made by B3LYP and PS4 will use RTA. All runs must have video with decent quality. Manual pausing of the timer is disallowed. PC runs require RTA no load timer to be shown throughout the run. Runs must be done offline to disable accumulated clan buffs (clan inheriting is allowed) [does not apply to NG+ or individual level runs]. PC is current patch (CP) and PS4 is either Old Patch (anything not current patch) or CP.
These are the full-game categories: Any% - timing starts from pressing continue on The Man with the Guardian Spirit and ends in the blackscreen after pressing "Go forward" on Kelley's body in The Demon King Revealed
All Main Missions Vanilla - timing starts from pressing continue on The Man with the Guardian Spirit and ends in the blackscreen after pressing "Go forward" on John Dee's body in The Queen's Eyes
All Main Missions with DLC - timing starts from pressing continue on The Man with the Guardian Spirit and ends in the blackscreen after pressing "Go forward" on the last door in The Last Samurai (or whichever is the last "go forward" as the mission order is not set in stone)
Way of the Strong All Main Missions Vanilla - timing starts from pressing continue on The Man with the Guardian Spirit and ends in the blackscreen after pressing "Go forward" on John Dee's body in The Queen's Eyes (or whichever is the last "go forward" as the mission order is not set in stone)
Individual level runs - timing starts from pressing continue on at the start of a mission and ends in the blackscreen after pressing "Go forward"
Demo runs will be rejected.
I will go through the runs and make changes accordingly. If I find a run violates one of the new rules, I will remove it, examples being Demoneth's Any% run (done online) and CertifiedDankWeeb's Deep in the Shadows (Twilight) IL (does not "go forward" to blackscreen). This being a one-man job, it will take time, so don't expect this to happen overnight. If you have any questions or feedback on this, fire away.
22.1. Update: All the categories, sub-categories, rules and runs should display as intended.
Thanks to Fleret and DenZve for the help. If you want to give instant feedback, then join the Nioh discord: https://discord.gg/2S6sXWK
