(Another) Leaderboard changes/suggetions
6 years ago

Hi hello, Blast here, recently some topics have been brought into the light for changes/adjust on the leaderboard to possible be discussed here as well in case any runner missed them, this thread has the objective to attempt summarize theses topics in one place and possible apply the changes as fast as possible upon noticed the agreement on them.

1 - IGT vs RTA without load times "IGT-timing" has been suggested before, but that timing method don't work very well on Riders unlike in Riders:Zero Gravity because of Sand Ruins where the game don't display a "result screen" with your time, BUT, this could have been suggested as "Real Time without loads" which can been easily tracked in any console/platform to eliminate the "big" difference in loading times between them. To a better understanding and fairness, this timing methods will count time that a runner has a control of the game, this being tracks and cutscenes, including even if the runner don't skip the cutscene, and excludes loading time from before tracks and cutscenes where the player don't have control. To say, the "basic" method for this type of timing and works for everyone to a better "track of time and fairness between platforms".

(Note:If agreed with timing method, RTA will be still filtered as main timing method until all runs with videos have the loads times calculated and removed from them, this will take some time, so I ask for patience on this one)

2 - Mods/Scripts/Macros Any type of modification/manipulation of the game it's banned, as some of them can bring "quality of life" or "fairness" for runs, having the "base" game unmodified helps to easy verification if case of any "tool assisted" runs gets submitted.This has been brought up because of the current "glitch" when playing with a keyboard in the PC version where if you hold both left and right controls in the automated sections, you recover a "big" amount of air compared to "rotating" the stick in a controller, as such there are differences or "easier way" to do a tricks/strats in other games when comparing controller and keyboard, isn't a reason to modify the game.

Pretty much all what it's needed to be discussed for now, and a big one I would say to stabilize and have a simple,clean and objective leaderboard, if you have questions or point/disagree with something, feel free to speak about it here and/or contact me.

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Venezuela

Hey blast, quick question! If I use a program like AntiMicro to map a keyboard to a controller, is the run banned? I use it to avoid the discomfort from playing with the keyboard.