Community update for August 2018
5 years ago
Bulgaria

Here I will summarize some of what has been happening over the last few months and things we have discussed.

[section=Categories] I have archived the categories Low% Wolf and Ace due to severe inactivity and them not being currently competitive. Also neither me nor the rest of the mods here can even remotely verify an ACE run, nor do we frankly want to spend the time to learn that at the moment.

In addition I have added ABRSR (All Bosses & Relics + Save Richter) as a new misc category.

[section=Highlighted Stuff] I will be making a pinned thread that is meant to showcase all the cool categories that are not on this leaderboard, including the aforementioned removed categories and some others like Zero Bosses, Pacifist, Tases, etc.

[section=Console Performance] We have determined that there is a refresh rate and framerate difference between European and NA machines that impacts the game. 60hz vs 59.94hz This difference shouldn't affect loading times. We haven't decided whether to do something about this difference or not as of yet.

[section=Rules] There have been concerns raised about using third party storage methods to accelerate game loading. Not due to any unfairness of any current runs that use it, but because of the possible slippery slope and a potential arms race of hdd vs flash vs newer and newer ssds and so on. There has been no consensus or decision made yet, but this will be an ongoing discussion. If we make the decision to make this a rule, current runs that use it will almost certainly not be rejected. In addition we need to collect more data on how the different releases of the console perform.

[section=Wiki] Work on the wiki continues, still a lot of pages to fill. Goal is to have a decently well organized place that contains a lot of the speedrunning-related information we know about the game.

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