Yeah thats what i thought, we don't need to clutter the main full game categories with categories that last a few seconds, which categories do you think we should add megs, or do you have your own suggestions?
I thought of these categories a few days ago because we didn't really have short speedruns that don't require too much skill but have a fun challenge, like the gramophone categories are quite optimised already and requires quick fast aiming and shooting, i thought of the 25467 category when i was lowering the remove collision record, trying to optimise my typing, and i thought of a glitchless category just because most games have them and a few of the categories use the walk backwards glitch, but most of these were just me thinking on the spot when typing the post.
I was thinking of making some smaller categories, such as fastest time to type the "25467" code or the "191421" code in the Remove Collision category, these categories wouldn't be on the Full Game categories but the ILs beacause they would be so short.
Some categories i thought of may include:
- enter the "25467" code
- enter the "191421 code
- an Any% category where you have to press esc as fast as possible.
- fastest to shoot your gun
- fastest to collect the flag, not deliver the flag to the blue flag, but just capture it and the blue text appears on screen
- Fastest to shoot the Gramophone
- Glitchless categories where you can't walk backwards after the 2nd flag to skip the Ghost sequence. these may not be in the ILs
- Fastest to shoot the Eye, not including timing from the rest of the playthrough but the time it takes to shoot the eye after it appears.
- Remove Collision fastest to fall into the void, not including inputting "25467", but after you start the level and timing ends when you appear in the room after falling into the void.
- Fastst to see the Ghost, a category in which you need to see the ghost and move toward it and make it disappear.
These where all i could think of, but these were just thoughts, what do any of you think, do any of you have any suggestions for short categories like these, or do you think we have enough categories, my thinking was just to make shorter IL type categories, but i won't add anything unless any of you think it's a good idea.
I thought maybe change the text/primary colour to yellow as that is the one used in the Logo.
I changed it what do you think? is yellow good? and the panel colour should it be black like now or the grey we had before? What do you think of the background?
I was thinking of changing the theme to be less boring basically, and if anyone has any suggestions i will incorperate those into the final design of the page, i'll be changing a few things, firstly the primary colour or the colour of the text on the page and the panel colour which is the lighter shade of grey where the text is, also i'll be changing the background from dark grey to an image or gif, if anyone has any suggestions i will gladly accept them, this is just to make the leaderboard and page overall look more appealing to new players.
i you don't think i should change it let me know.
I've edited the rules and what counts as loading is the blue loading screen, that is the only load time that should be removed from the full run time into in-game time and timing ends when you press enter and the credits play, i'm not including the time in the pod as you still have control of the player, let me know if the new rules are clear enough or anything is unclear.
I've edited all the rules, the remove collision segment is now required, i forgot to include that, but it has always been requried, check the rules for the other categories and let me know if any are unclear to you.
yes i'll edit the rules for new runners, thanks for bring this up, i'll review all the rules and edit any that are unclear.
i'm not sure what else you can do in the load screen but you can't move during the load screen, i know you can turn in the load screen that's all, i think if you hold shift during that part of the loads you can start the level at full speed i think.
When the game is loading, you see that the loading screen pauses and the VHS effects stop, during that time you can make inputs and they will be registered like turning, what i do is start turning during that part of the loading screen to face the trees and hallway, idk how much time it saves but i do it on all my runs, hope this helps.
Any suggestions will be considered.
Relatively short catagories that are under 1 minute or slightly over that will be placed in the ILs catagory
Would we use the in-game time added up, or would we use an external timing method?