Now I am curious what the official site for leaderboards is.

When I say "the category does not exist" I mean a leaderboard with a community-agreed-upon ruleset. As long as that doesn't exist its in the limbo with "Death%" (fastest death possible) and "world's first whip only SL25 no block All Bosses no DLC with my cat distracting me" categories. Which is the "I made it the fuck up"-WR area.

Like, you only count picked up/bought items and souls. What about foggates you dissolve? Doors you open? Areas you enter? Elevators you activate? All of these could also be argued for as % (in the sense of the 100% category, namely that they change the state of the world); could even argue about amounts of cutscenes you trigger and whatever else.

I am not trying to say that Low% cannot be a category, but as long as there is no decision by a wider range of players than, lets say, 1, it is not a category. Just like an abbreviation is not an abbreviation if only one person knows it and a definition is not a definition if only one person agrees with that definition.

That is your definition, others would disagree. Thus, the category doesn't exist, thus there is no WR (besides the "I made it the fuck up"-WR).

There is no answer to that because there is no agreed upon definition of low% in Dark Souls. You could take the 100% tracker and try to go as low as possible on that (like 4% IIRC), but that would include farming respawning enemies for souls and buying equipment, since both is no % in the sense of 100%. From your question, you would count that.

The boards are split. We will never combine dropmod and no dropmod boards into one, because as you said, thats kinda dumb.

The "legit" runs thus have their own time. You will still get notifications for dropmod WRs though, because I don't think there is a possibility to turn that off. That does not mean that the no dropmod WR is not WR anymore though. There are just two separate WRs and for the upcoming weeks it may be that dropmod WRs are slower as people start running dropmod for the "free rekkie". Itll die down soon enough when you actually have to put effort into getting dropmod WR.

Can't say this is a widely known issue (aka never heard of it). Did you perhaps install/update anything that uses the same hotkey?

Yo,

Gonna ignore Elden Ring/Sekiro analogies for obvious reasons and gadget leaderboard because I think that gadget leaderboard sould never exists, thus its not a point that could sway my opinion.

The number one console category that makes sense to me is Switch, which I would fully support if there was any sort of activity. I remember three Switch runs off the top of my head across all categories since the release of this game - Duck's investigation in finding one Switch run in the last year also supports the "Switch is dead" theory.

As for PS/Xbox: I see both sides.

The platform filter gives you the current console leaderboards, as stated above. I don't quite understand why that doesn't satisfy the competition itch with your platform peers.

Of course PC players have a practice advantage with their tools. As a console player you are disadvantaged due to that and some glitches not being available. I understand that.

The only reason this matters competitionwise is competing for the best times though - no casual runner that submits their PB for 32nd place cares about their disadvantages compared to the world record run... right?

Thus, a console leaderboard would benefit the best of the best competing with the best of the best on their specific platform and probably makes sense for those.

Following the reasoning that the filter option doesn't give console runners a competition with their peers: for any runner outside of the best of the best it removes their competition with runners on different platforms.

Which goes the other way around as well: if we talk about splitting the category for competition, you also take console competitors away from PC runners.

I feel like that hasn't been thought about yet.

The upside is that maybe more runners start running on console if we split the leaderboards.

Honestly: I personally don't care too much. I always competed with my personal limit or (rarely) in personal rivalries. Never mattered if that rivalry ran on the same platform - in the end there are a billion other factors outside of the platform that limit how much you and your rival can improve.

I mainly wanted to point out some aspects of competition that have not been brought up before. Whether we end up splitting the board or not, I am fine with either.

Hi. The plunge is known and faster, however for Glitchless, where Ceaseless Skip is used, plunges as Fall Damage Cancel glitch are banned. The reason why the slope roll fall damage cancel is allowed is, with the same reasoning as toggling out of falls etc., that it can reasonably accidentally happen during a run at any point (think the drop down to the wheel in blighttown). Since we did not believe that plunge FDCs can happen accidentally these are banned.

See also https://wiki.speedsouls.com/ds1remaster:Any%25_Glitchless#Allowed_Mechanics

Good shit. Does changing the lane in sidescrollers actually change the speed?