That's a really cool strat with the hellbomb backpack! I'll have to give these Any% runs a try, low dif runs are totally fun glad you started doing them!

~530ms from 1:10 Very nice, looks like this is the closest run to it too

Don't forget to have the fastest light armour you own equipped too!

Select a mission and enter hellpod, select stratagems and then the booster you want, stamina is the go to but dead sprint is better by far if you have it, enter mission and then once it's loaded in hit ESC and return to ship, from there enter the tutorial and do the early gate glitch and then you're all set to try and try again

Booster exploiting in tutorial has been around for a long time, just everyone who ran it seriously used stam booster, good to see someone complete a run with dead sprint though!

I could see a 100% multiplayer run of ~2:20 with a good seed (this one was probably a pretty good seed for 100% coop, 3 Sam's and a mortar emplacements, all four(?) at the start hammering out fabs and then 1 to extract while the rest dod a Sam each and someone should have line of site on the mortar at some point between Sam and extract



HELLDIVERS 2

Freedom Fights, Good Morning,

The Helldivers Speedrun Community Discord has finally concluded voting to introduce the new Stratagem Hero Category as proposed by the hard efforts of BlueSnowSquid (BlueSpaceSquid on SRC). This Category is divided into 2 Subcategories; 25 Rounds, and 50 Rounds. The goal, as always, is to complete it as fast as possible!

The Community gives its huge gratitude to BlueSnowSquid and LilGMan for their efforts to make this possible. BlueSnowSquid has also been introduced as a verifier to help with the verification of Stratagem Hero Submissions.

Happy running Divers!

New Stratagem Hero Category! 

The Decluttering Shenanigans Has Concluded and the Helldivers Community Speedrunning Discord has come to a consensus.

To Summarize;

- Missions have has their Difficulty options reduced to their highest and lowest possible difficulty.

(with exceptions where deemed necessary)

- Missions that had Difficulty 9 as an option have NOT had it removed.

- All runs previously submitted to these removed Difficulties will merged with the next lowest Difficulty currently available



May Democracy Guide Us All

Happy Hell Diving and Merry Christmas to all!!

- The Mod Team

Big Changes To The Level Categories

Happy 1 year anniversary for Helldivers speedrunning! Here are all the updates:

# Free Stratagems and DSS Support banned in all Categories

Since the community decided to ban these instead of adding the DSS as an annotation, we will be adding this to the game rules: 

**Use of the DSS and free stratagems is banned. You can still submit a run with a free stratagem as long as no runner uses it. You can still submit a run done on a planet with the DSS, as long as no action is active**

# Increased Standards of Proof across the Leaderboards

A lot of categories have gotten quite a bit more competitive in the last few months. This is a good thing and a direct result of how much growth we've had as a community! However with increased competition comes increased standards of proof by necessity of deterring foul play. As a result of this and the outcome of the recent poll we will be adding several new requirements:

- **In game audio must be recorded and set to an audible level, in game music and voice chat is optional**

- **Mission timer must be set to always visible. To do so, go to options > HUD > Mission info visibility and set it to visible. *Note that this is not the default setting***

- **The loadout and stratagem screen must be shown before the run starts and all POV’s must be submitted if a free stratagem is active**

While we will not be requiring all POVs to be present at this time, we would like to reiterate the following rule added recently:

- **Verifiers may ask for additional POVs before verifying in certain circumstances (competitive times in competitive categories, Illuminate missions, abnormalities etc.)**

# New Rule added to the Discord

7. Given that we are officially associated with speedrun.com, you must also follow the speedrun.com code of conduct in this discord.

# New Poll in the Discord

With the majority of people voting to ban the DSS/Free Stratagems in Helldivers speedruns, we will need to address how to handle old runs which used them.

## First, for context: no runners or any members of the mod team have identified any unbeatable runs using the DSS or Free Stratagems.

The first choice is to simply leave them up and only ban future runs which feature them. This is the most simple solution.

The second is to go through and reject them based on the new rule change. This is more complicated and would result in a lot of rejection from before the rule change was made, but it's an option in case the community feels it is warranted.

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