France@killersi12345 You're welcome ! I believe that you can can also check if countrycoins were used on the character selection screen before the run starts, if one of the stats appears in orange it means it was improved using coins.
Most of my runs were made without using coins, but here are the two ones that weren't : https://www.speedrun.com/countryball_1890/runs/yjwv4rgm and https://www.speedrun.com/countryball_1890/runs/yd2x3pjm (I had two other ones, but I improved my times for them, so I decided to delete them to make things easier for you)
@killersi12345 Thank you for replying ! I understand why you can't add coins as a subcategory. I was just proposing that because grinding for coins can be really tedious, but considering how few people actually speedrun this game, I don't think it's that big of a deal.
@Aleph_tv You're right, maybe I'll mention this to the moderator when I do my first run. For now I'm also speedrunning other games, but I'll try to start doing runs for this one soon. Thank you !
@Aleph_tv Hello ! Sorry that you had to wait over a month for an answer, I only recently bought this game and thought about speedrunning it. But yes, apparently the demo was only available for a limited time during an event (I researched and found this : https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2162020/view/3685672640034248396 ). So, I suppose the demo was removed after the event was over. I don't know if you're still interested in speedrunning the game, but if you are, good luck for your future runs !
@notsnowhk A sub-category could maybe be the most "fair" option, but I feel like it would create way too many distinct leaderboards (considering a lot of the existing ones already don't have any runs). I was suggesting to make it just an additional variable that would appear next to each run (like the game version in Celeste, for example).
Oh, I just realised I made two mistakes in the description... The run starts at 3:57, not 4:57. And secondly, I forgot to put a capital letter at Spain. Sorry for that ! (I don't want to make these changes right now because that would mean the run would have to be re-verified, and I don't want to give the mods more work just because of two small mistakes.)
Firstly, I've noticed that some countryballs appear to be missing in the list for certain categories. I may have missed some, but for example, Switzerland is not in the list for the 1914 campaign, and the same thing applies for Sweden in the 1922 campaign. Could you please add these ?
Regarding the most recent update, a new historical battle was added (Second Balkan war). It would be nice to see it added to the leaderboards too.
Another thing that was added in update 1.6 was the ability to improve individual countryballs' statistics by spending countrycoins. By spending enough countrycoins, you can change the run quite drastically and be able to get much better times than you would by playing without this feature. For example, my PB in the 1861 campaign as France is 4:41 (with default stats), whereas jazz_93's record is 1:33, over 3 minutes faster ! This is not only due to better execution, but also a different strategy, that would be impossible to use without spending countrycoins. While I think there are already a lot of categories, and I don't think it would be worth adding even more, I suggest having an additionnal variable to know whether or not the runner used countrycoins to upgrade their countryballs. I am saying that because I believe it would be more fair to the people who submitted runs before update 1.6, but also because countrycoins can be a bit tedious to get without spending money into the game (especially since they're already used to unlock countryballs). This is just a proposition though, feel free to reject it if you think it's unnecessary or would cause problems I didn't consider. :)
Currently, if you go to the "rules" section of the individual levels death% category, it will say "time stops as soon as touching the flag", which is obviously not true. Please, could you fix this issue ?
Also minor complaint, but level 15 should be called "fifteen" and not "fiveteen" (as it is currently named).
Ok, thank you for your answer !
Just asking this question because the rules seem to be pretty strict about that. Am I allowed to submit several IL runs and group all of them in one single video, and then give timestamps for the start and end of each of the runs in their description ?
Thank you for the precision ! :)
Ok, thank you for your help. :)
P.S. : This run was actually done on my Android phone, I accidentally put PC in the platform and don't want to make the mods verify the run a second time just for this single change.
Thank you for the answer, but I was mainly talking about the Any% NMG run here.
Hello, I got into speedrunning this game recently and I have a question.
I am using Linux, and finding a way to run Livesplit was an absolute pain (I'm using the OBS version of Livesplit One for now), and even then I don't think I can use any autosplitters. I will not submit any runs yet, because I think I can improve my time by a lot, but I would still like to know how to properly re-time my runs, in case I get a better time soon.
Is there an exact moment when I need to start and end the timing, and if so, which are they ? For the moment, I start counting from the first frame when King's Pass appears on the screen (as it's apparently how it is counted) and end at the first fully black frame after defeating the Hollow Knight.
Hello, I'd like to link my Steam account to my profile. However, when I try to put my name "Piano-player25", the "Continue" button becomes grey as soon as I type the "-" character and I can't click it, despite it being my actual username on Steam. Would there be another way to link my Steam account, or anything that could help me do that ?
Hello ! I would like to submit one of my old runs that I did on PS4, but the only platform that is disponible in the submitting form is PC. Would it be possible to add options for console runs ? Or should I just submit it as if I did it on PC ? Thank you by advance for your answer. :)
