If you need to restart a level is it OK to go to the portion you failed at or should we require that the whole verse is restarted? Ex: A solider falls out of map during a lock in fight and the first part of the verse was a camp sequence. Can I abandon and go back to the start of the part or do I need to restart the verse? Mainly thinking about NG+, but this can happen for NG as well.

Personally, I am leaning towards restarting the part. I don't see any merit to going through camp sequences again, and it can cost a ton of time.

Hi, I am requesting to become a super mod for Drakengard 3 https://www.speedrun.com/drakengard_3 . I had 2 runs sitting for just over 2 months, until I managed to talk to @Kerngesund (former mod) on twitch. He approved my runs but said he didn't have time for the game/speedrunning anymore so he was stepping down as mod. I reached out to @speedwerd, the only current mod/super mod, 8 days ago on twitch and he has yet to reply. Speedwerd has never had any activity in the game, and was last online 11 months ago. I can provide the chat logs with Kerngesund through discord if necessary.

I'm requesting super mod as I think it would be helpful to have for trying to grow the games popularity (something I really want to do). If it is deemed unnecessary for me to become a super mod, I'd like to follow with a request to become a mod on the same grounds I've requested to become a super mod. Thanks.

I always mash start once gameplay ends, so it might just be that and luck. I do remember I was changing around voice packs and stuff as well before that run, so I thought that might've had some effect.

Yeah after playing on actual hardware basically everything but the input inversion happened routinely. One of my first PS3 runs did have the house skip occur, so it might be worth looking into since it saved an easy 45 seconds at least. Anyone know of any leads on why this happens?

I....I dont know why I never thought of playing in lower res for better frame rate. Does that actually work? I've been streaming using a HDMI capture card and a handy hdmi splitter which strips HDCP, but boy the frame lag is way worse than the emulator. Though, since I beat my goal time in my last run I've been planning to play more on the emulator than the PS3.

Not being an official release is a good point. I think allowing emulators but making them a separate category (or not really competitive with official PS3 runs) might be a good idea to make the run more approachable to newcomers since it would lower the barrier to entry. I know I don't have the hardware to record my PS3, but streaming an emulator is super easy. I don't think I'd be trying to run the game if I couldn't easily record and stream.

As for issues running the game, I did do a complete A run last night on an emulator, and I ran a practice A run 2 days ago. Here is the run I did yesterday on RPCS3. There were 3 real problems I had:

1. Controller input sometimes went reverse. I don't fully trust my bluetooth XB1S controller I got second hand, but the reversing input thing might be an emulator issue with xinput. This only happened a few times, and wasn't really a big problem.

2. The Three fight had an large amount of lag, and after beating Three I had a weird overlay burned in until the next cut scene (this was only graphical though). See 1:47:12.

3. Mikhail's fire attack sometimes did the animation but no fire came out and no damage was done. This was the only gameplay bug I noticed, and I'm not sure if it ever happened on my PS3.

Apart from those 3 things it was a good experience. Upscaling to 1440p made the game look better, and my loads were also way faster (but this is an issue for timing...). I was planning to redo this run (without my DLC mistake) today, so I'll see how the game continues to hold up.

Any thoughts on emulator runs? How should those get handled?