United StatesIL runs that claim to be first place now REQUIRE video evidence of the attempt. Runs that do not claim to have a 1st place time will still be allowed to submit screenshots.
Runs submitted before today, August 10th 2017, will NOT have their runs invalidated. However, all runs from now on that beat the first place time by a full second or greater will require video proof. If the first place time already has video proof, you must submit video proof if you claim to tie that time.
We assume that runs currently on the leaderboard are legal, and reproducible. If there is any dispute on the validity of a screenshotted run, contact a moderator. If your run is investigated you may be asked to reproduce your run with video evidence. This is not meant to target individual runners, it is simply a safety precaution to make sure the runs are competitive and legitimate.
Thank you.
Can we still use RLG and other lap skips in the all cups category? The only runs submitted so far have been glitchless runs. Are there plans to separate categories?
For some reason NA text is different than EU text even though it's the same language. When language was tested way back when, it was done in Europe, so we just accepted that Spanish was faster. Unfortunately NA Spanish was different than EU Spanish, and we never did the testing ourselves. It also turns out that PAL Spanish is 10 seconds faster than NTSC English. Also keep in mind that French is slower everywhere. Here is a spreadsheet with my testing, as well as instructions for how I measured text for each cutscene.
Just thought I'd bring this to attention in light of the recent news of our first Japanese runner on the leaderboard. We kinda figured that Japanese would be a faster language, as it is in every game, but given the fact that NA has no access to Japanese as a language, what do you guys think should be the protocol?
Should we suck it up and JP systems? Nobody of course want to drop 350 dollars on a system just to do Splatoon runs, so I think this one is fair but unfeasible.
Should we simply ignore it and let JP runs be faster? (i.e. use sub titles like NA wr and JP wr)? This would get confusing, and might dishearten Japanese runners because people will think they got good times only because of their system, which is not true.
Should we do extensive tests and deduct a certain amount of time for text? We don't have access to TAS systems and would rely on video recording and human timing. This means the timing for (deduct X seconds) would be inaccurate and unfair to one side.
Should we mandate a universal language? I don't think JP systems have English language, so this would also be unfair. If they do it might be a good option but I have no idea.
What do you guys think? 40 seconds is a lot of time for this game, and there doesn't seem to be a clear solution to make things equal.
In other news, that Japanese run by BEAT was really cool. We actually learned some new strats that we never knew about before, such as Inkzooka glitch on W2 Octolings. You can catch the run here https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3fmlqWdCG2DMXhyS1J1dkFNMUE/view . It's cool how the different regions developed similar stuff but also new things we've never seen before. I await more colaboration with the Japanese runners.
Earlier I posted a Guide about the potential of burst bombs
http://www.speedrun.com/Splatoon/guide/aj0hn
I figured I'd make a new thread where you guys can give open feedback about burst bombs, as well as update what new strats and routes are found using them. Leave your thoughts below.
Does anyone know what the total time for octavio is including all fist time saves? Also each time save is 20 seconds right?
