CanadaHey everyone, we're looking for new verifiers/moderators! Us current mods are pretty bored of the game and we want people who could breathe some new life into this community. Leave a reply if you're interested, stating:
- A little about your experience with FE2 (how you got into the game, what keeps you interested, etc)
- Why you want to be a mod
- Why you should be a mod (why would you be better than some random person?)
Edit: Applications are over, congratulations to @bluwrd, @ryanbennettr, @Cylazzz, @Cr0pped, and @Us3rnam3 !
no trios - just duos. we've tried adding trios a couple times before but barely anyone ended up submitting runs, so we removed them to reduce clutter.
No - you can't play in fe2cm. All runs have to be done in FE2
yeah, techless% is more focused on corner cutting and unique shortcuts than anything, so you don't need to have a fast gaming pc just to do backjumps for a speedrun
I'd say the general rule of thumb is that if you need to climb on a truss or platform to reach a specific higher-up spot, then that wouldn't be allowed.
In that DSF case, I'd say because you can't make it from a normal jump off the top of the truss, that's considered a backjump and that wouldn't be allowed.
As for detecting FPS unlockers, there really isn't any way to tell, so they'll be allowed. You can still get just as much height with 60fps, it's just that it's much more inconsistent so everyone plays on higher framerates. I'm pretty sure mobile devices with higher refresh rates would still run at 60fps, but I don't have anything like that to test it myself
Originally the multiplayer category would let you submit any number of players in one run, but most people did duos anyway, so we changed it to duos only. We added a category for trios a little while later, but only a few people ran it. It's pretty difficult to coordinate 3 or more people, let alone have everyone pull off all the necessary shortcuts, so we'll be leaving it at solos and duos only for the time being.
Late flood% is no longer available, all level runs will be timed using the in-game timer at the bottom.
afaik the only change that was reverted was the ban of using fps unlockers, which in theory the ban sounded like a good move to balance the playing field for all platforms. People disliked the change, so it was reverted.
Late flood was removed because of how annoying it was for both the runner and the verifier. Name one runner who actually enjoyed doing late flood runs and not just to snag a world record. The only reason this rule ever existed was to remove time wasted from waiting at the spawn of a map for a door to open (notably sinking ship). This was only ever useful for a couple of maps.
I don't see problems with the rest of the changes. Crazyblox has been making questionable updates that affect speedrunners a fair bit, with map voting and the intensity system, but that's out of our control.
The multiplayer category was replaced with duos only. Threads are made for every change, including a reason of why they were made. To quote from the thread found here: https://www.speedrun.com/fe2/thread/bm2yn "We did this because presenting more and more players on an unlimited scale for one level is unfair. It gives people with more players in a category an unfair advantage over a duo pair. It is also important to note that trio+ was not the popular choice for multiplayer, anyway. 95% of multiplayer runs were done as a duo."
A bunch of maps were reverted due to the new mechanics. Some maps definitely were not changed as much as others, so I'll say some maps shouldn't've been reverted, even though it would've been at least a tiny bit harder to compete with runs made before it.
Zooms left because he had been inactive for a very long time, and from what I heard he was unable to verify runs too for some reason. I don't see why anyone would think that's a bad move.
Would like to hear how this community is "gatekeeped" though!
No, just bad phrasing. The trick where you swim into the roof on cave system to gain lots of speed was patched with the latest speedglitch fix, so those runs will have to be removed.
