It seems the feature was brought back but for two of the games I moderate, even though it's confirmed in settings, the background doesn't appear? is there a specific size I need?

Created a Discord Server for potential runners to gather and talk strats

https://discord.gg/UrsXCVw

#KH1Mod

Draz at the end of TT Food isn't available I'm pretty sure, I think you have to do it first moogle in TB

I fully support this gamebrain, if the run is different , then they shouldn't be put togetheer

https://gyazo.com/a54001756c769e62fdfebb0f2d717081

this chest is a megaether, In the same room, I think both are worth grabbing

1. Timing should stop when the beam hits xehanort and you hear the swoosh because that's the end of the fight~

2. Level 1 should have it's own little tab thing, since it can produce enough categories on it's own (beginner any, standard, proud, jj stuff etc.)

3. XBOX and PS4 should be separated maybe? I dunno how it'll run on xbox so can't really say just yet how I feel on it, but DLC keyblades just make the it DLC Any% etc. and No DLC because there are bound to be people who want to use them though I personally won't be so it makes sense that way, and if there's more dlc later on it'll incorporate that like an FM dlc or something you'd be allowed DLC keyblades cause DLC, it could potentially evolve into it's own entirely different category based on what Square does.

4. All Worlds shouldn't be a category, it's arbitrary at best, so it'd be a waste of space imo. if someone wants to do 100 acre wood in their run let them but I think we shouldn't make an all worlds cat just for one world of minigames, it has to be a substantial amount of extra worlds.

5. we could maybe make an all Battle Portals Category for Miscellanous? that might be something people wanna do later and even maybe make them ILs too?

Can Confirm the IGT/Battle report does not include loads or deaths, Tested it myself.

Also I tested Movement stuff around endgame, dodge roll is slower than air slides by like a second same as gliding. I think dodge rolls were like 5.89? while airslides were like 4.89? something like that, glide was about the same as those. either way we should really be using dodge rolls for movement in endgame areas, and mayyyyybe before that? also to note when going up a slope it's most definitely faster to be using airslides for what I can gather just playing the game, you land pretty much instantly and can do another right away and it gives you farther distance up the slope.

Lastly these are all justy my opinions, and other stuff based on what I've played around with and tested so everyone's free to do their own tests obvs, hopefully we'll get this game down.

Side note there's a strength ring with 10 AP that's really quick to grab in OC right before the rock titan area andit's worth getting for the world, I believe the extra strength can def help speed things up and it should only take like 5-10 secs to grab.

The ideass are good Saiyanz, hopefully this stuff is decided on because the ideas is a lot cleaner than what we have.

honestly if you wanna get by with doing the least amount of practice, and get a good run? In my past experience from PS3 just watch a lot of other peoples runs and become a copy cat so to speak . from there just do no resets and you'll get where you're going eventually.

Mind you everyone is different, but that's how I got sub 3 on PS3.

On a proper note though, as what timmi said peopel will need to prolly see your run to give you more of an idea of what's gone wrong, and you should most def join the discord where there are plenty of runners available to help ! !

So I was wondering if we could go into maybe personalizing each game a bit more now that we have game specific mods as well.

What we have now is fine, but it seems like it was made when things were still being figured out and these days we could probably make each games LB's look a lot cleaner and nicer than they do currently. More so than just Generic KH wallpaper [Insert Game name and colour here]

It'd make things look more visually appealing over all and could potentially be more welcoming for newcomers.

Awesome

So there's a feature that allows us to directly put a discord link on the side bar for navigation to the forums, streams, etc. I know BBS has added this to their LB's but was curious if we could have it added for the main series and the rest of the games too.

So I know that in the page settings you can change the SRcom logo, but the only one that's different it looks like is for the main page.

I was curious why that wasn't the case for all games, but on top if that why don't we make our own srcom logo up in the top left based off the main Font when looking at Kingdom Hearts cases and what not.

I know people probably already know what I mean but like the

                    Kingdom Hearts 
                 Insert Title herrrrrrrrr

basically the font from the words KH turned into our own SR com logo to put on all the pages.

Interesting, looks like things settled quite nicely.

At the end of the day, I feel like this situation could've been handled better. I don't know how much will change now that this deed has been done, but it seems two of our mods have already left. I don't see it taking long before some of the other mods follow suit because when some of them were active as I've heard they were just given constant shit which tends to put a person off from doing the things of which they were shat on for. If I recall Reb left cause he was tired of people being fuckers despite all he'd done. I like the idea of having new mods but I feel like this could've been handled way better. Also if we do replace the mods or add game specific mods what's to say this won't happen again? are we just gonna shit on every kh mod ever until they don't wanna be a mod and quit or keep their mod but don't do anything because they're an anxious wreck like some we have sure are right now? or you have the person that will keep doing the job despite all the shit who suddenly gets praise while deep inside that person prolly wants to quit too. I'm sure there are people in the community who say they wanna be mod but what would make them any different from any of the mods we have now? what would make them better? What are they going to do besides verify runs which sonic already does pretty well? answer forum posts up here? because clearly people don't read the forums or care about the leaderboards enough to make a post here and throw in their two cents unless they already cared about this A, or they were called out by this and witch hunted B.

I guess you could bring up the argument that mods can respond in discord too, but hadn't some of the older ones (I.E. Hobz) Leave already because people treated them like shit for no reason. I feel like what'll happen with new mods is that things will be fine and dandy for a bit yes...EVERYONE WILL BE SOOOOO HAPPY.

Until the next arbitrary thing people decide to shit on the mods for. I like this community just as much the next, I love this community. It's made me who I am now, and it's because of this community that I found the one I love and can call her mine. I'm just tired of the constant shit some people give others for no reason. whether be shitting on the mods or just on other people in general cause you don't like something about that specific person even if it doesn't affect you in any way, shape, or form. This is what's happening with the mods. I'm sure sonic is wreck right now because of this depsite not saying anything about it, he probably just might want to even quit too. then people might give sonic shit for quitting because he was the "good mod" who verified runs. well lemme lay something fresh on y'all. Verifying runs doesn't necessarily make or break a mod. nor does doing things on srcom. Honestly, These days just being active on discord and an active community member who's willing to help new people learn the run is good enough for me. I'd rather have mods who put out tutorials and notes frequently than one who verifies my run within a couple hours of submitting.

I think I'm rambling alot and probaly contradicted myself so damn much I'm sure but I just wanted to put some things out of my mind and decided this should be the place to do it.

I think the mods are fine as is, but I also think change might be coming. so let it come naturally...don't witch hunt them or harass them to quit. They've already gotten enough harassment here for a life time. I'm sure the next generation of mods will too because it's not the mods lemme tell you that. It's also the community's fault for letting it get like this. If more people voiced their opinions or cared enough too then maybe we could make a difference as the mods will listen to the community as a whole but quite frankly people just don't care enough. People would rather just bitch at mods for not doing anything and harass them then put their full opinion on the matter out.

I feel like even I'm a part of this problem, I feel like our community has so much room to grow and so much time to make it happen. Gugh I'm rambling more. I also feel I'm forgetting something which is probably why i'm able to still type despite my jumbled mind mess that is my opinion.

Let the mods their thing, don't harass them. If and when the day comes where we get new mods, treat them right, and voice your damn opinions and make it be heard. I'm ashamed of everyone who's not a mod that looked at this and didn't say a damn thing because y'all are part of the problem that we're having with "Communication"

one last thing.....

SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! The Problem We Have Here...Is that we need to communicate!

and honestly this goes both ways. there are a select few community members and mods who do communicate, but it seems that simply isn't enough, and we all need to communicate properly.

I'm sorry for rambling and not making any sense.

I prefer Option 2, but I'm gonna give strong lean towards option 1. I've mentioned this to faye several times that I was unhappy with the mod situation. Anyways, for a while now I've wanted to reorganize the mods, even willing to be one so I can help implement things like a category extension board which I have been asking about since 1.5+2.5 HD came out. Even so I like the idea of Game Mods a bit more? In the end I don't care who ends up being a mod as long they talk with us and speak a bit more, because I hate asking for things towards the mods as a whole and getting like nothing other than Faye telling me whether it was even discussed or not. Also yeah if Faye hadn't already left the mods, I'd say she was just fine alongside sonic as she does her job and I tend to find her involved in some things involving the community before I even catch wind.

now to talk amount of mods. I think we should have 3 super mods (game series) to ensure there should always be one of them available. If we were to implement game specific mods along side this then 1-2 Active Runners who volunteer to mod those games, and those Super Mods think they're capable. That way we can have super mods verifying the games that rarely get submissions like GBA Com, Days, Etc. and game specific mods (1-2) Verifying the more often run games like BBS, KH1, and KH2.

That's what I think anyways, also gonna plug that I've asked enough about the category extension board that I gave up after a while and came back to someone asking about it and it seemed like it was a new subject that had never been brought up before to the mods.

Also as a note, there were around 6 mods at AGDQ. (Toji, Dax, bb, Hobz,KHfan, and Faye) I dunno if that changes your views though so I'm just mentioning it.

Discord made upon Last Recode Release for whole series. https://discord.gg/F3xSsqM

Made this series speedrunning server upon Last Recode Release. Hoping to get a lot of .Hack Speedrun discussion going on. https://discord.gg/F3xSsqM

Something I'd also add is two versions of Any% and 100%. One for non data transfer, and one for when you transfer your data from the previous game. simple categorized as NG Any% (No Data Transfer), NG Any% (Data Transfer), 100% (No Data Transfer) and 100% (Data Transfer). since the separation creates distinct categories in their own right.

So I was thinking for Last Recode what we could do is add Last Recode as a game and add the 4 volumes as categories of it.

Then we could add Subcategories to them for Any%, 100%, and NG+

Essentially it'd go:

.Hack//G.U. Last Recode (Game Name)

Catergories: Volume 1 Rebirth, Volume 2 Reminisce, Volume 3 Redemption, Volume 4 Reconnection.

Sub Categories: Any%, 100%, NG+

The new cheat mode feature will be considered an NG+ run if done. though making your own file could in the end get you a faster time than someone just using cheat mode.

100% would consist of maxing out all Transferrable things to to the next Volume including but not limited to Character levels, Doppelganger Key items, and all campaigns. I don't believe volume 3 transfers to volume 4 in last recode but i'm not certain as I've only beaten volume 4 on it's own and began work on Volume 1. and full 100% for Volume 4 still needs to be defined but we should still have a clear definition for 1-3.

Anyways that's just my two cents for .hack//G.U. Last Recode