I understand what you're saying and the points I'm making are my own, not the point of view of the mods. If the change was made it wouldn't affect me at all but If you take a step back and view it from the needs of the many, not the needs of the few, then you'll understand what I'm saying is productive.

Personally, my view is that the scene is pretty much dead already and anything that makes it harder for new people to compete works against the scene even further. Easy WRs are slow and will never have the need to be improved lol. Lack of competition is what's stopped my all tasks runs in their tracks at the moment tbh. (But then I only look at this site, if there's another with more up to date runs then do let me know.)

It's a nice comparison to see, but for it to be relevant to the runs, the race would have to include the entry and exit of car, horse and d-walker. (I think the main reason for the banning of Raiden etc is it would mean people would have to literally invest 200+ hours into a game before being able to start running it competitively, because up until that point they'd be slower running speed than everyone else.)

It's not dead for me, that's for sure... I just took a couple months off to play Fallout 4... not sure where the mods have gone though? we kinda need them lol

You have to 'Upload Save Data' on Ground Zeroes and then 'Download GZ Save Data' on Phantom Pain. As long as you're on the same steam account then you should receive your unlocks and MB Staff immediately afterwards.

Just to back up the point that Zefie was making. I went and recorded pretty much identical runs on the most 'on-rails' mission in the game (C2W). I took the shot from as close to the same place as possible to make it a fair test.

It shows how just by doing nothing but spamming Acceleramin you chop your time on the in-game timer.

Without Acceleramin...

- 1:44

With Acceleramin...

- 1:27 (free [WR] for anyone who does it.)

This is a problem because the whole speed running scene for this game will become spamming this item and self-harming to chop times down, as long as we measure with the in-game timer.

I just found this post & I understand what you mean Soliduz_Znake. I was hesitant to submit at first in that category but seeing as the results screen qualified it, I gave it a shot. :)