This looks so badass, fantastic find. Love that people are still finding new stuff this far into the game's life.

Hey all, my new run should be up later today. I don't know if I'll have time to do commentary though but there is tons on my list of things to rethink. This was the first run I've done on the Xbox One and load times seemed the same to me for what it's worth if anyone is wondering.

This was the first run I did with zero scarabs since my 1 hour 46min run and it's made me rethink them completely. I'm going to have a few more attempts without them just to see how it pans out, some my chapter best times are still significantly faster with picking them up so it could just be one of those risks you either chose to take or not. At the end of it all movement and combat times are still the biggest impact on your time but I am curious to see how it will go leaving them behind for a few runs.

I think I've posted before about the benefits of the karma window being on display but if you want something to replace the on screen timer than I think it's a perfect choice. There is absolutely zero reason to turn it off and every reason to keep it on so if that's made a rule I think that's great.

Once you get used to it you won't even notice the karma window. I've played so much with it that every time I see someone not have it on it looks weird to me. It's also an amazing tool once you realise just how much information it is giving you. I also think it's super useful on a speed run as you have a timer built into the game whenever you're fighting enemies.

I have half a mind to go back to zero scarabs for a test run but then I think about the bugs in chapter 13, the core in chapter 15 and mainly Marbus. The level 3 Dabi with celerity will destroy Marbus quicker than anything else you have by that point in the game besides the inazuma exploit and even then you need him to do that early to be quicker than a even a half decent Dabi kill on him.

If you skip the Dabi and Marbus never dive bombs you can be lucky to even make the time limit for him. It's annoying that such a run killing boss is right at the end of the game.

Thanks Kanis, I'll look into that this week. I got a new run this weekend just gone, faster by almost a minute. Been meaning to test some new strategies out for a while now but the biggest improvement was chapter 15. The rest are quite bad.

Also a thought regarding the rules and ensuring the videos aren't cut in any way why don't you make displaying the karma window a rule?

I've mentioned in videos that the karma window is a huge benefit in the game but the score adds an almost foolproof way of verifying a run. You cannot manipulate the score and there isn't any reason or benfit to turning it off and if someones score changes and/or after a fade the karma window isn't displayed it would be easy to work out. Once the end of chapter screen comes up it would expose any split together videos.

Curious what you all think.

Wait I have OBS so there's a way to add a time using that? If so I could do that on my original capture and submit?

Thanks Kanis but keeping track of the splits would just distact me, I find it hard enough to keep a track of my items and stuff in game lol

Hey everyone, I added the run but the comments section on my youtube videos is going haywire recently. Whenever I hit reply all the comments disappear and it's a blank white space. I submitted my run either way.

If anyone can recommend a good video editing program I'm all ears by the way.