I want to call into question the choice of having the Tornado spawn rate mod being allowed for PC runners. As a person who has been running the game for a month and a half at this point I'm starting to realize how bad the spawn rate is but at the same time it's also showing me how much of an advantage PC players have over me, and any other future console runners, because of this mod.

I've been running any% for about a month and a half and across all the runs I've tried with the Tornado route, which in total is about 190 times according to my attempt counter, I've only seen it spawn 2 times making the spawn rate, for me at least, 0.01%. Maybe when I do several hundreds more attempts I'll see that number rise or fall but to put that in perspective you are 10 times more likely to die in a house fire in the USA than to get a tornado spawn. However if we somehow knew the exact spawn rate for the tornado then potentially we could cap how much we raise that by in PC runs but that all depends on the actual spawn rate; maybe I'm just getting bad RNG or maybe the mod is giving too much of an advantage I don't know.

Personally I'd like to see the tornado spawn mod to be banned so everyone is on a level playing field across all platforms but that's for the mods to decide.

I'm particularly interested in this as a possibility for these in regards to co-op speedruns. If there is a glitch or manipulation multiple people, or even a single person, can do to either get better loot or to beat the game then why not subdivide the Main Game category between Any% and Glitchless%?

In a hypothetical Glitchless% it would open up the opportunity to co-op runners to only have to record one POV because while yes the other runners in a co-op run could in theory do any potential glitches out of view of the one recording I find it unlikely since there would be a whole new category for that type of stuff; and if they are found to have done a glitch subsequent action would be taken obviously.

If a division of Main Game was reality it would eliminate the need for co-op speedruns to record the entire runs in a possible any% speedrun with the only caveat being they need to record their share of the glitch or glitches because not every has a good recording or streaming setup. Whether it'd be bad internet which leads to laggy stream footage or having sub-par setups that can't, or can barely, support recording along with playing a game. Having this caveat, while doesn't completely solve the problem, is at the very least a show of action towards this game being a good co-op speedrun.