ValhallaI've added a difficulty variable for those that choose to play on something other than Easy. This won't affect leaderboard placement, instead it's similar to the console variable.
Extreme categories are still likely to get their own leaderboard in the future, but we'd still need some decent proof-of-concept runs to consider it.
But more importantly, view this thread, elo: https://www.speedrun.com/the_site/thread/3jdqo
I'll make the first and only post.
Who wants it? Y'all know this shit ain't real, and even worse why's it popping up on my screen?
Moderators @rollbuster and @Skavenger216 were removed from Castlevania: Rondo of Blood ( https://www.speedrun.com/rondo ) without notice. The current mod knows nothing about it. Is there a rule I missed about inactivity on the site/leaderboard? Cause these users weren't removed from other games.
Maybe I'm not seeing how to do this, but I can't? I'd like to remove myself as a mod for the Bloodstained series regardless.
I'd like to extend an offer for moderation to the metroidvania community, for this metroidvania title. Curse of the Moon brought in a lot of "classicvania" speedrunners and retro enthusiasts alike. I feel like this has alienated some of the metroidvania community from wanting to interact with the discord server and the leaderboard(s).
So I just wanted to make a simple offer for metroidvania runners to join the server and possibly help moderate this leaderboard, since you're the ones who will most likely be taking the game as far as it can go.
And once again, the discord server is here: https://discord.gg/TPgNHPF
Like the title says. We know people will be eager for their day 1 WRs/PBs but we feel this is the best approach. The release of Curse of the Moon was a disaster as far as leaderboard creation goes. We want to circumvent that this time by giving the game, and the inevitable speedrun, some time to grow.
Many people will be busy through the week of June 23rd through July 1st, the moderators included. The goal is to have the leaderboard go live on the 2nd of July, with us mods working behind the scenes to understand how the leaderboard should be established. Things like IGT vs RTA were a huge point contention with Curse of the Moon, as were glitchless and glitched categories. Two weeks will give the game time to cool off a bit, and let real strategies emerge, instead of let's plays being passed off as WR.
tl;dr go play the game, worry about the leaderboard later
PS. The date of July 2nd makes the assumption that the game will of course, be released on time.
If you're not in the discord for the game, go there if you want to actually be clued into what is going on.
Long story short, IGT is unreliable. It's been a long time coming really. Too many things cost time RTA, but cost nothing IGT.
Simply put once you can toggle IGT and RTA off and that causes drastic leaderboard positions, you have a problem.
Any questions just ask, I'll be able to answer them exactly 8 hours from now.
So zips will probably be patched out eventually, but we're not sure in what way. I bring this up cause while we've already separated Any% into two categories for OoB and no OoB, doing so for Zangetsu Only might be a bit premature.
The most popular zip in the game so far is the stage 04 zip using a frozen enemy and Gebel's bat form. It's very easy to do, and probably easy enough to fix. The stair zip in stage 07 however isn't set up the same way at all, which leads me to believe it could dodge the first patch that gets rid of ice zips.
For that reason alone, we've decided to hold off on separating the Zangetsu Only leaderboard, mostly for not creating more categories, especially when at the moment it's not needed.
I've already mentioned most of this in the discord, so if you aren't following along there, you should be.
