Bavaria, GermanyWAHEY!
I just got notice that the Speedrun.com Site Mods looked at my Everspace 2 request and did not accept the game (yet) because it's in Early Access and the devs mention "core gameplay changes".
I am in contact with a Site Mod via Discord PM and they suggested to re-request the game once version 1.0 gets released which I am going to do.
In the meantime, I added proper channels for Everspace 2 to our Discord. Please discuss Everspace 1 and Everspace 2.
TL;DR: The ES2 leaderboards will follow in a few months.
We switched to a new Discord, please join us at:
WAHEY!
I get how IL time works on boss maps... but how do the IL times work on regular islands? Just go into any portal? Then why not place a spawn point directly in front of any portal? Where's the skill?
And what about islands like "The Gate"? Why is that a IL?
My suggestion: Delete all ILs except Worm Pit, Dragon's Lair and World's End. Only these 3 bosses actually have a portal that only spawns once you've killed the boss.
Thanks, ~NeZ
WAHEY!
Just an observer and not a runner, but... it looks like any% has a lot of runs that shouldn't be in there, especially if you check "obsolete runs" as well.
I should talk a bit about the run.
https://www.speedrun.com/SplitSecond/run/znr31g9y
Going into it blind, I figured out fast that doing it 1st lap is impossible on PSP. You simply don't gain enough power with drifting as the GT12 can't drift. Hell, no car can really drift on PSP.
So doing it 2nd lap caused other problems. The AI drives slow sooo on PSP and they use cars like the Rumbler that are abysmal compared to the Elite GT12. To top it off, every little explosion kills an AI car instantly and they sometimes don't even bother avoiding obstacles at all. So I changed the AI to hard and turned on rubberbanding. Didn't matter much. Still horrible drivers. But it worked better.
This meant I had my first route. I activated the tower on lap 1, finshed the lap and waited at the busses.
1st issue The other AIs try to wreck you but as the GT12 is a tank on PSP all that happens is that the AIs wreck each other, pushing your forward, giving the next AI the next bus to explode which kills some other AI. I had attempts where I stood still and 3 AIs just... died.
Then I tried activating the shortcut through the terminal. Bam, 10 second time save. PogChamp New route!
2nd issue. Not enough power bar for two lvl 2s so close to each other. You don't get much from drifting and the beginning is the only part of the run where you can collect power with Draft. The AI is slow - so you either wait or you kill yourself to get behind an AI as you need some power and a target to use the plane powerplay on.
So I activate the tower, use the S turn to regain power, activate the terminal, use the jumps there for power and then either suicide or wait for an AI. If the AIs don't kill themselves, I can activate the plane. I had attempts that died because the AI are, again, horrible drivers and just run head first into the busses there. But that's not the biggest problem.
3rd issue The most frustrating part comes now. See, the AI often drives in the middle of the airfield. I had 2 or 3 attempts that may have been sub 1:55, but got ruined by the AI dying to the plane... which caused a cutscene to trigger and I missed the plane. I missed the plane like 8 times already due to the fckn cutscene that plays there. BabyRage
So my current PB is 1:57 where I hit a wall - which did not matter that much actually as the plane flies towards you anyway and I was far enough away from the AI so the kill cutscene didn't trigger.
Sub 2 HYPE
WAHEY!
Right now, the maps are ordered as follows:
- Base game first, in alphabetical order
- dlc 1 maps, in ingame order
- dlc 2 maps, in ingame order
As this is kinda awkward, how should we order the maps in the future?
Option [A] All maps in alphabetical order
Option [B] All maps in ingame order (tutorial, act 1, act 2, act 3, skittergate, dlc 1, dlc 2)
WAHEY!
Let me introduce myself first. I'm NeZ, also known as NeZCheese both here and on Twitch. My main speedrun game is Vermintide 2, but I currently want to branch out a bit.
After I recently played Split/Second casually again, I checked sr.com for it... only to find that the community here is dying due to no moderation whatsoever. There's no official Discord either, and I got told that it's normal to wait a month for verification on a run. Guess what: This is not normal.
So I contacted @ViceroyOfMonteCristo on Twitter about it but got no response. @Liv, one of the speedrun.com main admins, also tried that and got no response either. But @Liv was so kind to add me as super mod, so here we are.
First thing I should mention is that I am super mod for Vermintide 2 and Everspace already, so I am quite experienced with how the interface and settings on sr.com work.
So, here's what I did so far:
- I decided to add @Lucky77 as moderator. He's the only one of the runners here that is still active on speedrun.com, so it made sense to me to add him. @Lucky77, please contact me either here or anywhere else so we get something going here again (aka a Discord!). The game deserves it.
About the other runners... @Rusty_ hasn't been active for over a month, @Behemoth87 hasn't been online for 2 months and @EvilConCarne hasn't logged in since May 2017. So, if anyone of you feels overlooked, please contact me and we'll sort things out!
The same goes for you, @ViceroyOfMonteCristo. I checked your YT and Twitch and you haven't been active on both of them for almost a year before I tried to contact you, way before I eventually reached out to @Liv. She kept you as regular moderator, so please contact me if you plan to be more active again. I appreciate the work you've done here, but if you're not active anymore, what's the point of being moderator?
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I verified all pending runs, 15 in total. Tbh, the level leaderboards look kinda weird right now. Having separate categories for all modes on all platforms instead of subcategories is suboptimal, but it makes comparing times between platforms easier on the main level leaderboard.
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I added all remaining Split/Second cars as selectable variables. For some reason, Viceroy only had like 10 in the list. I added the other 40 cars, even the console-only DLC ones. As I only own the game on PC (where no DLCs are available on Steam), it could very well be the case that I forgot some cars. Please contact me about them so I can add them.
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I added a rule to Canyon: "The out of bounds route through the dam is allowed". This is a racing game, this is speedrun.com. Any shortcut / trick that's faster than the regular route is allowed by definition.
So, any questions? Anything you disagree / agree with, any things still left unspoken?
Thank you for reading - let's hope we can revive this community again!
NeZ
The more and more I time I spend with this thing, the more and more I feel the AW (Ancient Weapon) should not exist in the game. It's so stupidly good that it's not fun to use all the time.
So I made it a separate category to allow competition between people who don't want to use the AW.
Make sure to enter our Discord - we're right in the middle of forming a speedrun community around this game, so there's lots of stuff to discuss!
