Québecthere are already a few different categories! there's any%, Objective%, A+, and S%! (S% being a perfect game) Feel free to try them out!
I'm gonna be straight up with you, no one speedruns the game very seriously anymore. If they were to include a 0.7 category, the runs would be even more dead than they already are. Idk why you're so pressed about this if the most recent update didn't really change much speedrunning wise. You have to understand that to warrant an archiving of the LB, you need the update to make the previous runs unable to be replicated. 0.7 doesn't introduce any gameplay changes, apart from quality of life changes and obviously, custom difficulty. If you read the rules for the categories now that don't have a separate tab for custom difficulty, they are quite specific. If they aren't then you can go report it to the mods.
I don't really get what your point is here, but yeah I hope that cleared it up somehow.
Unfortunately it's still a test map so not at the moment. We'll add it in the future when it comes out of testing, as it is subject to some changes.
Just wanna quickly mention that, unlike skill based speedrun games, Phasmo is luck based. So if someone does manipulate their rng to get a fast run, this doesn't mean it's impossible to reproduce with unmanipulated rng. This isn't meant to come across as "well if they do cheat it's ok because we can always beat them", but rather "well if they do cheat, if they don't go for an insane record and risk getting caught, there really is no point".
If you cheated in trackmania for example (as mentioned above), you could potentially get the records up to an inhuman standard, making it virtually impossible to beat without absolute perfection.
Even if a run is cheated in Phasmo, countless times have I seen people get way faster times than those that were cheating, given the right rng. If a run is completely perfect or even beyond what you could possibly do, then we'd know instantly, which is why I think using "I know this game can be easily cheated" as an argument to not submit your runs on src isn't really valid.
That being said though, I understand that not everyone wants to compete with the best times in the world, I do so myself with a lot of games I speedrun. I can also understand if you don't agree with our ruling and want to make your own rules and whatnot, I also do this.
Comparing phasmophobia to highly technical games like trackmania and SM64 is wrong imo. The only field you would need cheats to better your runs in is luck, as opposed to trackmania which is a game that requires a lot of precise and perfect inputs by the player. It is significantly harder to hide being unreasonably lucky than to hide being unreasonably good at a game (imo). This is exactly why nothing more is needed to verify runs.
Some WR are as fast as under a minute, but those records can take weeks or even months to achieve, which is bound to create a lot of unsuccessful attempts caught on recording. The mods here have the right to ask for those attempts if suspicion arises that someone might be manipulating their luck via a 3rd party software. If they fail to provide such footage, they have the right to suspend verifying the player's runs.
You suggested we require the runners show their task managers at the end of their run. Well how do we know they didn't cut up clips to show a different task manager? Require it on screen for the whole run? That would take too much of the screen up. Require that all attempts are livestreamed just like minecraft did? That would cut off part of the community who can't or don't want to stream.
I get your concern here, and the mod team has probably asked themselves this question before. What I don't like about the way you're phrasing things is this: "being told "we know what we are looking for".... "even when we can't see them" doesn't give me high hope in this group..." This makes it sound like you're saying "well if they don't do this then they're doomed to fail", which couldn't be farther from the truth.
This game has been on src for over a year now, and the main appeal of speedrunning this game is how easy it is to speedrun, and how it runs on basically any potato PC. If we put more measures in place to prevent what we have already prevented for over a year, we'll lose more of our players.
It's also hard to take someone who clearly has no motivation to run the game seriously, as you can probably imagine. You've made it quite clear you won't be running this game, so I'm intrigued to know why you even brought this up.
Either way, I hope you maybe change your mind in the future. This game has a lot of different categories that can actually be quite fun.
I mean, if you want to know what the current WRs are for car dealership, you can go on the leaderboards for 'January+' and have a look.
I personally haven't seen any runs that matched a 3:16 timing for car dealership myself on the leaderboards as of now.
If you think you have the WR then I encourage you to submit your run on the leaderboards here on src.
anything that kills you counts, even though the category is named hug%. It was named way before the cursed possessions existed, hence the name, but basically it is just: die as fast as possible.
this is a link to your twitch dashboard. also please submit your run instead of posting in the forums.
