United StatesThat and also if you use this in your official runs it will be rejected since it is a bug/glitch. So don't use it lol
You should base your time off premiere pro. LiveSplit could have inaccuracies on the exact frames of time start and time end, whereas you can determine the exact frames of start and end in software like premiere
Currently, we all put our run into video software such as Avidemux https://sourceforge.net/projects/avidemux/files/avidemux/2.8.0/
to mark the start and end frames and that's how we get the time for our runs
Yo, yo, yo. How ’s it going BTD6 runners. Another month as gone, so let’s recap everything that happened this month.
Starting off with admin things Update 31.0 looks like it’s going to drop in April. We’ll set up an entry for the new map as soon as it drops so those of you who are world record hungry can get your names up there immediately.
We’ve seen a lot of requests for new categories to be added to the game. Unfortunately, we have some internal issues at the moment when it comes to adding special categories to the leaderboards, so we’ll try to get that sorted. Also, it appears most people asking for new categories don’t actually speedrun this game, so to those people - your requests will hold more weight if you’re actually invested in the game.
The pause bug looks like it will continue to exist at least until update 32 as it’s not a priority for BTD6 devs at the moment. We will continue to allow runners to subtract 1/60th of a second for each pause in their run. NOTE: for best results, record at 60fps as recording at 30 fps may cause some pauses to be skipped.
And now let’s talk runners and strategy! natom27 has been quietly running in the background setting many top 3 and top 5 pbs on multiple maps, and even lowering the Geared Easy WR. Congrats natom :) and best of luck in April!
SummerPi set 10 or so world records on the course of March… all of which were promptly retaken by Arisune who doesn’t let Pi have a break! In lighter news, Pi seems to have fixed their frame capping issue, so they are now able to be competitive in full force! And they started by taking my Alpine Run Easy record -_-. Not cool man, not cool! Jokes aside, we look forward to seeing what you can do in April.
Burningflames set 2 records this month, but they were beaten by Arisune so they are lost now. But hey, maybe he will come back and retake them, if university work will allow :P
Me, noneleft. I did some damage this month on easy mode records. I developed a new strat that I’m dubbing the “0.1 strat” (pronounced as ‘point one strat’) that has allowed me to get 39.1s across many beginner and intermediate maps. Feel free to use it to beat me. Oh and I set a 4:38 on Streambed but I don’t like talking about myself so it doesn’t matter.
Arisune. Where to start with this one. Well, how about two sub 14 minute impoppable times? They become the second person to ever sub 14 min which is awesome. The subbed 11:30 on Hard mode, becoming the first person to do that. And then they did it again. They surpassed 100 simultaneous records (115 as of writing this), and have just in general been insane at the game. There are currently 240 WRs available which means they basically have half of them. Truly a cracked gamer, great work.
And finally, FroSteeMate. This man, this absolute madlad just spent the entire month of March speedrunning every completing every single black border in BTD6, starting with Monkey Meadow and ending with all 10 expert maps, including Ravine, Bloody Puddles, and #Ouch. I don't think it can be overstated how amazing this is. The amount of dedication and willpower to keep going, 31 days in a row for sometimes over 8 hours a day. But he completed all 59 black borders. Congratulations, Frostee. Absolute legend.
Some statistics: Just one for now, the sum of best across all maps was lowered by 13 minutes in March, from 39:43:19.466 to 39:30:29.187. Very nice.
Well, that’s all for now. Congrats to everyone who submitted a run this month. See you in May!
If people want this, can someone do a run of it and post the video. We need to show the speedrun.com people that it it exists or something like that
Speedrun.com needs to give me the power to make extensions. Probably need to make a ticket or something.
Also that reminds me... Need to ask them to clean up our front page. Forgot about that
There is currently a bug in BTD6 as of patch 30.1 where the game will randomly pause for one frame (1/60th of a second , or 0.01666... seconds) after a round even though you have auto start on.
To combat this bug in terms of speedrunning, we are allowing you to subtract this pausing time from your runs, under these conditions.
- It is up to you to determine which rounds your run paused on. We will not do it for you
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You can do this by loading the run into video editing software or Avidemux - any softwtware that allows you to advance frame by frame.
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When you see the game pause briefly, advance to the frame it does so and note down the round in the top right corner.
- Any round with a pause you want subtracted must be reported in your run description.
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Do not try to give us rounds with no pauses, as we will be checking every round you tell us.
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If we find you reported incorrect rounds, we either won't subtract the time from your run, or we'll reject the run if we think you're wasting our time or trying to cheat.
- You must report the initial run time from start to finish (with pauses) in the run description.
- Just helps with verification. Makes life easier for the mods.
If you choose not to report rounds where there is a pause, that's fine, we'll just take your time from start to finish and call it a day. This rule is only for those people who want that extra push, maybe for a world record or a top 3, 5, or 10 time.
This rule will not be applied retroactively. It starts 2/22/2022 and ends whenever Ninja Kiwi fixes the bug.
We hope this rule seems fair to those who want to use it. Any questions, feel free to ask me or another mod. Thank you.
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