Devon, Englandbasically, i have recently discovered that jtoh has hat weight - which means that the hats you wear have weight (as the name implies).
now - what does hat weight do? it affects factors such as jump height, and momentum from flings, to a very significant amount. not only this, but hats also have hitboxes, meaning that you'll be able to touch a winpad or a button from further away than someone without said hat.
hat weight applies to every accessory on roblox, all with their own unique hat weight - with some accessories, such as the back accessory based on flandre scarlet, having an incredibly high hat weight (~140, in comparison to the average hat weight which is around 3-4).
so what is the new rule?
well, we're (for now) banning using any non-free and non-permanently-available accessories - so that means no accessories (and hairs!) you can buy with robux, and none that you have to acquire through an event, or are only temporarily buyable.
and i know what you're thinking - "this is such a stupid rule", i understand. but this has been problems for other games on this site too, take adventure forward 2 for an example, they already are and have been banning people from using non-free and non-permanently-available accessories.
now, what are we going to do about all the runs currently on the leaderboard? we're keeping all the currently on-the-leaderboard runs on the leaderboard, for the sole reason that we understand how controversial this rule will be, it won't affect already on-the-leaderboard runs, either just for now, or they'll be moved to an archival category so that the leaderboards don't experience a complete and utter wipe.
and, understanding that if the community wasn't prepared for this it'll cause a massive amount of chaos, i ran a poll. and it was a 23-18 yes/no (and call this biased, but the majority of people i noticed speedrun actively in more games than just jtoh, had a very clear leaning towards yes).
all runs that are currently in the queue that don't follow this new rule won't be accepted nor denied, and we're not quite sure what to do with the runs that use reset jump, considering it's half based on the accessories you used. but, we do expect that until hat weight gets fixed, and reset jump gets patched (which can be fixed by manually spawning in the player instead of using the built-in respawn), this rule will be enforced on all runs submitted forward.
just to let yall know im going on a hiatus for anywhere between 2-4 months because my GCSEs are less than a month away and im very much prioritising them over literally anything else, so expect me to verify little to no runs until say, september 👍
hey just to let you know from now on, any run deemed to be very optimised / important (up to the decision of me, massive & luciano) that is on pc will require either a handcam, nohboard (ensure that the overlays are in the bottom left / right corners), or a microphone clear and sensitive enough to hear the sounds of your keyboards while playing, thanks.
i see that you guys made completely different categories for outdated versions of the game, but wouldn't it make more sense to hold those outdated runs as variables instead of entirely different categories? if you don't want to do that, maybe hold the outdated categories as miscellaneous categories, so they don't clog up the main page.
could you change the name of physic% to just.. physic? physic% doesn't really make any sense.
id recommend removing the "%" from the category names, as it doesnt' really make sense, it would make more sense to have them as things like "Defeat Chaser", "Defeat Ethiron", "Defeat Duke", etc etc.
It doesn't really make any sense and looks weird
you're now allowed to show performance stats instead of the shift+f5 window, but if you do PLEASE make sure that your video quality is high enough that i can actually read the text thanks
runs will be verified quicker and hopefully that build up wont happen again for a few more months at least 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Nothing serious happened, but this is why: Burn out (I have verified a ton of runs across the time I've been mod, so I naturally burned out after a while) IRL stuff (A lot of exams have been going on, I've been exercising daily, and spending more time with my IRL friends) Other stuff I enjoy doing (Of course I do think of this community as something very important to me, but I have many other things I also do in my free time) Forgetting (I'm a very forgetful person, especially when it comes to important stuff, so I forgot about verifying speedruns for a while.) I'm going to try and clear as many runs as I can from the queue right now.
Change "Escape 100%" To "Glitchless" (Since that's what it is), Deaths% to "Die (No Resets)", Jumpscare% to "Jumpscare", and Pumpkin% to "All Pumpkins".
Nor is Superglitch, if that's even possible to do in JToH.
https://discord.gg/Wau446Sm IVTROY wouldn't give the old server after around a month, we created a new one
