Happy 1 year anniversary for Helldivers speedrunning! Here are all the updates:

Free Stratagems and DSS Support banned in all Categories

Since the community decided to ban these instead of adding the DSS as an annotation, we will be adding this to the game rules:

Use of the DSS and free stratagems is banned. You can still submit a run with a free stratagem as long as no runner uses it. You can still submit a run done on a planet with the DSS, as long as no action is active

Increased Standards of Proof across the Leaderboards

A lot of categories have gotten quite a bit more competitive in the last few months. This is a good thing and a direct result of how much growth we've had as a community! However with increased competition comes increased standards of proof by necessity of deterring foul play. As a result of this and the outcome of the recent poll we will be adding several new requirements:

• In game audio must be recorded and set to an audible level, in game music and voice chat is optional

• Mission timer must be set to always visible. To do so, go to options > HUD > Mission info visibility and set it to visible. Note that this is not the default setting

• The loadout and stratagem screen must be shown before the run starts and all POV’s must be submitted if a free stratagem is active

While we will not be requiring all POVs to be present at this time, we would like to reiterate the following rule added recently:

• Verifiers may ask for additional POVs before verifying in certain circumstances (competitive times in competitive categories, Illuminate missions, abnormalities etc.)

New Rule added to the Discord

7. Given that we are officially associated with speedrun.com, you must also follow the speedrun.com code of conduct in this discord.

New Poll in the Discord

With the majority of people voting to ban the DSS/Free Stratagems in Helldivers speedruns, we will need to address how to handle old runs which used them.

First, for context: no runners or any members of the mod team have identified any unbeatable runs using the DSS or Free Stratagems.

The first choice is to simply leave them up and only ban future runs which feature them. This is the most simple solution.

The second is to go through and reject them based on the new rule change. This is more complicated and would result in a lot of rejection from before the rule change was made, but it's an option in case the community feels it is warranted.

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