Hey everyone,
Was wondering how you all feel about Battle Item usage? If they should be banned or not from Survival runs?
I personally feel they should be banned. Not because they give you crazy damage boosts or anything but, because of how you get them.
You need to grind to collect Battle Items by completing other survival runs or spending fight money on Fighting Chance. These are both from outside of your actual run and require you to grind for drops before even making speedrun attempts. Basically if someone wanted to make a run at a record, they will eventually have to grind until they have like 45 Katanas and then do their run.
That's why I haven't used any of my Battle Items, I've just been saving them until I have to cause I don't want to have to spend hours grinding JUST to be able to attempt a run that may end up failing half way through due to poor AI or execution errors, resulting in having to go grind up another 45 Katanas. (Not even considering how many items you'd need for Normal and up D: )
Granted I feel like Battle Supplements are perfectly fine for runs, since they're only generated in your run and use points gained from how you performed in that run. Which cuts out any additional out of run grinding and just relies on the luck of the run (and not running out of points though that'd be rare).
In the end, that's just how I feel so if everyone is fine with it, I'll just get to grinding for Katanas and roll with it. Might help with some records that are rough to beat due to balance changes but that's a story for another day.
I have a suggestion, why using itens JUST in Normal/Hard and Expert mode?
And you banned EVERY item from Easy. Because it's short, it's anfair using itens in this modality.
But, in Normal, Hard and Extreme, it's terrible long and cansative, them what do you think?
I understand your pain bro, but Nay... Just create a separate category, simple as that. Problem solved. Also, using the champion edition... By the way... Yo juninho, i take your request on the video. Let´s kick some records. Hah!
Yeah Kombeiro, let's trying to beat a lot of times! XD
I'm also in favour of a split since some people have already expressed an interest to do it with battle items as well. I think the one that bans Battle Items should be the main version of category however.
Edit: At least those were my thoughts before reading X-Kira's post in a different thread; in light of which I am now prefering an outright ban.
"I disagree with the use of items, for the simple reason: they can be defrauded by request using any type of sniffer. A legitimate Survival speedrun, only the upgrades suggested by RNG would be used, that's all.
ATT: X-Kira."
