United StatesIf interest is picked up on this game again, I'll write an auto-splitter. It'd be able to record individual levels too.
DonTheDime's Conquer The World and Venusian Conquest Map by totally not me can work as something to run, if you're disinterested in the vanilla campaigns.
No I'm not using this for advertisement, I'm just benefiting from it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I went over one of the Xbox runs; the mashing is good enough the in-game time doesn't display, so trying to grab that won't work.
I'm still willing to re-time the runs but there should be an auto-splitter/load-remover so there's some kind of reference point as to what sections are removed. I'd make it myself if I had the spare cash to buy the game.
Added the runs. I skipped the ones below 1:25:00 as they don't seem like the runners put much effort into the runs.
I'll be able to work on the auto-splitters/load-remover for Warcraft III soonish. I'm already struggling with StarCraft so it may take a while.
There's a discord channel for RTS speedrunning: https://discord.gg/dy3GRjw
Includes auto-start, split, and reset. Splits on all 75 levels. Game time is kind of included as well.
In order for it to work properly, start LiveSplit after the game is open.
Can be enabled under Edit Splits and clicking Activate:
I haven't tested it after level 75 but I'm fairly certain it'll work.
Edit: Okay so it's still being a jerk. The sure-fire way to get it to work is to kill the "INK.exe" that is NOT the game, meaning the one that uses no CPU.
Mentioning it here so that it's not disregarded:
It's not included on the leaderboard because of the dependance on hardware for the fastest speed (which is uncapped), making it not possible to really compare runs.
Took me a little bit to find it but here's the leaderboards on their site: http://pixel-maniacs.com/chromagun/speedrun
I'm in favor of adding runs without the need to ask. There's noting bad that can come out of just having a record/video up on a leaderboard. If they ask for it to be taken down, then they can be removed. I did some digging and found they didn't add runs that used glitches in the game, so be open for those as well.
houseparty420 deleted the posts in the Dead Space 1 forum critical of how his run is timed differently than the rest. I know, I was one of them. snowysnowwolf has no social links for contact and ev1lnz has been gone quite a while. Someone else should be moderating the game. I have experience with the game though I don't run it yet. Out of the runners, Mattmatt10111 would probably be most qualified.
I'll add version as a variable. I've been keeping track of versions when I could on a separate spreadsheet so I can update most of them.
I'm looking for opinions on how 'All Campaigns' categories should be handled. Some options I've thought of are:
• Should they be moved to the IL leaderboard of Multiple Command & Conquer Games or stay on their respective game pages? Having them as ILs there would keep focus on the individual campaigns for the games and most viewers rarely watch (non-explanatory) marathon runs when the best campaign runs are available. Still, the categories ARE running exclusively their respective games, so keeping them on the game page arguably makes more sense. • If we stick with the game pages, should they be marked as miscellaneous categories? Same argument as the above. • Should they include missions such as tutorials? What about the other missions in C&C:CO and RA:C? Generals Challenge in G:ZH or Global Conquest in KW? • Lastly, should they be added preemptively or only when someone has a run? Right now there's only All Campaign runs for Zero Hour and Red Alert 3 (and technically Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge, but I'm not eager to add them).
If you're going to advertise a game at least put effort into it.
For now just enter in in-game time, the rest will be sorted out soonish.
By the way, adding a timer ¤after¤ a run is rather pointless. It's having a timer during the run that's important. I suggest using LiveSplit for that.
Just a safety measure. If you think it's accurate enough then the extra second doesn't need to be added.
It's possible to record mission records during full campaign runs like I do for the rest of the series. After looking at some runs I noticed something: For the times shown on the graph at the end of a mission, the right-most time is consistently about 28/31 (~90.32%) the length of the actual game time. With some added buffer (like rounding up and adding a second), attempts that don't show the stats tab at the end could be included on the IL board.
I've already gone through all the campaign runs to get the mission times. The sum of game time (for Easy) comes out to 1:30:36 for Soviet, 1:35:56 for Allied, and 1:45:24 for Imperial. Including the Hard missions puts it down to 1:09:38 for Soviet, 1:07:49 for Allied, and 1:03:58 for Imperial. I have real time (or as I call it in-game RTA) recorded for each mission as well.
