Hey guys. I don't know if the community is aware of this, but I just realized that you can actually see the position of the statue dials without going into the "dial screen". You just need a big screen and good resolution, and you can pause the game right in front of the statue and see them. They are harder to distinguish if you're looking at them through the pause screen but not impossible. This probably saves 1 sec compared to going into the dial screen, quitting and pausing.

(I didn't test this with the maiden statue because I didn't have the time yet, but it's possible with the unicorn and lion statues)

Now, in my opinion, pausing to see the dials shouldn't be allowed in either of the two forms. I think the best argument I have for this is that we are "removing" from the run something that requires some kind of skill (memorizing the puzzles, fast reflexes to turn them optimally) without a very good reason to do so. And now people with big screens + good resolution will have an advantage over people playing with small screens.

I know that allowing to pause the game in this case makes the rules simpler, since we don't have to add another "you're not allowed to pause to X" rule. However, I'm not aware if there are any other reasons why we should allow it. I'd be happy to hear them, and I'm making this topic so we could discuss this (or maybe on Discord).

Is pausing the game to alter aiming sensitivity (and then pausing it again to revert it) allowed? I'm thinking of trying that to see if I can get a better incinerator with Ada.

I'm asking because afaik the only rule about pausing is the 2 minute rule.

Starting at the 40:00 mark up until 40:07 the Claire A Console World Record is missing some footage.

I don't actually have a problem with it, since it seems to be a streaming issue. However, my Leon A Hardcore WR (59:05) was rejected based on the same reasons (missing footage at 15:19).

So what I would like to know is why one run was rejected and the other one was accepted?

I'v been speedrunning Leon A Standard for a week and a half now and watching some other people speedrunning I noticed that I still don't understand two things:

1. After taking the elevator with Ada, the time that the blue door that leads to her section takes to open is variable? It doesn't matter if I keep running or mashing the X button in front of it, I swear this door opens at different times in every of my runs.

It also opens almost instantly in some runs, like this one: (see 27:44)

Is this a loading thing? Does the PC loads the next area faster than my PS4Pro?

2. Is Ada's hacking device faster on PC or FPS dependent? Take for instance the same uhTrance run above, at 27:58 he begins hacking the big fan thing and it takes almost exactly 5 seconds to finish. In my own runs and others like this one

(see 29:20)

it takes around 6.3 seconds. Am I seeing things here? Is this a difference in recording instead of the actual gameplay? Or the FPS actually influences that?

I'm really sorry if this is not the proper place to ask about this, but I'm new here (and to speedrun in general) and I don't quite undestand what happens in this run from 42:26 to 42:28.

When you slow it down you can see the title screen pop up and then a camera "jump".

Could someone explain it to me please? I've never seen this happening in any of the other runs.