I have updated the Loadremover. Now it accurately autostarts the runs when the beginning cutscene begins.

Autosplitting I am having issues with, but I will work on it every now and then! I will try and get it committed to the official Livesplit Github as well so it shows in Livesplit by default

Thinking of finally doing runs for the game.. either way I was messing around with a load remover and have come up with a very basic one.

I have added it to the Resources for you guys to download. Right now it pauses on the loadscreens and 'push to continue' screen.

I will keep working on it to remove the 'push to continue' screen and maybe autosplitting too. I am just learning it, but it works for now!

I think a good short run would be.. killing the first 'warchief' which is roughly only 30 minutes or so. The second would be Beat Chapter One, which is roughly done in just over an hour, which would also make a good race category.

Best thing to do imo would just be run of these and then message the Moderator that you are running that category and he may be nice to add a leaderboard, and others may run it too :P

Just saw this on youtube..

Not sure if it can be used for anything or how to even do it

Have you tried dying in the warchief room?

I know dying in there means you can skip doing the whole siege if you redo the mission. But I guess that depends on the status of the quest. The fact your still on capturing points stage might not make it work..

I am sure everyone is going to build differently and have different priories etc. But it would be nice if we could discuss the benefits of each skills and when to get them.

This is my build so far for the first Act leading all the way up too just after the Arena and you can shadowstrike the Archers

1-Eleven Agility 2-Execution 3-Detonate 4-Brace of Daggers 5-Elven Light 6-Freeze Pin 7-Bird of Prey 8-Mighty Shot 9-Shadow Strike

After this priority skills would be: Fatal Might, Ice Storm, Consume, Caragor Rider, Hammer of Eregion, Quiver of Souls and possibly Call Mount. What order to get them in though is the question, and where can you put the bonus points.

This glitch seems very hit and miss, I had a run where right on the first mission I was spamming it to clear Orcs, but when I got further into the run I just couldnt get it. So I am not sure what is happening. But it is definitely not skill based, and I dont think its based on your gear either.

I did another mock run just now, the first captain he came instantly and so did the same on the second one. The third captain he came after I warped to a tower and jumped off looking for more captains. So that might be the answer to doing it, dunno.

The Nemesis spawns as the last captain in the arena. This guy is imported from your SOM save if you have it installed apparently, but the past 3 runs I have had the same guy over and over. Somehow I have finally managed to reset him though, but I dont know how.

Right now we need to at least figure out how to refresh the Nemesis because mine is OP as hell! He killed me in my run :(

Well I just did my first run and it was very meh.. I can improve it so much. I think my biggest issue besides the deaths was trying to figure out how to trigger Bruz after dominating the two captains, it seems very random? I am guessing speeding time thingy might trigger it, I dont know.

So when I was doing another quick run through today I noticed that the Nemesis orc that shows up in the arena ended up being the same exact orc as the other day with the same stats and everything.

The issue with this was that my Nemesis is insane with only one weakness: Caragors.. BUT. He has the beast killing skill, immune to arrows, is a Marauder? AND has poison weapons.He is pretty insane, specially that poison.

Someone else I was talking with has there Nemesis and he has vulnerability to explosions and instant kills him..This is so heavily biased and saves so much time!

So how about if someone creates a specific Nemesis spawn from Shadow of Mordor to import for us all to use with the Nemesis Forge?

I just did a mock slow run up too the first Fortress capture, so far all the way up too dominating the first two captains to unlock the fortress mission could be easily optimized and routed to 'perfection' minor how your Captains stats spawn. After that it opens up too much to optimize perfectly but oh well :P

The name of the categories really does not matter at all, as long as everyone agrees what is the final bit haha. I would hate for this game (Not that many people are going to run) to turn into another one where there is massive dispute over categories and a million of them!

And I noticed you couldn't use boxes on the first section which kinda sucks. I guess you only can in the next zones? Either way, I think as long as people arent using bought gold to buy boxes in a run (Which would be insane!) it should be OK.

It would be good if we can figure out a full tree of the mission and what they unlock at one time etc to plan it properly.

I just finally finished the game and wow, what a disappointment. At first I was like.. you didnt finish the game to the credits to count as Any%.. then I checked the requirements for the true ending.. Yea fuck that. So with that said, first of all I would recommend changing the category names because really True Ending = Any% and your current Any% is really Story% or something else.

As for the RNG, it was the same with the first game.. You will probably find that after there is a few runners you could probably drop the time quite a bit. I really doubt there is going to be much sequence breaking, but the Fortress OOB clipping had potential, too bad it didn't work out :(

The other issue I would say right now.. I dont think any Market place chests should be allowed in the run at all. If you want to complain about RNG this should be banned. Because one day someone will get the most OP Captain who will destroy everything in a region, and the split will be incomparable. That is just my opinion anyway.

I dont know if I am going to run this.. but first I need to figure out what are the requirements to get to the end game. It seems most missions are skipable at a glance? I dunno.. Just the tower ones are needed?

Please add Styx: Master of Shadows (http://www.speedrun.com/Styx_Master_of_Shadows) too the Of Orcs and Men series (http://www.speedrun.com/of_orcs_and_men)

Library skip is always the fastest way.. there is no other route for that one as it compeltely skips the whole level by going oob.

My WR run probably has the most up to date route as I was running it last. There is a small skip which isnt included but its only minor.

There is also some massive skips in some levels looking at the leaderboards, but its hard to figure them out or even if they are legit.

Obviously complete the game first of all, then practices levels induvidually. Check out old runs of current strats etc, everyone does it different.

And there is new time saves which havent been implemented into any current runs yet, so there is still plenty of time to save in the run!

Because there is like.. 2 runners of the game who both know each other. Usually when a run is done, we know its a legit run. Any random unknown who comes in will of course be checked.

I think its safe to say you can change the estimate for Dark Cloud 2 to around a 7 Hour run.

I recently got a PB/WR of 6:20, so I would say its a good estimate to account for really bad RNG or just general mess-ups (Which shouldn't happen!). Maybe even give time to mess around in Debug mode and just show a few funny things if the run ends early.