I've recently finished my first run and "mostly" finished up my note-taking for the Any% category as it is currently routed and based on Metsa's current WR as it stands. If anyone is interested in them, please feel free to check them out here! - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BNl9Aw3pXQC0fKgWiyL3iMjv-bOVQC0yyUnG0eTUzU4/edit?usp=sharing

They're not perfect and go into too much detail, but they're tailored to how I learn speedruns, which is generally in excess. Hope these help in case anyone is interested in learning the game and wants notes way too in-depth!

I recently tried to set up the Load Remover and set my comparison to game time, as well as added another timer for RTA so there's the difference. I cannot get it to work, there's no delay or pause of game loads. Can anyone assist with this? This is my first time doing a Load Remover, but I've done AutoSplitters before, so I'd like to think I'm not stupid when it comes to doing this sort of thing, but I'm really struggling here. I already had Palmer trying to assist me to no avail and was wondering if someone else had used the LoadRemover directly enabled in LiveSplit as well. Any and all assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Edit: Palmer let me know this is an ongoing issue with the newest patch to the game and is currently being looked into. I'll update this again if I hear anything else!

Thanks for the insight! Appreciate you sharing the info. In the Discord, we were chatting about what might be the trigger for the Boss Event, but a lot of us just opted for the zip line thing since it's so fast. Might be worth looking into this though as I bet it would save another maybe 10 seconds, 20 maybe?

Yes and no. Unfortunately, as I'm not a mod for this category due to my lack of time invested into the GU games, I can't speak to blindly on it in terms of it being a category. The other problem is what defines 100% in any of the .hack// games. If you like, we do have a Discord where we chat about this kind of stuff and more if you want to try and reach out to more of the GU community specifically. You can see that link here - https://discord.gg/kB9jXJ

Well firstly welcome to the community, glad to have you here. In terms of 100% finishing some of the games, we had someone working on a "100% Run" for .hack//INFECTION, but unfortunately some of the requirements are quite literally game time. Also, since a lot of the requirements to finish those books also include enemy types, equipment, virus cores, data drains, and more, it started becoming an RNG hassle and less about a speedrun. It's partly why I kind of raged at .hack//QUARANTINE routing in general. For Rebirth, Redemption, and Reminisce, I'm not as sure about, but I'd wager they are similar in that they require a plethora of arbitrary completion that's a little hard to route. Totally open to the idea for the original 4, but figured I'd explain the experience the community has had with it so far. Well that and I think a lot of the community's interest was more aligned with routing for Mutation, Outbreak, Quarantine, and the GU Titles as Any% runs first.

I had this happen too, but my solution was to use game capture instead with window, but include to the Steam Overlay so you can show the FPS. It's literally an option when you're adding the capture or when you click properties on the capture.

Okay, so disregard my post entirely now, ahaha. Someone on the Discord pointed out that Game Capture in OBS has an option to have things like Steam Overlay display over top of it in the properties section, or when you're first adding it. In terms of the Frame Limiter thing, I actually ran into that too, but forgot that V-Sync was on, so after I disabled that my frame rate capped properly at 120 instead of 60. Hopefully this helps someone else!

So, I ran into a bit of an issue with this. I have the frame rate variable thing, but for some reason when I capture through OBS it shows up as a black box / capture. I can get it to show up with Game and Display capture, but then the frame rate doesn't show up, so I'm a bit confused. Also wasn't sure if the frame rate was supposed to display all the way at 120 since even after using the Nvidia based program, steam still shows it capping at 60FPS. Anyway, thanks in advance!

EDIT: I got the Frame rate to push up to 120 FPS and am able to do the Birkin and Tyrant fights, but the previous issue still stands sadly. I'll keep looking into it in the mean time!

Dunno if anyone is still active on this game, but I think next week I'm going to start running this. I'll use this time to study the current route and make splits, then see if we can do anything to optimize it further! Maybe we can even get sub 3 Hours with the PS4 version. Here's hoping and happy running!

Of course there is! Steven Mayte actually put together a really nice Livesplit tutorial especially for Resident Evil 2. Go ahead and follow the link below for the YouTube tutorial. It's what I used and it worked really well.

So far for me, as another new runner, the real time is more so for you to keep track of your splits and such, so you can see areas where you need to improve or are doing exceptionally well when comparing to something or someone else. Or at least that's how I understood it. The time at the end of a run is what's most important, like after credits clear time displayed in game. I could be wrong on that though, but I'm fairly certain that's how it goes.

Thanks for the warm welcome, people! I'll be looking into practicing a bit more this weekend now that I've got the controls just how I want them. Well, that and I need to look into getting some live splits for getting it to work. In the mean time, I went ahead and joined the Discord, so I'll link my name on my profile, luckily it's the same name, haha. I'll be sure to bug you guys if I have any questions or concerns, thanks again!

I've been watching runners a lot recently like Bawkba and Carcinogen and really wanted to try my hand at all this speed running. After talking with a lot of streamers and such, I've decided to run Resident Evil 2 - PC, as most were saying it's relatively new runner friendly. I've never run any games before, but I'm definitely looking forward to trying a lot of this out! I was looking to try out Leon A to start and see how it goes before I make any bigger decisions, but I really love the Resident Evil franchise. Hope to get along with you guys and the like. I'll have to download some splits software soon so I can start practicing runs!