Fellow fans of Buggos! The leaderboard has finally landed and is ready for runs to be submitted. Please feel free to reply here or message me directly with suggestions about how to organize the leaderboard. For now, I'm setting difficulty as an Annotation instead of a Sub-Category but this might change when more runs are submitted.

Also, since there are 36 levels in the base game and 60 with DLC, I think the IL categories should be organized by the 6 base game and 4 DLC Areas, as well as the 5 challenges, for a total of 15 ILs.

Happy running!

Hello :)

Thanks for setting up the leaderboard! I'd like to write some thoughts about the run categories since the ruleset seems a little restricted. I think there should be 3 categories for single player - Any% (One gun, quicksave is allowed); Any% 2 Guns (anything goes); Single Segment (no quicksave/quickload, one gun only, no missions fails, no continues). I think it's good when speedrun dot com leaderboard categories reflect what people actually want to run. Also, could we get a background image and a color theme? I like this image here: https://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=876448 and these colors for the theme:

I'd be happy to join as a mod to add this stuff and help arrange the board since I'm the only one running the game

Thanks!

I've added a No Fail category, with banana levels listed as subcategories. In the future the main categories might be split as Normal and No Fail with banana levels as subcategories. Runners can comment here to add category suggestions and input :)

Hello :) I've routed and run 100% (all coins, all notes, real heirloom ending) and I would like to add a category here for that. I think there should also be a Hardcore Any% category, as the enemies are more aggressive and the strats are definitely different enough to warrant separation as another category. Additionally, I'm confused about the Dev Commentary category - the run verified in that category touches some of the dev commentary nodes but not all of them, so what are the requirements of that category? Without activating every node isn't the run basically just Story Mode Any%? I've noticed there is no game image, no theme, no category rules, and no Individual Level leaderboards. I have a lot of experience moderating and setting up speedrun leaderboards and I'd love to set all that stuff up - add me as a mod and I'll take care of everything. Thanks <3

Equipping the glitched NAME item as armor is highly inconsistent from run to run, and might be influenced by version and user hardware. Runs that use the NAME item as armor will be separated from other Any% runs, categorized as 'Unrestricted' - a category where basically anything goes, including the use of Macros (as long as they're made during the run).

Video tutorial for the Any% Glitchless beginner's route

Just a friendly reminder that SOCOM Speedrunning is NOT officially affiliated with the "SOCOM Community" discord and online multiplayer community. We have our own independent discord server dedicated solely to SOCOM Speedruns (King SEALs - https://discord.gg/9pYgHZbBJV)

We're going to allow Wall Hopping, since it's not really a glitch as much as a minor movement exploit (similar to Reload Mashing). It's obnoxious, but still a legal move.