Relentless Frontier is releasing E1 into early access on July 24, 2024.

I take it the runs currently on this board were run against an earlier version of the demo - which is slated to be updated soon after the early access launch. Are you planning to migrate the current runs to a separate board? Or do we expect the runs to become obsoleted by future runs upon EA release anyway? i.e. where should runs for the full early access episode be submitted?

Hey there! This board will absolutely support the early access release, I just have been holding off on adding categories for it until I'm able to play it myself and see how the categories should work.

Assuming the EA version runs are substantially different from the older demo (which I definitely expect they will be), they will go on a separate board and will not be scored against runs on the older demo.

The EA release has over twice as many levels, and even in the levels previously seen in the demo, there are some changes - though it seems like I manage roughly the same time through the first 4 levels as the fastest video I've seen online for the older demo (3:38).

The new "half" of the maps take much longer to speedrun. Won't spoil more in case folks haven't played yet.

Also worth noting, there will probably be a somewhat significant update in a couple of weeks that plans to split the biggest map into 2 maps, largely to improve load times and memory consumption (the current version was seriously hard-crashing on Steam Deck). The lead developer also contemplated undoing a pre-EA-launch change that locked a specific door which could open new routing options in the back half.