tl;dr: Removing Glitchless Category, Adding Console Boards, Removing Ruleset Duplicate Runs, Reverting Swap of Challenges & Rulesets

Will archive this news post to the forum in about a month or so. Original post: 15th January 2025

*EDIT 2 - PC/Console split done. Plan is to archive Glitchless category likely around Jan 18th.

GLITCHLESS

This category was first created months into the game's lifespan. At first, most of everyone's Glitchless runs that were in Restricted were moved to Glitchless except active players. These active player's Glitchless runs were left in Restricted creating a divide on the leaderboards that made no sense.

Later, all Glitchless runs were then reverted back to Restricted leaving Glitchless a blank slate. Practically speaking, this board was now expected to only be filled by newly submitted runs. All Glitchless runs before the board creation were left buried in Restricted.

New players just coming in had no knowledge of the buried Glitchless runs as the board did not accurately display the submitted runs.

If Glitchless gets created in the future again, rules surrounding the category should be rediscussed. At least a two person effort to split the work of 40+ pages of submitted runs should also be expected.

All runs currently in it will be moved to Restricted.

CONSOLE BOARDS

1-3 end purge 1 Terminator bug patch (iykyk) resulting in the fastest route for PC only, as console is unable to down-patch. This is one reason a distinction between PC and console needs to be made.

For base game, it's only this specific level effected by down-patching outside of the MG category. If a console run was played before this patch it will stay in the PC pool. Console runs on 1-3 after June 18 2024 will be in the console pool. This only affects the Restricted category of this level.

Another reason is the whole of chapter 4, which released with a gun having infinite ammo thus making a meta for this chapter infinite melta-gun. This got patched pretty quickly but now console can't access infinite melta-gun. If a console run was played before this patch it will stay in the PC pool. Console runs on chapter 4 after July 4th 2024 will be in the console pool.

If you play on console but use mouse and keyboard you can have your runs in either the PC or console pool or both if you wish. Unfortunately 1-3 Restricted, Chapter 4 infinite melta-gun and MG category are inaccessible so keep that in mind.

RULESET DUPLICATES

With one Glitchless run you could theoretically take the record for Glitchless, Restricted, NMG and MG. Some runs on the board aren't sorted correctly because of no rule on this. For example, a Restricted run might sit in NMG and not even the Restricted category.

Keep in mind:

If your run uses only Restricted tech, it should go into the Restricted category only.

If your run uses Restricted and/or only NMG tech, it should go into the NMG category only.

If your run uses Restricted, NMG and/or only MG tech, it should go into the MG category only.

REVERTING SWAP OF CHALLENGES AND RULESETS

This was changed when the initial Glitchless/Restricted split was reverted. The main categories are currently the rulesets while what was the main categories are now sub categories known as challenges. Reverting this to highlight the traditional categories rather than the rulesets.

Join the discord! This isn't all happening at once and all feedback good or bad is appreciated.