They don't really come to the forums here often :3 But here is a link to the Discord https://discord.gg/j7ywMTU

Okay, I figured that was the case with the timing but wanted to make sure.

I was saying GMDX for difficulty because that's what Heinki said in the other thread. :3

The route that I've been using, you can avoid Icarus landing but there are a couple times I use the jump and wasn't sure if that would be okay or not. Like in the vent to see Koller. You can build a box stack in the vent to climb but Jensen always ignores it when you try to use it and just grabs the vent ledge. (the only time he grabs the ledge for me right away..... -_-;; ) The only times that you would have to use your augments that I can think of off the top of my head would be lifting a box in Dubai, the wall punch right after it, and if we're okay to use that vent shortcut to see Koller.

My other question would be the London mission. I'm assuming that the alarm there is okay because the only way to stop that would be to knock out all the guards.You can still go through without being seen but it auto triggers when you see Miller in catering. :|

I saw that new categories for the DLC were added (and a run is up, which is cool :) ). But I was waiting to see if any rules for when the timer is supposed to start/stop was going to be added. I know you guys are busy so when you get a chance, if the timer start and stops could be specified, I'd really appreciate it. :) It was a bit hard for me to tell on the run that's up because he didn't have a timer at all and the time was longer than the time in his title. >.<;;

Also, is there any way we could have an Absolute Zero category? I read the other threads and Heinki said that it would doable since you're making a challenge and all with "AZ = No takedowns, No augmentations, No items, 100% Ghost, GMDE". I have a few questions about that though if it was added as a category (like the London mission, that alarm doesn't count right? And using the vents with Koller, you technically use the jump aug since it's before your reset... And running to the chopper in Dubai....).

I know you guys want to keep the amount of categories down and all which I definitely understand but I looked at DX:HR and, while it seems a bit more popular than this game (sadly :3 ), I think it would be neat to have AZ in this game since it was in HR.

Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this and any replies. :)

Oh no, I definitely don't want a NG+ category or anything. I was just wondering why there was one listed because I would have thought that it wouldn't be allowed and wanted to make sure since I'm new to all this that I was following the rules.

And I also get that there isn't much of a time difference. I simply enjoy playing the game and, since I'm personally not a huge fan of glitched runs (there is no problem with them and I can totally see why people love/like them though!), figured that I would finally start trying to do speedruns with a game I really enjoy playing (even though people view it as boring and I can see that too). I do see what you're saying though about skipping- I didn't realize till I was playing more and more looking for routes that you can skip a large portion of things. :|

I appreciate you guys taking the time to clarify on the rules though :) I will keep that in mind and hopefully have something to submit at some point. :3

Thank you for the reply. I was a bit worried because I saw that no one is really doing this anymore. :) I was talking more about glitchless runs than glitched.

The NG+ one is the 2nd place run by KuuCullen. I can't see the video (the channel is actually gone, I think :x ) but the description says NG+. I would think that an NG+ could change a few things and make it easier (since items carry over) so I wasn't sure if that would be right to use it.

As for the difficulty, I haven't looked at a lot of the glitched runs so I'm not sure on that part but on glitchless, I would have thought that easy would be too easy but that's fine. :)

Hey everyone. I'm kinda new to the whole speed running thing and was a little confused on a few things. If I could get them cleared up, that would be really helpful. :)

I looked at the difficulty settings on the submitted runs and it seems like it doesn't really matter if you pick easy (tell me a story) or harder options. I did see the comments in a thread talking about that a little but I just want to verify that.

I also wanted to check on NG+. It looks like almost all the submitted runs are new but there is one that says in the description it's a NG+. Unfortunately, I can't see the twitch vid to check. Is it okay to use a NG+? I thought it wouldn't be allowed but was thrown off by the submitted one.

Thanks in advance for the info :) Again, I'm really new to all this and really appreciate anyone taking the time to reply. :3