Currently we do not have any official ruleset for runs. There has been a bit of debate among the few people (that I know, at least) who still run the game regarding the end of the run at either end the run on the Rival kill (when his HP bar hits 0), or to end the run at "Level Clear"/when the game stops taking inputs. This information is extremely relevant if someone in the community is attempting to work on making an auto-splitter, and basically to everyone attempting to speedrun the game now or in the future. We need an organized set of rules to go off of, which currently just don't exist (going off of Bleed 2's board for reference).

On top of that, currently, all leaderboards here are set to RTA, even though the game has a working In-Game Timer for Arcade Mode. Should we end up changing runs to just use IGT, or keep everything RTA?

For any of these ruleset changes, I personally don't think we'd need to edit or remove any existing runs from the current boards. Especially considering how many runners are still currently active, and how old some of the existing runs are. Plus that workload would be a lot, even for a team of people to do, with lives outside of moderating this page.

This is also just to see how many folks are still interested in continuing or planning to submit runs of this game in the future (myself included). I feel like if we have people who are interested, then we should be aware of what should or shouldn't be allowed in any run of the game, how runs should be timed, whether quitting to menu after a level clear screen comes up, what launch codes are allowed (for example, "novsync", or another one that allows the game to run at speeds that are ridiculous and unplayable, the latter of which was recently brought up to me, and is the main reason why I'm even putting such a major effort into this), just to name a few things.

Obviously, there is much to discuss, so if you haven't already, please be sure to join the Bleed Community Discord Server. There will be a thread for this under the #speedrunning text channel.

As stated in a previous post, we are holding discussions regarding when a speedrun timer should start/stop, and how a speedrun (specifically on consoles) should be timed both on the official Bleed Discord, so if you haven’t already joined, there should be a link on the left!

The main arguments are starting from the difficulty select in story mode (rather than restarting level 1 or the run entirely), and finding what certain frames in the downloaded run footage should be used to start and stop the run timer.

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