Hey, I've been looking into speedrunning this game and it seems the categories are fairly disorganized. I have a couple recommendations to tidy it up.
Basically, just have the categories be Any% and 100%
Next, go to the variables tab and you could set up a "Hidden World", "Difficulty", and "Glitches" variable.
I hope this helps with organizing the game!
Also, as mentioned a couple years ago, adding milliseconds to IL runs would be great.
I agree, it would be nice to tidy up the leaderboards, so it would be easier and more clear to navigate through. Now they're quite unclear.
I personally love organizing things, so if the current moderators are up for it but can't find the time, I'd be happy to help. :)
Yeah I'm a bit confused about the categories too. I love the DLC levels but Hidden World% involves what exactly... I'd like to imagine it just involves playing all the levels in the Hidden World. But after they are unlocked / completed? Before? In addition to main levels? If you had to watch the opening cutscene it would take half an hour to set up the save file each time. Also unsure if 100% includes the Hidden World. The "all levels" category doesn't even mention the Hidden World. Hopefully we can get some clarification because the game and extra content is great. =)
You can unlock the Hidden World category before doing the speedrun and when you have it unlocked do the run. to save time. PS: Right now the issue of reorganizing them is a little complicated because when you reorganize them they disappear, thanks for the advice, I will continue with it to be able to reorganize and improve the quality of offering a more intuitive speedruns theme in this game
If you went ahead and played the game up until the DLC levels open before starting a Hidden World -category run, it would still take like 15 minutes or something to get to that point, which would mean there's quite a lot you have to go through with every reset. In my opinion, when the DLC is put in the game like that (meaning it's not available to be played separately whenever you want and it only opens up in the middle of the game), having categories as "Any%" and "Any% w/DLC" would be smarter. So, if it was like that, the rules would be to just play Any% like normal, but when the Hidden World is available, you just add those levels to the run as well. Same would be with "100%" vs. "100% w/DLC" etc.
However, those are just my thoughts and opinions. :)
Also: about the difficulties of reorganizing because of the disappearing, there is a way to go around it (I had to do it before when moderating another game). I remember it was a bit tricky to figure out, but I managed to do it. It is some extra work for sure, but it is possible. There are many forum posts on src that have conversations on the theme:
https://www.speedrun.com/forums/the_site/9cl0r#c3u7x
