I was just thinking that including different difficulty options for categories could be fun. This way, someone could play in the easiest difficulty if they want the fastest strategies while allowing others to really challenge themselves to react to situations at higher difficulties.

What do you guys think about this idea?

Yes I want to say that we remove the default settings for runs as it's such a really dumb outdated way of doing things. The whole point of a speedrun is to go as fast as possible. Forcing people to play on normal or default settings is not fast.

What we could do is what Soulcalibur does and do Arcade 1, 2, and 3 rounds that way the runs already done with 2 rounds can go under 2 rounds.

Additionally I believe the page really needs to be updated as I suggested full game be the same of Arcade and Edge Master, but with sub category for Arcade having 1, 2, and 3 rounds. And instead of characters for the variables of the full game categories. Do like what I have done with the other Soul games. Have the IL leaderboards be of each character with the main categories for ILs be Arcade and Edge Master.

I did that for the games because people could compete with their favorite characters in the level leaderboards should their character not be the fastest.

Please please do not do the 1, 2, 3 round nonsense. It is one of the most annoying things that the soul calibur leaderboard has done. Some of the leaderboards such as Battle arena Toshinden have this grandfathered in and it inflates the leaderboard and makes everything messy.

Please remember these are older games so the standard is default. It’s what should always be for a speedrun of a fighting game. At the end of the day this was originally an arcade game, and should have the main category as such.

If you add difficulty as a sub category, please add easiest and hardest only. Not everything in between. If you want to have a 1 round any settings, please make an any% difficulty sub category.

This is my sincere request and I hope it’s valued. I haven’t gotten around to doing a run just yet. However if round settings and other are added that’s a huge deterrent. Going fast as possible within the design of the game is important. Especially to older player and when comparing to the past. I don’t think this it is dumb and outdated as Slevanas san suggested and it’s concerning to me that such opinion is held.

Well that was what the community had chosen and wanted at the start of SoulCalibur.

Ended up saying just do 1R and 2R where 1R is any settings and 2R is the default settings only and remains the default sub category. If anyone has names for these two then suggest some.

Also added Time Attack and Team Battle like SoulCalibur.

I'm not against the idea of an anything category. But I do think the default setting categories should have a stay in the leaderboard. As for hard difficulties I don't think there will be very much interest in that so I think it's best to wait and see if there's any actual interest in that idea before adding it.