So, as you know, my WR of 27:06 got bopped after a month by a guy named Soldadito. He has no history on SRC and his splits showed that his PB was actually 26:25, which I'm assuming was done offline. I'm not saying that rising to the top in a fast amount of time is automatically proof of cheating, but the fact that he just started speedrunning and snagged a WR that beat out a run that took a month to get seems... suspicious to say the least. Sure, this isn't the most active game in the world, but that's still worth investigating. In addition, he didn't use either form of the ATCC, which I've struggled to beat my 27:06 with even after incorporating it. His framerate is also incredibly unstable, jumping around from being a consistent 30 to skipping a frame at a time to skipping 2, which could just mean he has a really bad PC but his rise is making everything harder to believe since he doesn't stream his runs either (to my knowledge anyway). I really hope this suspicion isn't warranted and that we can see if his run is legitimate.

First of all: My PC are bad, is not the best, and I not using a profesional recording program. Second: In fact I had been trying for a few months this game, basing in Speedruns of Youtube, but it wasnt until after that I realized that this web page exist and that here could register my Speedruns. Third: The ATCC, I have a clear idea of what is, but I prefer avoid the Enemigos, and dont use weapons of hitting. Yes is suspicious, and that is why I explain all this. Fourth: Sorry for misspellings

I'm willing to believe the second point, but the fact that your 26:49 was done after only 20 attempts doesn't add up with that. From the looks of it, that wasn't even your PB, that or you were comparing to your sum of best in which case I'm sorry. This is a more flimsy argument, I'll agree, but that's a lot of red flags to ignore. I want to give you the benefit of the doubt but everything seems too fishy to do so.

But why do you say what my 26:49 was only 20 attempts?

It doesn't line up well with what you said (then again that could just be cause you don't have much time to run, I won't say that isn't a possibility) and it seems suspicious for someone to get WR in that few attempts

But I dont get the WR in few attemps, they were a lot, more of 50 attemps

@Cacophony A low attempt count isn't really a reason to think a run is fake, I assumed Soldadito practiced a lot outside of runs, or did runs without livesplit, which seems to be the case. Bad recording isn't really a reason to be suspect cheating either, since fake runs can be recorded just as well as real runs. Do you have an idea how the runs could be faked?

@Soldadito08 Also in case it wasn't clear, your attempt counter on livesplit said 19 in your 26:49.

BTW, we can check if the score is consistent between levels to detect splicing, I think I'll start checking that for new WRs.

Ok

@Migu Yeah I agree that my logic was flimsy, there was just a lot of red flags and I was essentially looking for stuff to support that

Also just curious, how did you get the juggling achievement with only 2 enemies juggling in Rattler Ravine?

I don't really know how the juggling achievement works. I've gotten it with only 2 enemies several times, it seems to be bugged.

I've tested it with just using the shotgun to take 3 down at the same time, but that didn't give me it so there's probably something with getting 2 specifically