After testing, I can confirm that being on a higher framerate can result in faster ladder climbing speed and possibly other advantageous behaviour. This doesn't affect speedruns, but an example of other advantageous behaviour from high fps is that lava moves slower when your fps is high and faster when it's lower.
TL;DR, I think there should be a rule where everyone has to run on the same framerate (60 is a good number as I believe the game was built around 60 fps).
I just don't think it's fair for people who are running on lower end hardware that they are at a slight disadvatage because of these slight changes from the fps. In a long run, these inconsistencies can add up.
pls no 60 fps is so shit it hurt eyes. dont do this rule limit fps to 120 if you want but not 60
Anything over 60 gives unfair advantages. I literally tested. This game was built for 60. 120 still is unfair. Even just 90 or 100 gives the advantages
Not making this a rule essentially makes this game pay to win for speedruns as people with better hardware can just go to 144 fps (The current rule cap) and get all the benefits.
I'm a moderator myself for a different game, and I've seen how moderation works. One of the most important rules to ever implement is ones that make everyone play on an even playing field (Limiting fps is a big one for games who have unfair advantages from differing framerates)
We tried adding this rule with a higher cap of 100fps, but runners (mainly top players) complained about how this would be unplayable. For that reason we have decided not to add this rule and just wait for the devs to try and fix this. We already know all the advantages both 60-100 and 100-144 fps have but, we can't make any big decision or one of the two part will not be happy with it anyways.
Have you tried finding a way to implement an fps bypasser? So that everyone's game can run like it's 144.
I just don't agree with not implementing the rule just because your top runners don't like it. I still think it should be added until a better solution is found. Such as a bypasser. You raise the entry level to top level speedrunning by not adding this. It's not a good idea.
Ok but if we can't even make everyone submit their run correctly even with the simplest and the first rules, how are we supposed to check if everyone uses it correctly and don't bypass it higher. I don't know how it works exactly but we would have to ask for the permanent fps display or that they show directly at the end of the run that the bypasser rule wasn't disrespected, that would mean many changes in the rules and needing that ALL the players show their taskbar at the end of the run or something so that we can make sure that they didn't use a bypasser or that they respected the rule. Some don't even see that for the ILs, we need the title of the zone to appear on the screen, so if we ask for them to change everything about their recording manners...
also about the top runners, I know they shouldn't be changing the way we rule all this but just think about, they the best on this speedrunning community, they know the gameplay of this game like noone and we don't want to see them leave the game just because they can't play like they want, which is totally normal and understandable. However i have the same opinion about the fact that the fps gap changes too much about the speed of certain actions, but you can also see it otherwise, playing at 60-90 fps also has its advantages :) (less but still does).
I just wish the fps inconsistencies were fixed lol. This game is all over the place.
yeah same obviously haha, this fps problem should actually be the first thing on the list for next patches.
It also cheeses the hell out of lava mode lol. The lava is laughably slow on 100+ fps XD
**We have been working on it since the game's workshop update was first announced. We first wanted to drop these changes at the same time as the workshop did but seems like it's taking more time than we thought. That's why you are getting those n
