Maybe moderators can add a level leaderboard categorys? For example 1-1 speedrun
How has it been a year and this post still doesn't have any replies by the mods? I just bought the game to relive some nostalgia on PC and I see a lot of speedrunning potential here. Adding a level leaderboard would make this game way more speedran. IL's are very open to beginners and it's not like there aren't enough mods to verify these runs. Hell, we have 3 mods and we've only had 55 players.
I didn't even know this at the time, but the moderators wouldn't even have to retime shit. There's literraly an IN-GAME TIMER for these kinds of things. Althought you could make an argument that there are already IL leaderboards in-game, they don't even include the bosses, neither do you know what console people are playing on. For IL's, people don't have to use the autosplitter, since there's an in-game timer anyways, which would make it more accesible for runners. That would mean that not every player would have to get the PC version of the game to save more time. The in-game boards are also hacked A TON so they aren't even that reliable to begin with. You could also make 2 seperate categories (except for the bosses), those being Any% and 100%. Since 100% leaderboards in-game don't exist, it would still be a great addition to speedrunners. The boss levels sadly don't have an in-game timer, which would mean timer starts upon first movement and ends upon collecting the gem.
I also want to add something else, before I close this entire essay I'm writing. So the in-game time doesn't start before the player touches the watch, right? That would mean that the player can go ahead and do a bit of set-up before they actually start the run. To make it more fun to play, I would split the category even further into another two parts. A normal run where you're allowed to do some set-up and a 'no set-up' one where the player isn't allowed to get any points and collectibles before touching the timer. For 100% with set-up, players can kill enemies, collect throwables and maybe even open a chest with said throwables before touching the timer, however you can't collect any gems, statues, cards or peppers obviously. That would mean that the player can do four seperate runs per regular IL, those being: "Any% - No Set-up", "Any% - With Set-Up", "100% - No Set-Up" and "100% - With Set-Up". Boss levels don't have any collectibles, so that would still mean runners can only run any% for these ones.
ill speak on behave of the mods here and say there is no point in having all those boards just for them to sit empty or have 1 person run them. if thats something you wanna do run go right a head but we dont need boards for every little thing. if you have runs of any% or any of the other categories the mods might take interest looking into it of stuff but for now i highly doubt it. we have had these discussions with other people runners and non runners and there is not enough people to warrant adding more boards to the list nor have anyone actually have done IL runs.
