1. Yes

2. This is hard to say.

I think that for any% you can't, as "any%" implies you could do it from a clean start

But for the other categories you can, just make sure to actually do all bombs required for that category

yeah sorry thats on me

Hey all,

We have recently added a category for the "The Centurion" bomb, but the rules were vague and unclear.

We have refined the rules of this new category, which has allowed some required mods like Tweaks and Camera zoom.

It is worth noting that if you want to submit your attempt at this challenge, the Tweaks mod (and some specific settings) are required, so please read the rules carefully.

Good luck all!

Yep, that's fine, there are no language barriers on KTaNE runs

You don't have to start a fresh save, as long as you complete the run in a way that would be possible on a fresh save, so no doing chapters out of order or early detonations.

Hello everyone, there is some more stuff going on with the VR category, this time it is a possible timing method change. We are currently timing from the moment you release the "restart" button, however that seems to have added the issue of loading times changing run times which we want to avoid as much as possible. We thought it wouldn't be a problem, but it seems loading times can differ drastically on VR. That is why we are gonna be switching to timing from when the yellow outline of the controllers are visible. This will make it so that you have to have your controllers in front of you when the run starts, however, this is practically always the case as that is where the bomb is and in a speedrun you'll want to interact with the bomb as soon as possible. We don't believe this change to be necessary on mobile since the loading times on mobile seem to be marginal, however we don't have much footage so this is a difficult decision. This will mean that, for vr runs, the times might change, since we will be timing from different moments. If you have any remarks or questions about this decision, please let us know. Good luck and have fun!

Update: VR will now also be timed from the frame the yellow border around the "start/restart" button disappears until the last green light turns on because of discrepancies between the quest and regular versions of the game.

Hello everyone, after a lot of discussion, we have decided to split up all releases of the game to minimize unfair advantages and fix timing issues. The rules have been updated to include runs on the mobile version of the game, where the word "Loading" shouldn't appear, so runs which were previously untimable., now can be timed. Console users will now also have their own leaderboard since their game has a different movement system. I am, however, new to the moderator team so i appear to have messed up some runs. The PC and console runs should be fine the way they are, but it seems i have deleted the VR runs when adding the new subcategories and removing the old misc categories :/. If everyone who submitted a VR run could resubmit them, i'll verify them ASAP. Thank you for understanding, good luck, and have fun!

Thanks, we try our best :p

Have fun running, my dude :D

I am not sure if i get your question, but the only runs that will have effect are the ones that are submitted to this site and checked by us. We also don't use the in game timer, as it is possible to defuse a bomb before the in game timer starts counting.

Hello everyone!

Since VR is so different from the base game, we have decided to give it its own category, which fixes an issue where it was unable to be properly timed since the word "loading" never appeared, so now people can submit their runs for VR and nobody will get an unfair advantage over others. Time starts the frame the bomb starts getting the yellow outline so you can interact with it, and of course ends the frame the last green light gets turned on. Good luck and have fun!

Huh, that should definitely not have happened, i'll take a look at it

Edit: I checked, and the run was already on the leaderboard for All Bombs (Detonation Allowed) before i started, but i don't see any detonations either so i have moved your run over to the any% category.

Hello! I am Jellejurre, a new moderator for this part of the site, and if you found out your run time was updated after years of being the same, that would be my doing. I went past all level runs and have counted the frames of every run which has footage, and will be updating the times across the next day, and hopefully by next week i will have updated all times of all runs to fit the current rules of "time starts when the word loading disappears" and "time ends when the last light turns green". I did my very best to make sure my times are correct, but if you think i made a mistake somewhere feel free to shoot me a message on discord so we can work it out. Have fun running the game, and good luck!

UPDATE: After three days of work, all runs have now been retimed and updated.

Hello! I am a new moderator, and i heard what you said, so i have actually counted the frames at every level run we have footage of, and will be updating them over the next day (i hope). However we (the mods) are still discussing about better ways of timing because as you said you can sometimes interact with the bomb while the loading screen is still there and some devices don't even have the loading symbol so they are technically impossible to time properly, but there does not seem to be a simple solution to the problem without invalidating current runs which we really want to avoid.

Sorry if it's not the right place.to post, but how long does it take until a run gets verified? I've submitted my runs months ago and they are still not verified