So i have played Gimkit for a while now and even got a sub 8:00 run so i decided to look into if anyone had a Gimkit speed run leaderboard or smthn like that and i found this. I’m pretty sure release physics is when the game was realesd, creative platforming patch added speed boosts accidentally, and then current patch has speed boosts removed. The only part I’m confused about is the modded thing under mods in the run data, such as synced and unsycned, and the top runs are unsynced so I’m wondering if I’m missing out on anything and what this stuff means

Idk buy I might start playing soon if I get my pc on Tuesday

read the rules (impossible challenge for children)

@retrozy maybe you should read the whole text (hypocrite)

@VydeogamzXD Modded (Synced) is when you utilize mods but the position the game places you at (aka the position someone would, for instance, be spectating you, would see you at) and your position from your POV would still match up/sync. Things like DLDTimer apply to this. Modded (Desynced) is when you use Mods that do make your Gim desync from it's real position (the game has you at a completely different position from where you are at in your own POV). The Savestates, Input Recorder, and Bring Back Boosts apply to this rule.

Side Note: DLD initially had boosts until they were removed to accommodate a new gamemode (which is Current/Knockback Patch), so both Release Physics and Creative Platforming Physics will have boosts. Creative Platforming Physics are slightly different from Release Physics because it reduces the acceleration by a tiny bit

So this is what people meant about retrozy being annoying

Also @BenjiWii how would unsynced have an advantage

@VydeogamzXD yea

Bruh

this is all explained at the end of the rules, if you aren’t reading the rules then stop asking questions in forums, people literally took the time out their day to write that amount of rules.

@Remytherat999 wdym read the text, I read the message in the forum and all that is answered in rules, not even trying to be annoying but just reminding people that there is a very long set of text that I took hours and hours writing that you are just ignoring and making a stupid forum instead

@VydeogamzXD Desynced allows you to use mods that allow quicker resets or allow you to play earlier versions of the game or record your inputs, which are all very useful tools. Another advantage is that it makes lasers easy af and for that reason I believe desynced runs shouldn’t be allowed, at least on current patch.

@retrozy mods do make it slightly easier on lasers because otherwise some skips would become frame perfect/nearly impossible (mods that desync won’t account for ping which is what makes some of the established laser skips easier than what it would be pingless). Ig in terms of lasers, it’s easier because the timings are more set and consistent. Also desync mods allow people like me or Horse for instance, to be able to play the game when otherwise our bad computers would lag and make it significantly harder to get runs

Also @VydeogamzXD the only reason the people at the top are modded desynced is because they’ve been the top players for nearly the entire existence of this game. The mods are very helpful to get runs going faster, but they’re not the reason those people are at the top

@BenjiWii okay thank you that will be noted

I give up I don't have the attention span to read all this

Real

@BenjiWii if u have a smartphone made in the last 10 years it should be relatively easy to record spectations of sufficient quality which both of you have, so literally your reasoning to make lasers inconsistent, unofficial, and controversial is just an ease of access for players like you (and quicker resets, but even features like that can make boosts easier which gets hard to enforce)

@retrozy Ok maybe I wasn’t clear with the issue. MY COMPUTER SUCKS, AND SAME WITH HORSE. My computer in general is slow, and the recording software, although making the problem a bit worse, is not the main reason (for reference my wifi speed on that computer compared to my phone is like 5-10x slower). Also for boost setups, this is basically the same thing as using savestates to start runs more quickly. You can still set it up normally but it’ll take more time

@BenjiWii Yeah, like I have a laptop from 2021 and it runs gimkit HORRIBLE. Not even just when I'm recording it, when normally playing. Not everyone has enough money to buy a 2000$ pc or even a 300$ laptop.

@Remytherat999 yeah mine is from like 2019 or 2020 and my parents don't wanna buy me a new laptop, which is understandable

So we have to have laser debates every single run just so u guys can play without lag, which often gives an unfair advantage off synced runs, it’s just not worth it and I feel it makes runs so “unofficial”