Yeah

An unfortunate side effect of having these runs on the extension category board is that people will do the runs on the lowest difficulty once and get a much better time than can ever be achieved on the hardest difficulty and it makes the board completely uninteresting

I think putting Kerotan on the main board, or grouping the runs by difficulty on the extension board solves the problem

Can I be a mod? I love Postal, it's my favourite game series. Postal 2 is defo the best one, I'm a big fan of the bit with the clones of Gary Coleman.

Some facts about me:

-I love video games

-Going on the internet for more than 60 minutes per day is a violation of my parole

I can understand the short voting period when there's runs coming in. The mods probably felt under pressure to enact a change so they can begin verifying. Many votes for decisions have been as long or shorter than this.

I don't think we can have Loadless IGT when there's this many runners against it. We are talking about modifying the game. Most people who voted loadless IGT said they were happy with RTA loadless and still showing the legit scorescreen future proofs the board in case we want to change later. Everyone wins with it, so it's the obvious choice imo. I genuinely do not see a downside.

I'm fine with the overall board changes and think the mods have made the correct decision for the future of this board

Gl in the MC runnerz especially new people picking up this game for the first time. It's a great speedrun!

I think it's ridiculous to allow Loadless IGT and mess with the game when the option to use Loadless RTA is right there

Loadless RTA also makes The Sorrow fight actually interesting in multiple categories.

We should not be messing with the game's score screen. The goal of a load remover is to make competition between runners fair. Loadless RTA achieves this.

Agree with Trom

Yes turbo

No save states, I see you are all in favour of it though which is a real shame. Getting the correct RNG is part of the grind and using a function of an emulator to skip that is just weird. I think it's cheating personally and it's the exact kind of shortcut a cheater uses to achieve a time they think they deserve.

It's exactly the same as fixing Ames, PAL key spawn, knockback animation. The levels were designed with this variance, imo we don't get to use an outside tool to change that. Especially something that can only be done on the emulator.

You play a game that has such limited instances of RNG already that you think you can just remove them because they are inconvenient. It's short sighted and it's something you will regret doing in the future.

If someone does the run I am sure it would get added to CE

No, please play on any difficulty you enjoy

Record some test footage with what you have and we will tell you if it's good enough. Our standards are not massively high but we need to be able to see what's going on, on the screen.

It's kinda funny, I don't care if it just gets left there.

1 Round Bouts is better than 2 round imo. Should be default.

I only play on PAL, personally I don't think they should be separated but it's fine if they are. I don't think we should retime/convert run times. If you want NTSC loads, play on NTSC.

Just for transparency. I was the person who originally wanted PSNow separated and the community voted against it.

We have had multiple discussions with the community regarding the separation. That's why it's set out as it is. I did runs on the PSNow to test it and inform these discussions. I would be happy to reopen them and again discuss the merits for separation but I would need to see some submitted runs first. We aren't going to change the leaderboards for someone who isn't currently taking part in them.

PSNow and PS3 are the same version of the game. I have done multiple runs on the PSNow which can be found on my profile. It's a slow PS3, the loadtimes have nothing to do with your internet connection. There is absolutely no reason to separate for this.

Yo welcome Lee Tea. Exclusive glitches on the PS2 version and huge differences in loads means the Playstation 2 version is very different from the HD collection. You wouldn't be able to beat any HD Collection times on the PS2 copy.

If the difficulty gives it by default, it's perfectly fine. If you have to unlock it, it's not allowed.

On European Extreme, it's very easy to mess up rooms by walking slightly incorrectly or rolling in the wrong place. The static camera means the room always looks the same no matter how many times you do it. I find it much easier to play the game on the hardest difficulty like this. Out of everyone I think I use the Dynamic Camera least.

+Venue - Lots of room, warm, staff were incredibly friendly, great amenities, it's pretty cheap for such a nice hotel as long as you don't drink alcohol +Practise area - Great equipment, always free spaces, was really fun to game with other people +Tech - Amazing and friendly people both on stream 1 and 2 thank you +ESA Staff in general - Very approachable and helpful +Ice Cream - YES +Arcade - Cool selection of Rhythm games, Tetris and Crazy Taxi. Pinball machines also. This is good stuff. +Board Game room - I didn't get to play but people looked like they were having an amazing time, also people brought their decks for TCG too. Decent.

--Playing Ads during runs - I think this is really bad, my only hope is you are getting paid exceptionally well for this. I don't know how you can decide which part of a person's run which they have spent 100s of hours practising for is worth cutting out. If it was discussed ahead of time with a runner I know good places could be found to play ads, but from what I have seen the ads can cut out vital pieces of information for the viewer and damage the overall quality of the run.

Overall ESA Winter was an incredible event and well worth the trip, definitely would consider coming again in the future.