So hopefully this will be the last time, but Kiwami's rules need a little more description as the high FPS shenanigans affect a couple of the runs, especially Legend difficulty.
Going forward the leaderboard will be changed for PC runs to reflect 60fps/240fps. The community has agreed to not go over 240fps as going over would require you to edit the ini and that should not be allowed. When the leaderboard changes all runs will be put into the 240fps category by default and 240fps will be the main board for Kiwami PC runs. Locking it to 60fps allows the game to function normally, such as bosses having their HP regens during their Kiwami phases etc.
All runs should be FPS locked via In Game means only. No third party programs.
To reflect this every PC run will need the in-game FPS counter going forward. You can turn it on via the menu. We're aware the ingame counter will spike up slightly over 240 fps. This will not invalidate your run. It will be very obvious if the ini has been messed with and if there are any concerns about your run a member of the moderation team will be in contact with you.
The leaderboard visual change will take a few days to go through as speedrun[dot]com will likely make me move every run manually. We should also say as a general announcement for the entire Yakuza series - Commenting on runs is turned off and will be turned off for the future. With how badly this feature was implimented and how open to abuse this is the mods do not want to deal with manually having to check all the runs over the series. If you want comments turned off for your runs in general outside of the Yakuza series you can do so via the Privacy menu of your SRC profile.
There are no changes as far as console runs go. The leaderboard rules will be reflected in time to recognise these changes, but for now if you're running PC consider this the official ruleset.
Just to clarify - do we really need to use the in-game counter, or is the Steam fps counter also OK? Because from what I've tested, the latter seems much more accurate.
Sorry to bring this up again, but I have a question about the behavior of the in-game counter. It does have the spikes mentioned above, but even otherwise it mostly seems to hang around the 241-242 range for me - is this still acceptable?
For an example, see e.g. 02:33:51 in this vod:
Board finally updated, it's ugly whatever. Blame SRC and blame SRC for making me move every console run manually. Rules also updated but they're very wordy so expect a potential re-word (to something better written) soon
Switch is now an applicable category for speedrun submissions!
It follows the same rules as Console runs so please submit it with those guidelines in mind. Thank you.
