Liberation% is a category where you complete 1 operation (3 missions) from start to finish in 1 sitting and Conquest% is where you complete 3 operations (9 missions), 1 with a bug specific mission, 1 with a bot specific mission and 1 with a mission that exists on both bots and bugs in 1 sitting.

This category was pioneered by Ares540 and thanks to the other members of the community and moderation team that helped refine what these category's would be and deciding the rules and such for them!

Happy diving everyone!

Hi Divers, due to the popularity of high diff deathless running we have no got a category extensions page specifically dedicated to it! We brought canis_xo and clark1004 on to moderate this page as they are very invested in deathless high diff speedruns. Happy diving!

https://www.speedrun.com/HELLDIVERS_2_Category_Extensions

It is time to say goodbye.

Some of you may have seen I have been inactive for about a month now. For those in the discord server, this will not come as a surprise. On there, i have talked about how, for quite a while now, I've been the only active mod verifying runs and maintaining the boards, which has become a drain that impacted my ability to perform my responsibilities in real life and other obligations I had. It is for this reason that I searched for successors on here, to facilitate runs of this game we all love. In the - essentially all new - mod team I am happy to have found worthy successors who have established themselves as trusted memebers of the community with minimal incidents. I'm gratified to note the transition of power away from me has been going extremely smoothly. As of last morning, I have given over ownership of the discord server to dualshock100 and Supermod status on here to dualshock100 and IEATZOMB13Z.

I will be staying both in the discord server and on SRCOM as a supermod for only the most exceptional of circumstances - clearing up any confusion about the board setup mostly, if anything needs updating.

I thank you all for being patient with me through this last spring of me essentially modding the board on my own for quite a bit, and for being gracious through any disagreements we might have had over this time. While we did occasionally butt heads in this community and spoke in unmeasured ways occasionally, the discussions overall have been more civil than I, at times, deserved. For my successors, I recommend you view speedrun.com as a place for a community to use - a community that would form regardless. You're not here to steer, you're here to serve, to facilitate. I'm sure you'll do great.

For anyone interested in keeping up with what I'm doing, I run a small youtube channel I occasionally update under the name of Seetor.

For everyone else; see you all on the drop. Happy Helldiving.

Greetings Helldivers!

Once again after a poll and discussion on the community discord - which everyone is invited and encouraged to join! - we have updated the difficulty variable to reflect what missions are available on which difficulties. To explain what this means, some mission types are not available in some difficulties, for instance Launch ICBM is not available in 1 | TRIVIAL. This meant that those slots on the boards would forever be destined to be empty. There is an image attached to illustrate. None of those slots would ever be filled.

Now, each mission only has those difficulties that are relevant to it. This means the levels board no longer differentiates between difficulties by level, but irrelevant difficulties no longer appear on the regular leaderboards.

Furthermore, we have decided to merge the amount of difficulties we support down. Earlier, we supported all difficulties 1-9. Because there isn't that much difference between a difficulty 1 or 2 mission for speedrun purposes, and keeping in mind that we want every level represented by at least one available difficulty, we have decided to slim the board down to only the even difficulties - 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9.

There is currently a poll ongoing on the discord about the fate of old runs that are now without a difficulty to support them. Will we leave them orphaned, or merge them together such that difficulty 4 runs will be allowed to join the difficulty 3 board? Vote now to make your voice heard!

Happy Helldiving!

Greetings, Helldivers!

In accordance with a poll conducted of the community over in the discord, we are now separating runs by player count. Concretely this means 2 new settings for every run - Solo or Multiplayer. This decision was made to respect the achievements of runners who complete their level runs by themselves, where it can be hard to compete with the times bigger parties can get.

We will make sure to migrate the old runs onto the new board over the next couple of days.

I would also like to remind you to join our discord to participate in these polls as they happen.

Greetings, Helldivers!

I'm writing you here to announce, for the benefit of anyone who isn't in the server, that a lot of the changes that have come and will come to these boards were - and will be - decided by discussion and votes happening on the discord server. Please consider dropping by and making your voice heard.

Hello Helldivers!

We have been thinking for quite a while about a way to make the boards work better for people who don't want to only submit runs that involve the entire squad offing themselves after mission completion and are excited to announce it is finally here!

Extract% works like Any%, except you have to extract your whole squad in the end.

After consulting the community in a poll on the discord, have also made 100% - a run where in addition to finishing the main mission and extracting all helldivers, you also have to complete all side objectives and clear all bases on the map.

We hope these new categories invigorate everyone's interest in speedrunning. If you have any ideas for further categories, please reach out to the mod team to let us know, and consider dropping in on the discord to join the discussion and any future polls there.

Happy Helldiving! For managed democracy!

Except for Tutorial because it doesn't have one.

This board is short on volunteers at the moment - if this remains to be the case, I will begin rejecting runs that are incorrectly timed. I have been manually editing and correcting the times, which isn't a problem if I'm only verifying a few runs a day, but typically I am met with dozens of runs upon logging in.

Please consider volunteering to be a Verifier. If interested, send me a message.

As you already know, the old leaderboards were somewhat confusing, and the moderation team added me to help them create the new tables, and they're ready now.

Now, in the "Full Game" table, only the two runs of the Tutorial will be included, and in the leaderboards of the individual levels, all other speedruns will be listed, with the difficulty variables as in the old tables.

For missions that can be done against both Terminids and Automatons, instead of using different tables, [T] [A], a single table will be used where there will be an additional variable indicating the faction being fought against, apart from the difficulty. You can see how it looks now in the image below.

DISPATCH FROM MODS COMMAND

Display of categories and runs is changing soon.

Right now, the sub sorts runs by categories. As many of you might have noticed it's pretty annoying to move around between categories.

This is why we decided to change the sub settings from "Full game leaderboard" to "Level summary".

Unfortunately, to change this setting, new categories have to be created. This means that all the now old runs will stay there.

We hope you will not miss all your runs after this change and we are sure this will let some more to come.

Have a great day. Fight for democracy!

As per two announcements ago we said to include the loadout screen prior to mission launch in your speed run videos.

As of the posting of this news item WE WILL START REJECTING RUNS THAT DO NOT INCLUDE THIS.

To avoid unnecessary hassle, please include the loadout selection in your submissions in addition to the XP screen after the mission.

Thank you for understanding!

- All missing difficulties have been added.

- Two new categories centering around Sample Extraction have been added.

Thanks for your patience gamers! o7

Default difficulties will be updated as runs populate categories. Superfluous difficulties will be removed as they are discovered.

Please include loadouts prior to launching mission in your run submissions

Please start using the In-Game Timer for run submissions going forward!

For ALL categories/missions that are NOT tutorial -

There are a few seconds at the beginning of missions where you technically have zero control that are wasted, but the ability to steer the Hellpod and affect progress on objectives necessitates switching to IGT.

As always, please share ideas & feedback for the boards if you have any; you can DM me as well! Thanks for putting up with the solo mod team atm everyone. o7

uhhh dat's da news folks!