I was looking at the most recently posted run for Singleplayer, and I noticed that the runner started the timer once he got to the ladder? should this be standard? all my runs currently have started the timer as soon as you enter the game, including the intro cutscene.
Not gonna lie this doesnt make sense. Time should start upon 1st available input which is when cutscene appears. I'm pretty sure the game itself too keeps track of your time from there too.... Why this doesnt make sense to start the timer at the ladder is if a clip is found early on you can skip using the ladder entirely. Then what? The timer never starts because you never went up the ladder and simply fell to a lower level and you could complete a time with 0s. I mean you've technically completed the game at that point and the final door more than likely will still give you a time because it started its timer. We need to start doing runs at 1st available input for everyone, and that is the cutscene at the very beginning where all players connect in.
EDIT: Verifier explained why they are doing it this why. Removes some unnecessary RNG making the game more bearable to run. 7 different spawn locations at start getting the Jelly is pretty important. So instead of getting a run only 14% of the time you can start one every time.
Hey, i will reply here for future questions, even if this post is older. yes its more fun this way, otherwise you need to reset and reset for nothing just because of bad rng (spawn). At the moment there is no way in skiping the ladder, most skips require entities or drawers (depends on version and the skip). You can emote to watch behind some walls but this isnt that huge of an advantage and could count into any% instead of glitchless then. For the moment it will stay like it is, there is enough rng in the game anyways. It might get changed if it should be possible to skip the ladder in the future but for the moment we dont think so. We discussed in the past about a category for the level 0 (elevator%) in our category extension but it wasnt intresting enough then and i think most of the players had no intrest in those runs.
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