Île-de-France, FranceBoonless does not exist as an official speedrunning category, because there are a fair few things in the game that can kill the run on the spot.
- Hermes in particular is notorious for having many boons that are difficult not to activate (his dodge chance boons, bonus dashes, hyper sprint, faster attacks / specials, faster movement speed).
- The 8 regular gods also have several boons that would probably kill a run immediately if one were to be forced to pick them up: attack/special/dash on nearly every aspect (since the optimal attack rotation for the aspects usually uses a bit of everything), vengeance boons (one is usually bound to get hit eventually when trying to speedrun).
- Chaos is banned in boonless, meaning that one can not easily avoid situations in which one is forced into minibosses or other boon major rewards. because of all of this, the whole thing would be less skill-based and more based on not getting screwed over by boon rng.
If you feel like the speedrunning page for hades would greatly benefit from an official "boonless" or "boon purger" leaderboard (category extension for example), then join the hades speedrunning discord server and make a post in the #h1-category-suggestions forum about it!
Fresh File is a bit unusual in that regard. The timer must be started manually at file creation if you wish to have one (the verifiers can also just time on their own, if an RTA timer is not present). If you have the autosplitter enabled, it should then split on its own after a boss kill. There also is a bug that may cause the autosplitter not to start, but in that case quit out of the game, close livesplit, and re-open the two programs in the inverse order.
La catégorie Fresh File est assez spéciale de ce coté là, le chrono sur Livesplit doit être démarré manuellement à la création de la sauvegarde (sinon, les vérifiers feront ça pour toi, ne t'inquiètes pas). Si l'autosplitter est activé, Livesplit devrait ensuite split après chaque boss. Il existe également un bug qui fait de sorte que parfois l'autosplitter ne ce lance pas, mais dans ce cas là relances les deux programmes dans l'ordre inverse.
