Hi, I was wondering if Challenge Mode could potentially be a new category for this game. I mean, it has an in-game timer and everything, so it could be nice.
I would love that too, but the reason it's not is a valid reason. The Website soniccenter.org has a Sonic Battle Section dedicated to the challenge mode. You try to go for the highest score and speed is just one of the factors in getting a high score
I guess this is a good place to mention this: I decided to spend a bit of time looking into the potential of Challenge Mode speedruns for Sonic Battle about a week ago. I went through every character every difficulty with a timer to see how long it'd take (2 sessions bc I wasn't in the mood to do it in 1 sitting lol) and it took me almost 5 hours. Ideally it'd probably take 3-4 hours but 1) that's long and extremely repetitive and 2) my god fighting them on 1-Ring difficulty sucks ass the characters barely chase you at ALL so you have to chase each one individually and it blows chunks.
So I tried did a couple runs of "All Characters 3-Ring Difficulty" (Name Pending) and I did it in 1:32:29 RTA
I figure it could be a good category for people wanting to get into speedrunning the game because it's not too long, not too short, and doesn't have nearly as much downtime as any of the Story Mode Categories do (I personally don't mind downtime but I can understand why people find it a bit much)
The category also has the possibility of being timed by IGT (In-Game Time) sorta because at the end of each battle it does tell you the time. Idk how people would feel about it but we could talk about it more in the Speedrunning discord as well. Hell, if enough interest pops up sometime in the future there could also be IL boards added for Challenge Mode.
Just wanted to bump this forum up again to mention I added "Challenge Mode: All Characters" as a category to the board, and currently have 2 sub categories for it: "3-Ring Difficulty" and "All Difficulties".
I also have made a bunch of changes to the board too, and have a couple things I've been on the fence of adding/changing, including IL boards for individual character's Challenge Mode runs. Details can be found here: https://www.speedrun.com/sonicbattle/news/931
Hello everyone! I know this board isn't the most active but I figured that since speedrun.com gave us the ability to make news posts I might as well use it to keep anyone who cares up to date! If you have questions or suggestions or criticisms about any of this feel free to sound off in either the f
