I am currently routing this game and was wondering, since the current run was done on easy mode, is easy going to be allowed? I need to know so I can route on the proper difficulty.

Hello clix_gaming.

I added it into the normal category, but as soon as there is a consensus into adding a easy mode category, I'm taking that run off of the normal and putting it on easy. So on my end, I'd have no problems accepting easy mode as a category, but it depends on the other mod, Speeady.

If more people desire the category, I do think it would make perfect sense to add it, Countdown Vampires seems to be just establishing it's community right now, and it wouldn't be that unnatural adding a extra category. Again, it's fine on my end, but we need some democratic consensus here as far as I'm thinking, if Speeady agrees then I take the world record run I did off of normal, put it on the easy category and broaden the types of runs possible.

Thank you.

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A quick update: disregard the above, I went ahead and added the category. I figured it would broaden the game's potential audience, so you can run it on Easy Any% and then I accept the run.

Re-submit here:

http://www.speedrun.com/run/yvg9dn4y

Thank you.

Thank you for the quick reply and the info. I plan to have the game fully routed by the end of the month and a full run soon after that. I look forward to running the game with you guys.

Alright man, focus on the run and then we go from there, welcome to Countdown Vampires.

Was practicing for a marathon I'm participating in and got 1:28:00 Normal mode. Shame I wasn't recording :( Took a screenshot of it.

Congratulations mate, did you use glitches? I don't usually like to use glitches, but I try to use exploits a lot in games when I run them... that's why my timing for runs is slower than most, because I go for safer runs than faster through bugged programming skips (plus I speedrun for the fun of it, not really for the world record, it's nice to have one, but I just feel like helping introduce games to the community most often).

Right now I'm in a Dark Souls craze. Got the 2nd one and 3rd one on my PC, whenever I get time I play these, still waiting for more info on Marvel VS Capcom infinite to see if I'm getting that.

I use the elevator power skip early in the run. Other than that, I don't know of any glitches in this game. I'm not taking it too seriously, not a big fan of this game but it's something new. I'm practicing it for a horror game group marathon this month so it gives me reason to do some runs for it. Yeah it's good to have fun when you run games and not take it too seriously unless you have the passion for it and for that game. I understand wanting to keep it safe and consistent. Grinding gets old after a while.

This game is a middleware title around the times of Resident Evil's popularity, so it's really made as a alternative to Resident Evil if you'd prefer a game without the zombies that's survival horror (like I do, I don't like zombies that much) or a vampire styled game, which there isn't that many vampire games to choose from, especially not survival horror types. It works in that convention, and I don't think it's made to be taken that seriously, it's campy and stereotypical for survival horror, but it works as a vampire styled Resident Evil, like Dino Crisis which is Resident Evil with dinosaurs, or Soul Of The Samurai, a Resident Evil with Samurai (before Onimusha, though Onimusha can be included in that too).

Either way, it's right up into Halloween right now, getting to October so, it's the best time to do something like this. I got a set of streams for Doom planned at this point, and some other Middleware games (notice the pattern here, I'm into Middleware games, which is why I run this game, I used to be one of these 90s kids that rented games all the time, which is how I know about many Middleware titles) with horror theme, and that's it. In any case though, talking about a run itself, like I said I played it safe, so I didn't attempt any skips, just exploits. I did die a couple of times, silly deaths because I was busy doing several things at that time period, but whatever, I think this is one of these games you'd go back to if you're nostalgic about survival horror's early days and want something different.