With Wave 2 out I have done a run with Dark Meta Knight and beat my Marx time by over 2.5 minutes
So now is the question, should we separate Wave 2 into its own category or keep it with Wave 1 as a DLC category?
Both options have pros and cons but I'll list the 1 biggest reason for both options
Keep as DLC - The runs are both much shorter than Original, and with there being 1 more confirmed wave (And potentially 1 after that as well) It may end up looking cluttered if we have 5 categories for Guest Stars
Seperate into Waves - Despite similar lengths, there are still numerous differences, differences that can cause competition between all the waves. If we combined all into 1, all competition would be on a single character despite others having some differences. By keeping them separate all of the waves would have competition and people working to push multiple characters down.
I'm personally for Separating, as not only do I like having more competition, but if in the future we decide keeping them all in 1 category was a better idea after, it would be really easy to put all runs in the same board. But if we only have 1 category, and we decide to separate them out due to future waves having even more differences, We would end up with multiple waves having a lack of runs due to people going with the fastest, and trying to sort current runs would be annoying.
I ask you for your opinions (I'm not doing a poll). I ask that you only respond if you have a run submitted to Guest Stars (a run and not a casual playthrough that you submitted).
I'd say seperate, It doesn't hurt too much to have so many categorys, And although some characters may be obsolete we can always find potential if we try hard enough. Still super excited for the new meta and wave 2 hype!
After playing a little bit, I think I have to say separation could work. The new levels truly are very different, and even if future waves are slower and we decide to merge the categories, that still wouldn’t pose much of an issue, as the runs could be added if the settings were changed so that different character runs don’t obsolete each other.
As an aside, all original characters have new stage layouts, and should save a minute for every character. If you have a time on the boards do another run and you should easily get a minute pb (I haven't tested if Wave 1 characters have new layouts)
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