Finally with a new update on the horizon it is the perfect time to address some of the concerns that have been brought up since the last one of these.
First thing is first I am happy to announce that we will be doing a pseudo board refresh following the update. One of the reasons for waiting for 1.0 to wipe the board was the expectation that it was going to be when older levels would receive their reworks and touch ups. Since that is occurring with the upcoming update, the current boards will get a new separate sub-category, with the reworked option being the “main” boards that will be submitted to from here on. You will still be able to submit to the old boards, but it will require downpatching, and the boards will still be fully wiped when 1.0 finally drops.
Secondly we a running a poll to try and make as much use of this refresh as we can. It is a bit long but take your time, test things in game by practicing or doing runs, you can go back to change your answers later. Please keep in mind that many levels will see major changes and the fact that ALL of the boards (full game, layers, ILs, etc) are being refreshed when considering your opinions.
The poll will run from now until the update is out whenever that is. Also this poll is just to start an open conversation and get a feel for where the community is at on various topics. Not all of the topics of this poll will lead to changes for this update.
Let me or one of the other speedrun mods know if there are any issues or anything we missed.
-B.G.B.
If you have not seen ULTRAKILL is finally having a speedrunner competition for real money!!! It starts in about four hours from the time I am making this news post, in fact its probably already started when you are reading this so click the challenges widget on the right and read up on the rules and get a run in!
Speaking of reading up on the rules since today is the day the competition starts what better to do than to completely rework the entire base game rules!!
Fret not. No rulings have actually been changed.
Everything will still be moderated the say way it has been for months. This is only to improve the readability as well as clarity of the base rules for the game. This is also only for the base game rules, the rework for all of the category rules as well as IL designation will come later. Maybe. :)
Be sure to use this opportunity to refamiliarize yourself with the base rules before the competition starts. Also I will probably continue to make tweaks to improve things further so let me know if there are any issues or further improvements that you feel could be made.
Good Luck! I am looking forward to seeing those competition runs!
At long last Violence is here!!!
- The boards have been updated.
- Inbounds is now on the main board.
- Rocket race now has a rocketless option.
- And lastly the timing tool in the discord has been update to include act 3
There will be more updates to things on the board in the coming days and I will try to keep yall posted with the stuff as I get it updated. As always please let me know if there are any issues with anything so I can get them fixed asap.
Have fun and remember to reach heaven through violence!
The update is out, and the poll is closed!
With a grand total of 82 votes (68 of which are from verified runners) the Any% and NoMo categories will be refreshed with the old boards moved to the secondary categories tab; However, they will still be available for those who want to submit for some time (labeled ‘Zoomies Patch’). Only votes from people who had verified runs were counted. (non-verified votes would have been used in case of a tie)
(See Discord for the data results)
Aside from the poll changes the IL leaderboard has been updated to include the new levels as well as the Alt exits for 5-1 and 6-2. The extensions leaderboards for 100%NG, All Bosses, and All P-Ranks have been reset since those runs are no longer valid (Please make sure to re-read the rules as a new rule has been added to clarify 6-2). And lastly, Rocket Race and HankJr% have been added to the category extensions board.
I’m super excited to see all the runs for all the new categories and levels and I hope you all have a lot of fun running them! As always if there are any issues or errors with the board let me know so I can get them fixed asap. -B.G.B.
We are running a poll to determine whether the full game boards should get wiped for this upcoming update when zoomies (rocket clipping) are patched. This does not include act, layer or IL runs.
https://forms.gle/zBPzzx5HKsKSGtLW6
If the board does get wiped then it will, of course, get archived as per usual.
There is an option for determining whether you can still submit to the old boards. I am not doing a restricted/un-restricted thing because its way more of a hassle for effectively the same result.
The poll ends when the update is out which could be tomorrow or it could be in a month. I have no idea. Feel free to debate with each other about the poll topic in the #speedruns channel in the discord until then.
Thank you and looking forward to seeing those 5-S and P-2 speedruns! -B.G.B.
Finally with a new update on the horizon it is the perfect time to address some of the concerns that have been brought up since the last one of these.
First thing is first I am happy to announce that we will be doing a pseudo board refresh following the update. One of the reasons for waiting fo
