Hey folks, after some interest in the category and a buuuunch of discussion in the discord, we've reached a consensus on what a No Major Glitches category should look like. So now that we have a consistent ruleset, there's only one step to go for those interested: run it!
This thread shall be used as a collection-point for runs to gauge how many people are truly interested in running Egg Shuttle - No Major Glitches. So please post videos of your runs in the replies of this thread. If you continue running past the example run, please edit your original post to have only the video of your fastest time.
Q: How many runs are needed for the boards to become a thing? A: 5 runs! For completely new and clear categories we usually stick to 3, but since discussion has shown that this is a bit of a messy category definition and runs can currently already be submitted to the existing Egg Shuttle boards, we opted for a bit of a higher run count.
Q: Where on the boards will the category be added? A: It will be added as a subcategory of the Egg Shuttle boards, with normal Egg Shuttle being the default.
Q: What will the name be? A: No Major Glitches or NMG for short. We've found in discussion that no category name immediately jumps out as a perfect fit and ultimately the name matters little, so why not stick to the name that started the idea in the first place. If the community prefers a name change later down the line that is easily done.
Q: What are the rules? A:
- No 3D in 2D
- No clipping through solid walls/floors/objects
- No section skips achieved through community-decided "major" glitches
- No boss quick kills achieved through community-decided "major" glitches
Additional notes:
- When in doubt about whether a glitch is considered for this category, please consult the list in the master thread on the forum
- Accidental clips do not disqualify your run as long as you do not benefit from them, so either take a death or go back the way you came.
Q: What tricks are considered a major glitch?
A: After lots of discussion, the community decided on the list below. Everything in red is banned. Some tricks are displayed in green for clarity's sake, since they were brought up during the discussion phase, but ultimately allowed. Anything not listed below is fair game as well. (thank you Nuh for making the initial version of this list for the discussion)
This is interesting as I have run no major skips before and have plenty of skill in the field as far as it comes to this I'm gonna start grinding out some no major skips runs in the future and probably stick to the no major skips category for future runs Edit: due to colour blindness I cannot see what strats are allowed and what are banned in this list please help
Good point JH, here's an alternative colour scheme
And just in case, here's a third version of the list containing only the banned tricks, anything missing from this list is allowed
Heres my run of NMG or NMS either or funny thing its the EXACT same time as my regular Egg Shuttle run First run was IGT: 55:44.94 second run was IGT 53:14.23 latest run IGT 51:50.82
I do not mean to add to this but i wish to further know the clarification on the SM4 Floor clip ghost grab does that mean the laser through the floor for ghost or ghost grabbing the robots as it seems unclear as I treated the ghost grab as the ghost clipping through the floor to hit the robots So if using ghost to hit robots through floors is allowed ill happily do another run to update it Thanks for everything of course
Do try to keep it to one reply to have a clearer overview of how many different runners we have, if you get a new PB just update your original reply
Not sure if I'm allowed to submit the same run twice but I don't think I used any major glitches in my regular Egg Shuttle PB https://www.speedrun.com/sonic_colors_ultimate/run/yv8l908m
