Hello there, I see this is an inactive game, so I just wanna confirm that the mods are not inactive, so I'm making this post. I wanna get into running the game but I have a lot of questions: When you say "Unlock all Races", do you mean the timer ends when we unlock the last race or when we complete the last race? Same with unlock all stunt tracks. Why only 3 categories? I think all of the modes should be added (Especially Nightshift and Speed), but not all exactly since some of the gamemodes you cant even complete (Monster Trucks and if I remember correctly, Big Battle as well.) Do I have to reset my progress for doing race runs? I get resetting for Challenge runs, but do I have to do it for the other categories too?

Hey there! Sorry for the delay that it took for us to get to you. Anyways, I've been set as a moderator for FO3 in the recent months, and as such I finally took a look at the game's leaderboards.

First of all, I finally added rules for the "Unlock all Races/Stunts" categories (now known as All Races/All Stunts), so that should be dealt with and the categories should be easily runnable.

Second, I'm down for adding the Speed category (and you might see that on the leaderboard very soon), but personally I see no reason for adding the Nightshift events, as they're pretty much the same as the race events. Some events should have their own category, and some definitely shouldn't. If you want to contact me, or the rest of the moderator team, and discuss some more stuff regarding categories/rules, feel free to do so in the FlatOut Speedrunning discord server ( https://discord.gg/SS7w3nv ).

Hopefully I was helpful, and once again, apologies for the delay :D

I would love to see some additional game modes as categories on the leaderboards in the future.

@cuzYnot I gave it some thought back then, but there's a lot of issues to be resolved if you'd like to see these gamemodes on the leaderboards (ones which weren't even resolved when the stunts and races categories got added).

The biggest problem by far is the way you'd time these categories. FO3 loadings are "weird" to put it nicely, and they vary a lot on plenty of computers. That's why I think using RTA timing for categories with only a couple of events (such as All Stunts) is simply not going to work. The correct move would be to use IGT timing method for the most parts, however that brings up two more issues - first one being categories which do not have a timer (great example being All Stunts yet again), and the second being FO3's transition which does not display all times immediately, and which makes skipping showing your final time pretty easy, meaning we wouldn't even be able to check going through the VODs frame by frame.

There's a lot of problems that need to be fixed before introducing more categories to the leaderboards, problems which I can't really solve. That's why I haven't added any yet.

Oh, I meant adding them as individual levels, in the same way as it is currently for normal races. There shouldn't be any problems with that, right? I'm not really familiar with the technicalities of timing runs that contain loads, but from what I know about how Flatout 3 works (or, doesn't work), I can imagine it causes some issues.

Oh yeah, about that - I did want to add the Speed events to the IL leaderboard, however, I couldn't because my game is in czech and I don't know the english names haha

If you'd send me the tracks you'd like to be added (with english names), I'd be happy to add them to the leaderboard :)

You can change the language of your game from steam, just right click on it in the library, choose properties, then language.