Would love to speedrun some Levels of the game. Any chance in that happening or is it not worth it?

We previously had singleplayer IL leaderboards. Nobody ran them except Joshimuz, and he only ran a couple of them like once each. They aren't anything like the actual any% runs, so they were removed and replaced with something more consistent and fun.

And honestly speaking, I don't really want to see the singleplayer missions added back. They aren't very interesting as IL's because of the differences.

Ok. Understandable

I would very much recommend the gang hideout ILs though. They are very consistent and easy to run and reset. Maybe my opinion in that regard is biased though, as the world record holder for all of them.

Lol. Alright maybe I'll give them a try.

That's a shame I would have loved to run some missions, not got the time for a full game run

If you're not on one of the recent ports, check out some of the multiplayer stuff. Those are run and easy to grind.

I'm on the PS5 port as I don't have my old ps3 anymore, I'm sure ILs could be really fun to do, it's amazing that we don't have them anymore, would be a great way to keep this game alive on here and have more new runs coming in, I hope for a change

The thing is with IL’s you need a PS3 or 360 for some of them because you can fast travel during some missions on Patch 1.0, making them way faster. We’d either have to have everyone buying multiple consoles to compete or ban any patch apart from the most recent one. It’s just not sustainable

I'd imagine way more people play on PS5 now and we could split the leaderboards if necessary, it's a shame to limit the RDR speedrun to full game and PS3 only multiplayer, if its the workload that'd too much I'd throw my hat in to verify runs of ILs, just want this wee corner of Speedrun.com to thrive and have some fun

Apart from one run I verified some time ago, I’m the only person who plays this game on PS5. In fact, I’m still the only person who runs this game regularly and having empty IL boards isn’t going to bring it to life, there’s just not enough popularity for it. I get what you’re saying though, feel free to just do them anyway and maybe you can find some good strats in the meantime to make the run just a little better

There aren't any runners that are active aside from Mashun doing RDR1 aside from me, and I only do ILs now for the gang hideouts because those are objectively more fun to grind than RDR1 singleplayer levels. 4 years ago, we had SP levels as our IL leaderboard. 4 years ago, there was only like 3 runners that ran them and maybe 10% of the levels had runs. 4 years later, the leaderboards were changed to gang hideouts. More than 3 people have ran them, every gang hideout and co-op mission has at least 2 runners each, and to get a world record in them you actually need to grind for it.

Is it really worth removing the gang hideouts or adding SP levels above or below them so that nobody runs them? Most people would see how empty they are and either think "Oh, this game isn't that optimized, I can get a free world record in this level!" even though Mashun has poured hours and hours into bringing the record to its knees and it's almost a guarantee that any time set by him in a full game run for any individual mission will be faster than the IL time, OR they will see the empty IL leaderboard and how few runners there are and realize that nobody is running the game. At least like this, the MP community can jump in if they want to. And so far, at least 3 of us have.

Also, I notice you said only ps3 multiplayer? Every single existing world record in a gang hideout except Solomon's Folly has been set on an xbox console since the boards were made. Idk where you got the idea that the multiplayer was ps3-only, it's playable on xbox 360, xbox one/s/x, and xbox series s/x. That's very largely accessible imo.