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SupporterBoltgun Purge Guide
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l_57_uZ_IYlD7pTQ9xNUAeFNKrk8iSxjHtk6WWWo8wo
Originally created in 2023, my guide's being revamped, streamlined and most importantly, finished.
I've been running boltgun since release and one key piece of feedback I've heard from runners thinking about running the game is the unpredictability of purges.
With basic to intermediate game knowledge and mechanics, this guide saves time by catching newcomers up with what's already known about speedrunning the purges.
An essential tool for experienced runners to refer to also.
As far as I've experienced, purges can still behave unpredictably outside of variations that are commonly expected. Please reply here to let me know if variations should be added or updated.
The decision made by the poll in the discord was no PC/console split for now but it's open to be discussed again so if this is something more players would like to see let us know here or in the speedrunning channel of the discord
There's occasional activity in the speedrunning channel of the discord linked on this page, feel free to join! There's also a conversation being had about adding console leaderboards, including a poll. Will have a definitive answer for console leaderboards in the next few days.
This is slander. Why was nothing done by the mods when I was verbally abused in general chat and my DMs?
First doc made 7 months ago, when I was muted in the discord: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kHuCCmh5wa7i_E_vTx3WrkkNh9CSJTaDvPbQWOSxAlQ/edit?usp=sharing
Second with the discord messages after I made the news post and was perm removed: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q1W5hyKU65kYbtcEu22uEQ5l0IwbVHGQWqUk80FlYjA/edit?usp=sharing
Breaking down what's been said here:
"Prior to his announcement, several changes were made without permission or prior knowledge from the other members in the mod-team or community. These actions were taken with powers ill-fully gotten and were made with the intention of keeping them hidden until it was no longer possible to act" The only immediate change was PC & Console split. Apart from Stray who was 2 months offline from SRC, the other mods are not active. The extent of their inactivity is highlighted in my docs. (except JayHobs but I got him the role only recently along with myself). I announced all the planned changes as I implemented the first change, it is what it is and focusing on me not saying anything to these mods is ignoring everything else I've brought up.
Stray has suggested I got the role from SRC directly when in fact I got it from WilderJoe (the Warhammer series mod) Please look at this and tell me who's being insincere? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n29Ci0er-zPZwA0XSP3HajtoK0Ax_f5Alw67Ae4nK3U/edit?usp=sharing
"He was the only one privy to these and only intended informing the public until after the board changes were forced." I want to reiterate only PC and console split actually happened immediately.
"By going above the mod-team to acquire his mod-powers through deceit and ultimately making these decisions with such poor reasons, Laggy's goal was to lie and deceive the community." Is WilderJoe above the mod team? He is suggesting I hit up SRC. My first ticket asking for mod here when they first muted me was denied lol. I submitted no proof at the time because I created the doc and I was like nah this is too much for me to degenerate into but I guess I'm glad I've got proof now. Why did WilderJoe tell Stray I didn't msg him? I also don't appreciate the bolding of my supposed goal. My goal was to make things competitively viable and allow the board to accurately show the submitted runs.
"Mistakenly, he applied his changes in error, and several runs were orphaned when mods took notice and acted." This one hurts. When I split PC and console it orphaned everything because all runs didn't have that variable and I spent maybe 3 hours overall across the day quickly giving the runs the variable. The only orphaned runs after that were rejected runs.
"Initially, it was requested of Laggy to halt any further action and discuss the matter publicly. However, this request was refused and more drastic action necessary." Please read the discord log https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q1W5hyKU65kYbtcEu22uEQ5l0IwbVHGQWqUk80FlYjA/edit?usp=sharing
"Laggy's been demoted by the admins and removed from the mod-team, again, and let it be publicly known that Laggy is never to be trusted with moderation powers." The first time I was mod was for like less than a day, I was going to unbury the glitchless records and Stray said too many cooks in the kitchen and threatened to un-mod me if I did anything, so I demoted myself, it's in the audit logs.
"Several mods agreed on this before which is why he circumvented the mods.." This suggests my black listing happened way before what's currently happening. I was black listed when I clashed with Auroch's QA. Uphill battle ever since, they actively haven't liked me since then and have taken every opportunity to keep me from seeing their mod chats in the discord.
"Therefore, current and future runs submitted for verification will see a delay in the verification process, until the board-states have been fixed" This is a nothing burger, they deleted the pc/console variable, it's done. Any run I moved in the months I was mod leading up to this such as the wrong warps in 1-2 glitchless was fixing their mistakes. All in the audit log.
The 'Real Time', yeah, added that line into the rules. The full game timing by adding them up should work too
We should use IGT for levels, it's consistent for everyone whereas LiveSplit is inaccurate without an autosplitter and the time between acts is effectively loading screens
While running I figured these were worth bringing up and should be implemented here
- At the end of every mission a 'Real-Time' is given. This is a suitable timer to use for Levels imo (Not 'Final-Time' as that doesn't count act attempts where you die)
- Full game runs should start first frame of gameplay after pressing start on the first mission (black screen with HUD elements) and should end first frame the 'Target Down' text appears on the final mission (the text flashes red for a frame) There should be no cuts/splices so the menu between missions is counted
- 'Display Time' should be enabled in the Video Settings and 'Show Score' should be set to 'Full' for verification purposes
Hey! If you launch LiveSplit, go into "Edit Splits..." and type Mullet Mad Jack into the "Game Name" bar, the autosplitter should load automatically
The run that is currently 4th place on the Any%/Easy board is the only run that is played on or post patch 1.05. Every other run was played before this patch introduced the in-game speedrun mode timer which gave us official starting and ending points for all the sequences that are counted as in-game time, we timed it differently before this patch which is why some runs are currently minutes faster than they should be. I am in the process of retiming every single run, check in the NewGame+ category, every retimed run is noted with (Mod note: IGT retimed to patch 1.05). Only a few runs in Any% have been retimed so far as that's the bulk of the runs and each run takes roughly 30 minutes for me to frame time 12 different sequences, I've been aiming to retime at least one run a day since I found the frames to reference from this patch but sometimes I've missed days and including obsolete runs I still have a lot to retime, my time frame is all runs will be retimed in no more than a week from now. If you want to submit a run during this you're able, I'm going to post in the news section when all runs before patch 1.05 have been retimed and at that point the runs will be where they should be.
