Now that the DSS has come back online we will have to make a decision as a community with regards to how to handle it for the leaderboards.

Summary of what it does:

When hovering over a planet and once sufficient resources have been donated on a cooldown, it will provide various in mission bonuses. This may include:

• Free 380 barrage (heavy ordnance distribution)
• Free Hellpod Space Optimization booster (Orbital Blockade)
• Eagle Strafing Runs which spawn in a similar manner as weather effects (Eagle Storm)

It essentially acts very similar to free stratagems in that it is a bonus which is gated behind real time, temporary events.

Summary of discussion on the matter in ⁠changes-and-suggestions:

Runners expressed concerns over the fact that the DSS and free stratagems could give players an unfair advantage since these events are time limited with no guarantee they will ever come up again. Nobody was able to identify a run that was unbeatable due to the DSS/Free Stratagems however most acknowledged that it would be possible to get an unbeatable WR with them, especially for solo.

Summary of the poll itself

We will be voting on whether to track DSS usage in speedruns via an annotation (similar to the existing system used for free stratagems) or whether to ban the usage of both outright. If we do decide to ban them, we will have to do another poll regarding what to do with the old runs which used free stratagems (either grandfather them in, or reject them for the new rule violation). As always, if you have any thoughts, or issues with the constraints of the poll please bring it up in ⁠changes-and-suggestions. Your opinion is valued Helldiver!