Welcome to the official Fortnight Challenge thread, where you can discuss anything about the current challenge, how it works, and post ideas that you'd like to see for future challenges, as well as vote in polls now and then.
What is the Fortnight Challenge? It is a Full-game Leaderboard category which rotates its active challenge every two weeks. The challenges consist of the game being modified in various ways with its own rules, no potential change is off-limits! This makes for an interesting category that breaks away a bit from the regular game. Once a two-week cycle has ended the leaderboards have their placings recorded here as well as on the L4D Speedrunning Wiki and is replaced with the next challenge and its new ruleset. Make sure to always read the rules for each new challenge as they can change to be specific to it! The challenges run for 11 days from a Thursday night EST to the second Monday night EST, with three days off to allow for a break and plenty of time to get everything sorted out for a new challenge to be rotated in. Within the rules will be linked a countdown timer that you can use to see exactly when run submissions end.
It is encouraged to post here about the challenges and ideas you would like to see incorporated into future challenges, from small changes like movement speed or health, to big changes like modifying cheat-protected commands to change gameplay or modifying spawns. Again, nothing is off limits to explore, and different elements that compliment each other can be combined into one more interesting category, so anything you propose can be considered. I may cherrypick ideas and use them in future challenges.
The current challenge is One With Everything - A Buddhist Master goes to Treescrub and Treescrub asks him "Hey buddy, what can I make ya?" and the Buddhist Master replies, "make me one with everything". Addicted Blastoffman Driver is here! | The challenge ends... at some point? Leaving it open-ended for the time being!
You can find this challenge included in the One With Everything addon which can be: downloaded here.
I feel like crouch% on dead centre would be a real good one. I really feel like you should implement it.
Inverted controls, weapon randomizer or maybe a mutation where you must protect a bot, like as a VIP or something. Not as extreme as what Sunday Driver is, but maybe they can be made harder in some way
This was meant to be done many months ago, but the time and motivation simply didn't exist to make it happen. Unfortunately, due to limitations of speedrun.com and how the category extensions board is laid out, this does mean we lost the players variable (the variable used to filter co-op runs for 2
