Howdy folks, I'm a new streamer hoping to work my way into being a new speedrunner. I've been contemplating running Pirate Warriors for quite some time now, But currently, After watching a few runs I'm seeing that there were single-level runs done in both real-time and in In-Game time. I'm just curious as to which is currently required for the Single level segments.

Also, I was wondering if anyone might have some blank splits to try and use with Livesplit for Any%. Which I'd eventually like to try.

Hi there! Glad to see you here ^_^

Single Levels are divided into RTA and IGT categories, since special attack animations and activating Kizuna rush pause the in-game timer, changing the strategies used for IGT. Feel free to submit in either. For RTA, timer starts once "start battle" is pressed, and timer ends once the "victory" text is displayed onscreen, or the final cutscene of the level is triggered (whichever is applicable for the stage). IGT uses the time displayed on the results screen.

There are some splits for any% in the Resources tab, graciously provided by Volteri.

If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to ask :) I wish you all the best ^_^

Ok, I'm a bit confused regarding the timer as well. Is there a reason that Any% uses RTA and levels use IGT? This is even more confusing, given that Dream Log seems to be based around IGT as well. Even Co-Op NG+ uses IGT rather than RTA. Why the glaring discrepancy in how Any% and the other categories are all run?

Also, a question regarding Any%. Since it is a long category, and seems to only use RTA (for some reason), does it allow for things like pausing the timer for the runner to take bathroom breaks, since even the WR is a 4:28:45, with all other runs being closer to the 6.5 hour mark?

Welp for the IGT i don't think it can come for the any% part because you can cheat too easely and it breaks the fun part of the run. For the pause because its a long run im not for it cause you have 2-3 pee break on the run so +4h-5h is not that hard to do and it kills the "fun / challenge" part of the run.

I believe you will find that levels is broken down into two categories RTA and IGT. The IGT pauses whenever you use a special attack, originally runs just turned into spamming special attacks as often as you could to pause the timer and make progress, but this turned out to sorta kill the whole point of speedrunning as it would eat up way more RT and just not be fun. https://www.speedrun.com/one_piece_pirate_warriors_3/thread/ztqkd

Dream Log and Nightmare log are IGT as the only runner of them did it and requested segmented. https://www.speedrun.com/one_piece_pirate_warriors_3/thread/zthqc

I believe Co-Op uses IGT as the original person who requested that category also requested it to be IGT so they could pause and their partner could join? I don't have a link for that one so I could be wrong.

I personally don't care if you pause both the timer and game to go take a restroom break as long as you make it clear that's what you're doing.