Changed: Time precision

Reasons: To avoid collisions of sub-second difference, runs will be verified with 10 ms precision from now on. No collisions have been appeared yet, though all death% runs will be re-verified due to precision importance. It's a flaw that should've been fixed long ago. From now on every run will receive confirmation including milliseconds. For example WPWT Any% — 6:12:660

I need some realistic suggestions about the fate of Doctor Kel% category. It's quite deprecated and not suitable for speedrun. For me personally it needs to be suspended. What's your thoughts? I'll wait one week for any propositions about it.

Opposite idea: keep category alive and add some speed-ups such as 200% day speed time and explain core mechanics of time skips such as climbing surfaces (reduces stamina), etc. Share your thoughts on this as well!

I need some realistic suggestions about the fate of Doctor Kel% category. It's quite deprecated and not suitable for speedrun. For me personally it needs to be suspended. What's your thoughts? I'll wait one week for any propositions about it.

Opposite idea: keep category alive and add some speed-ups such as 200% day speed time and explain core mechanics of time skips such as climbing surfaces (reduces stamina), etc. Share your thoughts on this as well!

Okay, i can't answer now normally, because the category itself suggested by inactive Sr. Mod long ago and is quite deprecated. You're right about insufficiency of rules and possibility to complete the task. It should be suggested to take more "sane" clue for speedruning. Do not try it now and waste your time. Watch changelog for it and participate on discussion at General, please :D Thanks for a reminder!

Jump, there's more tries, including sub 20

There is another one, i meant the order of verifications. There are 11 runs to check, i'll verify them right today!

Will check in the 4th place. Is the other one a duplicate?

Will check in 5th place. Should I decline these other tries or keep them all? If no answer I'll keep all verified ones :)

Changed: Important info! forum

Reasons: | changelog appearence | clarification updates has been required |

Here the reasoning of run belongings to category will be published. Often it makes no sense to compete between different versions with same mechanics and route. Hovewer, some changes may remain unnoticeable but crucial at a time.

Examples:

• Tutorial Any% category haven't changed between 0.7.0 and 0.8.1, but from 0.8.2b the pannel been modified. Such runs cannot be treated as same category and placed at 0.8.1 version.
• WPWT Any% remains the same throughout 0.8.0-0.8.2b, hovewer, important superjump glitch mechanic has changed. Therefore, runs can no longer be compared and treated the same way.

In this forum each post will target specific reason of placing runs where they belonging to.Rules inside each category will receive the link to belonging post to ensure lack of ambiguity. Important! The forum is experimental and can be suggested to alter here. Forum will receive more functionality in the future as well.

One post here = one something edited. Simple as that!

Thanks for your understanding and contributions to the community! :D

Noted the info!

Will check in third place

Will check second soon

Will check first soon

I'm back on forum now. Been inactive due to lack of runs. And now I see ELEVEN of them! Good stuff to watch at night i guess. Will be active again. Thanks for contributing

Buying kerfur is simple enough, it would be stuck to several seconds difference due to static drone delivery time, so I'd rather wait one more participant to suggest it before adding

Haha, thanks :)

I also have in plans "done perfect" style for that run and will do kerfurO% for 0.8.1b, since no one did good one yet. Kinda rueful that speedrunning community have not developed yet. About jumps.. it's a secret still, but for a player with Jump nickname - the key is in fps amount. Ragdoll recover is kinda random glitch when you spacebar-spam near surface

Replicated! Apparently, you now lose 0.5 stamina for every climb. And yeah, this is not severe exploit, but can be used to manipulate timings for 0.8.1b KerfurO% runs. Since you need to go to the cave now for quartz and sleeping there to get out. Nice job! UPD: It's also better to shift-climb workbench for more consistency

Yeah.. the only moderator (creator) woken up just to make a new more active mod :D Check forums here btw! There's important info to consider

Big update!

Tidied up categories and subcategories, clarified rules and nuances

• You have to start recording from the main menu to ensure you're using correct version for the run.

• Rules are applied for each category and version. Here is how to follow them strictly and suggest your thoughts and propositions.

• Carefully read the rules of each run. For example, not looking at the signs to popup info in tutorial runs will not be counted as a finished run! Which is strict nuance to take into account. Other ones may provide you more efficient timings, so bear in mind.

• Later on (on community develop) it will require splits from LiveSplits software to standardize runs (it's hard for mods to count milliseconds without it while YT provides whole seconds only)

• Runs starting ONLY when you move your camera OR position (the first frame of it). So you can wait when your game fully loads on start (which is different for different systems). That step is taken to prevent inconsistencies and advantages for players with better PC.

• DO NOT CHEAT lol (i'm not joking...) Punishment for avoiding that rule is one month of run verification denial. Cheating states for: || game code modifications || speeding up the video of your run || using Tool Assisted Speedrunning (TAS) ||

• Breaking category rules will not lead to a punishment.

• Spamming and acting deviantly overall on forums gets you banned from VOTV speedrunning community on this site. (can be appealed at my discord by the topic link below).

Official MrDrNose (VotV dev) discord channel: https://discord.com/invite/WKBvqu4tjV

My speedrunning topic inside it (also a way to contact me - wiirar): https://discord.com/channels/512287844258021376/1296754151237357568/1296754151237357568