Hey everyone following, is there any interest at all in this game? There never was much to begin with, but I think if we added catagories like individual chapters or maybe something with individual characters mystic weapons?

Idk, I'll continue on by myself if need be, but I was hoping even for a couple more pals to do it with.

Well, your promotion must mean you can certainly make those changes now. :D

Since doing the entire game is rather daunting, I think every chapter should have it's own category. The Cats for WO3 should be formatted as WO4s: https://www.speedrun.com/Warriors_Orochi_4

We also need to really decide with each other on using in-game time or real-time. I've said it before that if a game that gives you the IGT as a feature, it should be used. Menuing on these kinds of games is fickle and load-time differences will create slight unfairness, in my opinion.

Glad to hear there's an active mod here now. If you add a category for Story-mode any% (earliest possible Story-mode ending), I'll submit a run I did a few months back.

About individual Chapters... A run like that would require the player to play all mandatory levels in a Chapter in order? I haven't played WO4, so I don't know how much sense individual Chapters make in that game, but in WO3U (with the non-linear structure) such a category sounds a bit arbitrary.

Would runs like that be NG+ only beyond Chapter 1, since continuing from a file with later Chapters unlocked is no longer a fresh file?

Going for pure IGT might have some issues. For example: saving and reloading allows an infinite jump tactic that is slow in real time but very fast in IGT. Going for pure IGT that allows save and quit during a level would necessarily lead to rather boring play.

The reason I wanted individual chapters is because without them, the only runs people would ever do are IL and Story-mode any% (which I well definitely add, seems like the most obvious category!)

Individual chapters was actually inspired by the format of LEGO speedrunning, if you are familiar. Instead of playing the whole game you would just have to complete all mandatory levels. But yea, I don't think it's a great run if you have access to NG+.

I think it's fair to get rid of some of these categories. Nobody is gonna run Gauntlet mode 100% and even if they did it would just be teleporting to the end goal and no actual fighting. I'm also tempted to say no one will do mystic weapons but then again, I might do it... I will also clean up the categories with Co-op and stuff once I get back from vacation. Also, not sure about three different survival runs.

IGT seems like a better standard, but if you can manipulate igt easily then we'd have a problem. So I'm not sure about that.

I also desperately want to add a run for each character, since there's so much diversity on the roster and it encourages using weaker characters. I started adding individual mystic weapons to Misc. but truthfully, that may be way too excessive.