ItalyDuring the demo epriod I did some testing and recorded a run for fun. I then pulled the video of my run in premiere and I started doing some digging.
My RTA time for this run was 10:59.90 while the IGT was 09:33.02, timing starts when you skip the first loading screen with the control scheme and stops when the last scoring screen shows up after the ending cutscene. I cut off from the video all cutscenes and loading screen as shown in the pitcure: the purple segments at the beginning and end are the parts before I get control of the game inputs and after i lose control of the inputs, the pink parts are cutscenes, and the green parts are loading times, the blue parts are the remaining gameplay. Counting only the blue parts, the time was still 10:03.xx, so the In Game Timer is pausing during something else other than cutscenes and loading screens.
I did another test removing all the slowdown bits and score screen after the fights and this time I got something more insteresting, as shown in the pitcure again: the purple segments at the beginning and end are the parts before i get control of the game inputs and after i lose control of the inputs, the pink parts are cutscenes, and the green parts are loading times, the blue parts are the remaining gameplay and the yellow bits are clips from the first frame the camera slowdown starts to the first frame when i get control of the character again after the score screen. Counting only the blue parts, the time was still 09:43.xx, much closer to the actual In Game Time and it's possible that by cutting manually i still have 10 seconds spread across the blue clips.
With this it could be very possible that the In Game Timer is tracking only when you've actual full control of Briar and not anything else. I posted my findings to the devs aswell but I still have to receive an answer but they said they will look into it and letting me know.
Hello there, I'm the moderator for this game and I welcome you to the work in progress speedrun section of Soulstice.
Today is launch day and with more people getting the game the categories can be refined and tuned with proper rules about timing and limitations. First players would have to finish the game so it will take a couple days before actually finalizing this stuff.
Also, I would wait before opening a Discord server because I believe it's better to let the page here on SRC consolidate before building another platform.
And Finally, I've alredy done some testing on the demo for IGT and the in game timer is super unreliable since it appears it doesn't count loading screens, which is good, but also cutscene and score screens. Probably the categories will keep the RTA times for consoles and for the PC version we would need someone to look into a loadless plugin for this game on livesplit.
With that, I wish you all a great launch day and I'll come to you soon with more infos!
Hello PoP community! I've been a casual runner of Dishonored and a bit of Borderlands 2 and now I would like to try and learn some Prince of Persia for PC. I'm here to ask you if there's a full guide for running this game or watching vods and videos of single glitches and zips covers every strat and current route. Also, there's a specific versione fo the game for the run?
I'm not good at this. I'm an italian guy in his 20s, I got into speedrunning after watching AGDQ in 2013 and being a spectator since. It took me a year to get myself in the mindset of try my best at something and I started learning and practicing Valkyria Chronicles soon after AGDQ 2014. After a couple of months I got bored of that and I started play some other games casually when for my birthday a friend gave to me both DLCs for Dishonored. I love that game. I started playing it over and over again and one night at 4 a.m. I found myself thinking "wait a minute, I'm speedrunning this?", so I started learning the any% NLG route for Dishonored. I got under 50 minutes, that was my goal, but then life went sideways. I had to take a full year of gaming except for some casual hearthstone match from my phone but now I found the drive to get back into it.
Sadly I do not have any recorded video of my timings for those 2 games, but now I'm here learning TLOZ: the Minish Cap ready to time some runs.
