Hello, everyone!
We heard your feedback on the last poll (Which you can find here: https://www.speedrun.com/fnaf1/thread/74eeu . Please continue leaving comments!). There seemed to be an even split between people who enjoyed Golden Freddy% and people who wanted it gone. After reading the responses, we've come up with two arguments for keeping GF%:
1.) GF% isn't doing any harm by existing. If people enjoy it, it should stay. 2.) GF% is a really short category, which makes it perfect for introducing new runners to the game.
However, we'd like to argue that while GF% is a good way to introduce runners, it's not good for retaining runners. GF% has a lot of runs, but the majority of those runners will only do one run, and then never return.
The reason runners don't return after playing GF% is because there's no way to really expand on it after a single run. And they don't have an incentive to try the other categories, because GF% is so unlike Any%, 2-Star & 100%.
What these boards need is an interesting, fair, short category that is a good representation of the rest of the game...
Introducing Death%! A category that's been suggested in other games multiple times, and could finally come to FNaF 1. As the name implies, Death% would be a speedrun where you try to die as fast as possible (From a new game.). It would be short, interesting, and a good representation of the rest of the game.
As always, feel free to leave your feedback.
~FSS
@oleksiy73 Well, we want this forum post to sit around for a little while. We'll change the boards sometime this weekend depending on the response.
This is a great idea and I'm totally behind implementing it into fnaf speedrunning. I have an idea for another shorter category. I don't exactly have a name for it but you basically play from night 5 all the way to custom night 4/20 mode. You can obviously play from night 5 with the "continue" feature in fnaf. I think this would be a nice, shorter category for experienced players that saves the boredom of playing from night 1 to 4 (although you could argue that night 4 is pretty much or near enough in the same difficulty as night 5). The length of this category is about 30mins (excluding legacy, idk how long it'd take to do it on legacy). Overall, Death% is a good idea, in a game where category ideas are hard to dream up. It's nice to see a new category in fnaf speedrunning. Whether you should keep GF% idk.
"We'll change the boards sometime this weekend."
I uh... I meant to say THIS weekend, of course ._.
Keep an eye out, y'all!
