Happy new year everyone

There's a few things to announce regarding Memories of Battle.

The first one is that the rule regarding Qi charges before starting a run has been changed: Runs must have no Qi charges before the first boss (can be achieved by retrying). This is to minimize pre-setup before run attempts, hopefully leading to less possible burnouts for grinding later on. The HP setups (which only affect Jade runs anyways) before a first boss are still fair game. The runs affected by this change are only 4, which we're still debating if to remove or not since most are already obsoleted anyways.

The second change, is that Memories of Battle will now follow a NMG ruleset. This doesn't affect any current run, and it was done in order to make it more compatible with any possible future game changes. This would also make boss phase skips banned, which fits more the idea of the category overall.

Another small thing, that wasnt fully included yet in NMG rules, is that boss phase skips will also be banned. Right now this only applied to Lady Ethereal phase skip which is the only one we know it's possible (on speedrun patch at least). You can check the updated ruleset in [this post].

If wanna join the discussions about changes and stuff, feel free to join the [Speedrun Discord]. Have a good one and enjoy running :)