The boards are nicely formatted in most other ways, but there is still no version-related information per run. Since that's the case, bugs in the game will be fixed or not fixed and runs will haphazardly be compared with each other while some runners were able to exploit particular bugs or new weapons and mechanics, and other runners weren't. It's important to have a version field for a game in heavy development. How about an exe timestamp field? There should be at least something distinguishing between versions.

Edit: Actually, a file timestamp won't work, as Steam updates set the timestamps when they update, which may not be the same for everyone.

The community does not feel this is an issue especially worth concern at the moment. It might be later down the line but currently there is no problem.

We can cross the bridge later when we need to.

OK. Thanks for the response.

I don't run this game but for most other games it only becomes an issue to differentiate between game versions when there is a glitch introduced that changes a route substantially, useless glitches for speed running or very minimal time saver glitches generally don't warrant new version sub-categories to be added for a game.

For the last 9 months, many changes have been made that change runs significantly. For example, new weapons have been added, a glitch allowing bosses to be skipped existed until very recently (2017-12-27), and crossbeam laser allowed you to deal triple damage until a few months after the Steam release. The devs are continuously adding things and fixing issues which affect speed. However, I saw in Discord that they plan to finally add a version n u m b e r to new builds going forward.

Edit: Sorry for the multi-post. The browser lagged and it didn't seem like my post was being sent, so I pressed the button a few times.

Edit 2: Looks like the word "n u m b e r" without the spaces gets changed into something broken in this forum software, so I've spaced it out to work around it.