I‘m still for option 1 because of the ideology behind speedrunning; even though it‘s much more of a hassle for people trying to get runs in.
However I don‘t want my vote to count as I‘m not an active XXL1 runner (yet) and thus want the ACTUAL runners to decide on that ruling.
I‘m interested in the result though 😃
And if I had to clarify that point a little bit more: The idea behind speedrunning is to play a game as fast as you can with different goals/categories. This means that every CASUAL player should be able to start up his console/pc and *technically* have the possibility to reproduce all of the skips/glitches without any modifications to the game/files/system.
There are obviously some exceptions to that like compatibility patches (take our anti DRM as an example) and some input/control patches (like in the older GTAs).
And that‘s where this ideology would get conflicted because of the usage of external tools to achieve something that‘s **not** possible without cheats
Hopefully like we said that doesn't change anything for the casual since we don't count the intro cutscene in the overall time
but i see what you are talking about even if i don't rly agree on that in this case
I don't remember if you Teefy or another person answered to that, but do you think it's possible to manipulate a file in order to change some parts of the game (not noticeable by a human), in order to affect the final time ? I mean something like RNG manipulations for some parts. I'm not in the technical part, so I can't tell if it's possible to do such a thing. But if something like this is possible, or "potentially possible", I think the second choice is not an option.
If not, for practical reasons, and to make speedrunners want to run it more, I agree with option 2.
Even if I would have a little preference for option 1.
i don't think such a thing is possible but like you if we could have the opinion of an ''expert'' on the question it would be great
You can edit the multipliers
the helmets, what regions you've unlocked and so on, basically all the persistent data
but that would be really obvious. However I don't know how much time the mods spend into the verification for the XXL games when going through submissions
If every run is fully watched at normal speed that shouldn't be a problem because it would be too obvious
yeah so rng manipulation, right ?
Would it be possible to pre determine where each helmet and multiplayer spawns out of a box also which box they spawn out of?
Because that is some Major RNG
I don't think so but I would need to investigate time to that again. Didn't fiddle around with the save files since we were trying stuff out like 8 months ago or something like that
I guess most of the boxes have static drops but there might be some where the content's changing based on the ticks that passed since the game loaded
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