Thereās been alot of discussion in our Discord server recently regarding a number of ideas for the future of Half-Life speedrunning and its leaderboards, so today weāll be bringing these propositions forward to the whole community to decide if they should be implemented.
The proposed changes:
Banning the āwaitā command in āScriptlessā runs
This topic has been brought up again since the discovery of a new method of CLD (changelevel delay); showcase here:
If implemented, current runs using āwaitā would remain on the leaderboards as legitimate because up until now using this command has barely saved any time, so current runs are beatable without it.
Adding a PS2 category/game
Half-Life PS2 runner, SuperFrizzio, has been on our backs about this for some time now, so we figured it was finally time to end the silence and come to a decision
Merging difficulties (Easy + Hard in one category)
This would mean that the main categories for speedrun.com/hl1 would be simplified to just WON and Steam, with a difficulty variable being added so that āHard WRā can still be claimed.
Yeahā¦ I recently picked up HL again and discovered some new PS2 tricks that can improve my old 44:37 run by at least 6-7 minutesā¦ The angle-jump trick and other cool other stuff can make their appereance in a new SS and segmented speedrunā¦
Iām gonna quote what I wrote in the vote-page:
āThe best option would be to create the Half-Life (PS2) page because of huge differences like I explained some years agoā¦ Also would be nice if I can be the moiderator to that page so I can add the main categories for PS2 like segmented, SS, alien mode and ofc Hazard Course :)ā
Actually since there are different categories, it might be better to make it a separate game (instead of adding one PS2 category like I mentioned in my form submission).
Iāve noticed there are a few people who voted against merging difficulties on the basis that they donāt want mid-run difficulty changing to be allowed.
To clarify, merging difficulties does not mean that changing difficulty mid-run will be allowed; it just means that both āEasyā and āHardā runs will be submitted under one category.
Can you do the same with the IL pages?