Greetings, Helldivers!

I'm writing you here to announce, for the benefit of anyone who isn't in the server, that a lot of the changes that have come and will come to these boards were - and will be - decided by discussion and votes happening on the discord server. Please consider dropping by and making your voice heard.

Hello Helldivers!

We have been thinking for quite a while about a way to make the boards work better for people who don't want to only submit runs that involve the entire squad offing themselves after mission completion and are excited to announce it is finally here!

Extract% works like Any%, except you have to extract your whole squad in the end.

After consulting the community in a poll on the discord, have also made 100% - a run where in addition to finishing the main mission and extracting all helldivers, you also have to complete all side objectives and clear all bases on the map.

We hope these new categories invigorate everyone's interest in speedrunning. If you have any ideas for further categories, please reach out to the mod team to let us know, and consider dropping in on the discord to join the discussion and any future polls there.

Happy Helldiving! For managed democracy!

Except for Tutorial because it doesn't have one.

This board is short on volunteers at the moment - if this remains to be the case, I will begin rejecting runs that are incorrectly timed. I have been manually editing and correcting the times, which isn't a problem if I'm only verifying a few runs a day, but typically I am met with dozens of runs upon logging in.

Please consider volunteering to be a Verifier. If interested, send me a message.

As you already know, the old leaderboards were somewhat confusing, and the moderation team added me to help them create the new tables, and they're ready now.

Now, in the "Full Game" table, only the two runs of the Tutorial will be included, and in the leaderboards of the individual levels, all other speedruns will be listed, with the difficulty variables as in the old tables.

For missions that can be done against both Terminids and Automatons, instead of using different tables, [T] [A], a single table will be used where there will be an additional variable indicating the faction being fought against, apart from the difficulty. You can see how it looks now in the image below.

DISPATCH FROM MODS COMMAND

Display of categories and runs is changing soon.

Right now, the sub sorts runs by categories. As many of you might have noticed it's pretty annoying to move around between categories.

This is why we decided to change the sub settings from "Full game leaderboard" to "Level summary".

Unfortunately, to change this setting, new categories have to be created. This means that all the now old runs will stay there.

We hope you will not miss all your runs after this change and we are sure this will let some more to come.

Have a great day. Fight for democracy!

As per two announcements ago we said to include the loadout screen prior to mission launch in your speed run videos.

As of the posting of this news item WE WILL START REJECTING RUNS THAT DO NOT INCLUDE THIS.

To avoid unnecessary hassle, please include the loadout selection in your submissions in addition to the XP screen after the mission.

Thank you for understanding!

- All missing difficulties have been added.

- Two new categories centering around Sample Extraction have been added.

Thanks for your patience gamers! o7

Default difficulties will be updated as runs populate categories. Superfluous difficulties will be removed as they are discovered.

Please include loadouts prior to launching mission in your run submissions

Please start using the In-Game Timer for run submissions going forward!

For ALL categories/missions that are NOT tutorial -

There are a few seconds at the beginning of missions where you technically have zero control that are wasted, but the ability to steer the Hellpod and affect progress on objectives necessitates switching to IGT.

As always, please share ideas & feedback for the boards if you have any; you can DM me as well! Thanks for putting up with the solo mod team atm everyone. o7

uhhh dat's da news folks!