Congrats dude!

Hi all.

Recently, I've been running a custom campaign/mod for Half-Life: Alyx called Levitation, and I've managed to come up with a decent route for it.

I wanted to request that this game gets added to the Half-Life series on speedrun.com

I'm playing through the game and got a softlock late into the sewers bit where you go to find Sanctuary. The three red switches you use to open a door aren't activating for me and aren't clickable at all.

Is there any way around this besides starting the entire game over?

Hi all.

I've been in discussions with a few other runners, and we've decided to change the timing rules.

Time ends at the same point as before, but now runs will start time upon the first movement input after the intro cutscene.

We've decided to change the timing because of a couple of reasons.

1. There's some inconsistencies, especially for runners on lower-end PCs, as to how long the "1990" ("September 1986" on the Old Patch) title card takes to appear after clicking "Begin"

2. The current timing rules mean waiting around doing nothing through a decently sized portion of the game, especially for how short the run is.

For runs before this timing change, the time spent in the opening cutscene will be subtracted from the time to adjust for it. For Current Patch, that's 36 seconds, and for Old Patch, that's 1 minute 23 seconds.

Hi all.

This community has gotten pretty big, and I'm very thankful that a sizable amount of people gave this game a chance.

I've created a Discord server for speedruns of this game and any of IsarL's future The Complex-related games. I've also added a zip file of the Old Patch under the Resources section.

Hi, Nerd here.

I had not been verifying runs for a while because I was on a mental health break. I screwed up saying my latest submitted run was WR, when it was not, and I'm sorry.

Hi all.

The big update has come out today, and from what I've been able to tell, it changes the run completely in terms of the route, because of there now being multiple paths to take to end the game. I've created a new category for this patch and will decide on the rules for it as I do testing.

I tried the elevator trick you mentioned, and when the game loads, it spawns you in the elevator instead of outside of it.

Still a neat find though.

Hi all.

It's good to see some submissions for the game's leaderboard! I genuinely did not expect that this game would take off like it has.

I made this thread to mention that the developer, IsarL, is adding a big update to the game that will change a lot of things. I don't know exactly what will be in it, but it seems to add a new level as well as new areas being added to existing levels.

This may very well affect the speedrun by adding time to the run, so in the case the changes affect the speedrun in a big way, I'll be creating a category that accounts for the new additions.

As for existing runs, I'll make a legacy category, and potentially make a downpatched version available for those that want to still run that version.

I was experimenting with Kami Clip and managed to find this. Could bring Any% to below 20 minutes.

I want to give running Night Skip a go, but I have the latest patch and there is no easy way to download older patches. What methods would you all recommend?

The estimate was rough, which is why it's so high lol

I may take a further look by comparing the time on my best Birthdays on English and Norwegian

In my recent 2.0 runs, I switched over to playing with the Norwegian voice lines just for fun.

However, I think it may end up saving time. I haven't done exact time comparisons, but I noticed in my recent runs that used the Norwegian voice lines, I seemed to save around 10-13 seconds in Birthday from the dialogue being a little faster.

This may end up not impacting the speedrun a whole lot, but I wanted to post it here in case something more comes of it.

Is there a discord server for the marathon where we'll coordinate setup for runs?

I found out you can change the quicksave/quickload keys, but in a config file instead of the menu. As you said, I'd like to to get the approval of the mods to allow qs/ql

Quicksave and quickload are on F5 and F8,not sure if there's a way to change it by editing a configuration file.

Is quicksaving and quickloading allowed for runs on the PC version? Allowing it would make the run more accessible,and it makes sense to because it's a built-in feature as opposed to a feature added in from a mod.

This category would do the bonus missions Kola Cell,Vselka Infiltration,and Vselka Submarine all in a row. The timing would go by the following rules:

-Timing starts on the "Press Fire to Begin" screen after loading Kola Cell

-Timing ends when the "Mission Success" screen appears in Vselka Submarine

I'm looking for ideas of names for the category and whether or not this category should be a misc. category.

There's a recording of the pile of bodies in the Satanas Inimical Dei building right before Marta 1,and there's one of a body in the mine cart right after the first enemy encounter in the mines.