Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal

Re:Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal by darkwater on Saturday February 15, 2025 @10:23AM (#43059115)

I have your same knowledge but what you mention seems pretty normal and even human, no? You exploit some difficult to exploit bugs and you don't want easy tricks to be used instead.

Although following this logic I don't fully understand why TAS are allowed.

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Re:Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal by ChoGGi on Saturday February 15, 2025 @12:17PM (#43060204)

TASes aren't allowed in regular categories (I'm sure they are somewhere), they're used to find the fastest way possible then human players try to reproduce it.

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Re:Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal by __s on Saturday February 15, 2025 @10:28AM (#43059154)

What do you mean by allowed?

TAS runs aren't put on leaderboards against RTA runs

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Re:Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal by darkwater on Saturday February 15, 2025 @11:07AM (#43059541)

No idea, I'm no expert at all in the scene :) it's just how TFA closes its story.

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Re:Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal by __s on Monday February 17, 2025 @10:57AM (#43080238)

TAS can often be used as proof of concepts on upper bounds of what's possible / fastest

Things can often start TAS only & then progress makes it possible for human execution, like OOT Max Child% guay hover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULodSWYC8TI (which then is executed in the actual run 4 hours into 5 & a half hour run: https://youtu.be/NyCklbB0ok0?t=15034)

Route's will often first be shown with LOTAD (low optimization tool assisted demo), before others start trying to execute it in RTA conditions

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Re:Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal by nurettin on Saturday February 15, 2025 @10:50AM (#43059361)

Everything is allowed as long as you cat honestly. Some present no challenge (like idspispopd and run to exit makes no sense) so nobody runs it.

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Re:Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal by mst on Saturday February 15, 2025 @12:04PM (#43060100)

Aha! Doom noclip so you can run through walls.

(the first google result I got for idspispopd did not say _which_ cheat code it was, so figured I'd mention)

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Re:Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal by aithrowawaycomm on Saturday February 15, 2025 @10:30AM (#43059169)

I think of TAS as a code competition, almost like demoscene, whereas tool-free speedrunning is more e-athletics.

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