System Shock 2 /Speedrun/M1/0:13:46

[6745068b4a3bdJackTheHacker]

M1, any% RTA 0:13:46
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fS3U_Ksldw

2 weeks ago someone nicknamed M1 broke the world record, 0:13:46 RTA (I don't know what RTA is though)

[6745068b4a8e9unn_atropos]

Thank you, JackTheHacker. I added the run to the list. I don't know what RTA means. It seems like the names have changed. Some time ago I asked Big Jim about the categories, and he explained it this way:

Right now the names for speedrun categories are a bit silly and are likely to change. Classically, there was only one category, so no one bothered to name it. Recently, speedrunners began to play on lower difficulties, so the category was renamed "impossible%" to denote the fact that the entire game is played on impossible difficulty.

Recently people began to run "any%", which involved switching the difficulty to Easy early on in order to afford upgrades sooner and more easily. Because of this the route was changed fairly majorly.

Even more recently, I found some tricks in the game that allowed the player character to go out of bounds. This happened only two weeks ago, so its all still new.

The best way to think of the three current speedrun categories are 1. Impossible% 2. Any% and 3. Any% without Out Of Bounds (or any% no oob, something like that).

As for World Record, it applies individually to each of the three categories.

I will find out what RTA stand for^^

[6745068b4ada8JackTheHacker]

Thank you, JackTheHacker. I added the run to the list. I don't know what RTA means. It seems like the names have changed. Some time ago I asked Big Jim about the categories, and he explained it this way:
I will find out what RTA stand for^^

I think it might stand for "Real Time Any%" which makes sense, since he was streaming it cannot be single segment and he switches the difficulty to easy in Engineering, also he bypasses BotM with an out-of-bounds trick.

[6745068b4af16Ketsuban]

It stands for "Real Time Attack" and means that the clock runs continuously, including during loading, cutscenes, and fumbling back to square 1 if your game crashes. It also serves to disambiguate records measured via real time (which are listed as RTA) from those that are measured as in-game time.

Incidentally, this is an any% run.

[6745068b4b04eunn_atropos]

Thanks, I forgot to look that up.