Leaderboards
Any %
1st: suchbalance - 1:09:06 Video
2nd: suchbalance - 1:10:39 Video
3rd: 01001010 - 1:13:07 Video
4th: gg2 - 1:17:37 - Video
5th: Segolia - 1:19:48 - Video
6th: Unseen Gnosis - 2:13:24 - Video
7th: Segolia - 2:26:49 - Video
Introduction
This is something that I've had dangling in my head for quite awhile now. I've watched plenty of streamers speedrun various games, Diablo included. I've only tried D2 speedrunning for a brief bit, and have my name in a rather small leaderboard... http://www.speedrun.com/d2lod (I'm KakabelNar)
But now after being bored from a lot of the game I play I now feel like speedrunning any of the games I play, and I want to start off here, and encourage you guys to give it a shot too! I will have this post up for discussing the formats, as well as hosting leaderboards if you wish to participate.
I am streaming right now on my attempt to find a good route for each class, you can watch me here: http://www.twitch.tv/kakabelnar/
Formats
Any%: Complete normal (Hatred) difficulty. Simple enough.
Any of the below are available for you to do if it interests you. Although it doesn't seem to catch anyone's interest.
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Rules
All runners must post either a video or a livestream vod link of their run. You must include a timer while recording your video. I used LiveSplit, but feel free to use something else like WSplit or any other timer program you want.
Timer starts when you enter the Act1 town and before you start controlling your character. An act is completed once the boss is dead and you enter the next town. The run is finished when Baal is dead. Pausing is allowed, but you must not control your character / manage inventory / navigate menus etc while paused.
NO Maphack, NO PlugY, NO Multires. Use a vanilla copy of median ultimative with no other enhancements (font change is ok). NO twinking allowed. This is a single player race, therefore no partying or interaction with other players is allowed during the run. NO bugs or glitches. As stated previously, all character classes are allowed.
Software
Time tracking would be in real time, since afaik Diablo II does not track how long you have played a character. This means you would track your time through a 3rd party stopwatch. A list of them can be found in this link: http://www.speedrunslive.com/tools/
I would recommend LiveSplit, as you can specifically track your performance on segments of your choice for you to analyze if you are doing better or worse in a certain area. Installing is basic, setting up is simple as well. Right click the timer when you launch the program and it will give you a various list of options, such as setting up 'splits', of which you can save, and hotkeys for starting, pausing, and stopping the timer.
Recording software can be anything of your choice. There is the outdated registered FRAPs, Open Broadcast Software (requires a bit of digging around to set up), and NVIDIA Shadow, which I highly recommend above all else if you have a NVIDIA GPU. It records in high quality with no FPS impact at all.
Upload site... youtube of course. Or dailymotion or vimeo if that is your cup of tea. Or Twitch if you streamed on there and are able to highlight it.
Strategies
The link below details map layouts, which is very useful in navigating through the game very quickly.
http://nightfallx2.wix.com/d2speedruns# ... youts/cmoz