Community Round-up (January-February)

Hey everyone! We had an idea of making these bi-monthly community round-ups here in order to let you guys know what’s going on around the community and keep you updated.

News

• After a long discussion and some voting on our Discord server, we’ve formed a new category for the Half-Life and Opposing Force leaderboards at speedrun.com. From now on you’ll be able to submit runs that use scripts! More details can be found in the categories’ rules.
• SourceRuns now has a couple of game servers that you can play on. The first one is a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive server running KZTimer and kz_ maps. The other one is for a Half-Life mod Adrenaline Gamer. Both of these servers are located in Strasbourg, France.
• A LiveSplit Auto-Splitter has been released for Half-Life, Opposing Force, Blue Shift and Gunman Chronicles. This allows for automatic timer starting & stopping on game ending, as well as automatic splitting on every game chapter and level. For setup instructions, read the guide here.
• Half-Life 2: DWaHMoV has reached 1,000,000 views on YouTube! Wooo!

Speedruns

• Congratulations to chili_n_such on getting the World Record for Half-Life 2 with the time of 1:21:21.990!
• Congratulations to PJC on getting the World Record for Half-Life: Opposing Force in the Single-Segment category with the time of 24:38.880!
• Congratulations to Jukspa on getting the World Record for Half-Life 2: Episode Two in the Single-Segment category with the time of 50:12.370!

• Rama has uploaded a speedrun of a Half-Life 2: Episode Two mod Tr1p, beating it in the time of 5:26.

In-progress:

• Half-Life 2 Done Quick-er is nearing it’s completion, currently being at d3_breen_01. However, there’s still video production work left.

Videos

• Imanex has uploaded a video Portal – Watch Your Step, a runthrough of Portal with least in-game steps taken to beat the entire game!
• PJC has made a Half-Life: Blue Shift speedrun tutorial which should be helpful if you want to start running the expansion.
• Bloodvez has been researching a bunch of strats for Sven Co-op and has uploaded a video showcasing a lot of major level/chapter skips.
• Jukspa has uploaded a tutorial for the Half-Life 2: Episode Two Dog Race skip.
• Tryedz has made a Half-Life recent strats video, showcasing and explaining all the recent strategies/tricks used in SS/RTA runs.