This would be for speedrunning workshop game modes and/or event modes like Storm Rising and Retribution.
It involves writing scripts to read in-game memory to automatically split someone’s timer, otherwise the person would have to manually press a hotkey to split their timer.
It makes it easier to speedrun without having to worry about manually splitting (which is usually not 100% accurate).
EDIT: Don’t know why it was moved here from general discussion as it would also involve arcade game modes, not just workshop.
Plus it’s specific for autosplitters with livesplit (extremely common among speedrunners), not in-game timers that can be made in workshop, since you can’t save and keep track of your splits/times/sum of best/etc with workshop timers.
People speedrun flash games. Never underestimate the things speedrunners will speedrun. The training course that you play when you first launch the game has its own category on speedrundotcom
It’s definitely cheating, they get pissy about macros. Also, IME there’s also a random element to where things spawn, so idk if tool assists would even be that useful.
Their opinion is pretty straightforward. The following is an explicit violation of the Code of Conduct and is exactly what you would be doing if you wrote a script to read game memory:
Use any unauthorized process or software that intercepts, collects, reads, or “mines” information generated or stored by the Platform
That doesn’t change the fact that it’s a major security risk. Directly reading the memory of another app regardless of context should not be happening at all under any normal circumstances except debugging and pentesting.
