For added challenges for experienced players, Speedrunning rules have been agreed upon!
To make the measuring of speedruns more consistent, LiveSplit integration has been included as of the 0.16 release. The LiveSplit.Server plugin is used to tie-in to the inbuilt integration. See the LiveSplit section below for notes on how to install and configure this tool or watch this video.
Speedruns are maintained at Speedrun.com. Pre-release times were maintained in the Discord #speedrun channel, but now it is used to discussed anything speedrun related.
There are different records kept with slightly different rules for each menu item and group size (namely Solo, Duo, Trio and Quad).
Daily and Weekly layouts are part of set seed. So is the weekly speedrun.
You can view the rules on the Speedrun.com page, or click here for a direct link.
This is rough guide to help assit setting up LiveSplit.
Extract the LiveSplit zip into a directory you are comfortable with.
Start LiveSplit.
Right click on the main LiveSplit window and select Edit Splits. Using the "Insert Above" and "Insert Below" buttons, add days 1 through 15 (inclusive).
PlateUp! will hit the Split 15 times, so if you have less than 15, your timer will stop earlier than desired.
Configure the layouts by clicking on "Edit Layout".
Before you start a run, ensure that LiveSplit is running first, then right-click on the LiveSplit window, select "Control" followed by "Start TCP Server".
Start PlateUp!, then go into the "Options" menu and change "LiveSplit Inactive" to "LiveSplit Enabled".
If the LiveSplit server has not started successfully, you'll see a red error line at the bottom of the PlateUp! screen stating:
It has been mentioned that the stuttering will only occur at day start/end, not during the game play, but your mileage may vary depending on your specific hardware.
A video showing all of the required steps is here.