Welcome to Speedrunner of the Week, a contest tailored for the fastest players in Platform Racing 2! We have the racers, the fast racers, and those who are above them all: Speedrunners. Do you have what it takes to become a Speedrunner?

• Each week a new level is given a target time and expert time for contestants to beat. If you complete the target time you get 1 point added onto your total score. If you are super speedy and also manage to complete the expert time you will gain 1 extra point, bringing your total to 2 just from beating the set times.
  
  
• You can also gain points if you place in a podium spot against your competitors: if you set the fastest time that week you will gain 3 points, if you come in with the second fastest time you will get 2 points, and if you set the third fastest time you will get 1 extra point. Make note however, you will only be granted these podium points if you have beaten the target time.
  
  
• Submissions will close on Sunday 12:00AM EDT. Be sure to convert this time into your own timezone if necessary to avoid any late submissions!
  

• Any runs that have been posted after the submission date will not be counted for that week. Please note that Sunday 12:00AM EDT is your deadline and not when I post the "submission's closed" comment on the thread.
  
  
• You are allowed to submit as many runs as necessary; you are not just limited to one.
  
  
• You are not allowed to use any form of hacks or TAS in your submitted run, doing so will get you banned from participating in any further SOTW events.
  
  
• Any form of glitching which wasn't intended by the creator of the level will not be allowed. If you are unsure whether a glitch is allowed or not, feel free to ask me in a thread post or through Discord.
  
  
• You are not allowed to involve multiple players in your speedrun. however, you are allowed to have someone spectate you for any assistance purposes such as recording runs.
  
  
• In the event of a level with 'Super Flying Cowboy Mode' (SFCM): unless the level uses this mode as a hat remover or if the level specifically requires the use of SFCM, all runs that have this mode enabled must be reset. Any runs that have this mode enabled when it's prohibited will be voided.
  
  
• You are only allowed to use up to 195 stat points (Rank 45).
  
  
• You are not allowed to use any hats which may affect the time of the speedrun. Hats which you are allowed to use include: Exp Hat, Kong Hat, Party Hat, Jigg Hat, Thief Hat and the Jellyfish Hat.
  
  
• You are allowed to get the stat advantages from any of the stat blocks around the level.
  
  
• Regarding video submissions, only video submissions which have been posted on this thread will be allowed. I will not be accepting any downloadable files as submissions. Please make sure that in your video you are also showing your in-game stats, as well as a clear video on your ending time.
  

• 10 Points - Crocodile Set (+Epic Upgrades)
  
  
• 20 Points - Epic Collar Body
  
  
• 30 Points - 5,000,000 Experience
  
  
• 40 Points - Bat Set (+Epic Upgrades)
  
  
• 50 Points - 10,000,000 Experience
  

PR2 v162.1.1: Hotfix

This update is a hotfix.

Fixes
- Lag in races should be greatly reduced on most platforms now. It turns out that the culprit was the frequency at which the race chat formatting was updating. H/T to @oxy for finding and reporting this!

everyboidy was complaiongin to me about pr2 lag so i ran adobe scout with pr2 open and played some traps with the boyz and i found the source of the lag. it's the race chat.

to any players who want to know how to avoid this lag for the time being: do not type at all in the chat, or at least minimize the chatting and message length




i confirmed this by going alone into a campaign map and u can see the performance hit if u spam some ish in chat (max message text) and the lag is exaggerated if u move ur character around. see 52% of the frame time is spend updating text layout! it's being updated every frame--even if the chat doesn't change.

i located the exact line that causes this issue: the line in RaceChat.ensureBottom(), this callback is called twice per frame, and the line can safely be removed for a 50% performance boost (in my case, although it managed to get up to 70% when standfing still) during a maxed out chat.

to be specific it's the setting of the .htmlText that triggers the recalculation of the text layout. i see what you meant to do here, you wanted to set text scroll to bottom and just reused the showMessages() function. i'd put scroll to bottom code directly inline in the ensureBottom handler, or you can listen for the CHANGE event on the textboxes and set scroll to bottom there (cleaner imo).


on a related note text is kinda expensive to draw so there is more performance to be gained by having the ability to hide the race chat completely, or making messages expire after some time

Like how on PR2 style designer you can pick a random style, a button that does that on PR2 (with only the sets you have)
Probably good to make 2 separate buttons, one for the randomisation of sets and another for the randomisation of colours

Ordinarily, when attempting to switch between body parts in PR2, you need to click through each section manually looking for the part you want. This is fine for when you have a smaller amount of parts, but it becomes more difficult when there are more, especially when you are close to obtaining all of them.

To solve this, I suggest adding an instant body part switch section to the information menu, for the pieces you have already obtained. It'd make it far more convenient, and would make styling a lot easier, rather than hunting for that last piece.

Join me for a PR2 live stream on Feb 20 at 3:00pm EST! (Countdown)

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who's ever been here for me

Lately, I've been feeling SO much better. Been getting less agitated and/ or upset over the "LiTtLe ThInGs" and been enjoying life a lot more. And I have you all to thank for that. All of my rants, I'm sure, were pretty annoying But I so very much appreciate you guys letting me vent about my life.

I see myself growing so much as a person this year, and it really makes me want to cry happy tears. I'm becoming a stronger person, and there's so much more space for me to continue growing. This year is about ME and who I want to be as a person. And so far, I'm liking who I am.

So.. thank you all for the kind words and encouragement these past couple months. It started out super rough but, I am starting to feel like it all happened for a purpose. And I'm excited to see what the rest of the year brings.

hi! im jeanie, and im mainly here to support my buddies on the site

I've had this idea for a couple days now, and even mentioned it in the discord server, but I finally got my lazy self to post about it on here. Level tags! Level tags can be used to identify what type of level it is, set by the creator. Such as a race, trap, frust, ect. But the main idea was to be able to search for these types so you can easily find the kind of levels you are looking for. (Excuse my lazy photoshopping) 





This could make for a much easier time finding levels you'd want to play with people. However I'm not sure how difficult this would be to implement, this has just been on my mind, and I wanted to share it. I'd like to hear people's thoughts on it. ?