On my understanding of how casual's plugin works, it seems as though online TAS would be possible which is a huge problem.
That was a joke... Online is "not possible" because the game isn't deterministic enough. Small errors accumulate.
Casual is a hacker that makes hacks and sells them to people. ( look at his utube channel and website Casualhacks.net)
Well... I haven't sold a thing to anyone so there's that. I may have intended to sell at some point but I never quite got there and probably never will.
What makes you think that the plugin is safe in his hands anyway.
I respect the some people in the jumping community and even though I disagree with their stance on tas I have no released a thing because they asked me not to.
Right now we cant take STV demos as legit or POV demos as reliable (nolem's plugin can be detected but casual's is undetected) and if casual succeeds in making the online TAS undetectable. GG community
You can start by requiring and
releasing POV + STV demos for every jump uploaded to youtube... I don't understand why this doesn't already happen. Eg raiin would never have gotten so far if this was the norm. POV demos are actually really hard to fake, the ultra run had a few mistakes in it that were caught and I fixed those in the skylight run. The skylight POV demo still isn't perfect it's just that you guys don't know where to look, but I could personally figure out it wasn't legit.
I really hope this doesnt happen, but we really need to find a way to prove a fake.
Start by requiring and releasing all POV + STV for every run uploaded.
Besides, TAS runs makes normal runs boring. After watching Casual's ultra and skylight run, watching tusic's legit ultra run or john's legit skylight run felt empty. Like there was something lacking. The expectation of the runs for me was way too high now.
There are even people calling the baqu rotw bad despite it being one of the best runs ever because of TAS runs that are pushing expectations higher. TAS is like the porn for jumping and that is probably gonna be a bad thing.
Console games have been TAS'd to hell and back yet there is still a speedrunning community, an example, I really enjoyed:
Even if a TAS run is low effort (because there's no real competition) doesn't mean any TAS run cannot require effort, see:
Then again this has been said time and time and time and time and time and time again......