Before release one tester finished rank 3, so I was not surprised quite a few backroutes surfaced in rank 4 (I expected even more tbh). Rank 4 and the majority of rank 5 were pretty much untested.

It will take quite a few testing iterations by different people to get the pack in a MOSTLY stable state regarding backroutes.

That's a little demotivating as far as creation of my own packs is concerned ... as well as for any other more "casual" level creator, I guess.

Don't be demotivated! Backroutes will always be there, you can limit them a bit in advance through experience, but I highly doubt it is possible to avoid them.

Also it's just a basic concept of software design: After release you will always have more testing and maintenance to do, even if you have testers run through it before.

Is somebody already LPing this pack on YouTube?

The Tomato Watcher has put up a few videos covering nearly half of the 1st rank currently and there was also 1 stream by Colorful Arty covering ~ 3/4 of the 1st rank.

As stated in the recent Contest Topic I want to do 2 polls regarding the rules of the contests:

Poll 1.) Change the voting round duration from 3 days normally and 4 days for finals to 2 days normally and 3 days for finals.

Poll 2.) Base the distribution of levels not on contest rules anymore and instead just pseudo-randomly distribute all levels evenly onto a reasonable number of groups.

I will leave each poll open for 3 days and make a decision based on the results.

So, you may have noticed that I'm not very active on the forums lately. That's because pretty much all of my free time is currently going into my YouTube channel, now that the subscriber count is somewhat increasing, slowly but steadily .

Though I did have a couple of new level ideas for Lemmings Open Air that came to me yesterday. But the next test release is not going to come until I have created another batch of 30 levels for a second rank.

I am still working on fixing all the backroutes Arty found in his Let's Play of Lemmings World Tour. The Professional rank is more or less (re-)done, but I still have to tackle the Diva backroutes before I upload a new version.

May I ask for a link to your active Youtube channel?

Just checked your "Strato Incendus" channel and it has no videos at all.

The final round is up!

The backroute war continues.

V 2.5 is out!

The following levels have received a backroute fix:

- 4 22 (more steel and some extra terrain)

1 level advances to the finale. For the 2nd spot we need a little tiebreaker.

Some levls were re-backrouted. V 2.2 is out!

The following levels have received a backroute fix:

- 4 22 (steel and water was added)
- 4 24 (cloner pick-up skill added and therefore -1 cloner)
- 4 28 (some terrain changes were made)