As the Tidal Wave situation is now resolved, here is the summary:
About a year ago, OniLink decided to optimize the level because it had over 250k objects. To do this, they changed the assets for all the spikes and manually replaced every spike in the level with new ones. As a result, they accidentally placed two spikes in a gap without properly adjusting their size, which buffed that gap slightly because the spikes were slightly larger than they should have been in comparison to the original version. These changed got adjusted to a copy named "Tidal Wave SP" that was uploaded on their acccount.
They finished the update and uploaded it to the servers a year ago on the SP copy. Following a further investigation, we and some independent researchers came to a conclusion that the same SP copy — along with the buff — was first beaten by SerVax, then A6, then Netermind. After that, OniLink pushed this update to the RATED version of Tidal Wave, but at the same time added some 2.2 fixes into the level, without which a couple of moments became significantly harder in 2.2 than intended. Because of these small changes, the rated version’s update remained unverified for 8 months — until today, when it was finally beaten by JesseGamingGD.
A few hours ago, OniLink reverted the gameplay back to it's original state, in which the level was verified by Zoink. As it has no gameplay changes that would make this version harder than the original, Zoink is once again listed as the level verifier.
We had no intention to away the achievement from the original verifier. Historically, they are still the verifier, with SerVax technically being a re-verifier of an update version, like Kandai is a re-verifier of Yatagarasu to the original verifier TrusTa. As today's events exposed a lack of acknowledgement to the verifiers of reverified levels, an option to list re-verifiers for the level, with some more tweaks regarding GD level history, will be added in the next website update.
We also ask you not to flame OniLink because of the gameplay changes. Mistakes do happen, and what's the most important about a mistake is to get it solved, which they did.
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