Northerner no, you have to do it in one go
i cant do it in one go not enough free time sadly because my vacation is ending soon might be able to do it some time though i doubt ill be the first person to attempt it
The True Viking Challenge (Defunct)
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dafeeeeeeeeeesh I can relate to you there
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Northerner
and i need to download stuff to record because i really didint need to until now
I won't be able to do it either then 
Northerner You must do this Iron Man meaning no saving or reloading so, in one go.
Old-Fashioned XCOM style!
Sombreroman Old-Fashioned XCOM style!
but you have to do it in a single run non stop though the entire campaign
i couldnt even get a single kill
Sombreroman The energy drink industry rejoices, lol.
A couple more comments.
1. What happens if it crashes while doing this?
2. How are you going to know if someone cut out saving the game; easy to do if you know how.
CrazyBirdie if it crashes that would suck... But there shouldn't be any crashes if there, and its related to my mod, let me know so I can fix it.
There are a lot of ways to tell if the video has been cut or edited one being the credits and ftl fuel amounts, frame skips, and the AI behaviors (in case they think they are clever and change difficulties)
But to answer your question there is no perfect solution to stop cheating but I am trying to make it as hard as possible to cheat.
As a side note anyone good enough to beat this isn't going to risk the run by attempting to cheat the amount of effort required to cheat this isn't worth the reward IMO which is why it's only a $20 bounty and not a $50 one like I wanted to do.
Northerner Alright. I used to have Cosmoteer crash a lot, but that was due to outdated video drivers. Once I updated them, it has worked fine for the most part.
One other thing, for if I can manage to try this. I usually alt-tab away during things like FTL jumps; would I need to keep the Cosmoteer screen up the entire time?
CrazyBirdie Your game does not auto pause when you alt-tab out? Anyway I would have decide on a case by case basis since I am sure you wouldn't be the only one to do that. But for simplicities sake I would just keep Cosmoteer open.
XCOM has an Ironman mode, man. And it will hurt you 10X more than the XCOM where you can save somebody from death 
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dafeeeeeeeeeesh IDK about you but the era of gaming I'm from that's how iron man challenges worked. The most recent examples i can think of are Halo 3s Marathon mode and Dead Space 2 nightmare mode. Though those are so easier than the really old school ones I'm trying to emulate.
Good news everyone! I have found out that this challenge is actually possible to complete! I haven't quite done it yet but in getting close to a winning strategy
Northerner I am going to stream a run of this in 2 hours!
You can watch it here.
5 days later
Since it seems there is a lack of interest in the challenge two things have happened
1 some rules have been altered
2 the bounty has been increased
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Northerner Thank you very much. I will attempt it now.
By the way, the former bounty was sufficient for me, but the rules made it difficult for me to try.
Northerner There are several ways to do it but I recommend nVidia Shadow Play personally.
I tried installing ShadowPlay, but I got an error saying that my system doesn't support the package (I have Windows 7). Any other suggestions?