Just bought Evo on PC for £3, lets see how it holds up

Got this now thanks to moot!

Do the leaderboards still work on pc for Evo?

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Got to run around Gambados for an hour after work today too.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambado

:o

Evo is backwards compatibale on xbox one now apparently

Ouch, the first 3 obstacles of warehouse are tough. There’s a technique to the first 2 (checkpoints 0 and 1) but checkpoint 2 is a tough one that might be a blocker. It’s all timing on the brake, but anticipate a time out there...

For checkpoint zero hold forward off the line, then lean back as you accelerate up the ramp. Your back wheel should have risen up off the ramp by the time you get to the top, so when you push forward to bunny hop for extra height you will go more up than across. Hit the lip with your back wheel slightly and Hold right when you get to the top, and while holding your throttle tap your brake (fap) and you will hopefully get up. I’m about 80% successful with that.

For checkpoint 1, bunny hop your back wheel onto the first pipe and hold back. Bunny hop the last jump only, unless it’s going badly in which case do whatever it takes to try to brute force it across. That doesn’t usually go well.

For checkpoint 2 you need more speed than the checkpoint reset position implies. I’d have to watch my replays to give decent info as it’s just done by feel. you want to brake just under the first barrel I think but it depends on speed and luck. I can get this at most 50%, and probably a fair bit less consistent than that. This is the hardest obstacle on the track, but near the start so not so bad.

I'm up for another weekly challenge (Fusion or Evo now), they didn't last long enough this time.

Is anyone still playing this? I'm still rinsing it, but I'll admit it's getting harder to make the decision to play. Once I'm in I'm in, but when I'm firing it up it feels like a chore.

I've set a few decent ones recently. Feel like I'm getting a bit better, but it's slow progress. At some point I'm going to have to buy a new controller because the game is seriously hard on the analogue sticks.

It would be nice if we could add each other and see times on our friends list (cross platform).

Wish I was still playing it but being shit at it, the slow interface and no fun (imo) contracts aren't making it very appealing to start. Mario Odyssey has won the "games with short goals" pick up lately. (I've started baking bread once a week and these games are ideal while waiting for the dough to rise etc, can always pause for a quick look to see if everything's still OK in the kitchen)

voices wrote:

It would be nice if we could add each other and see times on our friends list (cross platform).

This would be nice to.

Two videos from tonight's runs:

I took a second off my previous best for an unexpected diamond. Nailed the difficult/inconsistent ending while a second up.



This one I'm really proud of, despite it not being a super fast run. It's a few seconds off a diamond, around 200th. I'm proud because yesterday I couldn't do the second shortcut more than 1 in 20 times, but today it just clicked.

It really comes through on the second run, where I was just trying to be consistent and hit both shortcuts. That's my driving style without polish, plus a rush of blood immediately after I hit the skip towards the end. Schoolboy.

My brain was thinking "holy shit you just hit both shortcuts this is a definite world record" and I forgot to drive. 

It's not even close to a world record.

I don't think Borads is much older, and was probably 14/15 when he picked it up. It's sad to think it doesn't matter how much you try, we'll never get that good. Brains got too many plaques in it.

Having said that, these boys have put thousands of hours into the games, and it definitely carries over. If you can slide everything, back wheel bounce 99.99% of the time and judge your speed on every lip, then no wonder these guys are smashing records.

I watched a replay of Nova dark storm, I think (recognise from trials evo, though not sure), and he drove a completely different line to everyone else and still got a diamond time. Just brute forcing the whole track with real wheel bounces. It was insane, and so far above my skill level.