It keeps deranking me, so yeah, pretty broken. Unless there's something else to it.

I finished off a few more tournaments today. Just two racing platinum medals to go. My global ranking is also now very conspicuously broken.

I played someone who was really good last night. Well, better than me anyway.

One platinum to go. The amount better I'm going to need to get to achieve it is daunting.

Plan of action is to get every non extreme time into the top 250 or so (depending on how the times develop), then go for better extreme times, then go for that last plat.

Local MP with a few friends and bailout finishes on = win.

Is there a list of actually good community made tracks. We tried a bunch, and there was some good ones, but there was a lot of shit too.

Got back to it this morning after a week. I was extremely shit, might be because it was the first time with the Phoenix on the medium tracks (at least, I don't think I've tried it before), or that I'm actually just not gonna improve on this. Was trying to get the first set of mediums (the list that ends with gigatrack) on < 10 faults, didn't work out as I planned. Most tracks seem to have at least one or 2 bits that will take at least 7+ restarts. Watching replays only makes me cry.

I am so far from the wall it's not real. Still properly addicted, and semi worried my thumb is going to fall off.

Elmlea wrote:

The only reason my thumb'd fall off is from HITTING THE BACK BUTTON.

lols. Do you have big thumbs? My old housemate was visiting over the weekend, I've never seen so many accidental restarts.

Blisters! Damn, that's dedication.

Hang on, how do you accidently play from 6pm to 1am?!

Funny, playing Trials is the one thing almost guaranteed to make me turn the Xbox off.

I didn't say why it makes me turn the Xbox off.

OK, well, in that case I'll put my pitchfork down.

When you're on the first slope on the sin city level, gently apply throttle. You'll be amazed at the slopes you can get up with gentle throttle.

Face - I think Trials is one of those things that clicks at some stages. If you're the kind of person who will sit and invest time in something out of frustration at not being able to do it, you'll get to the point where it will click. If you're not that kind of person it might never happen.

It is also my go to. Unfortunately it doesn't work so great for good times, but for clearing a track without fault in the tournaments it's a godsend.

Yeah, we tried heaps of the supercross community stuff, and it was really just a mixed bag.

1. There seemed to be some people who were basically trolling with their difficulty tag. "lols, I'll tag it easy and then put in a vertical wall at the end, lols." And yeah, generally everything was at least a class above what they were saying, at least.

2. Some really poor checkpointing, and also some weird stylies with DNF kicking in randomly and also with the race end in 10 seconds thing if everyone was out. I'd guess there's some settings in there that dudes just miss.

3. A bazillion tracks which are just a version of one of the beginner tracks with one extra item added.

4. Some of the tracks that try to be proper supercross and have corners and such are just unfinished. they break the camera system, and it's basically impossible if you're at the back to see what's going on.

Still, amongst all that, some brilliant ideas, and great variety, and the filter system that redlynx have created realy tries hard to sort wheat from chaff.

voices wrote:

OK, well, in that case I'll put my pitchfork down. When you're on the first slope on the sin city level, gently apply throttle. You'll be amazed at the slopes you can get up with gentle throttle.

I can get up the first beam fine, it's the bunny hop over the gap onto the next angled beam that's stumping me.

I also got some of the way through the Quarry level then there's a rock slope with a jump onto another rock slope that defeated me.

I think I've probably hit my level.