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Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled |OT| Start Your Engines!
- Thread starter Aurc
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Why does my drift keep dropping my flame ?? Like its an abrupt stop to my turbo and it doesn't taper out like it's supposed to. Starting to annoy the hell out of me. Hit a lot of drifts in my reserve then I get blue flame, hop into a successful power slide to continue my boost and it immediately stops like I didn't even have anything in my reserve when I've been drifting all lap.
I did Oxide Station with Cortex lol. I beat his time by a second against the Tropy ghost, then it took me like half an hour to beat the Oxide ghost.
And thanks for patching Thunder Struck XD.
So about that Thunderstruck patch...
Congratulations! Goddamn it feels so good to see him fall again.
Congratulations! Goddamn it feels so good to see him fall again.
Ok, that's hilarious. I guess it was a good call of them to not push this patch to the Switch yet.
Seems like it needs Blue Fire, and he just made it. Still, better than nothing I guess haha!
This game is so rough. Now I'm getting stuck in the menu if I try to select a new character.
Playing on Xbox One X.
Playing on Xbox One X.
Not just blue fire, but a mask as well. That said, it's a huge skip that should still probably be checked out.
The only thing that gives me pause is that there's a blue fire pad right before the end of the lap, and that skip is right near the start of the next lap. So maintaining the fire isn't the biggest ask, and masks are common enough for considerable placement disruption to be a concern. But I'd have to try it myself to gauge just how 'easy' it is to pull off the jump with both elements in play.
Its been there since launch. i cant find the video but i saw that last week. It needs blue fire
Does Thunder Struck even have any intentional shortcuts? I, uh... never had to try and find any after exploiting the big one for the time trial.
Nope, which makes the entire course being filled with unintentional shortcuts even funnier.
Beenox fixing the first big shortcut by placing an invisible wall probably means they can't fix it by placing additional checkpoints along the track which in turn means nothing good. Not sure how they're gonna fix these new ones if their checkpoint system doesn't help.
All this just makes me miss old Thunderstruck again, it was such a good track in CNK. It's kinda sad to think about my favorite tracks from CTR and CNK, Sewer Speedway and Thunder Struck, both got butchered by glitches and design choices, basically making them near my least favorites in this remake.
On another note, got my pro challenges done finally. I'm like 150/120k on the nitro leaderboard as well so that champion kart is as good as guaranteed as well. I'll probably stop clearing all the dailies and weeklies once I complete gold tier cause this GP stuff is honestly feeling a bit too tedious. I really don't need 3 separate battle mode challenges daily, 1 is more than enough. The character specific ones are very unnecessary as well.
On another note, got my pro challenges done finally. I'm like 150/120k on the nitro leaderboard as well so that champion kart is as good as guaranteed as well. I'll probably stop clearing all the dailies and weeklies once I complete gold tier cause this GP stuff is honestly feeling a bit too tedious. I really don't need 3 separate battle mode challenges daily, 1 is more than enough. The character specific ones are very unnecessary as well.
They just keep coming
Beenox right about now
That's awesome. Come on, rest of the tracks, this is my one hope at getting N Tropy :P
They also need to hard reset the leaderboards for tracks they patch.
They also need to fix all the lap skips and reset those too.
I'm all for exploits and speedruns and skips and shit but players are not entitled to win online matches via uneven, difficult to perform glitches and I support patching this stuff out ASAP.
Yeah, surely patching the leaderboards would be easy enough when it comes to telling who did it legit or not, just going off the times.
Yep, I did the same last night. As long as you don't really mess up, all it requires is keeping the blue fire for longer than Oxide keeps it (so the first U-turn after the straight of boost pads, and then the next corner basically) for at least two laps.
They just keep coming
Beenox right about now
This one is actually a lot harder to pull off than Thunderstruck.
The killzone's much wider and goes a lot deeper, so you have to go in a very particular path when jumping off. I've been pulled out by the killzone when almost landing on the course while trying this.
This is pretty funny. How is everyone going for this challenge? Currently got 4/8 spots.
Agreed. Stuff like this is fine in games without online, but it completely ruins the online in the games that do.
They just keep coming
Beenox right about now
Why cant they find glitches on tracks i need to beat in time trials. every glitch has been on a track i spent ages shaving milliseconds off.
Thats kinda amazing to watch. I have 7/8
I need either 6th or 7th position to finish it.
The guy not waiting for perfect timing to boost killed me watching that.
I hope I get to buy all GP timed stuff from pit-stop without some insane last weekend grind. Some of these sticker packs ect. are pretty expensive doe.
At least I got all the chars and skins so that's the most important stuff out of the way.
At least I got all the chars and skins so that's the most important stuff out of the way.
Imma just hoping they allow to choose the stats and character separately at some point. Some of my favs are Turn characters.
I couldn't handle having the locks in the character select lol. Not being able to buy the N. Trance bundle that's currently not available is giving me anxiety.
That's fair. I also don't have PS+ so for myself I need to be a bit pickier lol.
Anyone need some help with the online weekly and themed challenges?
Only 9 hours left, and there's over 1500 Nitro Points available for anyone who has yet to earn them.
I need them too.
PSN: Konopko
Only 9 hours left, and there's over 1500 Nitro Points available for anyone who has yet to earn them.
I need them too.
PSN: Konopko
Traveling tues to Thursdays. Wont be able to get points till friday. I hope I can get enough to com complete the grand prix.
I did Tiny Temple last night. It's honestly not that bad, although I still don't really know what was causing my reserves to run out as soon as I land after the super turbo pad that leads into the third lap.
The basic way to do it is:
Triple boost as much as possible, and prioritize doing that over jumping off ramps, like the one at the first corner.
Hitting the crate to move the fire to the left is easier for me, especially on the other two laps, but that's preference.
Don't take the shortcut: you can get a perfect triple boost, and a regular triple boost on that section.
Don't take the ramp before the turn to the super turbo pad at the end of the lap.
For the next two laps, it's more of the same, so triple boosts galore, but you want to take the first ramp jump (the one with the fire on either side), hopping through the tunnel where you toggle the fire is safer.
Take the shortcut, but be careful, as there is a kill zone to the left, if you take too sharp an angle.
I ignored the ramp before the end, but I guess they'd be faster potentially. You'd need to air brake that last bend though, I'd assume.
Without crashing, I often found my reserves dropping out in lap 3 at:
The start, after I landed.
In the tunnel where you toggle the fire.
At the shortcut.