So how many of you actually managed to get all 4 items from that Sour Patch Kids Promotion?
I hate losing to weapons online. 1st place all race until all of the targeting and speed ups are going to those behind me. Been stuck at 2nd and 3rd all night.
And I need know this one guy's secret. Always catching up and then getting way ahead. Unnatural.
This happened on Electron and I was making the air brake cuts over two sections.These days, I usually just disconnect during online races to save time. As long as you do it after the intro scene (which can be set to automatically skip), you won't mess with the race's ability to start. You'll simply be replaced with an AI racer, unless you're the host (if you're first at the starting line, you're the host), in which case everyone will be dropped, but still complete their races against AI. Gives them an easy one.
I'm just tired of waiting so long for a mediocre online experience. You wait to find a lobby, you wait for the 60 second countdown, you wait through the loading screen, you wait for everybody to finish or skip the intro scene, you get a brief race that can be glorious or a horrible item fest, you wait for the 30 second race end countdown, you wait through the second loading screen, you wait through the podium, you return to the start.
By disconnecting, I can at least skip three of the six waits, and ensure a peaceful race, albeit one without the thrill of competition. I've gotten used to racing for time, I guess.
Managed to score three of them in a giveaway, but I had to buy the paint off an ebay seller for $4.50. I loathe my completionist self.
I ran into a guy like that on one of the rare occasions that I actually chose to race others. I had blue fire on Hot Air Skyway and was making what I've always thought were really good lines. I always play speed, so my potential there wasn't lacking. But this guy just made gains upon gains on me, surpassed me, and--as you said--went way ahead. I messed up my race because I was so perplexed by how he could possibly go the speed he was going. Still bothers me to this day, to be honest. Though thanks to that interaction, I went through and found at least one area where I can make a risky cut for a quicker lap. Thing is, it was way later on the track than where he passed me.
This happened on Electron and I was making the air brake cuts over two sections.
Oh, and I don't even want to talk about the race before in the sewer where I made the shortcut all three laps but this same guy missed it and still caught up and then finished several seconds ahead. On electron, NO ONE ELSE FINISHED!
Lol. It just bugs me. I know I'm no Oxide beating champ but I don't know how it happens even on straight aways after they've fallen missing one of those air brake cuts on electron assuming they don't have a turbo I'm not aware of based on sound and visual.Makes me worry that there's some undisclosed exploit leaking out. Or even worse, that...
that...
...that I'm just not as good as I think. :(
Lol. It just bugs me. I know I'm no Oxide beating champ but I don't know how it happens even on straight aways after they've fallen missing one of those air brake cuts on electron assuming they don't have a turbo I'm not aware of based on sound and visual.
I play with my wife and kids so I'm sort of "punished" or thought less of for being mostly an offline racer lol. It is what it is. Even watching the sad losing animations for second and third place in cups compared to what you get online stings a little. My kids want to feel like they accomplished something coming in 2nd or 3rd ffs. Give us coins and win animations.Well yeah, offline payouts are rough and the pit stop definitely isn't balanced around the offline payout. I only play online these days during the weekend and usually only for as long as the wumpa time lasts, so I pretty much always have the x10 multiplayer active. Even on the worst days I don't earn less than 2000 coins for like a bit more than a hour of play, and if the time works out you can even trigger that weekend bonus on 3 or 4 different wumpa times in a single weekend, so you could relatively easy earn over 10k in a weekend if you time it right, probably double that if you can set that up in private lobbies with a friend. Of course I don't bother with any of that anymore since I have enough to buy out the next four GP's if I wanted, but even then I still usually earn over 5k just playing about 3 hours over the weekend just playing casually, which to me always felt like a pace that almost invalidates actually ever wanting to spend real money in the shop.
Hopefully, and especially for a PC Release
I really don't know what I'm doing wrong when it comes to maintaining boost. Is it my double tap of an R button while trying to go for the opposite power slide? I can't beat Oxide on Crash Cove and I've watched a few videos. I don't know how to keep my speed going despite feeling like I'm not making any mistakes and going for the same lines.
For those who haven't seen it yet, next Grand Prix will be the final one.
The Victory Lap for Crash™ Team Racing Nitro-Fueled’s Grand Prix
blog.activision.com
TLDR There will still be new stuff added to the pit stop post-GP's like skins, karts and characters, but the monthly event and brand new tracks will come to a stop after the next GP. Instead of the GP there will be daily, weekly and monthly challenges.
Next GP will add dev ghosts to beat for a harder challenge than Oxide, with its own show off reward. Once the challenge system replaces GP's you'll also be able to refresh the pit stop twice a day, should be a nice QoL change to those new to the game and wanting to unlock specific stuff.
I've been there. This game rewards your will to learn and it's so much fun to play compared to other kart racers that feel like a drag to play or even watch because of the lack of CTR's mechanics.Dropping into the OT as a last resort. I started playing the game over the weekend because I saw there was one day left in the Grand Prix and I've been letting this game sit since launch. With only one more GP to go after this it felt like I should jump in ASAP to see what the fuss is all about.
Yesterday I removed the disc from my PS4 in frustration and vowed never to play again. I cannot remember having this much trouble with a racing game since the original Wipeout on PS1. Dirt Rally was easier than this for me. I feel like I'm doing something wrong but I ALSO feel like I'm being cheated. I can't for the life of me win Sewer Speedway in the very first area on Adventure Medium. I can almost always place second or third, and I can even lead for a time, but inevitably first place is always just out of reach.
The worst is when I finally managed to beat the ~2:38 time that I'd reliably see on the first-place winner, only to then see first place go to someone with a 2:36 time. At that point I quit; what's the point if the game is always going to do just slightly better than whatever time I put up?
I'm drifting in all the places I can, but I watched a video and saw many more drifts in places I find next to impossible to drift in, like straights. I don't mind the triple-tap mechanic for drifting but triggering a drift in the first place feels bad; you have to keep the stick cranked all the way in one direction, make sure the drift is initiated, and then almost immediately crank it all the way in the opposite direction or else you're hitting a wall and all that was for nothing.
A day later and I think I'm ready to try again, but I have zero guarantee that it'll work out better than yesterday did. Please help. If I can't even get past the very first world, what hope do I have for the rest of the game? Apparently dropping the game to Easy makes it so it practically plays itself so it sounds like that's not an option either, but I'm really not having any fun at all. And this is on top of the load times being terrible, the Grand Prix being a pain to advance in if you mostly play offline (somehow people didn't mention that in the Era threads praising the GPs), etc.
Dropping into the OT as a last resort. I started playing the game over the weekend because I saw there was one day left in the Grand Prix and I've been letting this game sit since launch. With only one more GP to go after this it felt like I should jump in ASAP to see what the fuss is all about.
Yesterday I removed the disc from my PS4 in frustration and vowed never to play again. I cannot remember having this much trouble with a racing game since the original Wipeout on PS1. Dirt Rally was easier than this for me. I feel like I'm doing something wrong but I ALSO feel like I'm being cheated. I can't for the life of me win Sewer Speedway in the very first area on Adventure Medium. I can almost always place second or third, and I can even lead for a time, but inevitably first place is always just out of reach.
The worst is when I finally managed to beat the ~2:38 time that I'd reliably see on the first-place winner, only to then see first place go to someone with a 2:36 time. At that point I quit; what's the point if the game is always going to do just slightly better than whatever time I put up?
I'm drifting in all the places I can, but I watched a video and saw many more drifts in places I find next to impossible to drift in, like straights. I don't mind the triple-tap mechanic for drifting but triggering a drift in the first place feels bad; you have to keep the stick cranked all the way in one direction, make sure the drift is initiated, and then almost immediately crank it all the way in the opposite direction or else you're hitting a wall and all that was for nothing.
A day later and I think I'm ready to try again, but I have zero guarantee that it'll work out better than yesterday did. Please help. If I can't even get past the very first world, what hope do I have for the rest of the game? Apparently dropping the game to Easy makes it so it practically plays itself so it sounds like that's not an option either, but I'm really not having any fun at all. And this is on top of the load times being terrible, the Grand Prix being a pain to advance in if you mostly play offline (somehow people didn't mention that in the Era threads praising the GPs), etc.
So I'm wondering why I got the champion decal for Back in Time when I received the car and winter fest decal after my first GP.
Was expecting to get the Nina one along with the Rustland as the 3 month wait is up just like it was for the items in the pitstop but no luck.
What were the other rewards for the other GPs and how would they be given out? I'm only assuming it's possible because I got Back in Time.
Oh neat. Thanks for the answer.There was an error with the Back in Time GP where they gave everyone the Back in Time decal when they initially gave out the Champion Kart. They kept it so everyone got that decal and then made a new Champion Kart decal for the Back in Time GP.
The other Decals have not been attainable since. But they may be put up in the store alongside the Champion Kart which is due to be purchasable in the store after all the GPs finish (Which would be after the next and final GP).
Have a try at the Ring Rally mode for the course. The Sewer Speedway Ring Rally leads you to the optimal line for the shortcut for that course. Which if you can hit should certainly help knock your time down by a significant margin. If you struggle to take the shortcut in the race, just save a turbo boost or a mask and use that to make the jump for it.
Although if you are getting that close already I think it should take a few more attempts as is with general better gameplay you are gradually getting, as well as maybe a bit of good luck with the items helping shave off those last few seconds.
Grand Prix actually fairly simple to advance offline, but it's more of a "Login daily" style one. You can certainly max out the gauge with as little as one race a day from the quick challenges. Check the store, Customise a character that can give a good amount of bonuses (You should be able to get enough coins to purchase one of the character bundles before the start of the next GP which we assume is this friday, and you'll get a kart for the GP almost immediately as the first reward of the grand prix tour) and then just finish the race (Pick the daily course as well to knock out some of the daily challenges in the process.)
Just a quick update, I ended up putting the disc back in and giving it another go. Screwed up the first race but the second one dropped three seconds off my best time and mostly cruised to victory. Didn't even need the shortcut; I might have to put in some practice later to figure that one out, as I have the feeling it'll be needed later.
I think my issue with the game now is that I spend so much time looking at either the boost bar or the exhaust smoke from my kart that I'm almost not even looking at the track, which is really weird to me. But it does seem to be working; I dispatched Ripper Roo first try and did pretty good in the next two tracks, though one of them I kept losing because of item spam (I keep trying to treat the games mostly like racing games and I really need to remember how to deal with and use weapons more).
Thanks for the tips!
He doesn;t take the two shortcuts. If you take them both on the first lap then you won;t see him again for the entire race.Sigh.
Papu's Challenge is really fucking hard. The stupid beakers are right where all my powerslides go. I think that might be it for me and this game. This is the hardest racing game I've ever played, and I've played fuckin' Dirt Rally and iRacing. Cheers to all of you that managed to beat this game, but I am a broken man.