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I wanted to use a wackier skin to spice up the noob run video, but I can't seem to get them to appear. I can only do it from the Steam Workshop.
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Camoes posted:I wanted to use a wackier skin to spice up the noob run video, but I can't seem to get them to appear. I can only do it from the Steam Workshop.
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Aug 27, 2014 01:00
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SupSuper posted:What's the link? http://www.trackmania-carpark.com/car.php?id=1102 This one, for example. I put it in the folder but it doesn't appear in game.
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Aug 27, 2014 01:17
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Submitted my time, and I'm pretty proud of it! I've only been racing the Monday night of each track's release, and so a quick touchup on Tuesday and I'm done for this week. I know I'm going to be busy. I liked this course! A number of little touches that I kept finding to improve to get the best time. That tiny corridor before the turn before the boosters, for example, surprised me with a lot of saved time from finding the right angle to strike it. It's not just the time saved getting through right, it's also keeping up the high speed through the next section that cut my time down.
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Aug 27, 2014 01:21
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Camoes posted:http://www.trackmania-carpark.com/car.php?id=1102 That was made for Trackmania United, not Trackmania2 so it wont work.
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Aug 27, 2014 05:13
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Have to turn in my time now as I won't be able to touch it again before the deadline, but I like my run and don't think I can improve. However, I have another plan for this track which I will share soon enough.
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Aug 27, 2014 06:46
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FillInTheBlank posted:That was made for Trackmania United, not Trackmania2 so it wont work.  thanks!
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Aug 27, 2014 11:58
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Camoes posted:
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Aug 27, 2014 16:07
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this track leaves no margin for error and i hate it
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Aug 27, 2014 20:58
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Gamerofthegame posted:this track leaves no margin for error and i hate it But it's really easy so ???
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Aug 28, 2014 00:01
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It's unforgiving of errors, but I think it could be a lot more punishing and have more errors to commit. I still don't know how to correctly come down out of the barrel inversion and not fly everywhere. Every time I've done it well, it feels like a fluke. I've never liked barrel inversions anyway, they always feel so janky.
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Aug 28, 2014 00:17
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The first drop is killing me - I can get the theory, but it seems random if I land smoothly or not.
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Aug 28, 2014 08:29
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Grey Hunter posted:The first drop is killing me - I can get the theory, but it seems random if I land smoothly or not. You should be able to do it consistently, if you never let go of the gas and just quickly tap the brake when your car is in a good angle.
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Aug 28, 2014 09:31
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Grey Hunter posted:The first drop is killing me - I can get the theory, but it seems random if I land smoothly or not. You do know you can tap the brake in the air to control how you land, right?
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Aug 28, 2014 09:33
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Jabor posted:You do know you can tap the brake in the air to control how you land, right? Yeah, that's the part that I can't do the same every time - there is an angle you need to be at to land smoothly, and I can only hit it one in ten times at the moment.
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Aug 28, 2014 09:39
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This is probably my least favourite track of the season so far but a nice moment was when I worked out the quickest route through the maze. I like my time so far but still definitely got a couple of seconds to knock off.
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Aug 28, 2014 09:45
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Grey Hunter posted:Yeah, that's the part that I can't do the same every time - there is an angle you need to be at to land smoothly, and I can only hit it one in ten times at the moment. Something here seems fishy, because it should go smoothly basically in any angle. Keep pressing forward, tap brake, don't turn until you've landed. Maybe try it on keyboard in case your controller does something funky?
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Aug 28, 2014 10:34
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Don't forget to keep holding accelerate while tapping the brake.
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Aug 28, 2014 11:53
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Nice, I was hoping there would be a new Trackmania goon cup. Normally I would notice these threads only after the season has ended. Not that I have much chance anyway, since I am terrible at video games. Anyway, I look forward to the battle for the last place!
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Aug 28, 2014 14:12
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Grey Hunter posted:Yeah, that's the part that I can't do the same every time - there is an angle you need to be at to land smoothly, and I can only hit it one in ten times at the moment. Try setting up a visual cue for when to stabilize the fall. For example, when my front tires are just over the first curb, that's when I stabilize and I get much more consistent starts. You'll have to find the angle that works best for you, of course. I also use similar things to help figure out when to start braking to avoid drifting.
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Aug 28, 2014 17:03
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Great Joe posted:Don't forget to keep holding accelerate while tapping the brake. Thistledown posted:Try setting up a visual cue for when to stabilize the fall. For example, when my front tires are just over the first curb, that's when I stabilize and I get much more consistent starts. You'll have to find the angle that works best for you, of course. I also use similar things to help figure out when to start braking to avoid drifting. Guess which moron just blew four seconds off his time by following advice.
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Aug 28, 2014 17:55
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Some updates: - Video 2: coming soon! - People that keep sending in skins from http://www.trackmania-carpark.com/: Stop doing that. You need to use http://www.maniapark.com/ instead. - Global leaderboards: fixed, hopefully! Since I don't require logins or anything, I kinda have to hope nobody changes names between tracks. So now I'm using your TM names instead, and showing all the times to clarify the maths going on: http://lp.somesingawful.com/Trackmania/
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Aug 28, 2014 23:28
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Dem feels when I jump in and skin 3 seconds off my best time. When it happened, I had to pause the podcast and cheer! 
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Aug 29, 2014 01:21
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I wish I had 3 seconds left to gain. I'm looking at maybe half a second realistically. And it's all a bunch of small, execution heavy improvements. 
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Aug 29, 2014 01:24
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Thistledown posted:I wish I had 3 seconds left to gain. I'm looking at maybe half a second realistically. And it's all a bunch of small, execution heavy improvements. Yep. I'd straight up have to change my entire route to shave off much more of my current time. *EDIT* I TAKE IT BACK. I JUST SHAVED NEARLY 2 SECONDS OFF MY TIME. AND I JUST HAD TO DO THE SAME THING I WAS DOING, BUT BETTER. HOLY poo poo. RickVoid fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Aug 29, 2014 |
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Aug 29, 2014 01:31
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Had to send my time in since I'm going on holiday and not going to be able to try get a faster time. I can see so much to improve in my run too 
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Aug 29, 2014 02:52
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RickVoid posted:Yep. I'd straight up have to change my entire route to shave off much more of my current time. Nearly 3 and a half seconds when all was said and done, and I still think it could have been better.
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Aug 29, 2014 02:58
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I just shaved a half second off my time. ...I have no idea how. It seemed like an incredibly sloppy run that was barely holding on, then at one of the checkpoints I found myself ahead by half a second and I have no idea why or what I did.
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Aug 29, 2014 03:53
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Grey Hunter posted:Guess which moron just blew four seconds off his time by following advice. 
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Aug 29, 2014 13:50
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After the fix for aas bandit&others, my times are now wrong. Changing the capitalization on my TM name from lowen to Lowen messed up my track 2 & 3 times, it's giving me the DNF defaults, apparently. Also is there still room on the goon track? I'd like to do a thing.
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Aug 29, 2014 17:11
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Race 2 - Baconic Rites HD ~ SD ~ YouTube ~ TM-Tube
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Aug 30, 2014 00:39
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Oh hey, I'm middle tier! Almost the last of them but I'll take it as a compliment 
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Aug 30, 2014 00:49
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Can we penalise Entropist since he gets extra time to play the tracks since he makes them. I think that would be fair for us all.
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Aug 30, 2014 00:51
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FillInTheBlank posted:Can we penalise Entropist since he gets extra time to play the tracks since he makes them. The sad thing is that he'll still win.
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Aug 30, 2014 01:02
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I'm the only person in the scrub-tier that took the shortcut near the end?
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Aug 30, 2014 01:26
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I tried that about a dozen times before I decided it was too loving hard and totally not worth it. Figures the robot would do that.
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Aug 30, 2014 01:29
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Strong Mouse posted:I'm the only person in the scrub-tier that took the shortcut near the end? I managed to nail it in several of my runs, but never with enough consistency to make it something to try for every time, especially if I already had a good run going. Swear to god Entropist has his acceleration values tweaked up or some poo poo.  (No, I know he's just that good.)
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Thistledown posted:It's unforgiving of errors, but I think it could be a lot more punishing and have more errors to commit. Pretty much this. At least for me, your mom was a lot more forgiving about minor errors due to the fact that it wasn't as focused on getting and keeping speed. I still haven't figured out where to aim in the inversion well enough to even get through it more than half the time and then it's a crapshoot whether I can maintain any control into the open area at the bottom. I get the impression that's going to be another one where I drop a second or two when I either luck my way through a perfect line or finally grok the mechanics at work. This week has been awful for free time, so I doubt I'll be able to brute-force my way to another good time for this track. So it goes.
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Foozle posted:I still haven't figured out where to aim in the inversion well enough to even get through it more than half the time and then it's a crapshoot whether I can maintain any control into the open area at the bottom. It should go something like this: http://shootymcgunshot.com/tmfiles/SA7%20-%20Artificial%20Datastream_Inversion.webm
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