mfcrocker posted:

Probably done the best I'm going to - my dirt section and "last corner" are garbage but I'll have to play a shitload to get that last 0.5s that I can cut.

mfcrocker posted:

Relatively garbage - I am cutting inside the dirt

Grey Hunter posted:

I've sailed through the gap between the two gates before, that annoying.

aas Bandit posted:

Submitted my time. I don't have it in me to shave off any more.


My experience playing your track:

-Good flow, and I really like the density and claustrophobic feeling of the scenery! Cool track!
*hits dirt boil protruding through track and flips upside down*
-Well, other than that part.
(restarts)
*gets to finish, misses jump*
(restarts)
*misses jump repeatedly because you can't get enough speed from the CP*

(At this point, I would normally say "gently caress that, there are a lot of other tracks out there", but since it's a goontrack...)
*finally clears the finish block after a few attempts from the beginning, lets off the gas, then realizes that wasn't the finish...*


I like the track (other than the boil).
I hate the finish section.

Entropist posted:

Yeah, also the fastest way at the finish seems to involve crashing into the wall since there is no space to make much of a slide and the finish is right after the turn, that's kinda random.

SupSuper posted:

Ok after going through all the submissions, I decided it's time to finish up the Goon Cup website to automate the process. What this means is automated replay submissions, time tracking, leaderboard generation, the works!

Check it out! Track 1 results are up!

aas Bandit posted:

Are you on a screen that looks like this on the lower left?



If so, TM2 may be waiting on you to place a trigger, and it won't do anything as long as you're in that mode. To turn off that mode, press the circled/arrowed button. At that point, you should just be able to hit Esc and go back to the regular editor.

Hopefully that's it...if not, provide a screenie, and I'll try to help.

aas Bandit posted:

Yes indeed.

I like it overall! The biggest thing you need to do is add first-person cams at the two loops. It's quick and easy to do, and you can find tutorials on YouTube. I went ahead and quickly added them so I could more easily drive your track. If you want to see what I did, you can grab it here. The other thing you'd do is add triggers at any CPs to revert to normal cam if you respawn.

I like some of the unconventional stuff that you've done with the loops, I like the few sections that kind of sneak up on you, and I like the nice mix of block types. The one loop-into-wallride was fun too.

Stuff that I didn't like as much (other than the lack of first-person loop cams)--there are two sections that seemed maybe a bit too unfriendly. The one U-turn followed by a hard right onto the descending ramp at ~30 seconds is pretty awkward, even when you know it's coming. The other one was the wallride going right into another hard U-turn at ~45. Part of what made that unfriendly is that you want to try to stay low/left while you're on the wallride, but if you do, you clip the edge of the ramp/wall where it sticks out...

This is a cool first effort! You'll probably want to add some signs eventually, and do intro/replay if you feel up to it.

Strong Mouse posted:

The thing about the slow drifts is that on my fastest run I don't slow down at all. I still don't know how I did that, and I can't get it to happen again.

aas Bandit posted:

This is the first day I had a chance to spend more than a few minutes driving the track (I had a busy week; shut up), and initially, for the first 15-20 minutes, I was kinda struggling and cursing and having a rough time of it.

What changed that was slowing down. It sounds weird, but try taking a few runs through the track, and not braking at all and not trying to drift. Just use purely throttle control and think about when and where you need to slow down, and when and where you can floor it, and what the best clean line is. About the third run of this I tried, I was surprised to pass my old ghost.

I'm now a bit over 3 seconds ahead of that ghost (granted, it wasn't all that fast to start with, but...man, I was struggling so much more than I am now). I've gone back to braking and drifting and so on, but I'm driving in a much less...fussy?...way than I was before, and the track feels a lot better.

The hardest part for me now is hitting this just right:



It's a thing of beauty when you get just the right angle, but you're done if you don't.

Entropist posted:

Nobody read my track walkthrough No wonder you all suck.

SupSuper posted:

Track 2 results are up!

I'll set up the global leaderboards soon.

Grimwit posted:

This track is apparently nimbler than I am.
Mainly, I just found it hard to figure out where I was going.

Gamerofthegame posted:

Did you drop the ball with the author time? Getting gold on the first attempt is, uh, weird. Also map is bad for not making the backwards route equally competitive 2/10.

Grimwit posted:

A replay might help.
My problem witht he track is it feels very disjointed. One obstacle doesn't lead neatly into the next, giving those new to the track a labyrinthine feel. I never actually finished the track because I couldn't find my way out. The nail in the coffin was the loop-d-loop leading...somewhere. I couldn't be sure. Often I'd take the spin and suddenly end up at the beginning of the track.

mfcrocker posted:

The gold time seemed pretty soft. Author is a bugger.

aas Bandit posted:

It still needs first-person cams on the loops. Loops are really obnoxious to learn/drive without them because it forces you to manually switch cameras while you're trying to concentrate on the track. First-person cams tend to fix problems like:

FillInTheBlank posted:

I did a bad thing to your track.
http://shootymcgunshot.com/tmfiles/Refolded_FillInTheBlank(00%2747%27%2724).Replay.Gbx

Great Joe posted:

I like it. Unlike the last track it pushes me to get better.

RickVoid posted:

Slowly working my time down. Haven't reached gold time yet. That first section is a bitch and a half, the majority of my restarts happen there. Otherwise I'm loving the new map. So many places where you can jump a wall a nd make a nice shortcut.

BrumDart posted:

Just sent in my replay, this track did not agree with me at all. I know I could take 1 second off my time if I could be lucky enough to string together a lap without a tiny mistake wrecking it. But there's no way I could improve it beyond that. I didn't even make the AT and I feel like I'm at my wit's end.


Then I read this

CVE posted:

If it helps you I think Viggy's post is for the new track posted above since we go back to a Monday deadline schedule. the AT in the current one was really hard if you aren't technically proficient or had the time to brute force it with sheer time and effort.
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Thistledown posted:

Maybe it's because I hopped in a few races late but I'm feeling good about 10+B+GTs length. Tracks this season have been nice and varied so I feel like I'm working different stuff each week, keeps it fresh.

Foozle posted:

I'm not sure if I'm burning out on trackmania or if it's just the current track that isn't doing it for me. There's a couple bits where I keep getting wedged under geometry that are getting frustrating. Also just gently caress that dirt bit. I know it can be done better but I might as well be riding around that on a tricycle.

It's going to suck if I have to submit my current time because I know it's really half-assed. I can reliably knock almost a half second off my time by the third checkpoint but then everything falls to poo poo.

Looking forward to a new track tomorrow and seeing what kind of abomination the first goon track is this year.

Renegret posted:

I avoid the dirt myself. I lose too much speed going into the dirt, and you don't accelerate as well on the dirt either. That's just me though, I'm willing to admit it's the slower of all your options and I just haven't found the right line yet.

Renegret posted:

I'm paranoid about this track because my run is very solid, but I feel like I'm missing something. I don't know what it is, I just feel like there's some huge time saver somewhere that I haven't found yet.

SupSuper posted:

SupSuper posted:

There's a checkpoint on the right so I doubt you can skip it and jump straight to the finish, but you can use the jump to go straight into that checkpoint instead.

AtomicSX posted:

Hey Aas, if there's only a couple hundreths of a second between the winners, could we do a top 2 (or more) for the "winner" replay like we did last season? I remember it being cool to watch where one would lose time but make it up in other sections of the track.

As for Derpetology, the track is really tough to get a handle on. I'll probably drop a few spots this week because I don't have time this weekend to try and improve my time . The AT for this week in particular took forever to get.

Entropist posted:

They will affect it just like the other regular tracks!