yeldar2097

As requested!

YouTube - Blur: Mount Haruna (Descent) - Checkpoint

Yeh, you were really the rock that kept the TT going, and when you left it seems that everyone else did too!

After having 3 weeks in a row with no competitors made me realise that perhaps it was time to close the book on it. The SL Challenge is still going strong though, so that's one good thing.

Ahh that's a shame - I was half-expecting Challenger to come online and thrash everyone by miles and then realise that it was you sitting there in all your glory.

It'll be nice to see you in the SL Challenge again - Leungbok has been dominating it recently. He's certainly taken up your previous spot.

Haha, no head starts in Wipeout for me unfortunately. God knows I need them as I've really slipped lately and I'm not what I used to be.

Regarding the Director status, I'm one of three people who processes submissions regarding Platinums and 100%'s into a list which shows all of the site members who have obtained them in a particular game. Check out the Max Clubs for more info.

Oh and Challenger told me that you'd be popping round to see him. Did it happen, and if so, how did it go?

After using some of your videos to train for the Wipeout Cup, it occurred to me that I should find a way to get some of my Blur gameplay on YouTube. They're going up a few at a time here:

YouTube - RageousEx's Channel

Cheers for leading by example.

Nice run on Haruna!

For sure! This game does have its fair share of realism compared to the likes of Burnout, but arcade aggressiveness is more than called for.

If I'm going into a wide turn a little too hot, I let off the gas. If I need to adjust my line for a stopwatch far inside, I use the normal L2 brake and angle in. For those really sharp turns, I stomp the airbrake, line up in the direction I want to go, and hit a nitro. Mastering the drift+nitro technique for all sharp corners is quite often the difference between winning and losing. I did tips & tricks writeup for Blur here, with stuff on both racing technique and general powerup management.

Car selection and efficient nitro use are usually the main difference. I started with Shannon's Astra Extreme because of the raw speed/acceleration, but ditched it because the drift induced lost speed around the wide corners where the normal Astra Extreme could grip the entire way through. When I got my 30, I knew I left about 2 seconds of play... and Conceptfly found it. There's probably another 2 seconds worth of perfect execution to squeeze out of that track.

Conceptfly and I have talked about the offline a lot, and agreed that a hardcore racing mode (aka time trial, no weapons) for all the offline tracks was a sorely-missing aspect of the game, and one that would've made it a lot deeper than it is already. We've been going back and forth on the checkpoint leaderboards, so it's great to add you to the mix.

As for the weapons, it's similar to Wipeout but a lot more pronounced, due to static placement of the powerups. Usually if you can survive the first half lap, hitting your lines will help you break from the pack. There's certain tendencies people always have (like lining up at a distance to pick up a certain powerup) that you can rely on to use offensive/defensive maneuvers. That just comes with time.