So who truly are the all-stars of fruit racing?

[Archavia]

2 hours ago, Synophis said:

Ok, I'll go a bit more in-depth with time attacks. Since most of the time there really is quite a lot of room for mistakes, I think it's just more about not getting the drifting mechanics than anything else.

 

My best guess is that you're just not drifting enough. Even when you're just on a straight, you should be drifting and using counter steering to get as straight a line as possible while alternating the drift direction. For best possible speed, release the drift only when the boost meter is filled up or about to be filled (learn the timing). After releasing the boost, start another drift and repeat. You can strategize your boost usage a bit by doing a max boost just before or after hitting a boost pad which will make you go at highest possible speed. Another good tip is to minimize your air time by using a boost in midair.

 

I still had a recording of some of my original medium and hard time attack runs and I uploaded it as hidden unedited (menus, loading screens included) video on my channel. Even with mistakes, missing boost pads, bad racing lines I still beat the records by multiple seconds. This should give a good visualization of what I tried to explain about the mechanics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sstXi_w3kI

 

 

I've been counter-steering and maximising my boosts as you mentioned, but I guess I'm just not doing it as efficiently as I need to be. Thanks a lot for the video and detailed description though, I should hopefully be able to make some progress with those. And congrats on the plat!

 

2 hours ago, Kristycism said:

Also, how did you guys manage to get "WEEHHH"? The one with four seconds flying. I just can't get it to pop no matter what, been trying for like an hour on various pistons, with and without boosting on the big jumps, and it just won't pop. Am I doing something wrong? At this point I think I must be misunderstanding the trophy. Plus side, one less hour of grinding for the 20 hours once I've finished everything else up

 

Go flying off the side of Avocado Roller, that's how I got it.

[Kristycism]

27 minutes ago, Dark_Raven666 said:

Go flying off the side of Avocado Roller, that's how I got it.

 

I didn't even think of that - thank you! You've just saved me from many hours of frustration!

[Synophis]

6 hours ago, Kristycism said:

 

I've found that the one piston times are a lot tighter with almost no room for error than the two and three piston ones. I've only done the first two islands so far though and part of the third, I dunno if they're more difficult on the other tracks as I haven't even attempted them yet. I got every single two and three piston one so far (mind you, it's only 10/21 races) on my first attempt, but most of the one piston took several attempts before I finally did it.

 

And my skills are nowhere near close to @Synophis - I just watched the first race on your video and hot damn, you're so much better than me o_O I'm in awe. I tried doing some of that drifting stuff you do at the start and I always go way off course...

For me as well, Taj Dates (desert city) on easy / one piston was probably the most difficult one so indeed the difficulty doesn't correlate well here. Icy Grapes, Junglanas, Apple Pikes and Machu Uchuva on hard / three piston were close behind though.

 

If you're going off the track at the start on a straight, it could be that you're not counter steering enough. When I start the first race on the video, I immediately do a quite a sharp turn to right. This is to minimize the first left drift angle. Once I start the left drift I move the analog stick to the right side to keep the drift going as straight as possible. Once I think it's no longer efficient to drift to the left, I change the drift to the right and switch analog stick position to the left side. Repeating this on straights gives plenty of speed to beat the records.

 

Thanks cjshaitan, Kristycism and Dark_Raven666. Good to hear video was helpful.

 

 

[fisty123]

10 hours ago, Synophis said:

For me as well, Taj Dates (desert city) on easy / one piston was probably the most difficult one so indeed the difficulty doesn't correlate well here. Icy Grapes, Junglanas, Apple Pikes and Machu Uchuva on hard / three piston were close behind though.

I attempted a few of these on the one piston but fell short by under a second so many times that I went stuff it and will come back to it in a couple of days.
Congrats on the plat

[Archavia]

Well I've managed to get gold on 51/63 time attacks, and get bronze on everything else, with the exception of Poseimon. For that I'm not even able to get bronze on any Piston, usually 10 seconds behind the gold time. I have no idea what I'm doing so horribly wrong on this level. Poseimon and Taj Dates are the only golds I need for One Piston now.

 

@Synophis Any tips for how to do Poseimon?

Edited July 19, 2018 by Dark_Raven666

[Synophis]

On 18.7.2018 at 1:28 PM, Dark_Raven666 said:

Well I've managed to get gold on 51/63 time attacks, and get bronze on everything else, with the exception of Poseimon. For that I'm not even able to get bronze on any Piston, usually 10 seconds behind the gold time. I have no idea what I'm doing so horribly wrong on this level. Poseimon and Taj Dates are the only golds I need for One Piston now.

 

@Synophis Any tips for how to do Poseimon?

At least one thing is to slowly drive through the track and find all the boost pads. They are scattered around the tube and some of them can be tricky to spot especially when they are directly above you. Once you know the locations, figure out the fastest route that uses all of the pads. There's also one fairly large jump inside the tube so use your boost to get back on the ground as fast as possible. For sections that don't contain boost pads, just keep drifting on the "ground" level.

[Archavia]

16 hours ago, Synophis said:

At least one thing is to slowly drive through the track and find all the boost pads. They are scattered around the tube and some of them can be tricky to spot especially when they are directly above you. Once you know the locations, figure out the fastest route that uses all of the pads. There's also one fairly large jump inside the tube so use your boost to get back on the ground as fast as possible. For sections that don't contain boost pads, just keep drifting on the "ground" level.

 

Thanks for the tips, was able to get all the golds (barely). Not much left for platinum now, just Taj Dates 1, Taj Dates 3, Savana Core 3, Apple Pikes 3, Frozen Castle 3, Icy Grapes 3 and Junglanas 3. They're all kicking my arse though.

 

And platinum! Taj Dates 1 was definitely the most annoying one to beat, so I'll agree with you on that one (though when I did finally beat it, I beat it by half a second...) Game was harder than I anticipated it being.

Edited July 20, 2018 by Dark_Raven666

[Erkawest]

Is it possible to do campaign & rest of content on coop couch play while earning trophies? Thinking if this is something for me and gf

[Kristycism]

16 hours ago, Erkawest said:

Is it possible to do campaign & rest of content on coop couch play while earning trophies? Thinking if this is something for me and gf

 

Nope, campaign has to be done solo. And so does online stuff and time trials. 

 

All the misc trophies can be done on couch coop but that's all. It is a fun game to play local coop though. 

[Jinxcendant-XIII]

On 15/07/2018 at 10:50 AM, Synophis said:

Alright, I just finished up platinum and here are some of my thoughts and tips.

 

There's a real lack of content here. Career can be completed in 2-3 hours since the AI doesn't really provide any challenge other than the last cup. After career is done, you'll either have online or time attack. As for online, in addition to that there's actually no one playing, it's also quite laggy. The game running 30 fps and having intermittent frame drops also doesn't help. Luckily, for online trophies there's one pretty nice feature: if other players leave your game, they are replaced with AI and you'll still earn trophies even though you're playing only against the AI. So your best bet is to create a room and hope someone wanders in and readies up. Then even if the other player quits, you'll still have a chance of earning wins.

 

Next up, time attack. The majority of records are easily beaten by 1-4 seconds, provided you understand the basic concepts of drifting to gain boost and using it throughout the lap. There are some pretty tough ones as well, but nothing super difficult. A couple of attempts should be enough for any of these.

 

Now when all of this is done you'll likely still be missing like 15-17 hours on the 20 hours play time requirement. Now this is a massive pain as the time spent not only doesn't count in time attack, it's only running during races (offline or online). This means that there's no way to just leave the game running and come back after multiple hours to get the rewards. Since playing against AI is pretty boring, no one's playing online and time attack is not counted, what I ended up doing was do custom juicer race 5 laps at the longest track Poseimon on easy so AI finishes as slow as possible. When race starts, I just left my character idling and let the AI finish up the race. One of these races takes around 9 minutes. I started to count these after 5 hour trophy popped and to reach 20 hours, I ended up with 90 restarts (this required a lot of netflix).

 

So, I mean this is really bad. The conscious decision to leave out time attack from time played seems to indicate that they really wanted to encourage people to play online but when it's just a warp fest, there's no reason to do so. Had they implemented online leaderboards for time attack, I could see myself playing this quite a lot as the drifting + boosting mechanic itself is pretty good. But now developers give zero reason to continue playing. Likely they did the best with their resources but I expect a lot more content and polish from a 40€ game. It's also really unfortunate as there hasn't been any good kart racers for some time and I was hoping this could be it.

 

tl;dr Platinum is a boring grind fest with very little actual interesting racing content. Online trophies aren't as bad as in most games. In my opinion and reflecting on how much I got out of the game not worth current price.

 

Any advice on Taj Dates one piston time trial? really struggling with this been hitting all boost pads to their highest boost available also drifting cutting around corners and I keep getting 1:08 or higher just can't get a lower time than that, the 106.5 requirement is ridiculous 

 

EDIT never mind I did it

Edited August 25, 2018 by Jinxcendant-XIII