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Community Manager
Monthly Forum Discussion - March 2017 [First Love Frontier]

Howdy riders!
This month’s topic for discussion is: The first thing that made you fall in love with Trials Frontier!
We know a lot of you have been rockin’ the tracks and makin' records ever since the game was released back in 2014, but do y'all remember your first day in the Frontier? Where did you install this little racing universe - in school, at work, on a hospital bed, in a train, on your couch, on the toilet seat - before you started racing in there?! We want to know the one thing that made you fall in love with the game (and maybe the one thing that didn’t), when did that happen, and how did it happen?
This discussion may include any of the following –
• The story missions or the characters you met when you started playing
• Initial game feature(s) of Trials Frontier that you truly loved (or didn't)
• Your first few friends in the Frontier
• Your least favorite thing in the Frontier back when you'd started playing
• Any suggestions or ideas for the first half hour of Trials Frontier
Let’s stick to the simple rules -
• Stay in topic
• Make this discussion fun, healthy & constructive
It’ll be exciting to know your thoughts on this topic. Let's keep the discussion going until the end of this month!
Cheers!
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Community Manager
Monthly Forum Discussion - March 2017 [First Love Frontier]

Howdy riders!
This month’s topic for discussion is: The first thing that made you fall in love with Trials Frontier!
We know a lot of you have been rockin’ the tracks and makin' records ever since the game was released back in 2014, but do y'all remember your first day in the Frontier? Where did you install this little racing universe - in school, at work, on a hospital bed, in a train, on your couch, on the toilet seat - before you started racing in there?! We want to know the one thing that made you fall in love with the game (and maybe the one thing that didn’t), when did that happen, and how did it happen?
This discussion may include any of the following –
• The story missions or the characters you met when you started playing
• Initial game feature(s) of Trials Frontier that you truly loved (or didn't)
• Your first few friends in the Frontier
• Your least favorite thing in the Frontier back when you'd started playing
• Any suggestions or ideas for the first half hour of Trials Frontier
Let’s stick to the simple rules -
• Stay in topic
• Make this discussion fun, healthy & constructive
It’ll be exciting to know your thoughts on this topic. Let's keep the discussion going until the end of this month!
Cheers!
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Senior Member
Well, I 'm going to say the opposite of what you want. I intentionally did not play Trials Frontier (because it was F2P and because the grind was so huge) until a good 6 months of it being released. I didn't want to support a game that dictates the way you need to play/progress through it and the awful money-grabbing business model that is F2P. That said, I got bored of Trials Fusion pretty quickly and eventually migrated to Frontier to maintain my Trials addiction - I had no choice having sold my 360 and HD/Evolution along with it. Though, once I had progressed through it enough to be able to play how I wanted, it quickly became obvious that this game is right up there with the great trials games on the Xbox 360. I much prefer it to Trials Fusion!
Trials Frontier is a great game but there was no point where I "fell in love" with it. I refused to get that involved with it until I had fully-upgraded bikes - however, that really didn't last that long. I couldn't resist playing a track without trying to get higher up the LBs than I probably should have been with half-upgraded bikes and, once I had progressed through the game enough to be able to play how I wanted, I became hooked without really realising it. You won this war of attrition - well done. I was forced to raise my white underpants up on a flag pole for all to see. I also walked home naked and alone that day.
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Member
I had never played a Trials game before, and installed TF on a whim thanks to Hungry Shark Evolution.
First impressions: a rudimentary, boring game requiring minimal skills. Riding a bike as a shark is ridiculous but novel enough to hold my attention for a short period of time.
After a week, I was ready to delete the app. Lack of fuel was infuriating. Gameplay was still pretty lousy...tracks required no skill to complete. There was no incentive to compete on the leaderboards given the crappy, poorly-upgraded bikes. I was spending way more time watching ads than actually playing the game. It was a really ****ty gaming experience. 
I stuck with it to progress through the "story" and to get the next upgrade. The candy/cube/ANBA quests helped to diversify gameplay, making it much more interesting to progress. Still lots of grinding and lots of ad watching...far too much ad watching. By the time I completed the storyline, some of my bikes were upgraded enough to bring skill back into the equation. Watching my LB numbers drop was very satisfying and fuel became less of an issue. I bought Trials Evolution and Fusion as a result.
The KTM Rally was the real turning point for me. Until then I never felt like I could compete against more experienced riders. With the rally, the playing field was level and there was (basically) unlimited attempts to improve track times. I'm a persistent, if not skilled, player...and that event helped me find my groove.
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Member
So I installed TF 1st day when I bought my s3 LTE (about 2 years ago) and I was playing it until 4.8.0 update. After it I can't run the game, so I missed whole KTM event, and I'm waiting for next update which (maybe) fix my problem...
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My friend had been playing Evolution and I liked what I saw but I never came to grips with the controls. When I noticed there was a F2P Trials mobile game I thought I'd give it a try. And I liked it because it was much easier to control.
I totally enjoyed the story. The stupid things Leroy says and the part where Mirella becomes delusional. A.N.B.A. always finding different meanings for the acronym. (I've always liked adventures more than other kinds of games, I guess that's why)
But I never liked PvP. And I still don't like it. But some tracks you have to buy with chips. And to get chips you have to play PvP. I hate that. And what I also didn't like at all was that when the bunker was introduced, the announcement said that we got PvP now, but no details. So I ignored the bunker until I read here that there's tracks to be had and other rewards for reaching certain ranks.
But to answer the question in the headline: nothing made me "fall in love" with the game. I like it but it's not *that* good
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Senior Member
If my Xbox account hadn't gotten hacked, I never would have played Trials in the first place.
It's true. Back in 2009, my Xbox Live account was hacked and downloaded onto another console somewhere else. They got my credit card that was attached to it and tried to buy a bunch of computers and stuff. They also tested if it would work by randomly purchasing items on the XBL store, and one of those items was Trials HD.
Well, after about a month or so, when I finally got everything sorted out, I realized that there were a bunch of games that I now had the licenses to because they were purchased on my gamertag. I called XBL to make sure it was alright to download them since I didn't actually pay for them (I got full reimbursement from everything I lost in the fraud). They said sure, no reason not to, you have the licenses.
So I fired it up thinking it'd just be a fun little racing game and I'd grab some achievements and be on my way. NOPE. I fell so in love with it, I couldn't stop. It was super competitive, and I was actually pretty good at it. It became one of my favorite games and I continued with Evolution and Fusion in the future years.
So now that we have the backstory, all I have to say is that I started playing Trials Frontier because I knew I already loved the other games, and this would be an interesting change since it's played with touch controls. At first, I thought it would just be a fun side thing, and I could never take it seriously. Within a few months I was far better at this game than I will ever be at the other games. I don't even play the other ones anymore, and this is by far the best one in the franchise IMO. Yes, I am actually saying that, even with all the complaints and crap we have to deal with while playing this game, it's still THAT good.
As for the memories, I first played the game in my car on break at work. It was the week it came out, and it was weird. I still remember it was a rainy day too. I feel like so much has happened in this game that I can't even remember it all. The story ended years ago. I stopped doing ANBA years ago. I've been on the forums for nearly the entire time the game has been out. People have come and gone, events and features have come and gone, the game has come a long way. I DO wish it WORKED better though 
tl;dr
I already knew I'd like the game before I played it because of previous titles. I have enjoyed the game since its release. The shortened version of my story sucks, read above. 
Sorry for semi-off-topic. I don't care
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Senior Member
Like others above.... fell in love with Trials HD and EVO... extremely disappointed by Fusion... thought I'd give Frontier a try. But because I was soooo burned by the waste of money I spent in Fusion ... I decided never to spend anything on this game. (To this day I will never buy an RL/Ubi game on faith again, thanks to Fusion)
With that background, I was VERY disappointed with not having any form of user-designed content or Track Central. . . . and disliked the whole F2P concept as applied to a Trials franchise. When the game got too grindy, I decided to make it my personal challenge to defeat the game regardless. Really... I stayed because the tracks were good, the bikes ran smooth, and the players on the forum were nice/helpful/interesting. The core track mechanics of this game have always been excellent .... its the one thing thats kept me here.
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Member
I never gamed much on my phone because I'm getting older and my eyes aren't what they used to be. I'm in denial about it so I refuse to get glasses or contacts. Then they gave us iPads at work for customer demos (selling boats) and all of a sudden I could see again! As you can imagine, the life of a boat salesman is pretty slow in the winter months and I happened across Trials Frontier just by chance. Being a dirt biker for the last 40 years, I was interested so I started playing.
It was a lot of fun at first but I was always out of fuel and forced to wait. I got hooked because it gave me a way to lengthen the riding season when the high country was snowed in. I won't lie, I bought a few tank upgrades just so I could play a little longer. I was always looking to unlock the next track or finish a bike upgrade. All the different missions meant never running out of things to do. I don't know that there's a feature I fell in love with. On my real bike I've always just enjoyed the trails and exploring the back country. To a small degree, I get that same feeling riding on the Frontier whether I'm competing in the bunker or just cruising thru Ghost Town. That's why I'm still here after a few years!
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When did I fall in love with Trials, well for me it all started with Trials HD on my Xbox 360 played it for some time then got frustrated on Medium & Hard Levels as i didn't know what Bunny Hop was and neither any Forum till Trials Frontier was released on Mobile/Tablet. After 6 to 8 months when the App was released i decide to give it a try downloaded the App on my iPad Air, Liked it, Loved it & very soon got addictive to it. Because of this App i joined the forum where i learnt trick like Bunny-Hop, took me little time to get used to Front, Back & Front. Now I've started playing Trials HD again on my Xbox 360 improved my score and finally enjoyed the game.
I've also started playing Trials Evolution & Fusion because of Trials Frontier. The things i loved was completing mission like performing stunts, collecting sweets, beating Butch Guys & Collection Data Cubes but now there only Butch to defeat. I also love the special event where we are rewarded with costumes, bike paintjobs & the best thing TRACKS.
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Member
i remember watching a friend of mine playing sometime around the summer of 2014
at that time i didn't even have a smartphone but i quite liked what i saw, it seemed well balanced in terms of physics and fun. short tracks, crazy moves and even some kind (i caught it somewhere in the middle so wasn't sure about a lot) of story to keep us involved
couple of months later my faithfull nokia died and i was forced to upgrade to an android smartphone
trials was still stuck on my mind, so much that it was the first app i ran to get from the play store and been playing it since then
4 or 5 months later i took a break as i was stuck with missions my bikes couldn't handle and was a bit tired of the grind to get parts to upgrade
that lasted 3 or 3 months where i would only do the slot machine missions
not sure what it was but something made me become addicted again and i started grinding, playing and progressing like never before and here i am until today
watched the bunker being born, played a bit but for the first 10 seasons or so i had no skills/bikes/tickets to be competitive. from then on i believe i did rank #1 everytime. don't exactly love it but the prizes are usually cool, and to get the tracks from the chip store. certainly don't hate it too
hated to watch the prospector missions disappear, especially because of the poor substitute puppy missions 
enjoyed pretty much every event and am always eager for a new one, though many of them spoiled the great ideas with faulty execution and bugs everywhere
hated to see the KTM's being tossed into (and killing) normal bikes. worst decision ever. why not making them a specific leaderbord?!
hate it even more because the bikes are actually fun to ride, as i remember from the events, but i refuse to race them in order to keep my records with "normal" bikes
all in all i still enjoy playing it, though i'm almost reaching a stale point. only one bike left to upgrade, can "always" make level #1 in the bunker, have no skill to improve many more of my times (around ranking 650, with no KTM's. i don't mind the donkey or the crazy bikes.), no more story, no more missions, no more paintjobs to buy, only 1 suit to buy... i'll stay for the events and because i'm a stubborn completionist and still hope to get the pants for my terracota warrior if it gets offered ever again and the random decides to compensate me a bit better for being at 1% than last time, but meanwhile i'll deal with it...
all of this, good and bad, kind of got obsolete since ubisoft club took over uplay and the upgrade to version 4.8.0 and later as i can barely play as i have to wait 10 minutes since opening the game until i can touch anything otherwise it will freeze/crash exit and even after that, once i play for around 30/40 minutes it will still freeze/crash exit most of the times anyway. hope it gets fixed in the update coming in two days...
edit: PS: when i started playing, the friend i first saw playing had already quit
but meanwhile i brought another friend and also my girlfriend into the game