Please lower the bar for platinum medal... this is madness | Forums

[negodyaeff]

Please note that these Tier-3 tracks are meant to be challenging and are designed to test your skills.

Obstacles should be challenging, not just time of the track. This platinum time just irrational, only few riders can reach it. Track is not very hard, but impossible platinum time makes this track very frustrating. I think it's not challenging track, but just a result of poor testing.

Really challenging track is long time unreleased "H...e Su.......rs". That's what really challenging, long track with hard obstacles. This track have adequate platinum time that reachable.

[HeaverBeaver115]

Platinum is meant to be hard to obtain anyway, and normally there is some leeway to get that, however, even with the BMW, Happy Fling's Platinum time is very abnormal and there is either barely any leeway or none at all for that, it's not a hard track and it's exactly what negodyaeff said. It's pretty much impossible to obtain a Platinum with the Original bikes like Berserker and Phantom which is a shame, but also with the Donkey and Crazy Bikes.

I'm only saying this mainly from a Donkey point of view, but NO-ONE has Platinum with the Donk on Happy Fling on either Android or iOS, so it has to be possible with the Donkey to get a Platinum as well, same goes for Crazy Bikes. Best Donkey times is around 19.9 secs on Happy Fling, so no-one is close to the 19.7 Platinum time, and is actually impossible to obtain, I've obtained a 19.881 time (not on the Leaderboards), and a 19.7 time is certainly unobtainable from my experience, so what do you have to do to obtain such a barbaric time where even the very best of players can't get Platinum there but should be able to obtain it with ease, just like every other track. Getting perhaps the fastest possible time which is a Gold is frustrating but also infuriating, and is a massive put-off, and not just for me, but for everyone and does no-one any good at all.

And as for Snow Alley, it is relatively comfortable to get Platinum with the BMW, but from a Donkey point of view, only TWO players have Platinum there on Android and iOS combined (Me and VaNa91), and improvisation was needed to get there, should be totally unnecessary to achieve such a demanding time, proving yet that these 2 tracks have anomalous Platinum times.

The Donkey is far inferior to the BMW, and yet those tracks have Platinum times that are far beyond even the Donkeys reach, the Donkey or the original bikes is nothing in comparison. Each track that has the BMW (the Tier 3 tracks) that have been released recently has had the tightest Platinum times ever, which looks like it's based on the BMW (or has had insufficient testing) but if the Donk or any other bike is not taken into consideration for Platinum times nowadays, what's the point of even trying when Gold is the best that we can obtain now when it should always be Platinum? Otherwise other bikes are not going to be able to keep up on time or Platinums, even the BMW itself is struggling and will continue to do so if the Platinum times get more ridiculous. We know that a certain goal is to obtain Platinums, why ruin this objective? It's a key element in the game.

So, in conclusion, Happy Fling, The Switchblade and Snow Alley does realistically need to be changed. Even if it's altered by a second, half a second or even a fifth of a second, it's still an improvement nonetheless.

Hope this doesn't go unnoticed. Cheers.

[PappaBearNL]

I have platinum medals on ALL other tracks I have gathered, except The Switchblade. I find the track very easy, but the platinum time is just a bit too low. It takes me longer to plat this than widowmaker. And i am like 12 seconds beyond platinum on trojan giraffe, which makes your statement a bit odd. Thus I find your reaction a bit insensitive to the community.
Please, just tweak the times a bit on these tracks, so even the regular playing non-pro people may actually get a platinum on these tracks, without having to be a slide god.

[ambsan47]

Gold time, which is already tough, is around 21 with 2 faults. I can't imagine how to get below 21 WITH those two faults.

[justinman114]

It is literally impossible unless you use the legendary bikes, and even then only literal Trials gods can attain it. I'm about ready to stop playing this game now. I may be in the minority but some of us don't like to use the overpowered bikes, never before has there been a track where I couldn't attain platinum with the original bikes. Also, the Donkey is nearly impossible as well, not to mention the crazy bikes. Gimme a break Weelie, this is too much. Raise the bar a bit so people can get the medal. Please.

[Chemical-TBR]

The players have remained constant, everyone is riding as fast as always, the top genius players are still genius, still going insanely fast, everyone is grinding, and everyone agrees, the values for these tracks are "off the charts", the times are not equivalent to other tracks. Something is wrong with the medal values. It affects the leaderboards directly, it's not our fault...

Second of all, when even the sum of the best players can;t come close to a plat medal with the Donkey, well that's an even HUGER red flag, how much more HUGERER can these things get?! It's not the players that need to get better! Don't blame us, we're the ones remaining constant here. Please review these track medals! Just compare them to all other tracks!

[justinman114]

Fix the problem on these 2 tracks, it can't be that hard. Idk what the point of having a community discussion is when everyone is saying one thing and the devs don't care to listen.

[THCBLUNTED]

Gold time, which is already tough, is around 21 with 2 faults. I can't imagine how to get below 21 WITH those two faults.

This is a great point. There are a lot of new tracks where it seems impossible to achieve the medal with the time and faults available. Pinball Pains is a example. I believe silver medal is 5 faults and 59 seconds. I have enough trouble just getting to 59 seconds with 0 faults. Not sure how these numbers were ever set. There are many tracks just like this. This is very frustrating for average riders like me. Please look into this!

[justinman114]

This is a great point. There are a lot of new tracks where it seems impossible to achieve the medal with the time and faults available. Pinball Pains is a example. I believe silver medal is 5 faults and 59 seconds. I have enough trouble just getting to 59 seconds with 0 faults. Not sure how these numbers were ever set. There are many tracks just like this. This is very frustrating for average riders like me. Please look into this!

I don't think Pinball Pains is even close to the level of problem that these other 2 newer tracks have. Pinball has a 4x.xxx plat time IIRC, which really isn't all that bad. You can make a LOT of mistakes and still get it. The two new tracks are either impossible or nearly impossible for mortals to even achieve the time.

[THCBLUNTED]

I don't think Pinball Pains is even close to the level of problem that these other 2 newer tracks have. Pinball has a 4x.xxx plat time IIRC, which really isn't all that bad. You can make a LOT of mistakes and still get it. The two new tracks are either impossible or nearly impossible for mortals to even achieve the time.

I have a platinum at 53seconds on pinball pains so clearly there is some leeway there. My point is a normal rider making normal faults will never achieve those medals. The last leg of the last event had pinball as one of the 10 tracks and over 80% of the riders couldn't achieve a silver. There is something wrong with that and it just proves that these tracks weren't tested nearly enough.