Track Central - Everything wrong with it.



This is specifically outlining all the current issues with track central. These are not subjective problems, these are 100% clear functionality issues and flaws with the current TC.


DISLAIMER - Love the game, best trials game to date IMO(especially once bugs are fixed), just posting this here to increase visibility and spread the word on these issues so they get fixed ASAP.

#1 - Getting backed out to the main menu screen of track central every time you finish a track.

This is a HUGE annoyance when most people, most of the time, want to continue searching the feed where they left off. This also makes it so you don't have a chance to "favorite" a track after finishing it. Now after you play a track, you have to re-enter your feed/search, navigate back to the track, and then favorite it.

#2 - Play Later marker/verification

Currently when you tag a track as play later, the only feedback you get is a small little noise. There should be some sort of visual identifier on the track, as with favorites, that shows you have a track marked as "play later". I would suggest a simple check-mark, similar to the one on the "favorite" icon.

#3 - Play Later - No "remove from play later" option

This option should exist for obvious reasons, and the most important reason being that currently if you tag a track as play later, it is impossible to remove it from your "play later" feed unless you BEAT the track, not just play it. Which means if you mark an impossible track as "play later" it will be impossible to remove it from your feed, so overtime your "play later" feed will slowly fill up with impossible tracks with no way to remove them.

#4 - Unable to change your vote on a track

There are 2 pretty obvious major issues with this. #1 its very easy to accidently upvote/downvote by mistake. #2 With the inclusion of an "upvoted" feed, if you accidentally vote incorrectly on a track, that will be a permanent mistake that will stay on your "upvote" feed for the rest of eternity. So if you accidentally upvote a couple "bad" tracks, they will overtime just fill up and clutter your "upvote" feed permanently with no possible way to remove them.

#5 - No visual identifier for how you voted/played

When browsing TC, along with the difficulty icon that is instantly visible (before even the screenshot), there should be an instantly visible icon that shows you have already played a track, as well as how you voted. These icons should be put right next to the difficulty icon.

#6 - Bikes locked

All bikes should be unlocked in Track Central, there is no reason why this should be tied to career progression at all.

#7 - Medium difficulty icon is just a white box

In the small preview of a track, the difficulty icon for "medium" is represented by just a blank white box, instead of the regular icon

#8 - None of the TC data is temporarily cached/saved locally

Im not a network server expert, but it currently seems like every single time you start browsing a feed in TC, it has to reconnect to the servers to get the track list and re-download the thumbnail preview image, this is extremely annoying as a user, and also seems extremely wasteful and inefficient to have people continuously re-download the same thumbnail images and track info every single time they open a feed, even within the same play session.


#9 - SLOW thumbnail loading and buggy track list population

It takes WAY to long for this game to load the thumbnail image previews of tracks, as well as loading the track list, it currently only loads in 60 track chunks, and some times it loads more, and sometimes it doesn't. It seems to just randomly stop at arbitrary numbers. For example, I just did a "blank track search" and upon scrolling to the bottom it showed 960 track total, did the same thing again and this time it stopped at 360, did the exact same thing again and it stopped at 1134. And yes I waited at the bottom every time, and sometimes it just never loads the rest of the track list.

#10 - Sometimes the track thumbnails just never load

Either with a blank preview, or a constant spinning cogwheel.

#11 - Broken leaderboards and fake times/scores on results screen

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#12 - Search is only from left to right, it should search anywhere in track name by default

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