I've just checked the leaderboards and my friend's pumpkin total has dropped from over 36,000 to 1. But the person at the top of the leaderboard has 1,044,358,371 pumpkins! Come on, there are some serious bugs and glitches there for anyone to have that number of pumpkins. The next person on the leaderboard has over 800,000 pumpkins.
Overall, Trials Frontier is a good game, but I wish that Ubisoft had not made it "free to play". They should have made it like all the other console Trials games - you pay to download the game initially, and after that there are no microtransactions, or gems or fuel or any of that nonsense. I also dislike the fact that if you miss a track from an event then you will almost certainly not get a chance to unlock that track again. I started playing Trials Frontier earlier this year, and so there are probably quite a few tracks I have missed and will never get a chance to play.
the leaderboard is completely screwed - that is obvious to anyone looking at it
beyond that, the mechanics of this event are nothing like any of teh previous events, you could use a few gems on boosters or speeding up timers and make some real progress, nothinbg like that here
done 3 rounds, ended up with 3/360 pumpkins and spent 40 gems - that is just plain daylight robbery
Almost every TF event was more or less pay to win but, to be fair, I didn't mind spending 100 or 200 gems to get all the tracks, because it wasn't that much after all. But now? Few thousand gems to get every track? Are you out of your mind?
@CaptainWeelie
@Ubi-JollyCharly
Please respond to this topic and confirm, that requirements are not a mistake, so me (and probably some other players) can finally uninstall this game.
I agree with you 100%
I dont mind spending a bit money but spending the amount of an a-grade console game on one event in a mobile game is utterly ridiculous...
Hypothetical conversation at RL;
Employee #1: Hey, that Crash and Sunburn event was a real bust. We made it so easy that all the riders were able to get all the tracks without using any gems or spending any real money.
Employee #2: Yeah, we blew it on that one. The boss is gonna kill us for putting time and resources into an event with zero payback.
Employee #1: We better come up with another event quick before we get fired.
Employee #2: Great idea. Let’s make it a lot harder so we can make up those gems/dollars we lost on Crash and Sunburn.
Employee #1: Why stop there? Lets really crank it up and see if we can get them to unload thousands of gems on just a single event.
Employee #2: Naahhh, that’ll never work. They’ll all complain on the forum and threaten to quit the game again.
Employee #1: Sure it’ll work. They always threaten to quit but we’ve got ‘em hooked so they can’t. And if we bump the cost up about 10 times what we’d normally do, we only need 10% of them to actually pay it. We can’t lose.
Employee #2: I guess you’re right. We’ll rake in so much dough we won’t know where to put it all. The boss will probably give us a big bonus!
Employee #1: Now you’re talkin’! Whew, all this brainstorming has really worked me over. Let’s bail and go get some lunch.
Is each set of five tracks the same for every player, or does the game pick a track containing a pumpkin plus four tracks at random without a pumpkin? I'm stuck at my current set of tracks. I can't find which track contains the pumpkin. I've got Acid Bath, Ray of Deception, Rowdy Roofing, The Tanktops and Midnight Brewery. Has anyone found a pumpkin in one of these tracks? (I know I can narrow it down to one track by spending 60 gems, but I'm blowed if I'm going to waste hundreds of gems on this annoying event.)
Rowdy Roofing after a metal ramp not far from the last checkpoint
In the tanktops too near the leaning big orange barrel
Thanks, but I found it. It was on Midnight Brewery and I completely missed it earlier. I'm guessing the track that contains the pumpkin is chosen at random. When I played The Tanktops a bit earlier I searched everywhere in the track and no pumpkin. So if one player finds a pumpkin on a certain track it's no guarantee that that track will contain a pumpkin for every other player.
EDIT: By the way, 96 pumpkins is not the maximum number of pumpkins you can find without spending gems to speed up the timer. You need to take into account the time taken to play the tracks to find all the pumpkins. In theory, the maximum number of pumpkins possible without speeding up the timer would be either 94 or 95. That would still leave you 265 or 266 short of the 360 required to unlock everything. You'd need to spend at least 5,300 gems to speed up the timer. It depends on how many gems you currently have, but 5,800 gems in the shop costs £80.99.
Incidentally, 94 or 95 unlocks only two tracks, Dolomite and Township. Dolomite unlocks at 16 pumpkins and Township at 54.The next track to be unlocked is Abandoned Colony at 113.
Speeding up the timer isnt the best way to use your gems to make pumpkins in this event; its spending them on the loot wheel; where you can get entries for (I think) 3/6/12 pumpkins. I base those numbers on past similar events; as slow as the timer is on this event, I havent gotten a chance to see them all... Using the 20 gems on that instead of the timer will get you multiple chances to make a lot more pumpkins.You'd need to spend at least 5,300 gems to speed up the timer
Not seeing slots on the wheel? Maybe you arent doing good enough. So far I have found that if you get silver or better, you will see pumpkins on the loot wheel. So far this has worked for me....
1) fall in every crack/crevice.. do whatever you have to to find that pumpkin; then DONT finish the track.
2) Restart and make a decent run (no faults, reasonably fast). Fault to get the pumpkin if you have to; you can always get silver with at least one fault. Make too many faults? then dont finish the track... instead restart again.
3) spend your gems on the loot wheel and wait 6 hours.
Average 15 pumpkins a day to make the goal (pretty easy to do when you hit a 12-pumpkins slot). If you feel you are falling behind that average; then (and only then) is it time to consider spending gems to speed up the timer.
You WILL spend gems... RL really is forcing you to use a lot for this event. But you CAN make it, and for a lot less than 5300 gems.
This event is so bad I've uploaded my first ever YouTube video.
https://youtu.be/vTUx6KnILMw
Has anyone managed to actually get the pumpkin on Hanging Gardens? Even when I finally managed to land vertically after the explosion I didn't manage to fall off on to it.