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    Accidental restart

    Sometime I am in the habit of pressing BACK to restart, but then later I hit it out of habit after I've cleared some difficult section and just wanted to use a checkpoint. What if pressing B when at the start point would take you to the last checkpoint until you overwrite it with a new checkpoint?

    Sorry if that sounds a bit confusing, here is the point form:

    * Player gets to checkpoint X
    * Player accidentally hits BACK button (when they wanted B)
    * Player can hit B button to get back to checkpoint (even though they have restarted)
    * If player passes a new checkpoint, that overwrites the old one

    I don't screw this up as much now that I am mostly trying to reduce my faults, but I could see it reducing a bit of frustration for a lot of players.

    p.s. Really great job. Best XBLA game available.

    Thanks
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    Re: Accidental restart

    tell me about it.....look at my post...http://www.redlynxgame.com/forum/vie...hp?f=28&t=1712
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    Re: Accidental restart

    im not an expert and i had the same problem. i no longer do that and have reached approximately 19000+DLC and 38500 non DLC. you will learn trust me.
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    Re: Accidental restart

    Red Lynx I implore you please for the love of God please add an update that asks you to confirm before starting the level over when the select button is pressed.I just had the most frustrating and heartbreaking moment in the entire game on Inferno 2. Its the only level I have to medal in and has been my nemesis for weeks. I have tried over and over again, running out of time on the part that has you crossing the steeply inclined crates and crossing the gap to the metal beams afterwards. I FINALLY got it today with ample time and faults left and made it to the part where you have you cross the vertical pipes only to accidentally slip and hit select while shifting weight. I don't think I've had emotions like that since my Final Fantasy game I spent ridiculous hours on got erased back in the day. If only it had asked me to confirm before restarting.....please, please add this!
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    Re: Accidental restart

    I posted this in another topic, but here goes again:

    I wanted this when I was at your level, but now I only ever try to 0 fault each track and something like this would be most frustrating. Trust me, when the time comes, you won't want it anymore.
    Just keep practicing, you are so close to the finish now, and once you get the hang of the rest of the track, you realise it's a pretty short one and not too difficult to get back to where you were.
    Just study the top replays and practice and you'll be able to do it in less than 10 faults in no time.
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    Re: Accidental restart

    Originally Posted by Jonofthejungle
    I posted this in another topic, but here goes again:

    I wanted this when I was at your level, but now I only ever try to 0 fault each track and something like this would be most frustrating. Trust me, when the time comes, you won't want it anymore.
    Just keep practicing, you are so close to the finish now, and once you get the hang of the rest of the track, you realise it's a pretty short one and not too difficult to get back to where you were.
    Just study the top replays and practice and you'll be able to do it in less than 10 faults in no time.

    why not get it to ask for confirmation, but have an setting somewhere that turns this confirmation message off
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    sebastianaalton's Avatar Trials Developer
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    Re: Accidental restart

    Originally Posted by 00Skillz
    Red Lynx I implore you please for the love of God please add an update that asks you to confirm before starting the level over when the select button is pressed.
    The forums would be filled with hate mail if we did that. There is a complaint thread about not having a BACK button fast restart in tournaments. Trials HD pros feel that pressing 3 buttons instead of one to restart a 20 track tournament is too much... having to press 2 buttons to restart a single track would be an outrage... The best players have mashed the BACK button for tens of thousand times. That many confirmation dialogs would cause a lot more pain and agony than pressing the BACK once or twice by accident
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    jook13's Avatar Senior Member
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    Re: Accidental restart

    Yeah... I am used to being spoiled by the back button during track runs... pressing 3 buttons during a tournament gets annoying. I am VERY glad there is no comfirmation for restarting a track. I think we take the instant everything of trials for granted, no loading (except waiting for my hundreds of custom tracks to load).
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    Re: Accidental restart

    Originally Posted by sebbbi
    Originally Posted by 00Skillz
    Red Lynx I implore you please for the love of God please add an update that asks you to confirm before starting the level over when the select button is pressed.
    The forums would be filled with hate mail if we did that. There is a complaint thread about not having a BACK button fast restart in tournaments. Trials HD pros feel that pressing 3 buttons instead of one to restart a 20 track tournament is too much... having to press 2 buttons to restart a single track would be an outrage... The best players have mashed the BACK button for tens of thousand times. That many confirmation dialogs would cause a lot more pain and agony than pressing the BACK once or twice by accident

    Is there a way to have both? in the option menu you could "Turn restart comformation on" maybe....
    its not a problem for me personaly, but me too have had some unessesary restarts
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    Re: Accidental restart

    Originally Posted by sebbbi
    Originally Posted by 00Skillz
    Red Lynx I implore you please for the love of God please add an update that asks you to confirm before starting the level over when the select button is pressed.
    The forums would be filled with hate mail if we did that. There is a complaint thread about not having a BACK button fast restart in tournaments. Trials HD pros feel that pressing 3 buttons instead of one to restart a 20 track tournament is too much... having to press 2 buttons to restart a single track would be an outrage... The best players have mashed the BACK button for tens of thousand times. That many confirmation dialogs would cause a lot more pain and agony than pressing the BACK once or twice by accident
    i've been looking for a screenshot of Terry Pratchett's Going postal for two days now so i could say 'look at the hate mail they've got for not having a 1 button restart for a tourney' but i cant find one anywhere
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