I had been playing Trials for a couple weeks when I red ringed. Sent the Xbox off, waited 4 days, got a new one. Attached the HD, set everything up, started playing Trials.
I'm signed in and I see all of my friends' scores, so I figured I was okay.
My best time on Unfair Bombardment was 1:09 with 2 faults, so I played a couple times and knocked that down to 56 seconds and 1 fault, and got the gold medal. Yay for me! However, my score still shows as 1:09, and it shows this everywhere - on my friends list, on the leaderboards, etc.
I thought that maybe moving my HD from an old Xbox to a new one screwed something up, but I'm signed in as me and I see my friends and their scores, so I don't know what could be going on.
I've also since improved my scores on two other tracks with the same results.
Any ideas on what I should try?
When you got those scores did you hit the retry button to try them again or did you hit A? That and playing in a tournament seem to be the only thing that would cause the score to not upload right away.
It doesn't have anything to do with the xbox because you're getting online fine and that shows your HD is connecting with it fine.
Maybe you played the maps and got high scores offline then got online? You could have been disconnected for a bit and xbox logged you back in automatically after you got the scores.
Thanks for the reply, but that's not it. I was online the whole time, and hit A after the race. Also, I have the correct medal (for unfair bombardment, you need <1.00 to get Gold. I have the Gold medal, yet my posted time is 1:09), so I know my score registered.
Oh well. I'm so addicted to this game that I'll keep playing it anyways.
Glitchy Glitching Glitch
Say it ain't so, billymagnum.Originally Posted by billymagnum
suspect you're right).
i dont know, ive had some weird things happen in that area of the game like after uploading my track i play it and as soon as "GO" happens, instant epic fail. I had to upload my backup (always make a backup) which was exactly the same. I backed it up right before uploading the original. Fixed!
Theres gotta be lots of tiny bugs in there
I thought I'd post again because I've figured out what's going on.
It turns out it wasn't a glitch - it's either working as designed or a design flaw (you pick).
My Unfair Bombardment time was 1:06 with 2 faults, which is good enough for Silver. I then got :56 with 3 faults, which is good enough for Gold (my original message said :56 with 1 fault - sorry for leading you down the garden path)
However, Trials HD prefers low faults to low times, so even though I got a better medal with a better time, the 1:06 still shows as my best because of the 2 faults.
I don't love this, but at least I've figured it out.
Senior Member
This is actually great design feature IMO. Because anyone can crash to the next checkpoint and press (b) and continue from perfect position, while when you are trying not to fault, you have to adjust your rider, speed and technique on the fly.
0 faults >>>>> best time
Now once you can 0 fault then times kick in and that is when things get difficult.
Trials Developer
Yes, faults are the most important factor in your score. The time is only secondary scoring method.
One fault with a super fast time is worse than zero faults with really slow 30 minutes time. The game is all about finishing the tracks without faults. Take your time, and learn to do flawless runs first. After that you should start to improve your time.
I really like the idea of no faults = better scores too. It gets your heart pumping when you are zero faults near the end of a track or the end of a series of tracks.
