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[MurdocLoch]

My two cents: greatest hits has several obstacles that if you fail on, you can easily recover from - so instead of faulting you fall backwards and try again - this adds time but makes zero faulting easier - but on a track like diabolic for instance there are very little places where if you mess up you can try again with out faulting - therefore if you zero fault diabolic it's probably fast enough for platinum

[rlmergeuser]

Check out my replay on inferno II, i think im still in the top 10 with the run but just watch what happens me at the end of it, i reckon i might have had a shout at grabbing 2nd spot and i absolutely choked but i suppose thems the breaks.

[jonofthejungle9]

My two cents: greatest hits has several obstacles that if you fail on, you can easily recover from - so instead of faulting you fall backwards and try again - this adds time but makes zero faulting easier - but on a track like diabolic for instance there are very little places where if you mess up you can try again with out faulting - therefore if you zero fault diabolic it's probably fast enough for platinum

I see what you mean, Shame I always come off where you cant recover!
I doubt I'll be going back to that track again soon, now I got the medal I was after, although there was another 5 sec or so I can see in my replay!
Maybe another day?

[lespritdelescal]

I've been thinking about platinums on Extreme tracks for a bit, as I'm trying to finish them up..

Brown Boxes probably took me a good 10 clean run throughs awhile back before I managed to get the platinum. I still think that you need a sufficiently steady pace, but the platinum time allows you to redo a few obstacles or pause between certain obstacles if you need to.

I platinumed Goin' Up and Groundhog Forever a couple weeks back. I had a few pauses in Goin' Up, and had to redo a couple obstacles (one, multiple times). Came in with just over 6 seconds to spare. I had a nice smooth run through GF, didn't take the shortcut, and came in 15 seconds under par.

I paused a tonne during Diabolic, had to redo one obstacle. Still came in 21 seconds ahead of platinum on my first clean run.

I platinumed Greatest Hits on my third clean run, but I didn't pause half as much as Diabolic, I chained some obstacles together, and didn't have to redo an obstacle. I did miss the last shortcut. I came in one second under platinum.

I haven't made platinum on Inferno II.. but it feels to me that you have to be even faster than you have to be with Greatest Hits.

[jonofthejungle9]

I haven't made platinum on Inferno II.. but it feels to me that you have to be even faster than you have to be with Greatest Hits.

I think this one was easier than Diabolic, there's only 9 cp on inferno and about 14/15 in diabolic. jsut do inferno faultless, and try and link the first 4 cp as fast as pos and you should make it. I took a big pause on the bit where you have to hop those slanted boards.
I was exstatic today, when I saw I'd overtaken you lol!

[lespritdelescal]

I haven't made platinum on Inferno II.. but it feels to me that you have to be even faster than you have to be with Greatest Hits.

I think this one was easier than Diabolic, there's only 9 cp on inferno and about 14/15 in diabolic. jsut do inferno faultless, and try and link the first 4 cp as fast as pos and you should make it. I took a big pause on the bit where you have to hop those slanted boards.
I was exstatic today, when I saw I'd overtaken you lol!

I'll be giving this a shot soon..

And I noticed that you passed me! You must have made a lot of points, because I've moved up from about 250 to 180 in the past few days with my improvement on tournaments.

[jonofthejungle9]

I haven't made platinum on Inferno II.. but it feels to me that you have to be even faster than you have to be with Greatest Hits.

I think this one was easier than Diabolic, there's only 9 cp on inferno and about 14/15 in diabolic. jsut do inferno faultless, and try and link the first 4 cp as fast as pos and you should make it. I took a big pause on the bit where you have to hop those slanted boards.
I was exstatic today, when I saw I'd overtaken you lol!

I'll be giving this a shot soon..

And I noticed that you passed me! You must have made a lot of points, because I've moved up from about 250 to 180 in the past few days with my improvement on tournaments.

I got about about 10 platinums in the last week, including all the extreme, a few hard, a few tourney's and at least 2 skill games, so yes it was a busy week.
The score difference at this level, is so much, that you move up very little if at all, when you inprove on old plat times, so I decided to bite on the bullet and go for it!
I'll be happy for a top 100 spot for both leaderboards!

[lespritdelescal]

I got about about 10 platinums in the last week, including all the extreme, a few hard, a few tourney's and at least 2 skill games, so yes it was a busy week.
The score difference at this level, is so much, that you move up very little if at all, when you inprove on old plat times, so I decided to bite on the bullet and go for it!
I'll be happy for a top 100 spot for both leaderboards!

I'm aiming for the top 100 too.

If you (or anyone else) want to know where you need to focus your attention, hit up Megatrain for the +DLC Point Calculation sheet. On the summary page, you can see your potential points versus your actual points. I found out that I have 97% of the points on the races from the original and DLC game. However, I only have about 58% of points from tourneys and 69% of points from skill games from the DLC.

[jonofthejungle9]

I'm aiming for the top 100 too.

If you (or anyone else) want to know where you need to focus your attention, hit up Megatrain for the +DLC Point Calculation sheet. On the summary page, you can see your potential points versus your actual points. I found out that I have 97% of the points on the races from the original and DLC game. However, I only have about 58% of points from tourneys and 69% of points from skill games from the DLC.

Thx Les, I have been learning how to make sense of it from another thread somewhere and have had it saved for a while on my pc, so I think it might come in handy now.

[lespritdelescal]

After numerous other runs that i could have added to this thread, Inferno II is done with a time just under 1:18.

Don't worry Jon.. I'm still behind you in the ranking