LONG POST ALERT! go to the last line if you haven't got half hour on your hands to read my whiny post.
ok. there is basically one thing that matters to me in Trials HD at the moment. i consider the hardest Platinums to be World Championship and The Midnight Club. i'm not ready to get The Midnight Club Platinum yet, so i've been caning the World Championship. it'll get me into the top 100 too when i do Platinum it. all i currently want is to zero fault this tournament and achieve the status (in my head) as a pretty great Trials player. not a legend or anything, just pretty great![]()
it's been down to 1 fault for, i think, a couple of weeks now. i faulted on Underground but carried on til the end without another fault. d'oh.
so last night there i was, having my usual goes at World Championship. got to KOTH faultess. wasn't excited because i've got to it many times before and then faulted. but i did a great run and made it though, gliding over the boxes like a swan on a lake. i was getting a little excited now. by Stock Market (9th track) i was more than a bit nervous, so much so that i nearly crashed on the last jump by landing rather vertically! but i made it through faultless anyways and made it through the chequered flag before falling off. so just ONE more to go, Trials/Tribulations.
it's fair to say my nerves were all over the place. but i got straight down to it. time was not an issue as i had 90 seconds to play with. the track was proving simple, even with my nerves. i made it to the penultimate checkpoint and by now the situation i was in had hit me, my hands were shaking. due to this i meant to put a little throttle on but somehow managed to push RT all the way and flipped my ******* bike backwards!! i probably haven't done that for weeks!!!
i've bottled some things in my time, but this is the pinnacle. it doesn't get any worse than this. well i could've faulted at the very last checkpoint...
i then sent a XBL message to Euphoric Fusion so he could comfort me with a virtual hug and a "there there Ben. it'll be ok", as my wife was in bed. then i got back on my bike. and no there is no happy ending to this, i'm still at 1 fault![]()
this is just basically cathartic for me, writing this. i needed to get it out my system, the pure devastation is hard to cope with when it's just stuck in my head. i didn't sleep well last night![]()
though it could be a proper topic by me saying... what's your worst ever Trials moment? is it as bad as mine?
Try hitting the b button half way through a faultless run on jolly jumper in the original ultimate endurance after 0 faulting the rest of the tracks, for some reason my brain for a split second told me that the b button was the brake. Its safe to say i broke my controller, punched a hole in the wall and didnt turn the xbox on for the next 3 days.
i didnt know the back button was active during tourneys.Originally Posted by boris
i feel you benibob, even thoi i havent zero foulted that tourney yet, but i had similar moments chasing the last achement goal, zero foulting the twenty tracks. getting foults on those last tracks is terribly annoying,
and i recently did Graetest hits, and gettign all shortcuts perfect for the first time and landing on my back 2 feet from checkered line.. i had to settle for a basic run.. ill be back!
You might have not got much sleep, but I didn't get ANY![]()
I kept hammering at it until 4am and by that time it wasn't worth going to bed so I'll go another full day until I collapse tonight.
I still can't get past my 3 faults on World Championship and they usually come on Underground or Trials/Tribs.
Underground is a pain in the arse to say the least. The first drop down is my bogey obstacle, and Trials/Tribs I can mess up anywhere.
I have actually got more consistant on KotH than those two tracks which is odd cos there was a time when I couldn't even clear the first obstacle.
On the bright side I did manage to knock 10 seconds off my KotH time at 6am this morning
It moved me a whole singular place up the leaderboard!!! lol
I guess 2 weeks ago I would have bet lestropie on InfernoII after about 200tries. I was 1.5 seconds faster then him.
But I got killed because the last swinging thing at the end hit my backwheel and my driver flipped over.
I was like:,, WTF just happened. **** you Trials. This is ridicolous this ******g piece of crap didnt even hit me ride but my ******ed dushbag still manges it to fall of the god damn bike. insult...insult...insult...incomprehensive sream...
Well I'll chip in... I was aiming at a platinum medal on Going Up. Everything was more than sweet, it was a pretty sweet run by my standards, I wasn't shaking or anything and there I was at the last obstacle and under 1'40, so plenty of time to platinum it... There it was, the dreaded WTF moment. For some reason my rider decided not to climb the wooden beam as he usually does. Instead I do a backflip and land on the front light on the lower beam (the one just before the dynamite). By the time I landed back on my wheels and passed the finishing line, I was under 2' or something. You can't check my replay (1272 as of today) since it crashes... but believe me when I tell you that it was painful![]()
My worst moment was the 1 fault run on the World Championship tournament. It is my last missing platinum. (without dlc)
I was down to 3 faults. And I restart immediatly after a crash. I want the 0 fault version, not 2 faults or one fault.
On that certain moment it was my first time to complete the first 7 tracks including KOTH with 0 faults. And I became nervous. The last 3 tracks are easy. Normally I 0 fault them with only one hand, closed eyes and in a box under water.
But my hands were shaking and my heart began to pound. On track 8 I crashed on the first jump at the track start. 1 fault. I messed it up. I completed that run but the rest of that evening was really sad.
the worst for me has to be my run on the midnight club.
after diabolic, inferno 2 and whatever comes between them (goin up i think) i only had 2 faults, and the tracks after that are normally 1 faulters for me at worst, so i was thinking platinum here i come.
however, something really didnt want me to get the platinum, because on brown boxes all the explosives kept going off for no reason, killing the rider, giving me a time (just on brown boxes) of 2:30, and 26 faults. i was not pleased. i will admit that one of the explosions was fair, but for the rest of them i was about half the bike's length away from them when they went off
Originally Posted by MissAnthropie![]()
well somehow reading about other peoples disasters has made me feel a bit better about my own. i suppose been as i made it that far last night, i can do it again.
i plan to do it TONIGHT!
and reaper, unlucky on the midnight club mate!
Good luck tonight, bob!You'll get it soon enough!
Unfortunately, even my worst stories aren't as frustrating as yours. I just hate Unfair Bombardment in the Underground Cup. That's the only tourney I've tried playing in the past few months, because I'm determined to get my zero-fault platinum on it.