With the excitement of Evo I've been hammering the controller and improving my THD skills.. now, I'm no pro - my best time is somewhere around position 140, top 3000 overall. so, I'd like to think not too shabby (although no where near those of you sad enough to lock out the top 10 with multiple accounts) but I cannot for the life of me crack platinum on Reality check - it's the last of the hard tracks for me to platinum but feck me, I cannot string together a solid run!
Still, two days before I have to go back to the office, so some ironing, eating, washing and paperwork aside I will do my damndest to crack this bloomin track!
Any tips for this particular track are welcome, although I know the best bet is to simply watch replays I don't seem to be able to emulate the (seemingly) important bits
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reality checks the hardest track in the game to get consistent for me, including the extremes. the best tip i can give is to only watch replays you think youre capable of doing yourself.
watching the top 10s wont be of much use if youre not at that level yourself.
other than that, take your time and get the 0 fault runs in. its better to finish the track a number of times above platinum time than to keep replaying the first half of the track over and over. that way you never properly get used to the last part of the track and you'll be much less consistent on it
**** Reality Check.
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what is the platinum time? I can get a decent video for you of methods to do it safely, but fast enough for platinum... The top replays can be misleading, there are a lot of ways to do things safer and be more consistant... but a tad slower.
37 seconds flat.Originally Posted by jook13
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Hope this helps! I threw together a 35-ish second run that kinda plays it safe.
You will notice a few spots I paused the video for a few seconds.
-At the first pause is a long gap. I always try to make the gap, but even if you dont make it, you can still recover fairly quickly.
-At the second pause (there is accidentally 2 pauses there... sorry) is a spot I crash a lot on when I am trying to speed run the track. The top replays clear the barrels completely. Its faster to clear them, but the landing is awkward. If you hit the barrel like I did, it makes it easier to manage the landing and setup for the next obstacle.
-At the third pause is the spot most top replays do a little shortcut. I wouldnt even attempt it if you are still going for platinum. It is very tough, and would most likely ruin a solid run up to this point. You wanna do the drop and land in a position that lets you hop up the round logs afterwards.
thanks for the tips and video chaps
a fair few more hours on this one and I'm down to a miserable 2.5 seconds off the platinum time
it seems so bloomin inconsistent, I can only nail the first step up/jump one in every 4 trys and then it's the three step ups that are killing me each time, just wish I could find a comfortable flow... I got that frustrated with it I had a crack at Pilgrimage to relax (and knocked over a minute off my old time)
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nice work on pilgrimage, sometimes you just need a break from a track. good luck with rc, persevere!
get in! 35.083
a couple of things that helped me get the time - going fairly flat into the first small step up into the rock instead of trying to use the brakes to get the back wheel up and the drop after skipping over the barrels, getting the 'wall plant' manouvre sorted, before doing that I was just dropping down which is not a good setup for the next jump.
so that's it, all platinum up to Hard achieved.. don't know if I have the will power to attack the platinums on the extreme tracks, RC has taken far too much out of me, I'm bloody exhausted!
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Congratulations buddy!
