I think it is just as important to know what not to do when building a driveline as it is why to do. I will list things I look for when riding a track that tend to bug me. Curious how others feel on this subject.
•wall or object obstructing the view of the rider
•custom cams that are unneeded and make an obstacle harder than it should be
•A track with an unbalanced difficulty. I.E. extreme obstacles in a medium track.
•not labeling the track difficulty right.
•placing checkpoints in awkward positions. I.E. checkpoint on incline where you roll back as soon as you reset.
•overuse of explosives. One of the editor hints even says explosives don't make gold obstacles.
•inconsistent obstacles. I.E. every obstacle should have a clear and consistent way to pass it.
•No luck based obstacles. The rider should feel he accomplished something every time he gets to another checkpoint. He shouldn't feel like, man I finally got past that. I don't know how I did it.
•texture glitching. I hate when I see pieces overlay one another that flicker because there aren't aligned right.
•floating objects. Really takes away from the realism of a track.
-Floating checkpoints. I 've seen so many good tracks ruined by this. Redlynx is kinda guilty of this in some of their tracks aswell.
-Bad use of explosives. (This is more exclusive to ninja tracks.) I don't mind a few explosives, but if you dump 346653928 bombs there for me to jump over it just comes across as a lazy attepmt to make a hard obstacle.
-Miscalculeted jumps. A jump where you can do too good and overshoot the landing area, usually resulting in not being correcly set up for the next section.
-Too tight platinum times. Always add a couple of seconds to your test runs for the medal times, having a platinum time that only 0.5% of players can obtain is kinda unnecesary and makes you look like a tryhard to beginners/less skilled players.
ha.. TrueOriginally Posted by Barrybarfly
explosives used JUST to make a track more difficult.. Lacks imagination
when bikes are allowed but cant finish the track
Boring Screenshots![]()
Why spend that much time making a track only to look past one of the most important parts imo
riding nice easy/medium tracks a few checkpoints and BANG a car /barrel/stairs/ loggs for no reason. anything with so much grass it laggs .same for the fire-starters with fire all over ..stupidly bendy drivlines were the bike shakes like shaking stevens ."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgoDYK3IlGg" anything with no theme . anything with unsupported ramps . people releasing the " suspense "track every single day .crappy custom cams .some are that bad you cant even see the bike !.and i think bad/misaligned and timed obs tickles are the worse contender ..theres more but im going for a drink![]()
thats probably the only thing that really bugs me...Originally Posted by ConfusedMuscles
You betcha... EXIT...deleteOriginally Posted by kidmpc
nothing embarassing hear. It never happened.