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    Challenging platinum medals on easy tracks.

    Before you say anything here me out.
    Been a trials fan since HD came out and loved everything in between.
    I am so glad you decided to make this great game portable, it's great.
    Anyway, to the point of this topic, is it just me or are there some really hard platinum medals?
    I'm in the top 100 for a few tracks and only have gold. I haven't got any tier3 bikes yet and my tier2 bikes are no where near fully upgraded but have got about 80% platinum medaled already.
    Not complaining because it means I'll be playing a lot more to try and get them but was it intentional to make them so difficult?
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    xzamplez's Avatar Senior Member
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    Not trying to put you down or discredit your opinion or anything, I just want to say that I didn't feel that way. I got all the platinums as soon as I unlocked the ability to have them. My bikes were barely upgraded.

    In terms of if they're too difficult for the scrubs that make up a majority of the App Store consumer population: Not necessarily. Platinum medals are most likely moderately challenging to be yet another incentive to get people to put money into their game and upgrade their bikes. Getting platinum on a maxed bike should be easy for most people.

    Getting platinum on some of the tier 2 tracks from the slot machine was challenging though.
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    Its not just you. I too found some tracks (tier1 and tier2) to have Plats that were significantly harder to get; personally i just assumed there was something about my driving skills that I needed to learn for that particular track. But I did eventually get them for all but 1-2 tracks (ahem, Hilltop Ghetto...I cant plat extremes in Trials Evo either). Keep upgrading (Tango/Mantis mostly)... concentrating first on Grip and Acceleration, IMO. Play against the higher guys on the leaderboards. After a while those harder Plats will fall.

    Now for me. . . as I try to get into the top 25 on every track... I think its the other way around; some tier1/tier2 tracks have really EASY Plats. Because I am beating many of them by a few seconds in some cases.
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    i wreck most platinum times by several seconds. the only ones i found pretty tricky were some of the extreme tier 2 wheel reward tracks
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    Originally Posted by xzamplez Go to original post
    Not trying to put you down or discredit your opinion or anything, I just want to say that I didn't feel that way. I got all the platinums as soon as I unlocked the ability to have them. My bikes were barely upgraded.
    I am always blown away by just how good you extreme top-10 guys are. Fun to watch; you make it look easy. I'll never be in your league (and I dont think I am willing to put in the effort to get there either.... my wife would have something to say about that.....). In EVO/Fusion I am weaker; I do better in Frontier. I have decided its just best for me to accept being only better-than-average at this.
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    of course the guys in the top 10 of every single track wouldnt think any platinum was hard to get

    i definitely find some tracks a lot harder to get platinum on then others. for example i got a top 20 on a barely upgraded bike on the beamery but on pipe basin im still over a second behind platinum on an upgraded version of the same bike!

    granted im a mediocre at best player
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    Originally Posted by xitooner Go to original post
    I am always blown away by just how good you extreme top-10 guys are. Fun to watch; you make it look easy. I'll never be in your league (and I dont think I am willing to put in the effort to get there either.... my wife would have something to say about that.....). In EVO/Fusion I am weaker; I do better in Frontier. I have decided its just best for me to accept being only better-than-average at this.
    i agree! i do have to thank guys like xzamplez and Ch4eron because racing thier ghosts has gotten me my best results by far.

    ive had my best placing by far on this game rather than fusion or evo too.
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    Originally Posted by sriskus Go to original post
    i agree! i do have to thank guys like xzamplez and Ch4eron because racing thier ghosts has gotten me my best results by far.

    ive had my best placing by far on this game rather than fusion or evo too.
    glad i can help <3
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