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That text tutorial that Euphoric Fusion did was great so refer to that for the tips. I would also suggest regerring to Semester 1 of the Universit yof Trials (playlist on my channel) as that was really where the good clear riding tips come from and as it turns out, supports EF's tutorials closely. EF also made sokme amazing tracks in EVO if you can find them where he built the riding tutorials in the actual game.
Here is a vid I made about his track in EVO, hopefully you can still find it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5gu6qJ34EQ
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Also, the illustrious professor has an addiction to making helpful videos, so if there is a specific problem you have on an obstacle (Like the #%^&#$ second last ramp on rock of rages) he will do a video tutorial just for you showing you how to get past it in the simplest manner. Basically the dude is like Mother Teresa for triallist's....
Rock on Shady.....
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Props for the hopping in place! But 193 faults? Psh, thought he was supposed to be gudOriginally Posted by Jeruhnq Go to original post
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FatShady, your tutorials are great indeed, thanks for making them. I watched the first two semesters and a bunny hop special ...even the stuff I knew became more clear thanks to your slowmos and explanations. I still don`t really get how to climb verticals though, but in the end theory is one thing, practice another.
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Thousands of hours of practice over 3 or 4 different Trials games, over several years.
I've played in spurts since HD was released, and am currently global rank 75 (PC, which has a small playerbase). I have many thousands of hours invested in this franchise and I'll tell you that those top extreme track replays blow me the **** away too. I'd say I have put in as much time as some of the top players, and I'm no where near that level of skill. I think some people just practice more deliberately and focus very hard while playing, and some of us (like me) just keep trying and trying the same thing until it works rather than work on perfecting each section to a 90% success rate.
I'll tell you this, there is an insane skill differential between the lower and higher halves of the top 100 global leaderboards. Probably even more differential than there is between myself and a player that is ranked like 5000.
The same applies to most games that are competitive. There's the bad players, the decent players, and the people that happened to be born with Jesus DNA in their body. It's the same with Starcraft 2. I was masters (top 2%), but I would have a 0% winrate vs a top tier professional player because they would just manhandle me harder than I could destroy a newbie.
Point being, those top replays your referring to - they are the work of people who have mastered every aspect of the game. They're like NASA engineers meanwhile everyone else is paving roads and flipping burgers. Nothing wrong with paving roads though, the NASA engineers need to drive to work afterall
I see somebody like Lestropie (Seriously this guy is a demigod, and was lightyears ahead of everyone in HD long before most of us knew wtf we were doing) or Blubbi in the same light as I see Mozart or Einstein. Much respect, very earned, wow many doge etc.
/incoherent rant over
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Trials is just hand eye coordination and muscle memory. If you're a naturally clumsy person and are not very coordinated you'll likely have a much harder time with the games than someone who isn't. For example, I've always played sports, raced cars and motorcycles, etc. I picked up HD rather quickly and had a handful of records a couple months after I had the game, probably close to a year after it had already been released.
But my friend, who had accidentally downloaded HD on my Xbox has been a gamer his whole life. He's a bit over weight and just a lazy *** in general. We both started the same time, he's still in the 10,000s on the leaderboards after years and years of playing as well.
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I played HD at a mostly casual level. I enjoyed the game but I didn't push myself to get better. Evolution came out and after two weeks I had all the achievements and other than the Extremes I had 0 fault gold or platinums. I stopped playing it.
About a year or so later I played some local co-op with my older and younger brother and my seven year old nephew. They weren't much worse than me and I was determined to get better. Surely my experience must count for something!
It was christmas and the DLCs were dirt cheap so I picked up both. These DLCs seemed to cater for the hardcore and the tracks were a step up in difficulty but I persevered. Sometime during the second DLC it all just clicked into place. I now understood the techniques and the physics and I could manipulate them to my will. After finishing the second DLC I returned to the main game and worked my way through all the tracks smashing my old times and climbing the leaderboards.
The extreme tracks which used to bring on clammy handed nightmares were now approachable but with caution and respect. My approach was to disregard time and aim for zero (or as few as possible!) faults. I approached each checkpoint as an individual segment and would often pause and re-orient the rider into a neutral position. This approach helped to define what worked and what didn't and once that first zero fault run fell into place the others quickly followed. Then it is just a matter of removing as many of those pauses as possible.
Way Of The Ninja from Evolution is easily my favourite track in any Trials game because that is where I learned to tame the Extremes.
The short answer to the OPs question is patience, practice, persistence and pain. An alternative "Four P's" if you will!
