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    TU4 Update: Custom Tracks in Tournaments

    UPDATE: Some players are experiencing issues when loading UGC tournaments. We are investigating the cause and we urge users to be aware that game crashes may occur. A simple game restart/relaunch is the current workaround.

    Title Update 4 brought us some new features, such as the Replay Camera and Teams, but not much was said on UGC Tournaments.

    Let's fix that!

    We have our first Custom Tracks making their way into Tournaments. Right now we're placing some of the latest Uplay Recommended tracks into their own tournaments, so there are a few changes that we should go over to keep everyone up to date on the progress.

    UGC/Custom Tracks will always be found in the right-most Tournament heading. They might not be the ONLY thing there, but that is the case for the time being. The new tournament layout is as follows.



    Left selection: Beginner to Medium
    Middle selection: Medium to Extreme
    Right selection: UGC Tournaments

    Other than the Tournament layout you shouldn't see too many changes to the flow of Tournaments. We are still looking at ways to improve Tournaments (and Rewards) but we're excited to be able to showcase your content in more ways.



    We are still working on expanding tournaments, so please don't be surprised if the Active Tournaments change up over the next few hours.

    We are also still looking at changing up the rewards for Tournaments. Some of you sitting at level 200+ aren't drawn into tournaments by the EXP, so post what you would like to see as rewards in this thread.

    UPDATE: Some players are experiencing issues when loading UGC tournaments. We are investigating the cause and we urge users to be aware that game crashes may occur. A simple game restart/relaunch is the current workaround.
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    Maybe some in game cash as a reward (that is if more gear is to be released for the rider and/or bikes)
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    Rather than just this week's Uplay tracks I would suggest adding many more tournaments with older uplay tracks. Also think 3 days too long and should be more tournaments over shorter periods. DLC should also be in tournaments. If you are concerned that not enough have the dlc you can make these short for just a couple of hours
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    Experience points become meaningless. Maybe a separate tournament overall leaderboard. Each tournament entered awards points. Those in last place get one point. The winner of each tournament gets points equal to number of entrants. So if a tournament had 100 entrants you would get anything between 1 and 100 points. This promotes both the desire to play in lots of tournaments whilst still rewarding better players with considerably more points
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    Hi guys,

    Yes, we agree tournaments will need some improvements. However, for now we can use it as an additional way to showcase the Uplay peek weekly to bring some competition inside the community

    Cheers,
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    Just got a freeze by downloading the tracks of the tournament.
    You should change it. We don't need to download all tracks in first, just one by one when you complete a track.

    Btw if you want some suggestions for the tournaments, why not do it like this :
    Left selection: temporary tournaments
    Right selection: UGC Tournaments

    Both are just sections/categories and have more tournaments when you click.
    + add a global leaderboard for (temporary) tournament. If i'm not wrong the temporary tournaments are all the same but with rotations.

    edit: i mean fix leaderboards (where you can see you scores even if the tournaments are done, as they will come back latter)
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    That looks awesome. A couple of things....

    1 - Since we are running tracks that we are less polished at, there is a higher likelihood of running new PB's on tracks. Is there any way of showing your current track pb or advising if you beat it (I know linking it to leaderboards is probably ridiculously difficult.... but if not that would be good too).

    2 - Also, I hope the uplay selections pull up from week 1 on - there are some cracking tracks in there and it would be great to pull them back up into use.

    3 - Can you do a review of the top downloaded tracks from the early days of fusion for a special uplay selection which missed the uplay boat (Top of my mind is S3quence 1:T3mptation by Supaflyy - I love that track).

    4 - Can you hold permanent tournament records in addition to the set for the current tournament. I have been noticing more and more the superheroes laying down some ridiculous times for tournies, and personally if a tournament comes up that I have played before I would like to beat my old time.... This could also give some logic to a tourny leaderboard - tourny ratings go off all time times and by playing more often you cover more of the tournaments in the rotation..

    Just some thoughts.... probably really hard to do, but you never know
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    I agree with Puddinsworld. Have the temp leaderboards that we have now (they give the tournament a sense of immediacy) but have separate all time leaderboards would be ideal. This may cause issues if certain tournies no longer run though but if you want to pull some tournies permanently then I guess you could close that leaderboatd or (as others have suggested) hold a static tournament section in addition... Old style.... Best of both worlds. Personally though I do prefer the way tournaments are now. Having live tournaments makes the action current instead of competing against 300,000 times set months ago
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    A step in the right direction.
    As far as what players want from more XP points...I would say more content. Bike customization and more rider gear. This should have been in every dlc, unlock able with XP points. Accumulating many xp does literally nothing. I'm surprised the person in charge somehow overlooked this. More clothing seems like the obvious choice, but you could also add unlockable items in the editor.
    It would be so simple to do.
    Level 100 you get a new jacket and a gold statue n the editor...and so on.
    This Shifty, is exactly why I've said I could run things better. Is the person in charge actually scratching their head 8 months into a game and saying....hmmm, what could we add? Come on.
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    @Amused - Absolutely. We are going to be adding more Uplay Recommended tracks and DLC tracks to tournaments. I really want to be careful though. Some players do not own DLC and we don't want all tournaments to be inaccessible to players. There should always be an open tournament regardless of owning every piece of DLC.

    @Mitch - we've talked about in-game cash as a reward, thanks for the feedback.

    @TRASH - I feel that I am in an untenable situation with you. If we don't ask for feedback, then we don't care. If we do ask for feedback then you insinuate that we are dumb.



    The reason behind asking for feedback is so I can do my job and go back to the team to try and get things that you want either A) added to the list - B) moved up in priority, or - C) dropped from the list. The whole process depends on communication.

    Wading through posts steeped in sarcasm and insinuated insults doesn't benefit anyone. We all want Fusion to be as good as it can be.
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