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DavePhaneuf
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Re: looks like I'm actually a total flunk!
« Reply #15 on: May 29th, 2003, 8:26pm » |
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There are quite a few tracks where railsliding can be alot of help. I'll list some:
-Mute City -Silence -Devil's Forest -Sector Alpha -Mute City 2 -Big Blue 2 -Fire Field -Red Canyon 2 -White Land 2 -Mute City 3 -Devil's Forest 3 -Space Plant -Sand Ocean 2 -Port Town 2
Some of these tracks only have 1 unique place to do a railsliding, while others have lots. And some tracks railsliding doesn't make much difference while others can really help your time. It can also be useful for getting speed records. ^^
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Re: looks like I'm actually a total flunk!
« Reply #16 on: Aug 20th, 2003, 5:24pm » |
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Hang in there with the sliding practice fellow-beginners. Upto 48-hours ago, I couldn't do it at all. I was bouncing all over the place. Over the last 2 days, though, it's finally staring to happen. I knocked 4 seconds off my Port Town 1 LAP time!! Also, the thrill of boost-sliding around the first part of Silence 2, makes all the frustration of learning to slide worthwhile. Learning to slide has made the game seem fresh and new for me again, but there's still a lot of challenge. Once you learn to slide, you don't just destroy all your old times, you have to learn where to slide, just to get close to your non-sliding times. But catch a slide just right, and exit the corner straight, and you'll be knocking seconds of your times..
Best practice, for me, was on DF1 for right-handers, and DF3 for left-handers.
Once you get the hang of it, go to Port Town 1 (a track that I used to hate), and let it rip.
My next aim is to learn to railslide. My first-lap times are pathetic...
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Re: looks like I'm actually a total flunk!
« Reply #17 on: Aug 25th, 2003, 08:40am » |
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I can get railsliding to work but i cannot get times with it, that is probably why my times would be almost last on the tracks. And i practiced, i played this game more than any other F-Zero game and my times totally *** at the ranks, even now i am improving them a bit before submitting them to the ranking, go easy dude, the X ranks are probably the toughest to get a good rank at, i played a lot and i still can`t match these guys.
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Re: looks like I'm actually a total flunk!
« Reply #18 on: Aug 25th, 2003, 09:14am » |
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The X rankings are definitely the easiest to get a good rank.
The course totals at the top have huge differences, about 2 minutes from rank 1 to rank 15.
The key to gain positions is max speed.
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Re: looks like I'm actually a total flunk!
« Reply #19 on: Aug 25th, 2003, 12:26pm » |
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I'm no master but I can tell you that railsliding right at the beginning of almost every track (or maybe every single one??) will get your speed up higher than the top speed of any car on maxspeed settings. Railsliding is especially useful on Fire Field. I beat the staff ghost yesterday without even knowing it lol.
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Re: looks like I'm actually a total flunk!
« Reply #20 on: Aug 25th, 2003, 3:12pm » |
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Railsliding is very important in the first lap of Devil's Forest 1 as well. You loose so much time down that long straight without it. As for Fire Field. You can take-off on the first lap coming down the ramp by railsliding at the beginning. Worth 2 seconds on the ghost..
I've beat nearly every staff ghost now. Devil Forest 2 looks totally beyond me, though....
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Re: looks like I'm actually a total flunk!
« Reply #21 on: Aug 25th, 2003, 3:33pm » |
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on Aug 25th, 2003, 12:26pm, mgblair wrote:I'm no master but I can tell you that railsliding right at the beginning of almost every track (or maybe every single one??) will get your speed up higher than the top speed of any car on maxspeed settings. Railsliding is especially useful on Fire Field. I beat the staff ghost yesterday without even knowing it lol. |
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Are you talking to me?
With "max speed is the key to gain positions" I wanted to tell you novice guys, that it is important to improve the max speeds on each track, if you want to get into the master ranks.
I really know how useful the expert techniques are in F-Zero X, so you canエt tell me anything new.
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Re: looks like I'm actually a total flunk!
« Reply #22 on: Aug 25th, 2003, 8:08pm » |
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RP, I was actually talking to Alexp. Another thing...what I meant by top speed of cars with maxspeed, I meant without boost (I think its around 915 NTSC?). I know that's obvious to most people, just trying to make a point that railsliding can get you speeds above that...and is essential for fast times on fire field
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