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Swingat
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Fire Field
« Thread started on: Aug 20th, 2003, 5:09pm » |
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Any advice? It's a pretty lame track, but I still wouldn't mind getting better at it.
Is it a sliding track? I used a slide into the drop for the jump to get my speed record of 1700-odd (PAL), but I can't get the slide-technique to improve my overall times.
I'm assuming that the curious little 'jump' at the end of the track is vitally important, because the speed down the finishing straight is so slow after it. I don't know any landing techniques though, and the video page seems to be down at the moment.
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David Van Moer
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Re: Fire Field
« Reply #1 on: Aug 20th, 2003, 5:25pm » |
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Well it's one of the fastest tracks in the game so certainly not lame.
It's a sliders track allright and the big dive at the start is the deciding factor. Have to do a big DTD-R here to land a bit passed the zig-zags with as much speed possible and carry all that speed with you for the rest of the lap. Good landing speeds on PAL would be 1700-1800.. you should still be going 1300-1400 when reaching the lone zipper on the left.
The small jump at the end does nothing at all. My advice here would be to use the brake a split second before it so you don't fly up so high and land back sooner so you can pick up speed again with a boostslide.
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Swingat
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Re: Fire Field
« Reply #2 on: Aug 20th, 2003, 5:37pm » |
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That was fast. Nice one!
Looks like I'm going to have to learn about DTD's. They always taught us about STD's at school, but never DTD's.
I've never thought about braking before the bump. I always thought it was an invitation to do a DTDTTDD technique, or something..
So, basically, I have to tilt in one direction, and double-tap the shoulder-button in the other direction? It's similar to the Sand Ocean tunnel-leaving technique then?
Thanks,
Simon Wingate (crap at everything, except Sand Ocean speed - 1413 PAL)
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