Yeah, freaking Curien Mansion drift challenge is some serious BS. I managed to get the crazy bend more or less down thanks to spending FOREVER doing the damn Billy Hatcher one, but the stupid jumps are screwing everything up. WHY did they have to put jumps so close to the start of drift areas!
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Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed |OT| Everybody's Super Sonic Racing
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Shotgun Kiss
Member
Take it slow, and use Tails, or another character with good handling.
I'm using Amy with her handling mod, which at least claims to have max handling. The biggest problem I have is that the stairs before the fourth zone seem fond of firing me about half-way into the middle of the drift zone. Bleh, maybe if I just really slow myself near the top of the steps.
Red Arremer
Member
Can't take it slow, will run out of time.
Shotgun Kiss
Member
You just take it slow any time there's a ramp.
Red Arremer
Member
I tried. I ran out of time.
Finally got the dumb Curien Mansion drift challenge. I pretty much had to come to a stop at the top of those stairs in order to utilize that drift area at all. Definitely not what I'd call a well thought out design there.
Anyway, I'm sitting at 140 stars now, so I think I'll just go ahead and take a break from the game until the patch finally shows up.
Anyway, I'm sitting at 140 stars now, so I think I'll just go ahead and take a break from the game until the patch finally shows up.
Finished first world tour race (hard mode), game is pretty fun and easy to catch onto so far. I like how you cant just drift through the whole damn course, the tracks seem pretty open yet not so open as to where you never really scrape other racers. With everything going on in the background, does take a little extra work to focus on the race.
The WiiU pad is pretty comfortable to race with, so thats a plus as well.
The WiiU pad is pretty comfortable to race with, so thats a plus as well.
Some people say it's from Shadow the Hedgehog , some people say it's from Sonic 2. I don't really know.
Yeah, I believe they did this so the all-stars can appear online without letting someone have a huge advantage.
I know Knuckles, Shadow, Beat, and B.D Joe's are the same.
Danica, Amy, Amigo, Ai Ai all throw things.
Pretty much just simple stuff. Nothing too overpowered.
Yeah seems pretty well thought out, nothing too jarring as far as transformations go either.
Seven Force
Banned
It's the Death Egg. You can see the blue ship Robotnik uses in the first half of the Doomsday Zone in the background being loaded somewhere, so it's presumably based on the Sonic 3 & Knuckles incarnation.
The music is from Shadow the Hedgehog, apparently. Don't know what level, though.
Cosmic Fall.
Which is good, lets everyone have some fun with the All-Stars without complaining it's too over powered. I love some of the little tunes that go with the All-Stars, my favorites being Shadow's, Sonic's, Vyse, and Nights.
Speaking about Vyse, Him + Handling Mod is the best thing I ever experienced ever. He may be a tad slow, but I have never complained about not being able to make turn with that mod.
Tizoc
Member
Say S0L a few questions about the Vita ver. if you can answer it-
1- Will IT allow for 5-player multi like the WiiU?
2- Will the Metal Sonic and OutRun DLC I get with the PS3 ver. work with it? I've seen the Bonus Edition for the Vita ver. on Bestbuy.com so I was wondering about that.
1- Will IT allow for 5-player multi like the WiiU?
2- Will the Metal Sonic and OutRun DLC I get with the PS3 ver. work with it? I've seen the Bonus Edition for the Vita ver. on Bestbuy.com so I was wondering about that.
Oh dear god, I'm sitting at about 75 stars and for the most part been doing 2-star per challenge. I'm not a masochist, but I really want to unlock Gum who is about 30 stars out of my range. 
Curse the people who didn't program alternate ways to unlock things!
Anyway, what are some tips to get better against CPU races? I'm stuck on B-level racing comfortably placing 2nd or 3rd and getting A-level 1st place on a harder difficulty seems so impossible.
Curse the people who didn't program alternate ways to unlock things!Anyway, what are some tips to get better against CPU races? I'm stuck on B-level racing comfortably placing 2nd or 3rd and getting A-level 1st place on a harder difficulty seems so impossible.
Red Arremer
Member
After beating all the missions in the fifth world, you'll unlock a 6th world and S-rank with it. You should be able to get Gum with just beating all the missions you can reach on B-rank.
It depends on how far behind you are in a race but a good cheap way to get ahead is to hope you get an all-star and then save it for the last lap. If you aren't too far behind it can rocket you into first place and the longer you wait before using it the less likely it is for someone else to overtake when it ends.
Shotgun Kiss
Member
Yeah, a lot of people immediately use an All-Star as soon as they get it, but that's a mistake. The rubberbanding AI means that even if you build a huge lead with an All-Star, the AI will likely catch up with you if you use it on lap 1 or 2. The rubberbanding also works the other way around though; the AI rarely builds up too much of a lead, so if you save the All-Star until the second half of the third lap, it usually propels you into first place, and the AI doesn't have enough time to catch up.
Seriously, even if it means you have to hang onto it for a whole lap or so, and not use any other items, so be it. I've lost count of how many times I beat Expert challenges using that trick.
checkeredknight
Member
Yep. The bad memories are etched into my mind. It's a shame they don't let you choose music like with the first game; I despise Cosmic Fall. Would've been so much more awesome to hear this in its place. Now only is it better, it's far more relevant.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
Might be the best kart game ever.
Or at least a very close second behind DKR.
Or at least a very close second behind DKR.
Tizoc
Member
Next week in US apparently. Hope it runs well, if so I'll get it off US PSN if it's going for $30 or less.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
I love your avatar.
Nocturnowl
Member
Indeed, it's a sad state of affairs and the ridiculous waiting times have led me to just not even bother anymore.
I did however jump on this game for like the first time in a week and had a flawless single race around Adder's Lair, I felt like a machine and it was wonderful.
Nocturnowl
Member
Apparently if you just fail the missions a few times on the easiest difficulty they just let you through or something along those lines.
olimpia84
Member
Cool. I'll give that a try.
I think you rev your engine at each countdown like 3 (rev) 2(rev) 1(rev). And the max boost color is blue?
I'll give that a shot. Also maybe i'm drifting wrong or not long enough? I only can see to hit red.
Stormwatch
Member
Yeah, this makes me sad
I really want to unlock stuff, but I'm discouraged by the fact that some levels don't work. I know you can skip them, but I feel that I'm missing out on the full experience. Plus, I'm hoping the patch fixes a few other glitches as well.Diablohead
Member
red - purple - white I think, best way to tell is the size of the flames out the back.
Deift boost takes into account how many degrees you have turned as well as time drifting, stops snaking mostly.
Gotcha. Speaking of boost, this first boost challenge on hard is killing me.
EDIT: No wonder, its glitched with no checkpoints...missed the other posts.
So I got to try out local mult-player in the Wii U version and here is what I noticed.
With one person on the gamepad and one person on the tv, the frame rate is not locked at 30fps like it is in single player.
During areas with heavy water(boat driven)the frame rate can drop drastically..like down to sub 15-20fps. When on the roads, the frame rate is consistenly around 30fps, sometimes dips and sometimes higher. However during the airplane laps the frame rate can increase well above 30fps and even hit 60fps. It's very inconsistent and Im wondering if anyone else has noticed this.
With one person on the gamepad and one person on the tv, the frame rate is not locked at 30fps like it is in single player.
During areas with heavy water(boat driven)the frame rate can drop drastically..like down to sub 15-20fps. When on the roads, the frame rate is consistenly around 30fps, sometimes dips and sometimes higher. However during the airplane laps the frame rate can increase well above 30fps and even hit 60fps. It's very inconsistent and Im wondering if anyone else has noticed this.
I think it's easily the best kart racer ever made. I just can't really crack the higher difficulty levels. Other than that, it's pretty much flawless. So, so much fun.
yuck. two of the ugliest things in gaming.
dragonlife
Member
Fuck, I want this so bad on PC. I need a good kart game. Still no news in regards to the PC version?
TaroYamada
Member
Leading theory is early 2013 as SEGA likely wanted to avoid getting lost in the thanksgiving/xmas holiday sales on PC.
I'm finally at my stopping point. I have 95% completed of the game, and that's without the boost challenges and several other things. I have S ranked all the GPs and all the challenges I am able to do. All I can do now is either wait for the patch or "try" to play online.
Oh patch, why are you not here yet? D:
Oh patch, why are you not here yet? D: