Advancements..

[zargz]

20min ago I unlocked phantom!!!
oddly enough by getting a silver on the ascension tournament!?
thought I was supposed to win the descension ..

anyway first thing I tried was the alfa tournament in phantom!
finished the 4 races: 6th, 8th,7th and 8th.
for a humiliating overal 8th = last with 3 points! LOL!

I'm not by far done with the rapier SR and TT medals.
I only have the alfa, beta, classic, ascension and descension tournaments.
coz of the my 32meg memory card. I'm expecting though my new 4Gig to arrive anytime now!
then I'll have classic2 and omega I think are the ones left.
2 more tournaments, TT and SR medals to complete in vector, venom (easy golds ) and flash.

a t m I got 131 gold and 18 silver and bronse medals. assuming the # 131 goes only for golds

How about you other wipErs who haven't completed Pure yet?

medusa? .. jay (task)? .. who else?

[phl0w]

My progress shows 286 unique Golds right now. Haven't done TT Omega (God, I hate those tracks), some SRs and the Descension Tournaments (simply because my rides don't take that long, and I only play PSP on the go). Getting Golds has become a bit tedious. TimeTrial limits are too forgiving to be challenging (you can beat the Gold times easily by ~5-10s) and races are much too easy. And since everything is unlocked after what 75 Golds I don't see the point in getting all medals when there's no challenge, thus achievement at all (Please don't take this the wrong way, I don't want to boast with my non-existing skills at all, everybody else that's played Pure longer than a month or two will confirm this, and you will think so too one day in the near future). So I mostly do custom Challenges from WOZ or go for Best-Laps-hunts on my favourite tracks.

assuming the # 131 goes only for golds

If that's the number that your progress page shows, than yes. Only for unique Golds. If you win a SR a second time or get another gold TimeTrial time on a track in a certain class, than this Gold does not count for your progress. It is counted in your stats though.

[Task]

Getting Golds has become a bit tedious. TimeTrial limits are too forgiving to be challenging (you can beat the Gold times easily by ~5-10s) and races are much too easy.

I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be quite a chore, catching them all. That's the way it seems like it should be, anyway. 8 )

And I'll agree that a LOT of the TT challenges are quite weak (any TT time you can beat on your first try is seriously weak), but I think you're playing the wrong challenges! Try Flash - Khara Descent, Porto Kora, Ubermall. If you can beat those easily I want your ghost! 8 )

20min ago I unlocked phantom!!!
oddly enough by getting a silver on the ascension tournament!?
thought I was supposed to win the descension ..

Nah, that's not the way it goes. You beat Alpha tournament to get Beta, beat Beta to get Ascension, beat Ascension to get the next speed level. And by "beat", they mean "medal". So even a 3rd will do it.

anyway first thing I tried was the alfa tournament in phantom!
finished the 4 races: 6th, 8th,7th and 8th.
for a humiliating overal 8th = last with 3 points! LOL!

8 D Yeah, the next speed level will usually blow you away until you've gotten some good practice. I've found that if I can't gold all the SR's easily then I'm not ready for the Tourny.

[swift killer]

kind of weird to see you guys talking about pure like its just come out

[rdmx]

zargz and task only recently got pure, thats why

[swift killer]

challenge for them, complete the game using piranha ONLY, thats what i did

[phl0w]

That's hardly a challenge. I always feel cheating when I'm in my Piranha. All my 286 Golds were achieved using nothing but Piranha (except of course the 4 Zone Golds ). When I first got Pure I tried lots of ships and struggled hard to win anything, but the moment I switched to Piranha I hardly lost anymore and usually get Golds on my first try. I think it's hands down the best ship for Single Player. Best speed combined with the most natural feeling handling=win.

[swift killer]

true, the piranha's understeering characteristics make it easier to position the craft in corners.

[phl0w]

Exactly. If you got the hang of approaching the corners with the Piranha correctly, and don't be afraid of sideshifting towards inner walls, it cuts corners like butter and its weight makes it rather easy to apply fine corrections without bouncing between walls like a ping-pong ball. I just love this feeling of the Piranha's inertia when you take a combination of corners flawlessly, sweeping ever so slightly from left to right, steering and sideshifting, while keeping a perfectly straight racing line. Feels great. Better than those paper-weighed ships that turn a hundred degrees at the slightest steering input (I'm sure that's just my not being used to them, however I think it's mostly to the PSPs digital input. It definitely wasn't made for racing games ^^)

Try Flash - Khara Descent, Porto Kora, Ubermall. If you can beat those easily I want your ghost!

Just played Flash - Porto Kora with my Piranha. First try Gold, second try more than 6 seconds faster than the Gold time. And I'm pretty sure there are Wipers out there that beat the Gold limit by more than 10 seconds. I didn't even have a single PL

[zargz]

heh! I find that with a ship with under 4 in steering I can hardly get around the track.
still bouncing off the walls thou ..

[Medusa]

Well, I'm still sitting at 177 golds here!! I'd like to at least get all SR/Tournament golds before Pulse, I don't think I'll get all the TT ones but you never know. I just get so bored on the slow classes, if I don't get the TT gold in about five races I give up. Sadly I just dislike the slow TTs in Pure, there's just not enough drive in me for this game. Ubermall is uber evil.

Swift Killer, I only got Pure this year and didn't play it much until about three months ago. It's like a new game to me, as is WO64. So don't be surprised if I talk about that like it's new either.

I think zargz and Task will beat me by a long ways in completing Pure!

[swift killer]

max medals you can get in the EU version is 338, for those of you wondering where the extra 10 came from, theres a extra scifi download from the channels french channel, its basically khara descent with scifi banners.

[alterego]

max medals you can get in the EU version is 338, for those of you wondering where the extra 10 came from, theres a extra scifi download from the channels french channel, its basically khara descent with scifi banners.

..a little correction....

Total gold medals in EU version of Pure are 339

if you want to download all the packs for the Eu and USA versions of Pure.....

click here...

USA

EU

....for me in my lost memory of the past the hardest gold medal was in Kahara Flash TT e real hell....

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[Medusa]

So in the race for golds (tedious, no kidding...) where are we now? Flashback's Exostra TT discussion shamed me into time trialing, now I'm at 224. After being on Kai, suddenly some of the TT's seem ridiculously easy.
I have yet to crack the Delta pack. The long and slithery tracks bore me before I can race them properly...
How about you two - Task and Zargz?

[zargz]

Now I've got all the packs on my mem'card and atm I'm at 175 golds
I have done all vector and venom SR and TT (not all golds) and it's not an easy task concidering there are 28 tracks!!!
wo1 had 7, 2097 - 8, wo3 - 8, pure - 28! Amazing!
in flash and rapier I got all medals on alfa, beta and classic from before, just got the DL left there.
hmm .. need to beat the last 2 zone tracks to get the zone ship, then I'll have them all.
still got last 4 tournaments in venom, 5 in flash and 5 in rapier.

[Task]

I've slowed down a lot in my gold medal aquisition rate the past couple weeks.
I'm thinking it'll pick up again later this week, but we shall see.

I believe I'm currently at 248, missing a lot of Phantom TT and Tournament golds.
I think I'll get to about 260 pretty quickly and have a slow time going past that point.

[phl0w]

How about you two - Task and Zargz?

I haven't finished it either. Somewhere around 290 Golds. Then again it's not my top priority to gain all the Golds in Pure. If it were harder I might look at it more as a challenge than a duty but like this it's just- as said before- tedious and cumbersome. There's so many things in life that are inevitable routines, when gaming becomes another one it kinda misses the point.
That said, I do like to complete my games, but not if it's just a matter of time, so that each and any moron can complete it (not counting those present!). I miss the times when it was something to finish a game.
Maybe I feel the need to advance through Pure today when I have to get on the train for 2hrs. Stay tuned to not miss another of my ramblings

[Flashback Jack]

As for me, still at 192 golds. Been that way since the first Canadian Wipeout meet. Definitely tedious though; my enthusiasm sort of waned after my PSP crashed for the first time on the second last track of Ascension. Exostra, ironically.

- F

[Medusa]

I doubt I'll ever finish all the time trials. After one hour on flash Anulpha Pass, and .08 seconds away from the gold medal, I'm exasperated. It really bugs me when I know I'm missing something major. (like skill and patience, lol) But the SRs and Tournaments, those I'm determined to get.

[alterego]

Hi Medusa, hi all.

No fear about TT !

They come slowly (the golds), but they come!

...and, with them, skill perfection arrives....

TT it's a question of training and continuity......i remember my personal hell on Kahara Flash TT .......one hundred of races for the gold!

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