ZONE / Zone Battle thread of vEry awEsomEnEss

[Wotan]

As of this writing, what do the following tracks, and only the following tracks,
have in common; Anulpha Pass, Syncopia, and Pro Tozo?

Zone 100 ?


Well , holidays are finished and i have fury . I love syncopia and new colors , supersonique is superb

[Vartazian]

Sh*t Wotan has Fury, our records are gone.

[tileon]

Wotan has fury?

http://ui30.gamespot.com/1885/ihavefury_2.gif

welcome to fury.

[djKyoto]

117/79 on Syncopia.

[blackwiggle]

Your sick djkyoto.

How the Fu..,oh why bother asking.

More ULTRA Dance music blaring I guess,I don't know how you can do it,it does my head in.

[djKyoto]

It's Fury. I replaced most of my Dance for Hardcore and Game Rock (ie Guilty Gear). Nice and calming.

[blackwiggle]

http://video.google.com.au/videosear...itle&resnum=4#

It's got his "Music"? playing behind the wiggles on one video.

As subtle as a brick through a window,do you drive or have ever wished to have driven a TANK by any chance?

[ProblemSolver]

Holy my new record got updated. Right Wotan, I did a 100+ on Pro Tozo.
You also had some good runs over there and at Syncopia. Not bad.

Running a 102 on Pro Tozo was quite a tough job to do. My heart was
beating at about 150 as I was closing-in to zone 100. xD But at the same
time the degree of perfection rised like nothing else. I essentially became
one with the track. Pro Tozo is really special in that regard because
the whole track is utterly smooth.

[CJS]

lol you guys are insane... 8P my record remains a solid 75 on Syncopia, probably not going to change (seeing how I blew up on 74 in the first 3 tries)

[silverfoxy]

Problem Solver - I have to disagree with Pro Tozo being "smooth"

I find that from subsonic onwards it feels as if your craft is bouncing along the track rather than going smoothly. On the left, right, left turns halfway round I find it the worst. It really messes up my poor little eyes and how on earth you manage 27 more zones after 75 is amazing.

Are you sure you're a man and not a really clever machine ???

[ProblemSolver]

Problem Solver - I have to disagree with Pro Tozo being "smooth" ...

I know what you mean. Well the smoothness I'm refering to is the overall
smoothness of the track including the way how the curves are designed and
that there are no discontinuities (jumps) and so on. But that's not to say
that I don't like it the other way around.

Yeah there are some bumps on the track, they spice everything up. xD
Just a hint; If you "watch" this special rather bumpy right-left section
closely then you may find a path through it without any bumps. I hope
you have the rumble pack turned on.

Some people disable the rumble pack coz they get distracted by it, but it's
a disadvantage to play without coz one will lose an important information.
Also, when running over speed pads the leveling-off of the rumble tells one
for how long the current boost last, which translates to distance. But not
only this. Since the dynamics of the ZONE craft changes with an increase
in speed one can essentially use this information to adjust the steering
more precisely.

Now get Wotan!

... and how on earth you manage 27 more zones after 75 is amazing.

Business as usual. xD


Uh Kingheim, you did a 100 on C12. I think you can do a 100
on Mallavol as well, can you? Just do it, because then all Pure4
tracks become three-digitnized.

[kingheim]

I thought Pro Tozo will be the only Pure Zone Track where Zone 100 won't be possible (I don't have find yet his smoothness ) but congrats for have done it
Zone 100 on Mallavol is reachable... Don't know when but it will be

[XBARNSTERX]

You guys are crazy, i dont know how you do it

[CJS]

lol Just beat my record: Syncopia- 76 (51 perfect) 175881, 38 laps. Didn't touch the left airbrake until Zone 64

[sh1kamaru-]

oh my god I'm so pissed ! I thought I could give Anulpha Pass a try again, I thought I could break 90 zones and ended up doing 89 xD

ProblemSolver and seruginnzi that's insane that you can pull off more than 100 perfect zones on it

I think my new aim will be breaking 300k

[CJS]

100 perfect zones is something you should get paid for. Craaaap. AND on Anulpha Pass? I can't even get to Zone 65 intact on that track! I don't know why, Syncopia is just a lot better for me. Pity I'll never see the proper Supersonic colours outside of Zone Battle...

[ProblemSolver]

@kingheim: Doing 102 zones on Pro Tozo was tough, I have to admit,
esp. when reaching this zone for first time, it's like entering an unexplored
world. It's pretty insane how one has to steer the craft around when being
close to zone 100.

@CJS: lol @ not using the left airbrake till zone 64. Getting paid for 100
perfect zone? Yeah, why not? xD

@sh1kamaru-: Ah Anulpha Pass -- the old story. Once the leaderboard gets
fixed (<-- I lol'd) I'll give Anulpha Pass another try. I think I can do a 130+/105+
(possibly a 132 / 106) but this would be rather close to the maximum. I think
a 135 / 110 is the ultimate limit for Anulpha Pass.

I've noticed an odd thing after the release of Fury. Breaking some old
records is a bit more difficult now when being on a similar run. The day
Fury was released I did some runs on Anulpha Pass and I noticed that I
missed certain checkpoints by two or three thousands points. I never
talked about it since I thought it was just me. But doing some runs over
at Metropia now showed me the same behavior. This effect gets even more
pronounced when reaching higher zones despite BRs, pads, perfect zones,
and perfect laps are rewarded like before. In general, I would say that
one now needs a few more perfect zone (given the same amount of zones)
to brake the same score on an HD track. It seems like that the general
score counter counts a bit slower now and that this adds up on higher
zones. Anyone?

But there are some good things as well. I just once wrote about the
steering issue;

... At very small steering angles the craft is unstable, meaning, a small
steering input leads to a "large" (and abrupt) turning of the craft. The
problem worsens as the speed goes up. There is even a small dead-zone
on using the stick. ...

Well, all these issues have been fixed. It took me only a few runs to
get 51 perfect zones out of Metropia. Up to my point of view it should be
possible to improve perfect zones on lower / mid zone runs (in the range
of 90 - 40) by about 3 or 5 due to all the fixes. Just try!

The controls (i.e. the airbrakes) are just fine in the range of zone 0 to 110.
But after zone 110 they become sort of twitchy again. I don't know why the
controls have to be so sensitive. Lack of testing? Likewise in Zone Battle,
the agility of the Feisar is overpaced when racing zone 40+.

[sh1kamaru-]

I did some runs on Anulpha Pass [...]It seems like that the general
score counter counts a bit slower now

I'm quoting a little part because the previous post is quite long, I do apologize if that's wrong !

I think it's you, my checkpoints were the same as before up to subsonic, I'm not able to check them after =)

[CJS]

Well... it looks like another day, another zone for me. 77! So I'll get 80 on Friday...
EDIT: Problemsolver, good lord. 51 perfect zones on METROPIA? I can't even get 51 zones at all on that track! You guys are WAY too good

[silverfoxy]

@ ProblemSolver - I can't be 100% sure but I haven't noticed any difference in the Zone scoring. Had a good few goes on Rev VinK the other day and usually I'm at 100k when it changes from SuperPhantom to Zen (assuming you're perfect to this point) and it was always around the 100k mark (when I did the first 34 perfect - which wasn't as often as I'd have liked!) previously and seems to be the same now.

However, I will keep my eye out on other zone tracks.

Getting to 90 on Pro yesterday was a blast, felt so good running a couple of PLs in the 80s. Finding Mach1 less of a struggle than before but it does take my eyes a few seconds to adjust from the blackness of Mach to the brightness of Supersonic. Makes it easier to get further though, they should introdue the white scheme to both APs.

Also had a few quick Zone battles with kingheim yesterday. It was great fun as it was just the 2 of us to begin with, then a random joined and just dropped barriers after every boost. Grrrr. then Billychanextreme (sorry, can't remember your correct spelling) joined and had a good couple of games. I thought doing BRs lost 40 energy points but its only 15. Will have to do them more in future.