ZONE / Zone Battle thread of vEry awEsomEnEss

[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+.