Random HD Questions that don't need a thread of their own.

[4tonmantis]

@numskull usa has em, well at least i do here on the west side of usa anyways..i cant stand em lol often times with tournaments my ps has froze during the ads on the last few tracks so i tend to tense up and blurt out obscenities when they pop up, especially on the 8 track elite phantom tourneys... eat and die advertisements

[triphyr3]

Yep exact same thing for me. Im in the US too and that damn civic add has caused me plenty of freezing troubles......

[trackripper]

Not exactly a question concerning HD, but does anyone know where I can read the backstories to the teams and each FX league? It seems quite interesting...

[Cipher]

i think Wipeout 2097 had em, though i'm not quite sure =/

Cipher

[amplificated]

http://www.wipeoutzone.com/fiction.php

Not entirely sure if that's exactly what you're after, but that link can be found on the wipeoutzone.com front page

[trackripper]

Is that from the games or is that just fan-fiction? I was more after the actual history of the teams...

[JT!]

On zone battle, you go from 7.9 to 8 before the bar gets full. Why do that? Surely it's much more beneficial to boost then start filling the bar again.

/noob.

[OveReAction]

Maybe it's for battling needs.

[JT!]

What do you mean by battling needs? I don't know what much the zone goes up each time you hit a zone pad, but i'd have though it would increase exponentially so that there was some kind of reward to getting more of them consecutively, but to get the bar 100% full the last one increases 0.1 zones. Don't get why.

[OveReAction]

Ah yes. The amount there is utterly almost same. Well, it's a faster way to rank up zones at this rate.

[Colonel]

I think it's a perfect zone bonus JT.

[JT!]

Oh, I've just realized I was wrong, it doesn't increase to 7.9 t 8. It increases from 6.9 to 8.

My bad.

[JFthebestJan]

@JT
in zone battle it's a superior tactic to boost immediately, when ur zone bar is filled with @ least 6.9.
there's no need to wait until 8.0 is reached.
especially on c12 this tactic is unbeatable

[JT!]

Why? Seems like (and I'm very new to whipout HD, just keep that in mind) that if you can it's better to get the bar full as the 1.1 increase is much greater than all the other increases.

[JFthebestJan]

lets say u have 6.9 zone bar and u re going to cross the finish line with a perfect lap. so in this case u re wasting zone energy, cause the bonus u'll get for a perfect lap is greater than 1.1.
that means, boost before crossing the finish line and u'll start with a little filled up zone bar (perfect lap bonus)

[Colonel]

There is a perfect zone bonus though isn't there? Or am I just imagining it? I'm sure on Anulpha Pass fwd, if you get every Zone Pad up to the bridge, your bar fills itself up from about 6.9 to 8 just as you round that corner.

I'm sure it happens on other tracks of course, but I always notice it on AP.

[JFthebestJan]

yes, u get bonus energy for every perfect lap and every perfect zone

[4tonmantis]

does anyone have any tips on hitting that triple BR on metropia reverse? i cant for the life of me get the 3rd BR, i can occasionally get the first 2 but when i do i just cant get enough bounce/lift to execute the 3rd one.

any help would be appreciated as this has been flipping my for a while now lol

[AspenExcel]

I would take a look at FEET_Flyback7's video at about 8:30. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw03VqqBAR0

Seems like you want to aim for the far right of the track, then while in mid-air start turning left to point you off the ground. Make sure you are holding nose up.

That said I've probably done that triple barrel roll only 5 times.

[4tonmantis]

@Unctuous sweet, thx a ton for that! i figured it had something to do with where you land....now time for practice