Curse

amish lifeguard · Feb 17, 2007, 08:11 PM // 20:11

yea, i tried that kamikaze, for 3 hours! got a 3x super beetle, but camped the boxes too long. you gotta get echo then super right away to get it good.

Tucks · Feb 17, 2007, 08:13 PM // 20:13

It is kinda ridiculous that you need super beetles + no-one attacking you to score top 100. They might as well just given us a random prize draw.

Diddy bow · Feb 17, 2007, 08:21 PM // 20:21

best i got was 450 cus i got 2 supers but some biatch kept knocking me over :/

ericdanie · Feb 17, 2007, 09:08 PM // 21:08

I love the concept, but current GW network coding does not support a quick-responses minigame.

Dark Interception · Feb 17, 2007, 09:15 PM // 21:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by KamikazeChicken

~450k is getting a perfect start and echo super, so you'll need 2x the combo for the 460k+ scores. I've had lots of people go to crates and sit on them trying to get the combo from the start, and those people are the ones who tend to be in the top 100 already.

no thats not really true .. i got a 450k score with 1 super and a 470 with 2 supers .. not echoing it.

Spidey · Feb 17, 2007, 09:35 PM // 21:35

It's a fun mini-game. It can be brutal, but then that makes it more fun. I get hit with the rubberbanding here and there, it's just part of online gaming. I haven't made the top 100 and probably never will, but I've enjoyed playing, gaining tokens and gamer points. At least getting the points doesn't depend on your team, like the snowball arena, all you have to do is finish the race to get points and tokens.

The only suggestion I would have would be that they limit activation on a box a single time. That would put a stop the box campers.

onerabbit · Feb 17, 2007, 09:49 PM // 21:49

To make it even more Fun, just stand on the boxes and keep kncoknig dwn one person..i did it, was there for the whole race knocking him down, was sooo funny..bet he was pissed off

Zehnchu · Feb 17, 2007, 10:10 PM // 22:10

There is a flaw in the record keeping, I know this will sound negative and there probably isn’t a way to fix it but right now the top 100 is really just the top 70 that means there are 30 people who should be on this but are not.

There shouldn’t be duplicate entries on the records, it should be just one listing. If that person bests their personal best time or best time then they should move up in ranking not be added to the list again moving someone who did make it off the list.

Just Another Dude · Feb 17, 2007, 10:22 PM // 22:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by namkey

As of this moment, I am ranked #11, #12, #21, #23, #29, #46, #70, #92

Why don't you just share and not be so selfish? I mean, wow, I'm sure you've never learned anything from someone else's posts here... nobody has ever revealed a secret that benefits you and you took... Maybe everyone should stop talking, and stop posting tips, and just brag?

raven214 · Feb 17, 2007, 10:28 PM // 22:28

I just got my own personal best... 445k .... in all the races I've done, I've only seen one person I can remember that got over 450k.

The fact that people can have multiple listings in the top 100 is pure crap too, unless further down listings are being recorded for reward purposes and just aren't being displayed.

Sprites · Feb 17, 2007, 10:51 PM // 22:51

460 , could've been higher if anet didn't rollback me one screen before :d

Draikin · Feb 17, 2007, 11:13 PM // 23:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sprites

460 , could've been higher if anet didn't rollback me one screen before :d

That happened to me several times too just when I was going for a >460k score, it usually happens when you go down the two bridges and exit on the beach. At one point I was almost the 6th checkpoint and the other moment I find myself back at the exit of the two bridges. Really frustrating when that happens...

Hengis · Feb 18, 2007, 12:38 AM // 00:38

My best of the day was 457K after trying for about five hours. I can win multiple races in a row but not get anywhere near the high scores. I initially thought that getting on the high score table was down to pure luck, but seeing how many people have multiple places in the top 100, there has to be more to it than just luck. I wish I knew what it was.

Having no luck getting a pig either LOL.. 220 tries so far - no piggy :-(

Guldur · Feb 18, 2007, 01:40 AM // 01:40

Well, i never get green ping, mine has always been yellow and Its so frustrating the way i keep teleporting back its not even fun anymore

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My ping never was an issue with pvp or pve, but in this mini game its just impossible to be competitive. I have no idea where the opponents are, i miss all the rams and get rammed out of nowhere.

Winterclaw · Feb 18, 2007, 03:09 AM // 03:09

448K is my best, 444K is my second best. Yesterday I was doing pretty good and placed most of the time, tonight it's awful.

//RogueNine · Feb 18, 2007, 03:13 AM // 03:13

I can easily hit 455+ with no supers and no echos.. So far my best is 471890 with 2 supers no echos.

Zonzai · Feb 18, 2007, 05:35 AM // 05:35

I like the race mini-game but I can't play it all.

Apparently my connection sucks this weekend. My usual ping average seems to be over 1.2k. That's just insane! I've never had such bad lag before, anywhere... doing anything.

I think I'll go play something that I can get better pings on (i.e. every other game I have ever played).

Former Ruling · Feb 18, 2007, 06:13 AM // 06:13

I zoned into the Races area, and went to start one, and I lagged like all get out so I thought something along the lines of a Profane Word coupled with the word "This" and never went back to the arenas..

Hengis · Feb 19, 2007, 10:57 AM // 10:57

Well, the more I played this, the more I went back to my original thoughts that getting onto the leader board really is nothing more than luck.

Yes, you need to have some basic skill, but no amount of skill will compensate for not getting the right power-ups, or for getting ganked at exactly the wrong time.

You need:

A clean start - i.e. not getting targeted by other players.
A super-bettle or an echo in the first box (in the tunnel).
The corresponding opposite in the second or third box (in the water).
OR - The echo and the super-beetle together in the water.
To be away from the boxes in the water and have both the echo and the super-beetle at around 41-42 seconds.
Not to get targeted by other players for the remainder of the race.
No lag or rubber-banding during the whole race.
One more piece of luck (preferably another super-beetle in one of the boxes towards the end of the race).

After playing for around 12 hours over the weekend, I got almost all of these on my best run and scored around 469K, not quite enough for a top 100 place, but didn't get the last piece of luck needed.

Still, I gained around 1300 gamer points in total, and the corresponding amount of tokens LOL.

Although I really did enjoy the event, I would hope that any future mini-game, especially one that gives a prize for the best scores, would be based on skill alone and not an enormous element of pure luck.

Yawgmoth · Feb 19, 2007, 11:44 AM // 11:44

My bestest run was:
-zero interaction of other players!
-no lags, no stops, no knockdowns!
-echo+super at cave, immediately!
-another super at cows (my jaw dropped)
-another echo at big water (stopped breathing)
-my mistake could have been not touching any more boxes after 5th gate

And the result was mere 465k
I estimate the chance for such a run to be 1 in 5000 or more.
I can't imagine how incredibly lucky must be a 470K++ run that makes top100