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Wed, 12/02/2009 - 5:13pm
I usually do pretty well on racing games but have to say i'm living in back marker territory so far. I do like the challenge though!
I can hold my own on Natl's but am getting smoked in sx.
I usually lay back at the start to avoid the carnage but get passed up pretty quickly. I don't want to be the guy taking everybody out either.
Other than more practice-should i be using the clutch at all?
Steering ,tire suspension set ups?
Thanks
Wed, 12/02/2009 - 5:25pm
#1
I don't want to be the guy taking everybody out is what i meant to write.
Wed, 12/02/2009 - 6:36pm
#2
i dont use the reflex stick at all and i do pretty well just lean back on some big jumps and through the woops and you should do pretty well
Fri, 12/04/2009 - 4:16pm
#3
steering in the middle, brakes hard. tires i usually have them equal on slippery/sticky, acceleration higher than speed (especially for SX). suspension softer for nats, harder for SX. clutch...if youre riding a small bike (125 or 250f) then yes...use it when youre coming out of turns. bigger bikes you can use it but it might kick your rear out if youre leaned over too much. you dont have to worry about that too much with the smaller bikes, especially the 125s.
i use the reflex stick a lot more than the handlebars honestly. i use the handlebars to initiate turns then halfway through im letting off of it and using reflex to keep me leaned over. otherwise, if youre going up a jump face the front wheel turned can cause you to fly sideways, unless you really want to scrub then you can do that!
practice, practice, practice! the more i play the better i get. just dont think about it too much and just play...when i start thinking is when i start messing up horribly. youll get it.
Fri, 12/04/2009 - 8:32pm
#4
Just get to know your sections. For each section you should have a fast line and a "not enough speed for the fast line" line, just in case.
As set up, I keep my suspension one setting stiffer than equal. That's all I change for sx.
Sat, 12/05/2009 - 8:08pm
#5
Thanks a lot for the input!- I'm having a lot of fun working on it
Sat, 01/02/2010 - 7:19pm
#6
Well just to throw some input on this, i am very good at racing games usually and thought i was really good at the single player, then got online and noticed i was always going head to head for LAST PLACE. after many loud shouts and furious screams like those "gamefly" commercials, i stuck my nose online for hours trying to figure out why i was the worst ever. turns out the only thing i was doing wrong was bike selection. i was using a blaze 450 with full accell and always adjusting my other stats to match up with the terrain of the track. i read somewhere to try a smaller bike and what do you know, now im always competing for anywhere from 3rd to 5th in a full game. lets just say its a complete relief to know that im not as horrible as i though and it was just ignorance of dirtbiking that screwed me up. im a first time player of the mx series as i have not played a mx game since n64. but im completely hooked on this game. i figured i would make this post a little higher up on the boards to anyone else who was having just as hard of a time as i was at multiplayer.
Sun, 04/18/2010 - 7:31am
#7
I know this topic hasn't been "in use" (I guess you could say) for a while but I've been reading around here a while and trying out different bike settings and riding styles and y'all are mostly wrong about some things. First off you don't really need the clutch at all in this game. It was a bigger part of Untamed and Unleashed but here it hardly makes a difference. Another thing I noticed was someone said to run more acceleration than top speed, well they're wrong. Top speed gets you around corners faster without the clutch than acceleration does. Also, stick with a softer suspension setup, sticky tires for more traction so you don't slide out, and quick, normal, and slow brakes and turning reaction does nothing really, although I keep both of mine on quick. Do all this to a 450 and don't use the clutch any and it will help any problems you might be having with some track sections, jumps, or power overall. If anyone needs help finding a bike setting for a certian riding style just let me know and I'll try to help out.
Fri, 07/09/2010 - 4:56pm
#8
really its all about timing, if you get that down it shouldn't be a problem, the speed and bigger sections will come in time, but for now get your timing down.
