Neuromancer
Member
Really? I thought it just looped/rewound parts.
But yeah you're right I'm sure there is a technical reason behind it. And it's the 360's fault you can't just copy over Mp3 files from a USB source the way you can with the PS3.
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SSX |OT| Modern Boardfare
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But yeah you're right I'm sure there is a technical reason behind it. And it's the 360's fault you can't just copy over Mp3 files from a USB source the way you can with the PS3.
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Finally got the game after coming back from vacation.
backflip10019
Member
I need more of you on my list! I wanna beat some scores! GT: backflip10019
Cuban Legend
Member
Paging all the big spenders (Cuban, where you at?)
Found this race.
IM ALREADY IN THERE SON. I calmed down a bit and found the right line and = Platinum @ 9 Million and growing!. AW YEAH
Also...
The 1:18:19 Diamond Bracket time cut a huge portion of the track off a jump in the beginning which is why Diamond Bracket is far away at 1:26.43 (hope the Devs catch it to patch it )
Hey, toku, that Rolling Thunder Trick it run we INVESTED IN.. (lol) inflated from 14million for Platinum Bracket to nearly 17million, and its only been 1 day... this is gonna hit at least 20 million by the end of the 6th day before it gets banked as long as more bros join in on this fun. WE'RE GONNA BE RIIIICH NO MATTER WHAT LOL.
*(see note below for platinum tips)
I feel like a banker, I put in 2 million as an investment on that run and im getting 17 back and growing. That's more than 4 times what I spent. Thread should be renamed to "SSX |OT| Snowboarding Stock eXchange"
*I suggest all you GAFers get in on it, it's going to be the big money maker for the week for me by a LARGE margin... the key for it is to get into Super Tricky by the first rail and spam your signature trick as a front/backlip every other jump without cashing in your combo or bailing at all. WATCH OUT FOR DEATH PITS. LOL
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
When does it go until? I'll throw down a sick (okay, just "mildly discomfited") run TONITE!!
Cuban Legend
Member
It's a weeklong event, so until next Sunday. Get in and spread the news to all your friends, GAFbros.
This is Big Bertha for the week, I'm calling it.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
I might wait until I have a bit more time then. I don't want to risk a Double Drop Cost.
Hmm, so you have to pay every time you drop? Or just once to enter an event then you can come back to it all you want?
PS3 has an extra mountain.
Cuban Legend
Member
Soultron plays on 360
You only pay once, but some people have had the local SSX files on their end de-sync with the server after they placed a time and when it happens on a drop with a drop cost you have to pay it again to do it (even if it did save your time and even though you will get payed)
Cuban Legend
Member
woops
Grassclipper
Member
It's so lonely here at the top.
After checking it out and seeing that there is no chance in hell I'm gonna come near your time, I'm gonna let you keep this one. For now.
It is so long ago that I equally hated and loved a game as much as this. When things are going well, it is heaven. But then, you drop into a death pit, have to restart and after 40 excruciating minutes on Rolling Thunder trick it, when you finally get a gold medal RiderNet dies, and when you get it going again it won't take your score. I wanted to throw my controller through a window. Had to do it all again, but luckily I set a platinum score instead.
Some of the drops range from unfair to plain shitty. (With a lot of great to awesome ones in between.) For the sequel EA should definitely focus on quality over quantity.
Where are you death-pitting yourself on Rolling Thunder? That's my favourite drop in the entire game and my memory is a bit sketchy on the entire run, but I don't remember there being death-pits at all on that run.
Neuromancer
Member
Hot tip straight from the devs, through me, to you. (I was chatting with a couple of them a night or two ago, very cool guys.)
A quick way to level up a dude is to use a level 10 dude to collect as many geotags in an event as possible. The amount of credits you get from them scale to your level so your level 10 dude gets more credits than a lower level dude.
Then what you do is, don't finish the event. Just quit out. Geotag earnings are cashed in at the end of an event but the game remembers what you picked up anyway.
Now go finish an event with your lower level dude. All those geotags you got as a level 10 dude will cash in for your lower level dude. Since credits in this game = XP, you should see a big jump.
Did it last night with my level 10 Elise and my level 6 Tane; he jumped up an entire level after doing the above mentioned procedure, just one time.
Also not quite as good as that but still pretty good: you can buy level 10 geotags with a level 10 dude, but then equip them and place them as your lower level dude for lots of credits right up front.
A quick way to level up a dude is to use a level 10 dude to collect as many geotags in an event as possible. The amount of credits you get from them scale to your level so your level 10 dude gets more credits than a lower level dude.
Then what you do is, don't finish the event. Just quit out. Geotag earnings are cashed in at the end of an event but the game remembers what you picked up anyway.
Now go finish an event with your lower level dude. All those geotags you got as a level 10 dude will cash in for your lower level dude. Since credits in this game = XP, you should see a big jump.
Did it last night with my level 10 Elise and my level 6 Tane; he jumped up an entire level after doing the above mentioned procedure, just one time.
Also not quite as good as that but still pretty good: you can buy level 10 geotags with a level 10 dude, but then equip them and place them as your lower level dude for lots of credits right up front.
Grassclipper
Member
Sadly, in the beginning. There are a couple of crevasses almost at the start and I was good enough to signature trick it into everyone of them. Multiple times. The rest of the runs I spent hitting ceilings and bailing. In the end I got a Platinum score as I said before, and that feels fucking great, but the way to get there is so frustrating. It was the same thing with SSX3, so it really isn't anything new, but at least then you could zen ride for half an hour to wind down.
Still love the game though. Is there a list of what drops are considered the best? The ones I have found the most enjoyment in this far, which I can remember right now are: JT2, Bear Claw, Serenity, Broken Pass, Old School and Rolling Thunder (for race it). I know there are more drops I've enjoyed but those are the one that pops up in my mind at the moment.
Any tips for more awesome drops?
not true at all - i get all the cool effects on my music when i do it this way. just go to ridernet and set your music to your playlist. dont play the music through the OS.
I remember what/where you're talking about now. Really far to the right at the beginning, yeah.
Hale-XF11
Member
lol, I love it! All mine.
For now.
Admittedly, I'm very choosy about where I play and I continue to avoid the worst death pit tracks cuz I just can't bring myself to deal with restarting again and again and again. As it is, I'm horrible at avoiding them most times unless I have a wingsuit on.
Cuban Legend
Member
Dude I just crept up on your time by 17 seconds from my old 1:25 lol. If I can manage when i go into super tricky so its later in the race then I should be able to break it but an hour on that run alone im worn out even though I know Im close. gg on that inventive cut
Dude I just crept up on your time by 17 seconds from my old 1:25 lol. If I can manage when i go into super tricky so its later in the race then I should be able to break it but an hour on that run alone im worn out even though I know Im close. gg on that inventive cut
I need to get a good combination of board and mods to get my Explore time down to my GE time. I stupidly sold one of my best boards and didn't do the Explore run with the proper mods.
I feel like I've played Rolling Thunder over 300 times now. I've loved every second of it. Seriously, this game is basically SSX: Rolling Thunder to me.
Replay with screenshots please.
Think im going to hit the SSX google sheet for more shredding bros.
Grassclipper
Member
Yup, there are a couple of hidden ones in the second area as well. (After you pass through the ice gates, if that makes any sense at all.) It's just that I'm more of a race it guy but every GE worth any cash is trick it.
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Ok wow. I suck at this game. And I was good in the demo.
I suck shit at steering.
I suck shit at steering.
Hale-XF11
Member
So, I'm noticing a trend here with a lot of these races. Some of the best times are recorded by those who use their wingsuit for like 95% of the run, since it allows you to skip over most of the tracks almost entirely and just nose dive your way to the bottom with the occasionally bounce off the ground to get you flying again. It's fun, to a point, but it also removes snowboarding from the equation almost entirely. I guess I'm grateful that we can at least create events without wingsuits, cuz this would really get dull after a while otherwise.
some truly awesome gameplay and tracks
some truly horrendous gimmicky dark lighting crevasse nonsense
constructive criticism-
-longer runs- string all the ribbons together for all i care with a giant blank bunny loading hill- i want to listen to my music
-select resets your rider back on the line somewhere with a penalty- i dont want to rewind when im just chilling
-no stupid blind dark crevasses or 15ft ceilings (time crunch for mappers prolly? just filler imo)
-why is it so easy to land everything? old ssx had to time the jumps/landing this version you can have an super late uber and hell just abort and land it.. too easy
-trick scoring is flawed, merqury city explains just flip o/sq sq/o combos exploit highscores-- should reward creative lines and awesome runs
some truly horrendous gimmicky dark lighting crevasse nonsense
constructive criticism-
-longer runs- string all the ribbons together for all i care with a giant blank bunny loading hill- i want to listen to my music
-select resets your rider back on the line somewhere with a penalty- i dont want to rewind when im just chilling
-no stupid blind dark crevasses or 15ft ceilings (time crunch for mappers prolly? just filler imo)
-why is it so easy to land everything? old ssx had to time the jumps/landing this version you can have an super late uber and hell just abort and land it.. too easy
-trick scoring is flawed, merqury city explains just flip o/sq sq/o combos exploit highscores-- should reward creative lines and awesome runs
Well shit. Is it a timed exclusive, or just exclusive period? Man I hate that.
Got the 360 version on a whim..
I'm always impressed by EA's manuals, but wow. LOL
Not even wasting money on staples anymore.
You're not missing much anyways, Mt. Fuji isn't that great.
I was playing the other day and in my sleep deprived state I remembered this:
Anyone remember this game? I used to play it a lot when I was a kid
aliencowz7
Member
Does anyone else get random psn friend requests after placing well in events? its kind of strange.
Tokubetsu
Member
This fucking sucks. if the Ridernet App is corret then I got bumped on these tracks but I have to repay to try to fix them before they end in 6ish hours. But of course, if I repay the cost, I won't be making back as much money or in the case of one, i won't be making back any at all unless i get diamon...which ain't gonna happen. Awesome.
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
I have. I always maintain the rule of not accepting people's requests if they are blank. Tell me who you are damn it.
aliencowz7
Member
yeah it was oddly creepy, i got two friend requests from seperate accounts that had the exact same amount of trophys with just the generic friend request message.
bobs...onGaf
Member
I noticed this, its pretty bad news for Explore, glad the thing is excluded in most on-line races.
This game is absolutely brilliant, just got it today and already got my moneys worth lol! I got seriously addicted.
Neuromancer
Member
You're not missing much anyways, Mt. Fuji isn't that great.
I was playing the other day and in my sleep deprived state I remembered this:
Anyone remember this game? I used to play it a lot when I was a kid
Fucking yes.
Level 1: "Rookie Mountain"
Very good game with good music too; riding the ski lift back up to the top of the mountain for each new lap was a neat idea.
The fat asshole working at EBX made fun of me for buying it. =(
Cuban Legend
Member
ill be online in an hour form now so lets get in a party and i can tell you what your at for whatever runs we're both in k?
Just restart SSX. It's a bug, normally you dont have to repay the Drop Cost. Same thing happenend to me, but after i finally managed to log in successfully and I could enter the events without having to pay the Drop Cost again.
schwabdizzle
Banned
I used to be good at SSX in the PS2 day....played this one, and I offically suck now.
Damn what an asshole, he clearly does not understand greatness. But yeah fun times, the pile ups that always formed at the bottom to ride the ski lift back up were fun. They could do something similar for SSX if they ever added live multiplayer with the helicopters. I still really wish the game had live Multiplayer.
Hale-XF11
Member
Same story for me at first, but stick with it for a while and you will eventually get the hang of it, at least to some degree. It really takes time to sink in and get comfortable playing.
I do too. RiderNet is awesome and it's like crack, but I'd love some intense, live, head-to-head race it and trick it. Gimme dat.
IceDoesntHelp
Banned
any news if a PC version is in the works? (don't own a 360/PS3, so not an option)
Restarting doesn't fix anything on my end and I've definitely grown tired of paying the drop cost just to see I've already registered a platinum score on the same event. Might as well just start manually keeping track of my global events.
Tokubetsu
Member
Funny enough, restarting just now fixed it for me, but this is the first time it's worked. This glitch has been happening to me since Saturday.
Also, Rolling Thunder Trick It fucking blows.
Neuromancer
Member
Game is really hanging up on me, like in menus and things. What's going on with RiderNet?
Cuban Legend
Member
I like you. But here's the sad part:
I'm a PC enthusiast, yet SSX has never and will never be developed for PC, I'm calling it now.
Cmon bro, that gold you got is just as worth it as platinum. Hell if i could share SSX credits i would.
InVinoVeritas
Member
Just picked this up today for PS3. If anyone needs friends to race with my PSN ID is InVinoVeritas78. I pretty much suck right now, but give me time...
You're not missing much anyways, Mt. Fuji isn't that great.
I was playing the other day and in my sleep deprived state I remembered this:
Anyone remember this game? I used to play it a lot when I was a kid
I remember it being Mario Kart on snow. c:
Someone beat my Rolling Thunder time! I demand the crook fess up.
Tokubetsu
Member
I like you. But here's the sad part:
I'm a PC enthusiast, yet SSX has never and will never be developed for PC, I'm calling it now.
Cmon bro, that gold you got is just as worth it as platinum. Hell if i could share SSX credits i would.
Yea I was bumped down to silver, just put it back up to gold with 11 mill.