Excellent job, Vega!

Yes Andrew, I do need to be more consistent with my comments. Getting a great run is made so much better when you know that others appreciate it as well.

I was pleasantly surprised when I logged on this morning and saw not only more comments, but improved gameplay. Looking forward to seeing this run someday.

Keep up the great work guys!

Vega's game on Spike Cave

BikerBrian

I do like the idea of not having to dig back out of the lower area right from the beginning...

Andrew A's game on Die or Die!

Andrew A

First Gold on my new ,
'old' iPod.

Funny - I got stuck on this level when the game broke on my old 'new' iPod, so I played it a few times and came up with some tweaks. Hardly any I've used here (been 2-3 bike lengths ahead passing the finish flag going along the bottom}.. My best resume is 1.30.84, though pretty sure I went quicker on the 'other' but the Congrats screen was just blank, so can't be sure.

Sub 1.30 is very tough but doable I think.

Andrew A's game on Die or Die!

Andrew A

This is the tweaked run (or a variation - there are a lot of variations, depending..) - though most of the tweaks don't show on the replay (unless you know what to look for).

I messed up the ending, though the replay doesn't show the 'demise due to overambition', which happens a second or so later

I immediately got a 1.30.78 on resume. Ho hum.

It took me about 12 minutes to get this, but I really don't have any free time right now. I keep saying that, but it's truer now than ever.

However - having said that, I like to post a sub 1.31 Gold time at least. Give you BB something of a challenge if the itch gets too unbearable..

Andrew A's game on Die or Die!

Andrew A

Incidentally - view fullscreen seems to be broken on Chrome (under Windows 10), but works fine on Microsoft Edge (cough, splutter.. Spit, gargle, rinse and spit again..).

I've never saved unfinished games before - can you do a H2H with them?

Andrew A's game on Die or Die!

Andrew A

I'd - I'm a stickler for kurect puchyouhashun n gramur. Nope. Don't have Mr P's talent (and incidentally Vega, when you corrected yourself a few posts back _ you were correct first time

)..

and it was 20 minutes.

Andrew A's game on Die or Die!

Andrew A

- not_

Duh.

Andrew A's game on Die or Die!

Vega

nope. check again.

Golden Club

Vega

Mike Flips surpassed 200,000 days! Mental.

Golden Club

Vega

Just to put that into perspective. If a new person posted 50 golds on their first day of BoD, it would take almost 11 years for them to reach 200,000 days in the Golden Club!

And that's if nobody ever took any of that player's golds during that 11 years.

Vega's game on Jurassic Parking

Vega

Without question the absolute WORST ROBBERY in the history of BoD!

This is supposed to be a new Gold run ladies and gentlemen.

Vega's game on Jurassic Parking

Vega

It is the ONLY time I have ever successfully performed this type of powerful bounce out of the bottom right corner and landed well on the yellow truck.

But apparently it did not capture the red flag! Ahhh!!! I executed the rest of the map virtually flawlessly.

The difficulty and unlikeliness of landing this run again using this technique is extremely high.

Here is my tire capturing the red flag at 18.88. You can see that the corner of the flag is almost touching the red frame in the exact center of the tire. ROBBED!

Here is the finish with full contact on the checkered flag at 36.72, one frame ahead of Mike's gold!!!!!

What a terrible shame

Andrew A's game on Die or Die!

Andrew A

Indeed, indeed.

Brain fart.

Golden Club

Andrew A

Pah! I'll 'ave 'im in months!

(a lot of months

)

Vega's game on Jurassic Parking

Andrew A

That is incredibly bad luck - you must have missed it by a whisker.

I've noticed similar things happening many times. Maybe the 'Circle of Contact' (or whatever you want to call it) around the designated center of the flag isn't a true circle, but faceted - so it depends upon the angle your wheel sweeps past ( and it's own CoC would be the same), as to whether you get a contact or not. Also, often the center of the flag doesn't seem to be the center of the 'target'. The physics engine is pretty old and probably not very high resolution. Not having designed a level I don't know, just guessing.

And no comfort - sorry

Jurassic Parking Time Trial

Vega

when i landed my 37.70 run, i really thought it might be my only 37.xx and i would be done.

but son of a gun if i couldn't walk away.

and so far i've landed at least 40 completed runs of 37.xx.

now unless it's under 37.50 i don't even watch or save the replay.

you don't REALLY know a level until you've mastered it in this kind of way.

of course now i must press forward toward a new Gold

Andrew A's game on Die or Die!

Andrew A

A bit quicker but nothing great.

I have a best resume of 1.29,58 now (with screenshot - how do you upload those without messing round with image hosting sites?), but doubt I can manage a full run that fast. Still - shows sub 1.30 was possible.

Not sure there's any point to continuing with this. Probably best to use my time elsewhere.

Andrew A's game on Die or Die!

Vega

Yah sure 1:29.xx is possible but on these long levels, extracting every frame is very difficult. This is a good play.

Andrew A's game on Die or Die!

Andrew A

Bit quicker again.

Meh..

By which I mean I'm still getting used to this new bike.

The grips are all wrong and the derailleur needs tweaking