I had someone comment on one of my videos asking wouldn't be more immersive if these were done on time trial instead of single race. I told him we did single race just because the other two runs for individual levels were on single race but it got me curious. Why are the level races done in single race and not time trial like other wipEout games are done is there a specific reason or do we not have to do it in single race at all and we could have done it in time trial all this time?
That's a fair question actually and could apply for Special Edition too. I'd probably prefer single race and time trial be separate but it makes sense to me that time trial be included somewhere, as it would take away the randomness from the other racers and item pickups, leaving it down to pure racing rather than luck. I do personally prefer playing on single race but if time trial was added I would post times in that category too.
I agree with that. Splitting them at least would keep the times already done on single race instead of making them obsolete or removing them entirely and then people could move over to time trial if they don't want to deal with the ai and randomness and just want to see who's fastest based on track knowledge and skill.
This is something I noticed earlier, let me shed a little light into the matter.
So when I first set up the leaderboards, I was assuming people would use Time Trial by default. However, as it turns out, people chose to go for Single Races.
I'm also a failure of a mod for just approving runs and not checking, thus I noticed the issue just recently.
If I were to fix this, it would require quite a bit of fixing as it's not straightforward. I'll get around to it at some point.
Thank you for running the game.
Ah ok that makes more sense for it and its all good no need to beat yourself up for it It was just something that made me curious and not angry or anything negative. I'll still run this game no matter what mode it is on so you can take your time on fixing it or changing it in anyway and thank you for being an active mod that approves times and responds to this type of stuff you defiantly do a better job then the 2097 mods lol.
I didn't take it as negative, I'm just stating facts as runs should obviously be checked :D
I've got time trials to replace all my times in the base Wipeout 3 now so if we wanted that to be a time trial board that would be easy to do.
Wipeout 3 Special Edition on the other hand might be a bit harder to do that with - I've tried a few time trials to beat my current single race times but honestly I don't think it would be possible for me to beat a lot of those times in time trial so as it stands there would be a mix. Now I personally don't mind if single race & time trial are mixed on the same board as they are now, or whether they would be split into two boards, but I think I'd have trouble beating my single race times in Special Edition in order to do the same with that board.
I finally got around to time attacking the game and I think both race time and time attack have their own merits. Making a sub category for each would solve the problem in both this and SE for sure.
