Maniaplanet Forum

Alter-Fox wrote:Yeah... I've been driving in TM for almost the whole ten years (and been driving online for five of them) and I've never got that good. Not that I care. I'm good enough to maximize the having of fun.

... and that is what it is all really about

firstdriver wrote:

Alter-Fox wrote:Yeah... I've been driving in TM for almost the whole ten years (and been driving online for five of them) and I've never got that good. Not that I care. I'm good enough to maximize the having of fun.

Thats the spirit whats driving me as well !!

From what I've learned in the past couple of weeks, there is a big difference between sliding through a corner or taking it straight up, without sliding. A lot of corners look like they're not going to work without sliding but it's worth giving it a couple of tries. Enter such corners with the optimal approach for a corner in general and don't use the handbreak. Sometimes, this can save seconds.

Other corners require sliding. I think the trick is to come out of the slide as soon as possible because sliding does come with a time penalty. So the sooner you have grip again, the less time is lost.

Still, with all the different approaches I tried, I'm still behind the leaders on each online map, sometimes by more than 4 seconds. Very frustrating indeed, but I keep trying.

I wonder if there is a difference between arrow-down breaking and sliding at all. I never bothered to change the default key bindings as it appears to me that using the regular break slows me down more than the hand break... perhaps that is a mistake?