blackridge rivals
is anyone else having trouble with these races? i seem to have lost just as many as ive won and more often than not if you "just" win a race you gain less points than you lose if you "just" lose a ra...
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I'm still being talked about over at NFS No Limits reddit. lol
People over there are thinking that I used exploits to get the amount of SP I have now, but all I did was play the game how it's supposed to be played.
What's the point of playing if you're going to use cheats, bugs, or exploits to win...? Not only would that be ruining other peoples' fun, but it'll be really boring.
Link 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/nfsnolimits/comments/58sa8e/classic_crate_deluxe/d949p52/?context=3
Link 3: https://www.reddit.com/r/nfsnolimits/comments/58sa8e/classic_crate_deluxe/d95kh7c/
I know people from NFS No Limits reddit are lurking here now, so I'll just say "hi people from reddit". 🙂
Welcome to NFS No Limits Answer HQ.
@jin1995 wrote:
I almost had jony in a race, he plays pretty average i lost by a bit due to hitting an edge which bought me to a halt, plus esf's but even he had a hard time in that race. So definitely no super human, though theres is a possibility of him managing to win as much as possible initially, and taking lead at the right time , since he isn't banned yet.
If you hit anything during the race, then it would be your fault.
I collided so many things in races before and I know it's my fault for not dodging them.
I'm human too, like everyone else that plays No Limits. I sometimes make mistakes as well.
I'm not a bot (or super human for that matter).
I didn't know that I would be such an infamous topic over at NFS No Limits reddit, so I didn't take any screenshots of me winning against anyone. But I'll take screenshots from now on.
By the way, I raced him before (won the race as well) and he was pretty average.
This is for everyone.
Below are three screenshots of some of my fastest times.
The first one is Air Volt Sprint: Track was Ironboar Bridge Chase and it was during the night
The second one is Slingshot Sprint: Track was Blackridge Channel Run and it was during the night
The third one is Elevator Sprint: Track was Ironboar Bridge Chase and it was during the night
@vipucho wrote:
@WildeKnight07 I apologize in advance already jony, but i dont think you're a real player, you might be using some outsourced hack to play EA and be on top. As you say your line 'I am not affiliated with EA....lalala', maybe you are from EA and having fun with all the benefits. I might be wrong but this is my opinion, totally.
@vipucho I've been waiting for some cheating accusations thrown at me. 😃
Ah yes.
You're accusing me of using third-party programs to win Blackridge Rivals races and be #1 on the leaderboard.
Now let me ask you this.
Do you really think EA_Tom and EA_Barry would let me become a Champion or even a Hero if they were suspicious of me cheating?
They know me well enough to believe I play by the rules and they trust me with the Champion and Hero statuses.
If you don't believe that I'm not affiliated with EA, then that's your problem.
And this is not an opinion. This is an accusation.
An opinion is a view or judgment about something while an accusation is a claim that someone is doing something illegal or wrong.
Here's what you need to do:
Improve.
That's all you got to do.
Improve on your driving and you may be able to reach the Top 200 on the Blackridge Rivals leaderboard.
@HeretikJirka wrote:
@TheRealJony wow, only a week or two ago your LaFerrari was just over 900, and now it has half of black parts, good job!
Thanks!
@richieluv76 wrote:
i think part of the problem with BRR is there are multiple variants of the same course and you are not always racing like for like, i've had races where i've had a clear road and the ghost has spun out, equally i've had races where i've had tons of obstacles to avoid yet the ghost has gone straight through, so how is this even fair, it is fundamentally flawed
@richieluv76 There are multiple variants of the same track, but you and your ghost opponent do face the same stuff that's thrown at you guys.
If there's a police roadblock, you and the ghost opponent both have to dodge the roadblock.
If there's traffic, you and the ghost opponent both have to dodge the traffic car.
For example, a race name called "Elevator Sprint" has ramps and traffic cars. It takes place on Ironboar Bridge Chase at night.
The track has ramps all over the place. Both you and the ghost opponent jump off the ramps if you guys choose to take them.
If you had a clear road and your ghost opponent had spun out, then your ghost opponent REALLY spun out on a clear road.
If you had tons of stuff to dodge and your ghost opponent had went straight through them, then your ghost opponent must had been traveling at a high speed and dropped some speed upon impact. However, your ghost opponent was still able to continue racing. (From 440 km/h to 380 km/h as an example)
@HeretikJirka wrote:
Similarly, 3-5 points is about as low as it can get, I suppose.
@HeretikJirka Winning no points and losing no points are about as low as it can get. lol
Before I reached the top of the leaderboard, I got match-maked to race against a cheater with 700 points more than me.
I obviously lost the race, but I lost no points from the race. I only lost a Rivals ticket.
Now, I get no points from winning against real player ghost opponents. I only could get points from winning against AI ghost opponents after winning three races against real player ghost opponents.
@WildeKnight07 wrote:
@richieluv76 @HeretikJirka @TheRealJony Some quick feedback from my side regarding your 'Tap n Hold' start technique...
Thanks to you guys, I finally cracked through 4200 and into the top 200 (136 place to be precise)!
@WildeKnight07 Nice!
Keep it up! (Even though I'm way too late lol)
@WildeKnight07 wrote:
Even with my perfect starts and racing against other CCX ghosts (no chance against LeF unless they make a big mistake), I am still being smoked in the last half of the race. I can't imagine too many CCX's have a higher PR than mine (1020) because that would require at least 1 set of 16 scanners (and I've only managed to collect 8 of each so far). So, when I've had a good start and I'm ahead of my CCX ghost, a win should be a slam-dunk. But, they're winning in the last few seconds... either because my technique sucks, or the recorded race had a different nitro band layout / traffic / roadblock setup, or the game algo's for car behavior change as your SP increases???
I've stopped drifting as much as I used to on tight corners to tighten up my line and maintain speed, which has made a difference. I'm also getting a tiny bit better at avoiding EMP (or whatever they're called), but these are still virtually impossible to avoid when you're airborn most of the time. Most of the time, I have a fairly smooth race, but still lose more often than I should against CCX's that probably have the same PR or lower.
If my technique is to blame here (which is probably more likely than other scenarios), then it probably has something to do with WHEN you hit the NOS. I suspect that my ghost opponents are waiting longer to charge up their NOS than me, giving them an extended burst of speed, rather than lots of small bursts, which is what I'm doing.That said, when I do hold off on the NOS, if my ghostie is ahead of me, I never gain on them.
Any thoughts team?
Your technique needs some changes.
All I'll say is use Nitrous strategically.
It's not a good idea to continuously spam Nitrous throughout the whole race because you won't be able to get the most of your nitrous when you need it most.
It's also not a good idea to wait for Nitrous to be maxed and then use it because you may miss the spots on a track when nitrous usage is beneficial.
Use nitrous on parts of a track where you feel you will gain the most benefit from it.
I'll give you this tip though.
Do NOT use Nitrous while in the air.
Not only is it a waste of Nitrous, but it could possibly change a win to a loss.
@richieluv76 wrote:
@TheRealJony why couldnt you just say "yes its only speculation and yes it wont affect me as i'm not a vip player" and leave it at that, why do you feel the need to beat me down? or are you just attacking me because i attacked your hero status in another thread? grow up and move on
@richieluv76 Whoa.
Where did this come from...?
All I was doing was correcting what you thought I said with what I really said. I wasn't attacking you in any way.
However, the way you worded it makes it look like you do want to get into an argument with me.
@richieluv76 wrote:
you're just speculating at the moment as what will happen on the removal of tournaments, it hasnt happened yet so stop ranting on about it not being fair that you'll get less tickets, which by the way is your choice, you could also be a vip player but choose not to invest in the game when so many others do invest in the game
If you worded it like this, "you're only speculating at the moment as what will happen on the removal of tournaments, it hasnt happened yet so wait until it actually happens", then it wouldn't look like you want to get into an argument with me.
But I would still make my corrections.
@richieluv76 wrote:
now lets just throw something else into the mix, what about all those people with "jailbroken" devices that could just keep refilling their tickets?
the only part of yout argument i actually agree with is vip players have an advantage when using ticket refills, i dont fully agree with the sleep issue because a "no life" gamer could wake up after 5 hours, because tickets take 1 hour to generate if a player really wanted to they could play every single ticket that gets generated, but i'm sure you're like me, work and life in general tends to get in the way of things
but that being said, because there is a mechanism in game to gain gold i dont completely agree with the ticket refill issue either because a free player can still get ticket refills, admittedly in the long run it would cost them more gold for the same end result, i personally choose not to use ticket refills, i'd rather save my gold for when special events roll around
Since the game update already came, it would be kind of pointless to continue this argument unless you do want to know my arguments. 😉
But I will say to not take sleeping as a factor. 8 hours is the typical amount of hours a person needs to sleep. Anything less is detrimental to a person's health if it accumulates.
@richieluv76 wrote:
but ultimately its only a game, just because somebody gets top of the leaderboard what does that really prove?
It proves that we're the best racers and elite players in Blackridge City. XD
@WildeKnight07 wrote:
Hi Team... well, I finally cracked it thanks to your advice.... Icon 4501 SP currently sitting in 108th position on the leader-board! Whoohooo
That said, I do think it was more a case of good luck, than good racing.
I woke up this morning and decided today was the day I was going to claim that gold icon, whatever it takes... and boy did it take a lot!
I started the day on about 4448 PR thinking I'd be past 4500 before I'd finished my first cuppa coffee. Wishful thinking! My first 5 races were a disaster, with the second race almost driving me to delete NFS-NL permanently, when my 1053 PR CCX was smoked by a LAMBO in what couldn't have been a more perfect run on my part. WTF?!? (could only have been a cheater, which is extremely annoying)
Anyway, I let off some steam in a symphony of expletives and got back to business, only to get thumped in the next few races and plummeted back down to a humble 4320. But, I stuck to my 'whatever it takes' guns and burnt through all my remaining gold (about 400) to sneak back past the 4400 mark again by midday. After a long break of hourly refills I finally started enjoying a bit more 'luck of the draw' along with a consistent string of races without making too many mistakes. By 11:30pm, it was mission accomplished.
@WildeKnight07 Congrats on reaching Icon rank I. You're now part of the best racers and elite players group. lol
@WildeKnight07 wrote:
However, the brief sense of personal 'victory' was quickly overshadowed by the foreboding feeling that my new 'Icon' status was more of a lucky 'slot machine' spin, than a well deserved win (if you get my meaning). Yes, a measure of skill is required to 'be in the game' but I strongly suspect this accounts for less than 50% of your actual progress and the bulk of progress is actually determined by how lucky you are with which opponents you draw in which events.
If you continue to win races even after you reached Icon rank I, then you do have the skills to win races in Blackridge Rivals.
However if you start to lose races after you reached Icon rank I, then you were just lucky to get opponents that have below average driving skills.
@WildeKnight07 wrote:
If we at least had the ability to choose which opponents we raced against (based upon SP ratings), a measure of strategy would be introduced to BRR. E.g. Choose an opponent with a lower SP, giving you a better chance of winning a few points and progressing slowly, coupled with the higher cost of losing against this opponent if you make a mistake, verses selecting an opponent with a higher SP, giving you the chance to progress faster if you win while losing fewer SP if you lose, although the risk of losing is much higher... so it's a trade-off decision we would each make as players, as opposed to having this decision made for us by the game.
I certainly look forward to seeing how BRR evolves after pre-season. Could be epic, could be a disaster. Time will tell.
There's always this kind of issue in Multiplayer games.
There are the low-SP assassins, which are players that have low-SP but they drive amazingly. They could also be a high-SP player in an alternate account.
And there are the high-SP wannabes, which are players that have high-SP but they drive atrociously.
@scottfollett wrote:
Go to Reddit ppl! Much more info!!!
I think I'll stay here. Thanks.
@TudorSicaru wrote:
@richieluv76 you were right about the update upseting players: https://www.reddit.com/r/nfsnolimits/comments/5avy3b/bye/
C ya 🙂
@TudorSicaru Couldn't you just delete No Limits from your mobile device instead of wiping out your game data...?
I mean you can always get No Limits back when you feel like playing it again, but deleting your game data is permanent.
Once it's gone, it's gone FOREVER!
And all the real money you spent for your game data went down the drain!
But it's too late now since you've already done it.
I just met you officially a few days ago, but it's always sad to see someone leave the game.
Good luck in whatever you're doing in real life and I wish you the best in your endeavours.
See ya!
@jimmywdavis09 wrote:
There are a few issues I have had with BRR. First, it seems I am racing against cars that didn't run the same race with the same traffic as me. I say this because I have seen my opponents on a few occasions drift THROUGH a car and it not slow them down. That tells me that car wasn't there when they did the run.
@jimmywdavis09 I'll just copy and paste this here as I'm getting really tired answering the same thing over and over again.
@TheRealJony wrote:
@richieluv76 wrote:
i think part of the problem with BRR is there are multiple variants of the same course and you are not always racing like for like, i've had races where i've had a clear road and the ghost has spun out, equally i've had races where i've had tons of obstacles to avoid yet the ghost has gone straight through, so how is this even fair, it is fundamentally flawed
@richieluv76 There are multiple variants of the same track, but you and your ghost opponent do face the same stuff that's thrown at you guys.
If there's a police roadblock, you and the ghost opponent both have to dodge the roadblock.
If there's traffic, you and the ghost opponent both have to dodge the traffic car.
For example, a race name called "Elevator Sprint" has ramps and traffic cars. It takes place on Ironboar Bridge Chase at night.
The track has ramps all over the place. Both you and the ghost opponent jump off the ramps if you guys choose to take them.
If you had a clear road and your ghost opponent had spun out, then your ghost opponent REALLY spun out on a clear road.
If you had tons of stuff to dodge and your ghost opponent had went straight through them, then your ghost opponent must had been traveling at a high speed and dropped some speed upon impact. However, your ghost opponent was still able to continue racing. (From 440 km/h to 380 km/h as an example)
@jin1995x Please edit your posts if you want to add something more to say, like how I do with my posts.
It makes Answer HQ a bit more cleaner if you make good use of the edit function.
Thank you.
I lurked at your "Clash of the Titans" thread in Reddit and I found it quite interesting...to an extent.
I'm already too late as real life ate my time the past couple of days, but I feel like posting my best times.
First one is my Koenigsegg CCX's best time.
(About my CCX's PR, I kind of neglected it when I chose to upgrade my Ferrari LaFerrari. That's why its PR is so low. lol )
Second one is my Ferrari LaFerrari's best time.
After racing for best times for a couple of minutes, I got too bored of doing that so I do what normally do whenever I race against AIs.
That is ramming and taking out AIs to earn $500 for each takedown. 👿
So yea. Third one is my AI takedown.
@TheRealJony, since you claim to not work for EA, I dismiss your attempt to be a definitive expert on every race. I know what I see. I know I have seen my "opponent" drive through cars in my race. Now maybe you haven't experienced it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. After all, you're just one player.
@jimmywdavis09 wrote:
@TheRealJony, since you claim to not work for EA, I dismiss your attempt to be a definitive expert on every race.
@jimmywdavis09 wrote:
I know what I see.
@jimmywdavis09 wrote:
I know I have seen my "opponent" drive through cars in my race.@jimmywdavis09 And I know it'll be pointless arguing with you.
Well, you believe what you want to believe.
@jimmywdavis09 I agree with you about the driving through traffic part, many other players including me have observed and complained about it. The "expert" dude is simply being stubborn
Now, opponents driving through traffic part can be explained as follows:
1) Each race seem to have 2-3 "presets" of traffic and it is possible that your opponent is racing different traffic. If you start memorizing traffic for each race you will notice slight variations in traffic cars position especially around blind corners. I've seen ghost cars driving through traffic, at the same time I have seen them crashing into invisible objects. It simply means that the ghost is facing different traffic.
2) Another explanation, a complicated one, which applies even when both players are facing same traffic is that the traffic position is relative. The traffic cars are "trigger activated"; each traffic car starts moving in a pre-determined direction when YOUR cars crosses a certain spot. If your opponent car is 100 meter ahead of you it could have dodged a traffic car earlier, but what you see is the ghost running through your version of traffic.
To conclude, learn to focus on your car instead of the opponent because, unlike campaign races, the opponent cars run in an alternate timeline which could have different traffic.
- @7ru3blu3, that is what I have determined the answer most likely is - I suspect scenario 1 the most likely.
I am still puzzled at how I can hit a jump straight on and crash into an overpass but my opponent sails under it. There is likely no explanation for that.
Probably more common is how, in the middle of a drift, I suddenly lose my drift and slam into a wall, or even start "turning", losing speed. That happens daily.
Part of me wonders if this game has various presets where you have to lose every so often.
- @TheRealJony why are u so rude to ppl?
@scottfollett wrote:
@TheRealJony why are u so rude to ppl?@scottfollett I think some of you may be oversensitive to my posts and take whatever I say as an attack or insult.
Whenever I say something, it's always constructive stuff. None of my posts will ever have any personal stuff.
It's fine to have constructive arguments when we argue about something in the game. This is NFS No Limits Answer HQ where we're supposed to discuss NFS No Limits after all.
It's NOT fine to have personal arguments when we name-call each other. There is no room for that in Answer HQ and all personal arguments will be removed. (And making my life harder at the same time. -.- )
I'm an assertive person. (Passive-aggressive person)
What I'm saying in my posts is literally nothing. Believe me. I've seen worse.
- There's no room for intentional ignorance either...@TheRealJony
