Shorter games?

[millski]

Le Tour only seems to have a 15 gate option - how about a shorter game? I'm thinking 3 gates, or a timed play session to see how far you can get in 2 minutes or something. I think the same with pretty much all of the games, they'd all benefit from having "score as much as you can in 2 minutes" play modes. I know there's the demo mode but I want to be able to pick which games I'm playing and keep track of the scores. 15 gates of Le Tour is way, way too long to watch someone play and then swap with them.

[76561198295368552]

Thanks for the feedback! We actually do have a mode kind of like what you're describing, called "Hot Seat" (instead of "Quickplay" or a "Workout" mode), though we still have to add Le Tour to it. It offers quicker variations of games for when you want to play with somebody else in the same room, swapping turns every couple minutes or so. We'll be adding quick Le Tour matches to Hot Seat in an update soon – if you happen to give it a try, please let me know what you think!

[Ron ︻气デ 一]

15 seems long - 10 seemed more normal. 3? I suppose - it could be called the SPRINT rate... knowing it's only 3 gates I'd pour it on heavy knowing it will end soon - JUST A LITTLE BIT FURTHER! So yeah - I'm in. When I ride in real life - typically 30 miles, sometimes 50 miles. So I don't think it's way to long. But the option or a way we can "SET NO. OF GATES" would be a nice feature.

[Ron ︻气デ 一]

I'd also like to see faster "REPLAY". If doing short sprints - then we'd want to get back into it asap. Sometimes I find it's time consuming to get around the menu's to reply. This might be limited to challenges? I find I need to LEAVE/EXIT then come back in to reply. There should be a "REPLY" button that jumped back to the start.

[millski]

Hotseat is no good for trying to have a competition or anything though, and you can't adjust how long each game is as far as I can tell. I would love to be able to play a game for a few minutes, see my score or distance, hand the headset and bike to my mate and have them play the same game and compare scores. To be clear I just want to do this locally, not through the fitness tracking website or anything fiddly like that - if it's not written in big letters at the end of the game I'm simply never going to look at it.

Ron raises some excellent points too; being able to set your own number of gates or your own time limit for tanks or cowboys etc would be brilliant.

And a "replay" button would be a godsend. Now that Ron has pointed out what a good idea that would be I notice it's absence every time I play anything

P.S. The reason I say 3 gate sprints (for example) is because I do take my VirZoom to friends houses to play on, at parties and stuff. People rarely turn up to parties in gym gear and lycra, so they don't usually want to get sweaty!

[Ron ︻气デ 一]

party games - makes sense. Yeah a lot of people I show it to can't perform for 15 gates.

[76561198295368552]

Sorry, I'm confused, millski – it sounds like what you describe is exactly what Hot Seat is, but maybe I'm misunderstanding. In Hot Seat, one person plays, gets a score, and then passes the headset to the next player, locally, and it automatically assigns a separate player name for a special running leaderboard just for that session. Shorter matches are built into Hot Seat games, too. Like, in Pegasus Keep Flying on Hot Seat, you lose flight energy more quickly, so it's not possible to stay aloft as long. In Race Car Hot Seat games, you do fewer laps. When we get Cycle in there, it'll be fewer gates. And so on. I will definitely pass on the note about customizing more specifically, though – right now it's set for what our testing indicated was a good "party game" length, but customization is always good if you can make it work.

I'm also confused about the request for a "replay" button. Currently, a replay option appears after each round of Hot Seat, and after every round in Quickplay. (From the results screen, hold left and right triggers to quit, or hold right trigger and pedal to replay, per the prompt in the lower right.) Does that feel a little too hidden in the UI? It might actually be missing entirely from challenges – I should check on that...

[Ron ︻气デ 一]

REPLAY(non hot seat) . We do a challenge and it ends... it takes to many steps to see leaderboard, back out (end) then re list challenges then select it and get back into the same one to try and beat the challenge again. It would be nice to "press button to replay" and just get back into it.

[76561198295368552]

Ah yeah, I'm looking at it now and that looks like a mistake specific to the results screen at the end of friend challenges. I'll put a bug in for it now.

[Ron ︻气デ 一]

yeah I noticed that to - just played. I left a challenge... forgot where I placed. I was rotating through the challenges again and wanted to see the standings in each. (am I on the top?) I'd then pass to the next one. Am I 1 point under top score!? I'LL PLAY IT.
We should see standings on the challenge intro screen.

Or use some of the other buttons and let us page to it directly before picking to play it.

[Ron ︻气デ 一]

Instead of shorter - more user CONTROL would be best. They can set it for 6 gates or .5 miles... for short course. I could set it for 20 miles. I'd like a longer race because I'd like to do a non stop run (since each game is timed and distance is seperate) I want to make sure I get a 20-30 mile ride every day. (non stop). I try to do 20 each time here on the road - weather permitting.

[millski]

Perhaps I need to experiment with hotseat some more. Once Le Tour is added to hotseat it'll make a big differnce to where I spend my time in game anyway, I'm probably not paying much attention to what I'm looking at outside of Le Tour to be honest.

I'm glad to hear the suggestion about more game customization is being considered though. I understand that for the purposes of an online scoreboard everybody needs to be on the same track but it would be nice to do whatever I want in local play - being able to set a distance in hotseat would make a great party game!

[Ron ︻气デ 一]

+1 set distance (in gates or Km/Miles Often I just want to get my 20 mile workout done. Or compete locally with friends on a 2 mile sprint.

[Gothic Lollipop]

Originally posted by Ron ︻气デ═一:

Instead of shorter - more user CONTROL would be best. They can set it for 6 gates or .5 miles... for short course. I could set it for 20 miles. I'd like a longer race because I'd like to do a non stop run (since each game is timed and distance is seperate) I want to make sure I get a 20-30 mile ride every day. (non stop). I try to do 20 each time here on the road - weather permitting.

Yes, this! I'm the opposite. I got this bike because I'm completely out of shape and needed some motivation to make it through any workout. Maybe eventually I'll make it through all 15 gates, but for now it would be nice to be able to set goals that are more realistic for me and not have to just stop the game partway through.

[Cage]

I agree. I was just thinking that I'd really like an option to have shorter or even customizable lengths of sessions. I just stop and exit out for now.