I thought they adjusted sand sledding?

[TaylerBootz]

So, I took a break to play Portia. There's been a few small updates and the big December one. I swear I saw in one of the patch notes that they optimized the sand sledding. I just took my hubby there and got stuck on sooo many rocks (luckily not fully stuck like before the updates) and the turning of the sled is no different. Logan was clearly not impressed, but sympathetic. Did they actually do anything to improve it? Did I imagine the patch notes?

[ChisaiiNeko]

the steering is marginally improved (i no longer need to use a controller) and now you can hit some boosts a bit easier. There is like a variation with TOO MANY rocks in the way (no not the one with slim openings. that one is fine) where you can easily be made to sled in the wrong directions. NPCs are a bit slower now which lets me win 1st place more (not always).

Now my thoughts are: steering is still pretty bad. You should not be able to be turned around and if it can't be avoided, there needs to be a safety net that turns your sled to face the right away again. The NPCs still move faster then you but not as much as before.

not sure if the above is my imagination or not but sandsledding is no longer as difficult to win as it used to be. But the 180 degree spin is still BS since you get stuck going the wrong way for up to 20 seconds esp if there is no rocks to use for spinning back.

[mskitty]

I just got the achievement for the sand sledding and I don't know how because it didn't seem like I did well at all, the steering is still really bad on kb, the controls hardly respond to change direction, it felt more like I was given the win.

[AA]

Maneuverability still sucks, even after increasing camera sensitivity.

[TaylerBootz]

I got the achievement fairly easily as within the first month of 1.0 release there seemed to be very few rock spawns (I probably got lucky). (Although Jasmine is a serious sledder!)

It seemed like the more I played, the more rocks would be on the track. I feel like they didn't improve steering at all. I thought I had it figured out by tapping keys instead of holding, but that only seemed to work half the time. It literally makes zero sense as there seems to be no real strategy to making it work.

I feel like the only thing they changed is being able to boost (sometimes twice) to get unstuck from a rock, where as before it was a run ending thing. And yes, before the patch I got turned around a few times, going the wrong way. The rocks and getting stuck easily can add almost another minute to your time when the spawn is ALL rocks. Not a good way to impress a date.

I feel like they really need to work on steering or remove 99% of the rock spawns.