Understanding stars and character unlocks

[himmatsj]

Can anyone please explain how can I unlock the characters? How do I earn stars too? If I win 2 stars on medium, can I race on hard and win 3 more, or just the additional one?

Also, is there a character unlock tree so we can see where ad how much to unlock them all?

[Kargor]

You earn stars by doing the world tour stuff.

An no, unfortunately there's only a total of 3 stars per "event". Thus, you get one for easy, you get another one for medium, and a third one for hard. Three in total, not 1+2+3 :-(

A completion on easy is sufficient to reach whatever follows, although "whatever follows" might have a star requirement to enter.

[IceBlade]

There's an Expert Difficulty which unlocks after the 5th Tour, adding a 4th difficulty and star to all events.

[DarthNocturnal]

While I don't believe there is an unlock tree or something of the sort, know that each World Tour area has 2 characters to unlock (minus the first one, which only has one), and one console mod to unlock (with an exception being the last World Tour area I believe).

And then there's... what, one character unlocked in GP mode?

[himmatsj]

So, to unlock all characters and locations, what must you do? Must you get 3 stars on each round on average, or 4?

[Rabbidscool]

Originally posted by himmatsj:

So, to unlock all characters and locations, what must you do? Must you get 3 stars on each round on average, or 4?

Harus nyelesain 4 Bintang.

[DarthNocturnal]

Originally posted by himmatsj:

So, to unlock all characters and locations, what must you do? Must you get 3 stars on each round on average, or 4?

I've already been pondering the math myself. Near as I can tell, there's 232 stars in World Tour mode. I highest unlock I've seen thus far (a mod) is 200 stars. Getting all A rank would put you resonably close (174 I believe), but you'd need to dip into S rank to get everything. Unless there's another unlock after that mod, the extra stars are only if you want to get 100%. But if you only care about unlocks, you could just ignore any remaining challenges you haven't beaten on S rank.

Tracks are unlocked by merely playing on them in World Tour or GP mode.

[himmatsj]

Originally posted by (INA)Rabbidscool - Online!:

Originally posted by himmatsj:

So, to unlock all characters and locations, what must you do? Must you get 3 stars on each round on average, or 4?

Harus nyelesain 4 Bintang.

Pak Cik, lain kali jangan cakap Bahasa Indon doh!

[Tangle]

Originally posted by DarthNocturnal:

Originally posted by himmatsj:

So, to unlock all characters and locations, what must you do? Must you get 3 stars on each round on average, or 4?

I've already been pondering the math myself. Near as I can tell, there's 232 stars in World Tour mode. I highest unlock I've seen thus far (a mod) is 200 stars. Getting all A rank would put you resonably close (174 I believe), but you'd need to dip into S rank to get everything. Unless there's another unlock after that mod, the extra stars are only if you want to get 100%. But if you only care about unlocks, you could just ignore any remaining challenges you haven't beaten on S rank.

Tracks are unlocked by merely playing on them in World Tour or GP mode.

There are exactly 232 stars, and the last unlock is AGES Mod, which is only for AGES, which is exactly 232 stars. So yeah, you need to get 'em all if you want 'em all.

EDIT: Yes, it's 4 stars per event once you unlock S class, and no, if you've already done it on an easier difficulty, you only get the remaining stars you were missing, not 4 new ones.

[DarthNocturnal]

Originally posted by DAYTONA:

Originally posted by DarthNocturnal:

I've already been pondering the math myself. Near as I can tell, there's 232 stars in World Tour mode. I highest unlock I've seen thus far (a mod) is 200 stars. Getting all A rank would put you resonably close (174 I believe), but you'd need to dip into S rank to get everything. Unless there's another unlock after that mod, the extra stars are only if you want to get 100%. But if you only care about unlocks, you could just ignore any remaining challenges you haven't beaten on S rank.

Tracks are unlocked by merely playing on them in World Tour or GP mode.

There are exactly 232 stars, and the last unlock is AGES Mod, which is only for AGES, which is exactly 232 stars. So yeah, you need to get 'em all if you want 'em all.

EDIT: Yes, it's 4 stars per event once you unlock S class, and no, if you've already done it on an easier difficulty, you only get the remaining stars you were missing, not 4 new ones.

Wait, the AGES mod is 232? Guess that 200 I saw was a gate then....... welp, so much for me unlocking it then, lol.

[AV ON]

What does the Console/Genesis Mod do? It doesnt max out all abilities as I thought. Any ideas?

[DarthNocturnal]

Originally posted by company_man:

What does the Console/Genesis Mod do? It doesnt max out all abilities as I thought. Any ideas?

They all seem to boost Speed and Boost stats greatly (and Allstar a bit as well), while lowering Handling and Acceleration to almost nil. I don't see the appeal to be honest. I like my Handling.

[himmatsj]

Originally posted by DarthNocturnal:

Originally posted by company_man:

What does the Console/Genesis Mod do? It doesnt max out all abilities as I thought. Any ideas?

They all seem to boost Speed and Boost stats greatly (and Allstar a bit as well), while lowering Handling and Acceleration to almost nil. I don't see the appeal to be honest. I like my Handling.

On the highest level, top speed and boost mean more than handling and acceleration. This is because a persons handling can be subjective, but stuff like top speed and boost are very objective. You can't go faster than your max speed if you're a VERY good racer, but you can offset the lower handling with your skill.

[Tangle]

Originally posted by DarthNocturnal:

Originally posted by company_man:

What does the Console/Genesis Mod do? It doesnt max out all abilities as I thought. Any ideas?

They all seem to boost Speed and Boost stats greatly (and Allstar a bit as well), while lowering Handling and Acceleration to almost nil. I don't see the appeal to be honest. I like my Handling.

Once you get used to no handling/accel, you'll love going faster. Also, nothing changes a character's all-star stat.

[Shred VII]

Originally posted by company_man:

What does the Console/Genesis Mod do? It doesnt max out all abilities as I thought. Any ideas?

When used, A console mod usually turns your vehicle into a "Glass Cannon[tvtropes.org]", or, a car that has maxed out speed and boost but next to zero handling and acceleration.
Shadow, Vyse, Metal Sonic, Ralph, Gilius, Team Fortress, General Winter, and AGES are all prime examples of a Console Mod trading in control for raw speed.

EDIT: Oh good gief, four replies at once?!

[DarthNocturnal]

Originally posted by DAYTONA:

Originally posted by DarthNocturnal:

They all seem to boost Speed and Boost stats greatly (and Allstar a bit as well), while lowering Handling and Acceleration to almost nil. I don't see the appeal to be honest. I like my Handling.

Once you get used to no handling/accel, you'll love going faster. Also, nothing changes a character's all-star stat.

My memory is a bit hazy since I never really use Console mods, but in hindsight, I do recall Allstar stats not changing...

Thing is, I tried Console mod for a few races in World Tour, S class. I did horribly. And this was while I was trying to boost at any given chance. Between getting screwed over by items, and iffy drifting around turns (not even easing up on the throttle seemed to help at times), I just couldn't get it. Went back to Tails and Acceleration or Handling mod, and suddenly I performed far better, winning in one or two tries.