New Freeride mode: All worlds unlocked please!

[Till]

First of all: Thank you, Freeride could be a great mode.

Could?

I'm not good at fast paced games at all (although I like some of them, like Descenders), I have only little time to spend on unlocking stuff in a Skinner box manner (complete the boss jump three fckng times, do it another three times in the second world, and so on) - so I was glad as hell when you told us you would give us a sandbox mode. Because I thought it would save me time to unlock the three other worlds. Because I thought I could start enjoying the whole game right away, not just a quarter. But - what a disappointment. A sandbox with just a bucket, you'll get the shovel and ramekins later (or never, if you give up trying). Come on, devs!

(And don't tell me it's easy to master these jumps. It's not if you have only one hour per day to spend on playing games, and I have other games too ...)

[malexpower]

feeling the same way currently, especially if you want to try fun runs where you definitely won't stay up, it would be nice to have the option of going to different levels

[Till]

Just one minute ago (I'm angry as hell):

I gathered seven live points in the previous three runs to have better chances of succeeding in the boss jump, the objective was a 360, I pressed the wrong stick, didn't do a 360, but a perfect landing, reached the finish line before I could brake and WAS IN THE FCKNG FOREST with seven lives I wanted to use for the Highlands boss jump. No way back. I'm SO PYSSED now. WASTED half an hour with NO fun for NOTHING. What a CRAP.

Just my 20 bucks.

[Dante from DMC]

I have a guide up that will give you tips on how to survive each boss jump, created from what I've been told from the most experienced riders on the Descenders Discord, along with testing it out myself. Sorry for your frustration and extremely tight time frame for gaming, but that sounds like a very uncommon issue most gamers dont have to deal with.

I personally don't know how you could play multiple games and feel satisfied with only an hour of time to play. I am pretty sure the devs don't want to have to remove unlocking the other zones. There are plenty others that have done it, it just takes practice. Playing a game with a higher learning curve than your average game doesn't sound like a good idea if you only have an hour every single day to play video games.

[Till]

The learning curve would be irrelevant if the Freeride mode was a FREEride mode without locked areas. People who want to unlock stuff before they can access it could get an option for that ...

Locking stuff at the beginning is a sure sign of lack of content. Locked stuff artificially creates a motivation, and for me a lot of anger. First eat the porridge three times in different ways before you can get toast with marmalade.

[Dante from DMC]

I'm sorry to hear it impacts your experience so much. I disagree, I don't think content being locked is a sign of a lack of content and I think your frustration is getting the better of your judgement due to your personal time frame of being able to play. There are many many games that do just the same. The main meat of the content is learning to get better, unlocking cosmetics, earning Rep, and just riding around right now.

Learning curve is important, and pacing it out properly is important. A game tends to be more accesible through pacing of a learning curve as opposed to giving you a huge bucket of tools with barely a clue as to how to play. It can be overwhelming for people, especially folks that are looking to try out the game within that two hour refund period. You give them access to everything right off the bat, and you have people leaving tons of pointless feedback saying "Canyons too hard, peaks are too hard, everything is too hard" and leaving poor reviews because they diddled around in Highlands for a few minutes before jumping head first into the harder courses with next to no knowledge of the ins and outs of the game.

You'll unlock everything soon man, just commit an hour to it every now and then and you'll get the hang of it! Read the guide on the boss jumps, get some practice and you'll be OK! A personal tip from me, if you want to get over the Highlands boss jump without needing to bunny hop, hit the ramp at about 70 KPH and just fly over it. A lot of people tend to fly off the side of the ramp trying to bunny hop it, so this may save you some trouble. You should have enough height and time to nail whatever trick you need to beat the shortcut challenges. Best of luck.

[Till]

Almost five hours in the game now, most of the time wasted on the 360 at the first world. I hate this game. Hopefully the devs or CheatHappens will save it for me one day. I'm out. Uninstalling it now (too late for a refund).

[minirop]

if you really want to play freeride, you can still enter a specific seed to a world and you'll get to it even when not unlocked: http://descend.it/seeds.html

[MetalRiff]

I spend about 30 minutes in freeride just to warm up for the career runs. Then I start from the very first map, get as many tricks as possible in to farm rep, meet as many objectives as I can for lives, and then coast to the next boss jump unlock with zero style so I can use all my lifes up on one jump, lol.

For me its immediatly aggravating, and then funny. Still fun to me though.

[Till]

minirop, are you one of the devs? I see your name on http://descend.it/seeds.html.

What's the logic regarding such an external seed generator but having locked worlds in Freeride mode?

[minirop]

Publicado originalmente por Till:

minirop, are you one of the devs? I see your name on http://descend.it/seeds.html.

I'm the dev of descend.it but not a dev of the game.

Publicado originalmente por Till:

What's the logic regarding such an external seed generator but having locked worlds in Freeride mode?

they chose to only allow access to thing you have unlocked whilst at the same time don't prevent you from putting a seed from something you didn't unlocked. their choice.

[Till]

I can live with that, but - strange choice ...

[Till]

You enter an eleven-digits code in the seeds field in Freeride mode and get a track in the desired environment, even if it is still locked. Take the seed 30045612345 as an example:

3 = world "canyon" (2 is "forest", 4 is "peaks")
0 = normal track (1 and 2 are "boss jump" and "no track")
0 = midday, clear sky (1, 2, 3 are different times/weather)
4 = steepness (0 to 9)
5 = curves (0 to 9)
6 = stunts (0 to 9)
12345 = five digits random part, form of the track

[Till]

Considering this, I really can't understand why the world options are locked in Freeride mode until you unlock them in carreer mode.

[Till]

The devs decided to put a disclaimer in the Freeride options menu - that the other worlds only get unlocked if you beat them in the career mode. Uninstalled, lost interest ... To many hours in for a refund.

[_Red_]

"..sandbox with just a bucket.." you dont have fun with just a bucket in a sandbox, Till? be creative, learn to enjoy..or go and do something for it, like seriously, what games are you playing that give you everything at the start? in racing-games you have to start with lower classes and make your way up, in shooter-games you have to do levels to get better guns,.. enjoy your other games :) and yea i am grinding my way through the game and still find time to enjoy it, but if i can't enjoy eating dirt and rage, i just give it a break ;)