145057-have-the-hoverboard-races-killed-you-share-your-hilariously-horrific-stories

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The hoverboard races are fun. Really fun! I was surprised. I'm used to races in MMOs being just awful timed things that are easy to fail had have to be tried over and over. Looking at you WoW. So, I was impressed to find racing content in WS where the only thing we have to do is have fun. And the only thing we're competing against is our own best time. I'd been asking for hoverboard content since beta, and here it is. Truthfully, I was just going to ignore the whole thing due to the single-payer-hoverboard-in-the-cash-shop thing, but I wanted that lightning bolt decor and I was bored. Glad I gave it a go. 
 
That all said, the tracks can be buggy and laggy. As for laggy, I noticed a lot of times the game would take too long to register that I'd hit a jump and I'd get slammed into the underside of a bridge or something. Usually nothing major. Mostly just slows down my time. 
 
As for buggy, well, one time racing down the Savannah Speedway and, just about at the forth checkpoint. my board just went away and dropped me in the river. No biggie. Once on the snow track I somehow got aggro off the mobs just after the big cliff drop. Thankfully, I didn't lose my board and was able to outrun them, since my alt is way to low to be in that zone. I would have been eaten. 
 
But the big one... I was doing the Celestion track. Just past the forth checkpoint there's the big waterfall drop. Well, the game forgot I was racing. Even though I passed though the blue rings on the way down, I went splat at the end. Super dead. This was my lowest level alt and I thought half a gold was too steep a price to res right there. After all, how far away could the nearest graveyard be?
 
Apparently, the nearest holocrypt was thousands of meters away. Well, I'll just use the teleport the quest came with... Nope. I thought maybe the quest teleport just can't be used because I'm in the same zone? So, I port to Illium... Still can't use the quest teleport. (I'm guessing that once you've past some checkpoints in the race it becomes unusable, but I don't know). The only thing left to do was abandon the quest, get it again, and head back. It was kind of a cluster all around.
 
So yeah, it's fun content and I'm enjoying it. I'm just curious to hear your death-filled horror stories about it. 
			
				
	Edited October 23, 2015 by Atomicpanda	
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This thread seems to be more appropirate for those screens :D
 
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Sometimes, the shortcuts are the longest routes... (i was probably a litte too slow)
 
 
(that jump from checkpoint 2 to 3 is insane and so is that speedbuff timer - i tried to catch that thing but it was a bad idea...)
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			Celestion killed another of my alts from fall damage, and not even in the some place. Track might need more testing before the even comes back. At least this alt was aurin so the nearest graveyard wasn't on the other side of the zone. So there's that. 	
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			O_o i wasnt even aware you could be killed in the races lmao!!
			
				
	Edited October 24, 2015 by Noble One	
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O_o i wasnt even aware you could be killed in the races lmao!!
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O_o i wasnt even aware you could be killed in the races lmao!!
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			I hereby suggest the Celestion track be renamed something like Murder Loop or Splat Track or Pain Lane. It seems to be were the most death is. 	
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I hereby suggest the Celestion track be renamed something like Murder Loop or Splat Track or Pain Lane. It seems to be were the most death is.
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			I cant even get to Celestion   track with out being killed by exile guards.
			
				
	Edited October 24, 2015 by Cubical	
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I cant even get to Celestion   track with out being killed by exile guards.
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			I've died in Whitevale nearby the Ikthian area. Think I got so much air my buff ran out and I splattered all on the floor. 	
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I've died in Whitevale nearby the Ikthian area. Think I got so much air my buff ran out and I splattered all on the floor.
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Missed it!
 
(i don't know how many times i already died there... but hey, i made it once!)	
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			I've died twice so far! Caught wonderful air and went too fast for the game and BAM dead into a waterfall in deradune xD	
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I died to lag in Celestion. First few times I did the race, no issues. On the Death RunTM I noticed the powerups seemed to be reacting a little slow - hit the flat arrows, and half a second later I'd get the speed boost.
 
Then a couple rings later, the boost didn't kick in for about 2 full seconds.
 
Then the jump ramps were delayed.
 
By the time I got to the waterfall, I went through a jump ramp, straight on, bam into the base of the water fall. Not thinking, I went around it and hit it again, thinking I'd missed it - and went right through it again. Then 3 seconds later I shot STRAIGHT UP next to the waterfall... and just as I was thinking, "Oh right, lag...." the second ramp tag kicked in, and at the height of the first jump, i shot EVEN HIGHER above track, waterfall, mountains and all. I had plenty of time to aim at the jump ramps again on the way down, thinking bouncing off one would save me.
 
It did not.	
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			to the people dieing.... are you guys/gals taking short cuts :P? also ive seen how people die now, its from running out of the boost you get while in mid air. saw this happen with a guy next to me in whitevale, he ran out of boost (glow on the board) and fell like a rock (i stopped and laughed when i saw it).	
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No deaths on any alt yet today (knock on wood). 
 
Celestion nearly got my alt again, but I survived with like 4 health, talking no health bar left. It's was damn close, like red screen, muffled sound close. Like I said in zone afterward, any Celestion run you can walk away from is a good one. 
 
Also ate it on Whitevale, but it was partly my fault. Game didn't register my going though a checkpoint so I turned around mid-jump to try and get back to it and fell off the cliff. This alt is level 15. Somehow I managed to get away from all the mobs trying to murder me and found my way back to the track, then used the quest teleport to get back to the last checkpoint the game managed to record me passing. Fun times all around! 	
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			there was a teleport?	
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			my level 10 slinger died in celeston at the last big drop.  I was doing great, but did not quite make the ring before I hit ground. :)  	
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there was a teleport?
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ok, here are my 2 bits about the matter.
 
1.-All race props lag really hard for me, even at 88pin, 
2.-Such lag has always killed me in the forest curse.
3.- they are fun tho, so make them repeteable, but plz, plz turn them into a pvp instance. 4 or 5 racing without natural population lag or town movement. Theres always a lot of people around in the zone since they're limited dailies and that doesnt help my 3 years old machine.
No teams, make tracks or/and some elements random to prevent bots of always wining, or just give less rewards than in fighting pvp for them to stay there, and give tracks a little more of mount variety, like dinos, rhinos, or something else beside boards. Costumizations would be a nice add to cash shop.
4.-make a dashboard, i wanna brag about my 444 seconds on track without upload a picture in photobucket.
			
				
	Edited October 25, 2015 by ElizGwen	
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			I've never died in celestion. That mega jump in whitevale is the killer of these courses x_x	
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That mega jump in whitevale is the killer of these courses x_x
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			I finished the deradune course that lands you on that giant cage, I pressed forward a second more but went too far and went over the edge, I tried to stop my self falling by turning around and holding forward still, instead I fell off the side anyway, love tapped the wall and 	
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			I gotta wonder about the Whitevale track, are the whirlwinds supposed to hit us? Sometimes I've accidentally hit one and went right though with no problem. Other times I've hit one and been thrown way up in the sky, annoying always just before the checkpoint. Lost my board and nearly died to mobs there several times now. I always try to avoid those things but that area is pretty packed with them. Certainly makes things... interesting. 	
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Funny thing, the only time i have died on the course is the celeston last jump.  I was feeling good up til that point, and my mind started arguing.
 
"You are not going to make that ring, try for one before it."
"no way, I totally got this."
"No you are going to be short, go for that one there!"
"I got this!"
SPLAT
"told you"
 
But the whitevale, never once died.  Been thrown up in the air by the tornadoes and the board wax caused my board to suddenly try to be a UBOAT and go underwater (had to swim to shore) but never died. :)	
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Hello Celestion, i like you.
 
(the glitterkitty is simply TOO DAMN FAST)
 	
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Should be a lot of good stories today. The lag makes the races almost unraceable. One alt, the big No Roads jump up to the top of the waterfall in Celestion, when she landed at the top she somehow took half her health in damage. I dunno what it could possibly be from. 
 
Another alt, the ramps didn't trigger in Whitevale and right off the cliff. Also in Whitevale, a ramp triggered when I was like 10 meters from the finish line. There's no ramp there. It was a previous ramp lagged all the way to the end of the track. Savanah track, ramp triggered twice shot me so far up in the air I missed a big part of the track and a checkpoint, almost died on landing. In Celestion I had to ride around and around on some ramps because they wouldn't trigger...
 
I think I'm done with the event. I've got the titles on my alts. I've got the decor. I was just getting the consumables today, but I don't need them that bad. Kinda sad that the event ends on such a sour note for me. It was fun when it was fun. It's just not fun today. Still looking forward to the event coming back though. 	
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Savanah track, ramp triggered twice shot me so far up in the air
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			I thought I was a pro then quickly died on my first run in both Celestion and Whitevale!  :)	
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			I have recorded my races and deaths on video...	
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			My main problem was the lag.. Especially in Celestion. I would routinely not be able to see any of the rings or boost or jump or check points. Which forced me to rely on memory. ..that was a complete failure. I ended up in strange areas of that zone frequently.	
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			The lag in Celestion River Rush and gravity in Whitevale Wipeout has definitely killed more people than the Shade's Plague.	
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			I couldn't spend much time on the tracks, it would be great to have this again, and not only as a yearly event. Didn't hunt shortcuts, but one time I tried that big jump in Deradune where you come down from the waterfall and there is a jump pad at the top of some rock you're supposed to land on I guess, and I managed to get to it, but I fell through it somehow and died. The funny thing for me was that I was resurrected in the middle of a Dominion town... Another try, same result, only difference that I got resurrected in southeast Wilderrun this time...
			
				
	Edited October 26, 2015 by Strayhand	
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I thought I was a pro then quickly died on my first run in both Celestion and Whitevale!   :)
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Glad that it also happens to the devs! :P
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I thought I was a pro until I died on the course I made in front of everyone on the Casual Friday Livestream. So pro.
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I thought I was a pro until I died on the course I made in front of everyone on the Casual Friday Livestream. So pro.
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A horror story?
 
I was on the winter map racing. As I desperately tried to reach a check point, I missed and fell into a group of smelly, blue, and ugly looking zombies. They ran afterme and nibbled me bit by bit until I was no more. The worst part was even after I revived at a res point, they still came after, me wanting more. I had to hide and quickly teleport before they caught my delicious scent.
			
				
	Edited October 27, 2015 by Scar Red	
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