Skill Block in MX Sim. HELP !!!
Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2021 9:38 pm
Have you ever hit a skill block in MX Sim?
I play this game for several years, but in January 2020 I got to a certain skill that allowed me to play the game casually, crash just a few times, clear all the jumps.
But I never had total control of the bike.
I never was able to jump and take the bike to anywhere I wanted.
If you want to skip to the point of this talk look for the emoji
Then I decided to race 250 novice SX in 2020, I was able to get into the first 5 rounds, some of them I got to the night but none of them I got to a main event. Then my GPU broke and I didn't play for the rest of the year. It was in December 2020 that I got a new GPU and started playing Sim again. I took me about a week to get back to where I left in terms of skill.
Then I started practicing for 2021 250 Amateur SX.
I felt I was getting a little better but nothing game changing. The Rd.1 dropped and I tried all week to run a qualifier laptime and I couldn't. The first triple after the whoop section and the first double at the last rhythm section I couldn't hit them.
In 100 laps that I did I was able to hit the triple 6 times and the double 2 times.
I downloaded the 250 main demo to see at what gear and speed they were carrying on the corner for those respective rhythm sections. Surprisingly I was going the same speed as they were before the take off.
Then I thought I wasn't with the right suspension setup, I changed stuff that I don't really know what they do. I changed my shock spring rate to 100, thinking it was going to make the bike launch me high enough to clear the triple and double.
Still couldn't clear it.
Then I tried getting more speed, shifted quickly to get that torque and speed, without losing traction on the rear tire, but it was so much speed that the bike wouldn't turn enough to align with the rhythm section, it was throwing me out of the track. If I went slower I wouldn't clear the triple.
Then just as I was changing suspension setup I went to advanced stability setup and started tweaking stuff I don't know what they do, lowered my roll limit angle thinking it was going to make me lean more and not get thrown out of the track.
Didn't work as well.
At this point I was at maybe 150 tries and was getting demotivated.
Then I read a topic on the forums about what dab speed do, I thought they were the maximum bike speed so I had them on 60, and they actually are how fast the bike has to be before getting the legs up on the foot pegs.
So I lowered them to around 20 - 25 and ran about 20 laps and didn't work either.
Then I gave up on Rd.1 since to get qualified I had to run a 52 seconds lap when my best was a 56.
I tried a lot of techniques and different setups and after 170 tries my skills didn't improve , 0% improvement.
The point where I'm trying to get is that what makes us hit a skill block and how you break it?
Did any of this happened to you before? If so what did you do to break it?
Do you think a bike setup could change completely how good a person is at the game?
A perfectly setup of Advanced stability can give total control of the bike to the rider?
That's all I got, sorry for the long read but I had to speak it out and maybe get some help, because I want to get good at this game( who doesn't? )
Thanks and have a good one
I play this game for several years, but in January 2020 I got to a certain skill that allowed me to play the game casually, crash just a few times, clear all the jumps.
But I never had total control of the bike.
I never was able to jump and take the bike to anywhere I wanted.
If you want to skip to the point of this talk look for the emoji
Then I decided to race 250 novice SX in 2020, I was able to get into the first 5 rounds, some of them I got to the night but none of them I got to a main event. Then my GPU broke and I didn't play for the rest of the year. It was in December 2020 that I got a new GPU and started playing Sim again. I took me about a week to get back to where I left in terms of skill.
Then I started practicing for 2021 250 Amateur SX.
I felt I was getting a little better but nothing game changing. The Rd.1 dropped and I tried all week to run a qualifier laptime and I couldn't. The first triple after the whoop section and the first double at the last rhythm section I couldn't hit them.
In 100 laps that I did I was able to hit the triple 6 times and the double 2 times.
I downloaded the 250 main demo to see at what gear and speed they were carrying on the corner for those respective rhythm sections. Surprisingly I was going the same speed as they were before the take off.
Then I thought I wasn't with the right suspension setup, I changed stuff that I don't really know what they do. I changed my shock spring rate to 100, thinking it was going to make the bike launch me high enough to clear the triple and double.
Still couldn't clear it.
Then I tried getting more speed, shifted quickly to get that torque and speed, without losing traction on the rear tire, but it was so much speed that the bike wouldn't turn enough to align with the rhythm section, it was throwing me out of the track. If I went slower I wouldn't clear the triple.
Then just as I was changing suspension setup I went to advanced stability setup and started tweaking stuff I don't know what they do, lowered my roll limit angle thinking it was going to make me lean more and not get thrown out of the track.
Didn't work as well.
At this point I was at maybe 150 tries and was getting demotivated.
Then I read a topic on the forums about what dab speed do, I thought they were the maximum bike speed so I had them on 60, and they actually are how fast the bike has to be before getting the legs up on the foot pegs.
So I lowered them to around 20 - 25 and ran about 20 laps and didn't work either.
Then I gave up on Rd.1 since to get qualified I had to run a 52 seconds lap when my best was a 56.
I tried a lot of techniques and different setups and after 170 tries my skills didn't improve , 0% improvement.
The point where I'm trying to get is that what makes us hit a skill block and how you break it?
Did any of this happened to you before? If so what did you do to break it?
Do you think a bike setup could change completely how good a person is at the game?
A perfectly setup of Advanced stability can give total control of the bike to the rider?
That's all I got, sorry for the long read but I had to speak it out and maybe get some help, because I want to get good at this game( who doesn't? )
Thanks and have a good one