Move Would Require Leaderboard Wipeouts
Amid more concern over an unintended consequence of the control setup for some versions of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, Steve Lycett has affirmed a certain in-game move, known as Infinite Drifting or Backward Drifting, won’t be patched out of existence.
“It’s rather hard to do, so we can consider this an advanced (if unintentional) technique,” Lycett told Sega forumers this afternoon.
The trick comes in using both an analog stick and D-pad while drifting. When performed correctly, players are given much more control over their drift–so much so that a player can simply drift through the entire course, allowing an infinite supply of boosts. The move appears most helpful for vehicles that hover or fly, and the video we have below as a part of this article demonstrates how it’s done with Tails.
The row comes in when you consider that ASR holds online leaderboards. Some feel those who use and abuse the trick have an unfair advantage over other racers going for records.
“What right do the top level players have to be given an advantage over players that already struggle to keep up?” wrote Sega forumer Mr_BoSpangles. “Adding a technique that could potentially shave even just a second off of someone’s time doesn’t help keep people like myself motivated, especially when those of us with small hands will have trouble actually physically performing the technique.”
But others felt the technique may be the only way for some in the ASR roster to be competitive.
“Backwards drifting (and by extension oversteering) is currently the only thing that makes heavy (high speed/turbo) characters anywhere close to competitive against Shadow/Ryo,” wrote Sega forumer Q_cumbR. “If anything, you should be making this even more part of the game.”
Initially Lycett said Sumo Digital would remove the feature. But after consulting his team and realizing the removal would also likely require a reset of the online leaderboards, Lycett changed his tune.
“After some investigation we’ve found it’ll only be a valid technique for Time Attack, as during online races, it compresses the steering range back into ‘normal’ parameters for sending,” he said. “That and it’s unlikely to be much of a use during race, as you’ll be getting rocketed.”
Lycett also noted records can and have been broken without using Infinite Drifting.
The bottom line: As was the case last week, there will be no patch and no leaderboard wipeouts in response to these concerns.
That said, you may wish to take a look below at how Infinite Drifting works, and try it out for yourself.
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HAHAHAHAHA This is great. I’ll have to try that. I wonder if it ONLY works for hovering vehicles. (Tails is one of my least favorite drivers)
What a parrot that guy is, he better not be singing this tune again when something serious pops up.
Simple solution. Patch and nerf the technique a bit. Make it viable yet fair.
Wow, slow news day
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I think i have a weird glitch on my copy of th game, though it isn’t the biggest problem! my game keeps on saying that my favorite racer is AiAi. and yet i’ve played 12 hours of the game so far and only have used Aiai like 5 times outta the millions of other times i’ve played as Sonic, Amigo, and others!
I don’t understand why people are whining about advanced techniques, intentional or otherwise… snaking in F-Zero GX, ZCing in SSB… it’s part of high level play.
If you’re going to limit yourself in any way from what’s possible, especially in a game like this, you don’t deserve to have the records, simple as that.
“Racing against a glitcher [or snaker] is like racing a hyundai against a Dragster”
“Sure, but you don’t disallow Dragsters to make it fair for the Hyundai”
Thankfully the Wii can’t do that.
How is infinite drifting helpful in any way? Your vehicle actually moves SLOWER with it than if you were to be driving normally, the whole point of drifting is to get boost.
So…this really only affects the online time trial leaderboards? I don’t really care, then. I did well enough to get the time trial Trophies, and that’s all I intend to do with that mode. Just gotta wait for the Dreamarena patch and continue playing the game online for fun (and SEGA Miles) to get Platinum.
The so called “high level play” is misnomer propagated by communities of archaic games that don’t support patching, For example it’s a excuse to explain why people waste so much time on a depthless fanboy “fighting” game like Smash Bros. compared to Street Fighter which is based around understanding the mechanics and executing on them flawlessly instead of relying on cheap tricks.
This what honest to god high level play is about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri-00IYp9-U
Waggling a stick and triggers is nothing compared to SF3′s parry system.
I don’t know which is bigger Steve’s mouth or his balls.
@DrEggfang: I take exception to the assertion that SSB is “depthless.” Really, it’s just a different sort of depth than in most other fighting games. I’ve never been a fan of those games at all. That footage you posted just looks boring to me.
That said, I’m not one of those weirdoes who memorized how to take advantage of all the dumb glitches in Melee. I just enjoy playing the series. Nothing wrong with that, surely. We all have different tastes, after all.
An update like this would require wiping the leaderboards clean… so what? Who cares? The problem is fixable, people can just get their spots on the LB’s back, so do it already.
http://i.imgur.com/W7znF.png
See! Sonic 4`s coming out in July this year!!!!! ^___________^
I just posted the link via the news tip feature!
Tssz is awesome! for info and things… lol
this move sounds cool.
@DrEggFang: lol. ^_^
S0L: Gee, we’ve never heard that one before from the subject of an article.
It’s good the game allows D-Pad input in lieu of the analogue stick. It’s a glitch to allow people to benefit from using both input methods at the same time. This isn’t a high level technique, it’s something to fix.
You always have the most uppity ass opinions Eggfang. All you have to do to win in SF4 is spam Sagat’s fireballs. That’s all “high level” fuckers do. Real deep.