I have somewhere between 1500-2000 hours in the game, never worked hard on air rolling but as I cracked C3 and hit GC1 briefly I realized I needed to rededicate myself to learning this or there was no point to grinding ranked.

So I had a basic understanding of air rolling, and as I said I sort of practiced it here and there over the past couple years but the thing that always stopped me was how incredibly hard and confusing it is. It’s very easy to get deflated when you don’t see basically any gradual progress like you would with, say, a moderately difficult training pack.

Air rolling just isn’t something our brains are wired to naturally do. So you have to brute force it. I think much better workshops could be designed around this. Rings maps are not a good way to learn this mech AT ALL. Rings maps are for people who can already air roll.

I have zero skills to make something like this, nor do I have the time really, but a rings training wherethe first level is one gigantic ring about ten times the size of Leth’s rings. You just have to air roll up to it at a 45 degree angle. Second level adds a second ring a ways behind the first, so now you just have to stay level. Third level third ring drops down a bit. And so on. Eventually maybe after the first 20 levels the rings shrink a bit. Then again after 20 more levels. And so on.

That way you can actually see your progress. If you don’t know how to air roll at all, and it takes you awhile to get past the first few levels, then a week or two later you can get to level 15 or whatever, that’s helpful. Leths ring map is cool but it didn’t teach me shit except that I started playing this game about 6 years too late. The speed trials are much better, speed trials 1 is how I brute force taught myself. But touching a single pixel of a wall and immediately dying is also NOT helpful.

Anyway, how many hours in the game do you have, what rank are you, and how proficient are you at air rolling?

  • PenguinTD@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Closing in on 4000 hours on steam counter but about a couple hundred would be my son flying the rings map. I am about C1-2 last season and this season place around D3-C1 without further grinding yet. Airroll is something I train a bit but not fully dedicated myself to fly through rings map yet. I can probably recover from a spin out pretty quickly but won’t be as quick or precise like some video shown. And so far it’s enough to carry some of the control complexity over toggle air roll. So I mostly learn the muscle memory by the air dribble challenge to be able to quickly aim the nose to hit ball again, cause if you are too slow the ball start dropping and it’s all the way down.(without those flip reset trick to scoop the ball up) I can roughly do 12s time in 10~20 tries, so still not too good at it yet.

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    1 year ago

    I’m a solid gold (don’t think I’ve ever broken plat) w/ just over 2,300hr (currently at 69 days, apparently… giggidy) and I wouldn’t know an air roll if I saw one lol I’ve never been super competitive with it but at this point I must be doing something wrong. Good luck w/ your training!