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== Parts strategy == | == Parts strategy == | ||
=== Selecting parts === | === Selecting parts === | ||
[[ | [[Image:Victory Run TG16 parts select.png|right]] | ||
When you begin a new game, you are presented with a screen that first asks you to enter your initials. Then it asks how you would like to distribute your 20 replacement supplies among the five available parts. Choosing the good distribution of parts is essential to completing the game. Below are some good and bad examples of how your parts can be distributed. T = Tires, G = Gears, E = Engine, S = Suspension, B = Brakes. | When you begin a new game, you are presented with a screen that first asks you to enter your initials. Then it asks how you would like to distribute your 20 replacement supplies among the five available parts. Choosing the good distribution of parts is essential to completing the game. Below are some good and bad examples of how your parts can be distributed. T = Tires, G = Gears, E = Engine, S = Suspension, B = Brakes. | ||
;4T 4G 4E 4S 4B: Though this distribution is entirely balanced across all parts, this is a very bad selection. You are far more likely to wear down your tires and suspension than you are to wear down your gears or brakes. While you will be able to replace your gears, brakes and engine whenever necessary, you will not be able to recover your tires or suspension after a while, and your performance will suffer during the back end of the race. | ;4T 4G 4E 4S 4B: Though this distribution is entirely balanced across all parts, this is a very bad selection. You are far more likely to wear down your tires and suspension than you are to wear down your gears or brakes. While you will be able to replace your gears, brakes and engine whenever necessary, you will not be able to recover your tires or suspension after a while, and your performance will suffer during the back end of the race. | ||
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Like all behind-the-car racing games, the biggest and most tangible challenge to the game is taking the turns at the right speed so that you don't go sliding off the road, or hit something in the process. Keeping your car under control is important, and accomplished through a combination of steering and accelerating. Once you enter a turn at a high enough speed, your wheels will begin to lose some of their grip on the road. The tighter the turn, the more grip you will lose at high speeds, and the faster you will wear down your tires. It is better to reduce your speed and keep the sliding of your car to a minimum. If you don't bring your car under control, you are likely to slide off the road on the outside edge of the turn, and possibly hit an obstacle. Driving off the road will also severely wear down your tires and suspension. It is also possible to spin-out if you attempt to take too tight of a turn at too high of a speed. If you notice the front of your car tilting more in the direction of the turn than usual, be sure to tap the brakes before you lose control of the car. | Like all behind-the-car racing games, the biggest and most tangible challenge to the game is taking the turns at the right speed so that you don't go sliding off the road, or hit something in the process. Keeping your car under control is important, and accomplished through a combination of steering and accelerating. Once you enter a turn at a high enough speed, your wheels will begin to lose some of their grip on the road. The tighter the turn, the more grip you will lose at high speeds, and the faster you will wear down your tires. It is better to reduce your speed and keep the sliding of your car to a minimum. If you don't bring your car under control, you are likely to slide off the road on the outside edge of the turn, and possibly hit an obstacle. Driving off the road will also severely wear down your tires and suspension. It is also possible to spin-out if you attempt to take too tight of a turn at too high of a speed. If you notice the front of your car tilting more in the direction of the turn than usual, be sure to tap the brakes before you lose control of the car. | ||
=== Climbing hills === | === Climbing hills === | ||
[[ | [[Image:Victory Run TG16 road hop.png|right]] | ||
Victory Run doesn't just feature left and right turns. It also features dips and climbs. Learning how to anticipate these changes in the road and react to them is just as important as steering. Dips rarely present a problem to drivers, but the hills definitely present a challenge: drive to fast over the top of one, and your car will launch forward off the ground, and the car will land with a thud. Not only will this wear down your tires, it will have a huge impact on your suspension. You have to be driving incredibly fast to launch your car on pavement, but the speed needed to hop in the air is much lower off-road. It is important to bring the speed of the car down when the road switches from dipping to climbing so that you don't go flying. Driving too fast over a climb on a turn will also send you flying to the outside edge of the turn, causing you to lose control of the car until you land. | Victory Run doesn't just feature left and right turns. It also features dips and climbs. Learning how to anticipate these changes in the road and react to them is just as important as steering. Dips rarely present a problem to drivers, but the hills definitely present a challenge: drive to fast over the top of one, and your car will launch forward off the ground, and the car will land with a thud. Not only will this wear down your tires, it will have a huge impact on your suspension. You have to be driving incredibly fast to launch your car on pavement, but the speed needed to hop in the air is much lower off-road. It is important to bring the speed of the car down when the road switches from dipping to climbing so that you don't go flying. Driving too fast over a climb on a turn will also send you flying to the outside edge of the turn, causing you to lose control of the car until you land. | ||
=== Avoiding traffic === | === Avoiding traffic === | ||
Throughout the race, you will have to navigate around and between other vehicles sharing the road with you. They range from small vehicles like motorcycles, to large ones like transport trucks. No matter the size, it is important that you avoid them at all costs. Not only will colliding with them slow you down, it can damage your car, cause you to lose control of it, and even cause you to flip over and stall. The degree of the collision is determined by the difference in your speed (how much faster you are driving than them), and the angle that you collide from. Colliding straight into the back of another vehicle is generally less problematic than if you hit them from a corner, although you are more likely to flip over if you are going too fast. If you do hit a car from behind, it's possible to restore control over your car by tapping the brakes. Hitting vehicles from a corner will make it less likely for you to flip, but far more likely to get knocked off the road, and possibly flip over an obstacle that you get pushed into. Vehicles may change lanes as you get closer to them, so always keep your eyes on their bumper and watch where they're headed. | Throughout the race, you will have to navigate around and between other vehicles sharing the road with you. They range from small vehicles like motorcycles, to large ones like transport trucks. No matter the size, it is important that you avoid them at all costs. Not only will colliding with them slow you down, it can damage your car, cause you to lose control of it, and even cause you to flip over and stall. The degree of the collision is determined by the difference in your speed (how much faster you are driving than them), and the angle that you collide from. Colliding straight into the back of another vehicle is generally less problematic than if you hit them from a corner, although you are more likely to flip over if you are going too fast. If you do hit a car from behind, it's possible to restore control over your car by tapping the brakes. Hitting vehicles from a corner will make it less likely for you to flip, but far more likely to get knocked off the road, and possibly flip over an obstacle that you get pushed into. Vehicles may change lanes as you get closer to them, so always keep your eyes on their bumper and watch where they're headed. | ||
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