What This Game Is Really Missing (Ski Alpin Racing 2007)

"Notes of a Madman" or "What This Game

Is Really Missing" I am writing this, to a greater extent, for myself, but in order not to forget, and people saw, I will leave it here.

Once, one of my skiers had so little money (and endlessly hacking was stupidly tired of it) that there was not enough for a non-axial grease (in some translations: waxer). And I went to grieve, thu! Doing lubrication yourself, there is such a function in the game ...

This is how the manual waxing interface looks like. Sometimes it seems unrealistic to find a lubricant that is suitable in all respects. Yes, and a limited budget is another problem. But that is why it is no less interesting:



I refused from automatic lubrication: somehow I did it a long time ago, and gave me this creation of a game tool with a mixture with 30% quality. Some kind of nonsense. With such a mixture, it’s not like winning, in the top twenty with a violin, especially in slalom or super-giant (about the seeming lightness of this, maybe I’ll tell you someday), you won’t go.

A page describing the types of lubricants. I have an avatar of the current lubricator. If there is no one, then there will simply be a shadow of a person:



I got to the page, not very happy (I didn’t figure it out once, in my opinion, in 2006) - there are so many incomprehensible things! And she disappeared, for about an hour (a little over). It was: "Wow!" Although strange, isn't it? No special effects, action (as in the races themselves), records, medals ... But the feeling of this happening (almost magic) inspired. Well, and added gameplay. He-he! Now I sometimes go to the "Practice", setting different weather conditions, just to choose the right wax. Yes, the game allows it: in a practical mode, money does not play a role. But then in practical

terms ... And then the idea stuck in my head. From the series: “What if? ..”

So, point one!

1. What if you add a career as a wax painter? It's so cool! Some of them ride. You help them. By the way, this is a good income, besides. If, for example, you add tasks like: prepare someone's skis. The rating of the waxers (I speak so purely out of habit, I'm used to the translation of Alpine Skiing 2006), some abilities or buns available only to them ...

As I went through (in huge such quotes, since I didn't even get to the "gold" of the professional league with cheats), I noticed that the training was also not finalized. As they say “Fitness”, “Technique”, “Power”, “Motivation”, not bad, but it seems that there is not enough pumping of specific skills, which separates one skier from another; yes, in general, a skier from just a skier or a figure skater, and with such general and vague characteristics - here you can shove the Russian national figure skating team in an expanded composition (with physics they are fine, but motivation is rife)!

Kidding. Of course. Technique. But it is strangely presented, I was always sad that it was impossible to train someone specifically for something specific (somehow I saw a giant slalom on TV and everyone had their own something). Well, the dog with her, with the technique, is a more or less sane parameter. Motivation too, although negative motivation can also be ... However, does it really happen, this very motivation is "like a lead harness" (again hello to commentators from Alpine Skiing 2006) ?!

By the way, I was always (and not only me: my father was a physics teacher) was confused by the parameter "strength": it is not clear how it is measured, I thought, at first, this is a jamb of translation, but did it? What for? We don't have enough "physics"? It seems that she was shoved there so that it was something that can be divided by 2, IMHO. Better, as I said earlier, added something specific, ski.

It is unclear what skills to pump for the profilers, the game itself, at the maximum difficulty level, advises to invest in one skill first (and this tactic, I tell you, works with a bang), but, damn it, like a person who has just downloaded the game , and, most likely, not versed in the intricacies of this sport, will understand what and what? Especially in our country ...

Let's go further.

2. To finish the system of skills to the state of adequacy, and not what is now. Add some specific skills, such as the ability to adapt to high mountains, high speeds, agility (hello slalom), speed (and this is hello, super giant). Some skills can only be downloaded by "amateur" and "pro". So that the experience of the competition influences something, and not just the opening of the next (not always necessary) ammunition.

Let's talk about unrealistic speeds, falls and miracles (not otherwise). Let's start with the fact that in the game the skier can calmly fly at an average speed of 170-190 km / h (I'm talking about ordinary, ordinary competitions, and not special tracks, such as Aspen presented in the game, where, by the way, they did not lie; on the Internet, too they are often confused - downhill ≠ speed competition).

Well, the falls of skiers at a speed of ~ 150-180 km / h look funny, and then the athlete magically rises and continues to move. There is not even a hint. Alpine Skiing 2006 was there immediately. In sar2007, you can configure in the settings: after the falls, continue or not ...

3. Redesign the health system. Injuries. Withdrawals. Technical breakdowns. Random in action, not in bunny-spoiler-holes-before-and-after. If you choose in the settings, they say, to continue after the fall, then, all the same, create a critical situation when you cannot continue.

3.1 Make different skiers. Physically. Height. The weight. Length h ***, oh, hands, etc.

It is strange that the story of Herman Mayer was not fully revealed in the plot, at least somehow. I don't remember exactly, I won't lie:

“Everything changed in March 1995 when Mayer managed to qualify for the Austrian Giant Slalom Championship. Due to the lack of rating points, he got the heavy 142nd starting number. Usually the track by this time comes to such a state that even the best masters cannot do anything worthwhile. And Herman took and showed the 18th time! Among almost one and a half hundred participants and on a completely broken track!

They finally paid attention to him and almost immediately took him to the national team. But in Austria, skiing is like football in Brazil or hockey in Canada. This is a religion, this is a way of life. To be at the heart of the Austrian ski team means attention, guaranteed advertising contracts, success with girls and a beautiful life in general ... "

4. Make the tracks look like normal! And it's not about the graphics, you can just add a parameter. Some features. Are there stones? And wear / tear.

4.1 In real life, the tracks change. Yes, from competition to competition, yes, no one will give us real tracks. Who cares? There would be a generator here to generate, for itself, various tracks on a given piece. Indeed, for the same slalom and giant slalom, the tracks in the two races are different.

Stretching dreamily, I think about the women's league, where, by the way, the tracks are also different from the men's.

5. Add a women's league.

I even thought about a career as a coach, because juniors have to come from somewhere: you can even leave newcomers a "rabbit hole", like they exist (like your rivals in competitions), but no one sees them.

6. Add a career as a coach. Honestly, I am chronically tired of the same faces, and I don't know how to switch to other games ... I'm a conservative creature, but I can't code, damn it.

6.1 Coaches' salaries can and should change. Strangely, skiers get different buns just like that sometimes (and big enough), dividends and gifts. And the trainers (and waxers), for some reason, are fixed? Not in order!

The following reasoning comes out of the narrative. That is, we have "juniors", but they do not fall from the sky, right? Yes, and almost zero parameters, okay, if by default, then with 5%. But for the international level, this is somehow not ice, especially funny for the national teams of Austria, Italy, Germany, USA ...

7. Redesign the skier rank system. For example: 5, 6 or 7 categories: “Beginners”, “Experienced”, “Amateurs”, “Masters”, “Profi”, “Veterans”, “Legends”. The last two are not the same, as the sports veteran may or may not be a legend. By the way, titles can be separated from leagues.

7.1 New league system. "Beginner", "Advanced", "Amateur", "Professional" and "Legendary" (where active athletes can participate as guest stars).

7.2 Add regional competitions. It would be fun if the game started somewhere in some town / district; girl / boy is exercising. Overcoming story.

About the face! How alike you are! Those are brothers! A few fans of the game have already written that the absence of even the lightest face customizer is not very good, especially for nerds like me, which plays for a long time and keeps a whole ski brood at home. Sometimes, due to the similarity, you do not know who you are sending (profile or not, whether there was a training session, whether the lubrication was good) and only by the suit, specialized skis - you can indirectly guess, because the number is on the back, especially in slalom or giant slalom, does not mean anything: it changes during the first race.

8. Add new faces or the simplest customizer. At least in terms of the number of participating countries (18), and Koreans differ from Japanese.

8.1 A bit of animation. When the skier is standing, he bends down, which is good. Let him sneeze or something?

About sport - you are the World! Only the World we do not see here, as such, only 18 countries, it is clear that the game was made for the event of the 2007 World Championship ...

9. Diversify the number of participating countries. Well, to make it more fun.

9.1 National stripes on the uniform. To also distinguish one skier from another. Coats of arms. Chevrons on sleeves, etc.

9.2 National anthems at the awards. The fact that here, in comparison with the previous part, there is an award is cool, but even then there are hymns, photos, flags on the shoulders, etc. will be too.

Is it enjoyable to earn medals? Have you seen athletes have many, many different, different medals? Only here they are for some reason like identical twins ...

10. Redo the awards. Add a variety of cups, medals, mementos, etc.

10.1 Redesign the reward storage. So that it does not look like it is not clear what. With the ability to customize it.

Well, and for a snack, I left the ammunition. I can say a lot about her. So many. Even about the "torn-eyed" initial suit. I never really liked him (I, of course, then myself was to blame, but, anyway).

All these skis, goggles, poles, bindings, gloves and so on and so forth.

11. Add new ammunition. To a greater extent, this applies to suits and skis, because they are the main creators of speed. Well, the mounts are still with shields. As for the rest, I noticed: there is no particularly strong effect on speed / control.

11.1 Wear and tear of ammunition. If we completely go into realism, then the sports equipment wears out, and, according to one Ukrainian skier, the top skiers have 60-80 pairs.

11.2 Used equipment. Follows from the previous point. I would love to buy it for my skier when there is not a lot of money on my account, second-hand. Risky, but nothing to do.

11.3 The equipment may refuse right during the race. Especially after "hooks" and / or falls. Up to the torn suit (hello to the American bobsledder).

And this generates another one (appetite comes with eating xD).

12. Create a career as a repairman. If something breaks, there must be someone to repair and / or resell the inventory. Can echo to the "wax artist".

12.1 Serviceman career. If it seems to someone that she repeats the "wax-maker", then it seems to him. For the wax-painter is particular, but here it is general. And at the beginning of the post, I only offered to develop the careers of existing characters, but there were no servicemen ...

Who played, maybe they saw a guy there, who is standing next to the starter? I always had a fad, I wanted to play on his behalf. It is worth recording something there in the protocol. All so "serious", with a microphone.

13. Career of a track technician. Why not? Maybe I overclocked too much, but I have had this idea for an infinitely long time. Like an unclosed gelstaff.

For those who don't play without cheats, don't read the following idea!

Here's the thing ... Sometimes there is so little money left that there is not enough even for the most deshmansky coke, about which the game itself warns that he sucks. And on the manual one too (the weather conditions are the same, but nothing good comes out of what is). Yes, the coach is not. I would like to borrow ...

14. Add financial transactions. Loans, borrowings, loans, pledges, etc. You can even add competition related conditions. But, especially, it should help those who took off (grabbed the disk) and are unlikely to receive good prize money or anything like that.

On the clock 2:49 (already 2:50), the brain does not cook. I came up with a new idea, I'll just shove with a point:

15. Add character to each character. Best random. Why random? It will be more difficult and more interesting this way: after all, it is easy to train an obedient doll, but try to force or persuade.

15.1 Add bad habits. Partially overlaps with paragraph 16 (in fact, because of this, he arose). For example, check-in in the morning, and our darling in Tik-Tok is frozen.

Time. All tracks are somehow frozen (on some it is eternal day, on others it is night). Damn, even in a browser game about horses, they go to bed ...

16. Set different times. Training and competition will look better at different times, especially since on some (giant slalom in Sestriere) the sun shines in your eyes.

Immediately moving on to:

17. Redo the controls. It's the same song. About the lack of specifics. There is no feeling that these are skis. Add feints and chips that may help you win (well, or save; on a broken track, see 4). Let there be a choice of the degree of control automation.

Do you like extras? Well, those that stand with posters: "I <character name> would like to have children from you," sometimes amuse, but have already fucked up.

18. Replace or remake extras / fans. Yes, even if they replace their faces, otherwise they do not look like faces, as dad said: "Like the devil on a hedgehog!", They have different clothes. Let them whistle / swear sometimes. Why are they all so friendly?
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PS Why didn't you start cutting the post? Yes, something, it seems to me, the points are a little crooked. Not like an article, not enough for a story. Yes, and I haven’t figured out the posts yet: I highlighted the first paragraph as H2 in the “visual”, so it, for some reason, hooked the next paragraph, located after one, after two and even - after three (1) lines, and pearl's thought, almost missed it!

PSS Digging through the game files, through one of the programs for PAK'ov (it was for Alpine Skiing 2006). I managed to pull out without serious losses only the voice acting of the commentators (German and English), German, by the way, I posted on VK. He is still there, you can learn the language. Hehe. So, I fished out - some kind of .scl and .fin

What to do with them, I never moved in, because there is no adequate information. Some kind of controllers, Siemens, etc.

PSSS That's why! And only because of this: I write my ideas in the open access (and not "on the table"), maybe hto and know what kind of beast he is ...