Thx for the nice tutorial! To avoid confusion among newer players I think it should be noted that some members of the community call a bad gearup a "geardown". This confused me when I learned about gears, as they don't actually refer to a situation when the car gears down. Personally I would like this denomination to be avoided.
trackmania is a video game. it is a car video game. sometimes, the cars in the video game go fast. be wary of that. wear a seatbelt. thanks for watching.
This is true. The average trackmania player doesn't have a great understanding of the physics in general tbh. Most people aren't very good at the game, I would have thought maybe div 6 or 7 or so is the average player but there are usually 30+ divisions in cotd, and I would imagine cotd players are generally better than people not playing the cup even.
@@SkiFreakTM div 6 or 7 is definitely way better than the typical player in the sense that it's a skill in and of itself to learn a track in 15 minutes and find near-AT level consistency in that time frame. The average player takes a lot longer to learn lines and muscle memory on a given track. More intricate details like wiggles, good gears, etc to gain time comes after the cup is long over
Interesting! This video was obviously very stadium centric, and I wrote the intro just to be kind of exposition based on that, hadn't thought of other environments.
Great video! also yes pleeeeease make as in depth of an ice tutorial as you can...I've watched quite a few ice tutorials yet still feel like I don't quite understand all the nuances about it. Knowing how to ice slide is one thing, but knowing all the minor ways you can adjust a slide mid turn, or the small things you might be able to do on a non slide turn/straight/car correction in general are things that I feel aren't super well documented.
The black skin is my old team skin, the green one with my name on it was made for me by lentillion and I think you can get it in his club (lentil skins), and the gold one is jns47's skin (club name is forty7)
Apart from certain effects and surfaces not existing in tm2 stadium and tmnf, all the concepts are the same in all stadium environment trackmanias as far as I know. Only minor changes to the physics happen between games.
No, Im not sure many people even know all there is to know about ice gears at this point. I stopped playing ice years ago and new knowledge of the surface was gained since then
Some feedback The gear numbers don't seem to match the light changes, watching in slow motion, its 101, 161, 234, 341. Maybe this is a replay bug? The pacing of the video feels strange, its a nice gentle introduction until 3:45, then its a huge info dump that's hard to keep track of what is being talked about, I think nixotica just talks too fast here. 3:45 "It is possible to do a no-slide geardown..." eh? 4:15 "Gearing down on off-road surfaces, you usually don't have to worry about directly" Does this not contradict what was said before and why do you not have to worry about it 'directly'? After this there is a lot of single sentence descriptions of gearing techniques without clear visual examples. 4:55 "Remember what we mentioned earlier about the car shifting earlier if it is sliding...." Its been 3 minutes and it was a mentioned as a single sentence without a clear visual example, (1:37 just the car driving in 5th gear the whole time ). No one, not already familiar, is going to remember it. Overall the information is good but presentation can be hard to follow especially for someone not already pretty familiar with gears. The one information issue I have though is that rpm is just left out, understanding rpm is pretty central to properly understanding how gears behave. For example you say "sliding = gear up early", why? because the wheels have less grip -> spinning more = more rpm -> gear up. This is kind of a surface level introduction to gears, it tells you what happens in the most common circumstances but doesnt give you the 'why'. It doesnt provide the viewer with the tools to understand why for example, its better to stay in 4th gear at the last grass part of Spring 2022 - 23 even though you can cleanly gear up to 5th, which the information from the video suggests would be better.
why wouldnt gearing down for like a second give you more speed? In real cars, you can usually accelerate faster on lower gears, for example if I'm in 4th gear, driving in 40 km/h in my car, gearing down do third, accelerating, then gearing back up will be faster than just stepping on the gas at 4th.
idk, tm isn't anything like real cars so knowledge doesn't really translate well. Being in a lower gear doesn't let you accelerate faster like a real car, but as you change gears you lose acceleration while shifting, so if you gear down then back up again that will basically always lose you a few tenths.
The video is very nice but your way of talking is really weird. Every sentence sounds like mumbling throat talking and is really hard to listen to - it makes it almost unwatchable. Please talk louder, more clearly and in a direct manner instead of some edgy, low energy and laid back mumbling tone.
Dont care + didnt ask + stay mad + L + mald seethe cope harder + had someone I know record because my audio was worse + sorry neither of us have 100$ mics couldn't boost the volume much in post because then it was peaking + triggered + any askers? + touch grass + thanks for the engagement
@@SkiFreakTM sick meme bro but it sounds like good feedback to me - you're laying on the thick vocal fry especially at 5:55 I had to replay it a few times to pick up what you're saying.. just talk in your normal voice? Good info and presentation otherwise.
Trackmania is a SPEEDRUNNING game where the objective is to set the FASTEST time on tracks HEFEST GOT THIS RUN you can drift you can drive very fast MICKA IS ICE GOD fullspeed, tech, speedtech MILLIONS of people compete for world records ICE 360 separated by THOUSANDTHS of a second SPEEDDRIFT and RIOLU was the PIONEER who created the SLOW MO block. Trackmania 2020 is the LATEST installment and features a lot of SURFACES MILLIONS of possibilities. Trackmania is a DETERMINISTIC game and everything can be RECREATED with PERFECT accuracy dream world record PULLING A VIRTUAL WIRTUAL. The game is very FUN and has the BEST COMMUNITY amongst all the games in the market. ELCONN DID THIS SHORTCUT. SPEEDRUN this GAMEBREAKING MECHANIC with the NEW bug NOSEBOOST BUGSLIDE TAS tool assisted speedrun I LOVE TRACKMANIA ESPORTS and the red engine off block that turns off the car's engine TMGL FORMAT IS THE BEST
Trackmania is a SPEEDRUNNING game where the objective is to set the FASTEST time on tracks HEFEST GOT THIS RUN you can drift you can drive very fast MICKA IS ICE GOD fullspeed, tech, speedtech MILLIONS of people compete for world records ICE 360 separated by THOUSANDTHS of a second SPEEDDRIFT and RIOLU was the PIONEER who created the SLOW MO block. Trackmania 2020 is the LATEST installment and features a lot of SURFACES MILLIONS of possibilities. Trackmania is a DETERMINISTIC game and everything can be RECREATED with PERFECT accuracy dream world record PULLING A VIRTUAL WIRTUAL. The game is very FUN and has the BEST COMMUNITY amongst all the games in the market. ELCONN DID THIS SHORTCUT. SPEEDRUN this GAMEBREAKING MECHANIC with the NEW bug NOSEBOOST BUGSLIDE TAS tool assisted speedrun I LOVE TRACKMANIA ESPORTS and the red engine off block that turns off the car's engine TMGL FORMAT IS THE BEST
Trackmania is a SPEEDRUNNING game where the objective is to set the FASTEST time on tracks HEFEST GOT THIS RUN you can drift you can drive very fast MICKA IS ICE GOD fullspeed, tech, speedtech MILLIONS of people compete for world records ICE 360 separated by THOUSANDTHS of a second SPEEDDRIFT and RIOLU was the PIONEER who created the SLOW MO block. Trackmania 2020 is the LATEST installment and features a lot of SURFACES MILLIONS of possibilities. Trackmania is a DETERMINISTIC game and everything can be RECREATED with PERFECT accuracy dream world record PULLING A VIRTUAL WIRTUAL. The game is very FUN and has the BEST COMMUNITY amongst all the games in the market. ELCONN DID THIS SHORTCUT. SPEEDRUN this GAMEBREAKING MECHANIC with the NEW bug NOSEBOOST BUGSLIDE TAS tool assisted speedrun I LOVE TRACKMANIA ESPORTS and the red engine off block that turns off the car's engine TMGL FORMAT IS THE BEST
Trackmania is a SPEEDRUNNING game where the objective is to set the FASTEST time on tracks HEFEST GOT THIS RUN you can drift you can drive very fast MICKA IS ICE GOD fullspeed, tech, speedtech MILLIONS of people compete for world records ICE 360 separated by THOUSANDTHS of a second SPEEDDRIFT and RIOLU was the PIONEER who created the SLOW MO block. Trackmania 2020 is the LATEST installment and features a lot of SURFACES MILLIONS of possibilities. Trackmania is a DETERMINISTIC game and everything can be RECREATED with PERFECT accuracy dream world record PULLING A VIRTUAL WIRTUAL. The game is very FUN and has the BEST COMMUNITY amongst all the games in the market. ELCONN DID THIS SHORTCUT. SPEEDRUN this GAMEBREAKING MECHANIC with the NEW bug NOSEBOOST BUGSLIDE TAS tool assisted speedrun I LOVE TRACKMANIA ESPORTS and the red engine off block that turns off the car's engine TMGL FORMAT IS THE BEST
Trackmania is a SPEEDRUNNING game where the objective is to set the FASTEST time on tracks HEFEST GOT THIS RUN you can drift you can drive very fast MICKA IS ICE GOD fullspeed, tech, speedtech MILLIONS of people compete for world records ICE 360 separated by THOUSANDTHS of a second SPEEDDRIFT and RIOLU was the PIONEER who created the SLOW MO block. Trackmania 2020 is the LATEST installment and features a lot of SURFACES MILLIONS of possibilities. Trackmania is a DETERMINISTIC game and everything can be RECREATED with PERFECT accuracy dream world record PULLING A VIRTUAL WIRTUAL. The game is very FUN and has the BEST COMMUNITY amongst all the games in the market. ELCONN DID THIS SHORTCUT. SPEEDRUN this GAMEBREAKING MECHANIC with the NEW bug NOSEBOOST BUGSLIDE TAS tool assisted speedrun I LOVE TRACKMANIA ESPORTS and the red engine off block that turns off the car's engine TMGL FORMAT IS THE BEST
great video btw (and id love to see a video on ice physics)
"Or just go bother Mikka."
ROFLMAO.
Aka one of the Ice Gods.
as someone thats just recently gotten into driving myself, this was awesome, great video!
THANK YOU!!! I have been struggling with gears ever since I started playing and haven't found any other good videos about it
Great video! You've made some awesome maps, too!
ILOVEGEARS
mimke
Thx for the nice tutorial! To avoid confusion among newer players I think it should be noted that some members of the community call a bad gearup a "geardown". This confused me when I learned about gears, as they don't actually refer to a situation when the car gears down. Personally I would like this denomination to be avoided.
never heard this
You are right Bourbon. Heard many people say it wrongly.
@@SkiFreakTM In particular Granady uses it
Yeah, it's because of the RPM drop on the upshift, it sounds like the car is changing down a gear
I've only heard it referred to as eating the gear. Only time I've heard people say geardown is when losing the gear
I love the style of this, cant wait to see more in the future!
So guuut. I will have to rewatch a few times to learn everything got myself, but this was already so helpful
GGs on the info, it's helped me. Also, for what it's worth, you deserve more subscribers!
trackmania is a video game. it is a car video game. sometimes, the cars in the video game go fast. be wary of that. wear a seatbelt. thanks for watching.
most players just be trying to make it to the finish line without crashing, gears be damned
This is true. The average trackmania player doesn't have a great understanding of the physics in general tbh. Most people aren't very good at the game, I would have thought maybe div 6 or 7 or so is the average player but there are usually 30+ divisions in cotd, and I would imagine cotd players are generally better than people not playing the cup even.
@@SkiFreakTM div 6 or 7 is definitely way better than the typical player in the sense that it's a skill in and of itself to learn a track in 15 minutes and find near-AT level consistency in that time frame. The average player takes a lot longer to learn lines and muscle memory on a given track. More intricate details like wiggles, good gears, etc to gain time comes after the cup is long over
Great first vid! Love Ur maps!
Just found this video, and i'm glad i did!
Gears were already known in 2005 since TrackMania Sunrise had them. I was the first to make use of gear tricks if I remember correctly, on SkidOrDie.
Interesting! This video was obviously very stadium centric, and I wrote the intro just to be kind of exposition based on that, hadn't thought of other environments.
very clean edit and nice informations given, ill recommend it for players asking me about gears :D
Awesome video! A good video explaining the gears was really needed
I wish I had this video when I was starting out. Great job, this is amazing for beginner players!
Great video! also yes pleeeeease make as in depth of an ice tutorial as you can...I've watched quite a few ice tutorials yet still feel like I don't quite understand all the nuances about it. Knowing how to ice slide is one thing, but knowing all the minor ways you can adjust a slide mid turn, or the small things you might be able to do on a non slide turn/straight/car correction in general are things that I feel aren't super well documented.
cool video! Another thing that wasn't mentioned: Gearing up right before a jump will also result in a "bad-gear"-esque slowdown on any surface
I had this in the script at some point, I can't remember why I took it out, I know I thought about it for a good bit at the time...
It’s out wow!
Great video! Maybe you can make an ice gear video together with Micka?
Great video Nixotica!
Ski Freak's guide to gears, brought to you by...
Nixotica? lol. Good vid
xdd
you talk about slide out on ice. you show scrapie slide out. gold!!!
Great info, great edit, why do you have so few subscribers? :D
+1 !
great video
very good video, thanks !
great job ! ty I learned a lot
wow what catJAM music
@SkiFreakTM where did you get that skin looks good the green wheels one
The black skin is my old team skin, the green one with my name on it was made for me by lentillion and I think you can get it in his club (lentil skins), and the gold one is jns47's skin (club name is forty7)
this is real good
Give me the ice gear guide!
And i want even more...
And fot the "just go bother mika" you did get a sub
THANK YOU
Uh-oh the sound of 'bad gear up" is very familiar to me
Is there any info here that doesn’t apply to other tm games like tmnf or do they work almost the same in all games? Helpful video
Apart from certain effects and surfaces not existing in tm2 stadium and tmnf, all the concepts are the same in all stadium environment trackmanias as far as I know. Only minor changes to the physics happen between games.
3:36 forsenCD
guuut video she freak winke
Did you ever make that ice gear video?
No, Im not sure many people even know all there is to know about ice gears at this point. I stopped playing ice years ago and new knowledge of the surface was gained since then
I like the ice part xDDDDDD
thx
ILOVETRACKMANIA
Bro where’s my ice gears video
Some feedback
The gear numbers don't seem to match the light changes, watching in slow motion, its 101, 161, 234, 341. Maybe this is a replay bug?
The pacing of the video feels strange, its a nice gentle introduction until 3:45, then its a huge info dump that's hard to keep track of what is being talked about, I think nixotica just talks too fast here.
3:45 "It is possible to do a no-slide geardown..." eh?
4:15 "Gearing down on off-road surfaces, you usually don't have to worry about directly" Does this not contradict what was said before and why do you not have to worry about it 'directly'?
After this there is a lot of single sentence descriptions of gearing techniques without clear visual examples.
4:55 "Remember what we mentioned earlier about the car shifting earlier if it is sliding...." Its been 3 minutes and it was a mentioned as a single sentence without a clear visual example, (1:37 just the car driving in 5th gear the whole time ). No one, not already familiar, is going to remember it.
Overall the information is good but presentation can be hard to follow especially for someone not already pretty familiar with gears.
The one information issue I have though is that rpm is just left out, understanding rpm is pretty central to properly understanding how gears behave. For example you say
"sliding = gear up early", why? because the wheels have less grip -> spinning more = more rpm -> gear up.
This is kind of a surface level introduction to gears, it tells you what happens in the most common circumstances but doesnt give you the 'why'. It doesnt provide the viewer with the tools to understand why for example, its better to stay in 4th gear at the last grass part of Spring 2022 - 23 even though you can cleanly gear up to 5th, which the information from the video suggests would be better.
why wouldnt gearing down for like a second give you more speed? In real cars, you can usually accelerate faster on lower gears, for example if I'm in 4th gear, driving in 40 km/h in my car, gearing down do third, accelerating, then gearing back up will be faster than just stepping on the gas at 4th.
idk, tm isn't anything like real cars so knowledge doesn't really translate well. Being in a lower gear doesn't let you accelerate faster like a real car, but as you change gears you lose acceleration while shifting, so if you gear down then back up again that will basically always lose you a few tenths.
TMGL FORMAT IS THE BEST
Icevideo please
Yo why you had to do my man scrapie bad like that 😭 he cant help he sucks at ice
me as a begginer:
Oooor you can play fs and forget about gears 8)
The video is very nice but your way of talking is really weird. Every sentence sounds like mumbling throat talking and is really hard to listen to - it makes it almost unwatchable.
Please talk louder, more clearly and in a direct manner instead of some edgy, low energy and laid back mumbling tone.
Dont care + didnt ask + stay mad + L + mald seethe cope harder + had someone I know record because my audio was worse + sorry neither of us have 100$ mics couldn't boost the volume much in post because then it was peaking + triggered + any askers? + touch grass + thanks for the engagement
@@SkiFreakTM sick meme bro but it sounds like good feedback to me - you're laying on the thick vocal fry especially at 5:55 I had to replay it a few times to pick up what you're saying.. just talk in your normal voice? Good info and presentation otherwise.
Trackmania is a SPEEDRUNNING game where the objective is to set the FASTEST time on tracks HEFEST GOT THIS RUN you can drift you can drive very fast MICKA IS ICE GOD fullspeed, tech, speedtech MILLIONS of people compete for world records ICE 360 separated by THOUSANDTHS of a second SPEEDDRIFT and RIOLU was the PIONEER who created the SLOW MO block. Trackmania 2020 is the LATEST installment and features a lot of SURFACES MILLIONS of possibilities. Trackmania is a DETERMINISTIC game and everything can be RECREATED with PERFECT accuracy dream world record PULLING A VIRTUAL WIRTUAL. The game is very FUN and has the BEST COMMUNITY amongst all the games in the market. ELCONN DID THIS SHORTCUT. SPEEDRUN this GAMEBREAKING MECHANIC with the NEW bug NOSEBOOST BUGSLIDE TAS tool assisted speedrun I LOVE TRACKMANIA ESPORTS and the red engine off block that turns off the car's engine TMGL FORMAT IS THE BEST
Trackmania is a SPEEDRUNNING game where the objective is to set the FASTEST time on tracks HEFEST GOT THIS RUN you can drift you can drive very fast MICKA IS ICE GOD fullspeed, tech, speedtech MILLIONS of people compete for world records ICE 360 separated by THOUSANDTHS of a second SPEEDDRIFT and RIOLU was the PIONEER who created the SLOW MO block. Trackmania 2020 is the LATEST installment and features a lot of SURFACES MILLIONS of possibilities. Trackmania is a DETERMINISTIC game and everything can be RECREATED with PERFECT accuracy dream world record PULLING A VIRTUAL WIRTUAL. The game is very FUN and has the BEST COMMUNITY amongst all the games in the market. ELCONN DID THIS SHORTCUT. SPEEDRUN this GAMEBREAKING MECHANIC with the NEW bug NOSEBOOST BUGSLIDE TAS tool assisted speedrun I LOVE TRACKMANIA ESPORTS and the red engine off block that turns off the car's engine TMGL FORMAT IS THE BEST
Trackmania is a SPEEDRUNNING game where the objective is to set the FASTEST time on tracks HEFEST GOT THIS RUN you can drift you can drive very fast MICKA IS ICE GOD fullspeed, tech, speedtech MILLIONS of people compete for world records ICE 360 separated by THOUSANDTHS of a second SPEEDDRIFT and RIOLU was the PIONEER who created the SLOW MO block. Trackmania 2020 is the LATEST installment and features a lot of SURFACES MILLIONS of possibilities. Trackmania is a DETERMINISTIC game and everything can be RECREATED with PERFECT accuracy dream world record PULLING A VIRTUAL WIRTUAL. The game is very FUN and has the BEST COMMUNITY amongst all the games in the market. ELCONN DID THIS SHORTCUT. SPEEDRUN this GAMEBREAKING MECHANIC with the NEW bug NOSEBOOST BUGSLIDE TAS tool assisted speedrun I LOVE TRACKMANIA ESPORTS and the red engine off block that turns off the car's engine TMGL FORMAT IS THE BEST
Trackmania is a SPEEDRUNNING game where the objective is to set the FASTEST time on tracks HEFEST GOT THIS RUN you can drift you can drive very fast MICKA IS ICE GOD fullspeed, tech, speedtech MILLIONS of people compete for world records ICE 360 separated by THOUSANDTHS of a second SPEEDDRIFT and RIOLU was the PIONEER who created the SLOW MO block. Trackmania 2020 is the LATEST installment and features a lot of SURFACES MILLIONS of possibilities. Trackmania is a DETERMINISTIC game and everything can be RECREATED with PERFECT accuracy dream world record PULLING A VIRTUAL WIRTUAL. The game is very FUN and has the BEST COMMUNITY amongst all the games in the market. ELCONN DID THIS SHORTCUT. SPEEDRUN this GAMEBREAKING MECHANIC with the NEW bug NOSEBOOST BUGSLIDE TAS tool assisted speedrun I LOVE TRACKMANIA ESPORTS and the red engine off block that turns off the car's engine TMGL FORMAT IS THE BEST
Trackmania is a SPEEDRUNNING game where the objective is to set the FASTEST time on tracks HEFEST GOT THIS RUN you can drift you can drive very fast MICKA IS ICE GOD fullspeed, tech, speedtech MILLIONS of people compete for world records ICE 360 separated by THOUSANDTHS of a second SPEEDDRIFT and RIOLU was the PIONEER who created the SLOW MO block. Trackmania 2020 is the LATEST installment and features a lot of SURFACES MILLIONS of possibilities. Trackmania is a DETERMINISTIC game and everything can be RECREATED with PERFECT accuracy dream world record PULLING A VIRTUAL WIRTUAL. The game is very FUN and has the BEST COMMUNITY amongst all the games in the market. ELCONN DID THIS SHORTCUT. SPEEDRUN this GAMEBREAKING MECHANIC with the NEW bug NOSEBOOST BUGSLIDE TAS tool assisted speedrun I LOVE TRACKMANIA ESPORTS and the red engine off block that turns off the car's engine TMGL FORMAT IS THE BEST
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