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In concordance with the recent release of the Star Campaign for TMUF, we continue the statistical medal post that has nothing to do with bragging. That would be sad.

United Forever
Race: 588/588 medals (Accomplished by 357 out of 233 371 players)
Platform: 63/63 medals (Statistics not available)
Stunts: 84/84 medals (Accomplished by 240 out of 131 470 players)
Puzzle: 84/84 medals (Accomplished by 352 out of 104 324 players)

Nations Forever
Race: 260/260 medals (Accomplished by 840 out of 4 025 705 players)

Star Track
Race: 588/588 medals (Accomplished by 21 out of 16 777 players)

Total: 1667/1667 medals.

It's been a year since the last post, and the only difference from my side here is the star track campaign, which, with its lack of annoyingly hard maps was more of a fun challenge after stuff like PlatformE and BayC3. The hardest in the pack is probably *CoastD5 at any rate.

Interesting trends
1. Doubling in Nations Forever (campaign) players (the free version rose from 2 to 4 million players in one year)
2. Roughly a doubling in United Forever players (130 to 230 thousand players counting the ones trying the major campaign for instance)
3. Comparing the amount of new players and the amount of people completing each campaign, we see that pretty much the same proportion of people complete it. I.e. when you buy the game - or download the free version - does not significantly influence the probability of you completing any of the campaigns. Either that or a lot of people grind at the same campaign for years.

That's this year's TM post. It's still a good game - even though point 1 probably is why the first attempt to connect to the master server always seems to fail these days - and I am still alive. Back to work.

oh, and the new forced replay camera sucks, byebye what's left of competitive WR hunting

Doesn't get much closer than this.

As achievement hunting is more fun than revising for statistics exams, Fralland and I decided to tackle Sap Auteur, the least acquired TF2 achievement at this date. And yeah, it's much more fun to beat the system in such a way than to play hours upon hours of griefer style spy gameplay.



sapauteur.rar contains all the files necessary to replicate what's done in the video.
Fralland wrote, in more detail, some instructions to do this.

The funny thing is that while I've gotten almost all of them now, I will never get the one that requires seven friends. Who has that many friends?
Anyway back to revising..

Is a piece of shit. Or, word records that never were. It's not like stunts world records are a direct consequence of skilful replication, so what's the point? You have to be lucky, so by limiting scores inputs, you are decreasing the quality of the final output. Additionally, as idiot cheaters plague the leaderboards now, there are only a question of time before smart ones alter their decent scores almost imperceptibly to slightly better ones. It's all going down. Anyway, here are some records that I would have had. My brother, Thhethssmuz, currently climbing Norway's ladder, has more.

StuntA4_clux_(499).Replay.Gbx - Ninety seven points better than my best official, forty better than the current world record! Edit: make that twenty.
StuntA5_clux_(479).Replay.Gbx - Five points better than my currently held world record.
StuntB2_clux_(233).Replay.Gbx - Only slightly better than my official world record, but I got it about a thousand coppers before my official run.
StuntB5_clux_(845).Replay.Gbx - Beaten my successor recently with 764. Still got this unofficial. Snuck in an extra master corkscrew at the you know where. It's tragically beautiful.

These are the exceptions to my bad luck:
StuntD2_clux_(699).Replay.Gbx - Personal best on like the sixth run. Still world record after months and months. But then I still only get meagre forty thousand skill points for it so what's the point.
StuntB1_clux_(422).Replay.Gbx - Lucky personal best on official run. Massive world record.

First in Norway's skillpoints rankig in TMUF. Only took five stunt world records..



Now to continue coding.

Another Trackmania post. But as long as things like this happens, they will continue. This is the obliterated scoreboard for StuntB1 after a ridiculous master aerial and master alley oop.



Now that is a skill points bonus. I would have gone straight onto that ladder below with just that. Download the score below if you would want to circumvent the 5 copper download thing or not have to wait until it pops up.

Edit: Updated photo with theme compatible one. Skill points have increased by 70k just for no reason.

StuntB1_clux(422).Replay.Gbx

I.e. TrackMania United Forever, in case you have been living under an internet rock for the last year, or equivalently; in case you have a life. I have not, so I have destroyed it. All medals on the four united campaigns, all medals on the nations campaign, and a reasonable skill points ranking. Here are some statistics for you to laugh about. They make me proud, but me instinct tells me you probably won't idolize me for this.



United Forever
Race: 588/588 medals (Accomplished by 185 out of 130 672 players)
Platform: 63/63 medals (Statistics not available)
Stunts: 84/84 medals (Accomplished by 100 out of 61 488 players)
Puzzle: 84/84 medals (Accomplished by 183 out of 52 219 players)

Nations Forever
Race: 260/260 medals (Accomplished by 440 out of 2 078 389 players)

Total: 1079/1079 medals. Win.

You?d expect that this would earn you something more than a note relaying these statistics, but it is still damn satisfying. Oh, and you know Nations Forever is free, right? Go download.

Hardest maps: BayC3, PlatformE , StuntD1, PuzzleB2, E05-Endurance, each from one of the listed campaigns above, respectively. If you can do them, you can do them all - if you somehow think 1079 medals is too much...

say it!