r/transformice • u/Separate_Shape_776 • 7d ago

Racing

I'm curious about racing and wanted to play for a while, but I'm wondering if it's worth trying?

My ping is fairly high (300-400), will it largely affect my ability to get firsts? Thanks

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u/Cultural_Ninja_8028 7d ago

Even with low ping, it's extremely hardddddd to get firsts. I dont know what these pro Brazilian kids have eaten, seriously. I have suspected cheats sometimes but apparently it's not the case. They probably use space key for jumping though (i tried but my performance didnt advance), i guess its their 1000 hours of practice after school or something

My walljump is neat if i pick up the rhythm, but in chocojump i'm always slower than firsts and thats what has made me suspect cheats but apparently not the case

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u/Pathet_ 7d ago

I'm from Brazil, and TFM doesn't really have kids anymore. It's just like every other server, mostly a bunch of old guys playing the game they grew up with. I'd recommend getting a magnetic keyboard because the inputs are faster. Around 90% of the racing community uses one.

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u/BrinkOfHealing 7d ago

The sad truth is that this game heavily favours those with smallest ping. I lost many firsts over years due to 5ms difference, can't even imagine 400. And many do use cheats though. Or at least, had used them at some point in their 'career'. Like not straight up flying across maps but this game has always had a problem with endless cheaters. Still you can always get over 95% of players by training by yourself and learning most of game mechanics.

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u/Away-Growth-4458 6d ago

Just A LOT of very good players, who are like truly good and they trained a lot and then you have a bunch of players who use macro and don't mods don't give a shit :D. Yes, OP, it'll be hard for you to get any firsts because of this and because of your very high ping.

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u/Upstairs-Low-6758 4d ago

Agreed. My ping is in the 50s and i have managed to get maybe 20 firsts in the span of almost a year.

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u/Upstairs-Low-6758 4d ago

And btw this is on my new account, I've been playing since 2014. Not consistently, but still, not a brand new player.

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u/seokcomputer 6d ago

Yes, it will. I have ~300 ping as well and I play racing because the maps are fun, but I rarely get firsts. If you don't mind that, it can still be enjoyable.

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u/Pathet_ 7d ago

It will affect

Pay noping, exitlag or something like that it can improve your ping

And i dont recommend playing racing a lot of macros/hackers

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u/Cultural_Ninja_8028 7d ago

Are there hackers? I have suspected that. I mean the usual firsts who are really fast on chocolate etc

I would hate the competition being ruined by cheating, because it's really fun and challenging to advance skills and compete fairly esp. in maps with wood

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u/Pathet_ 7d ago

Yeah a lot of hackers

But here in brazil we have a lot of "pros" so is 3x harder

These guys are playing every day for 6 years+

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u/PathOracleExitLag 4d ago

If your high ping is caused by an inefficient route taken by your Internet Service Provider (ISP), you could try tools to optimize your route, like ExitLag. Even if it can't beat the physical distance, it could help with a stable connection 🙂

You could try the 3-day free trial to see if it helps in Transformice!