17th July 2019, 2:09 AM
(16th July 2019, 9:02 AM)Atari4600 Wrote: 85 speed has the same max speed as 86 speed but it takes so long to accelerate to 85's max speed you are just better off with using 76 speed
I'll attempt an explanation of this too, but xd:
The acceleration increases your TotalVelocity at an almost constant rate, however, the speed you are actually going lags behind the TotalVelocity, and you slowly catch up. The speed value you are using determines how high your TotalVelocity can be, and you usually hit that limit fairly quickly. However, when you use 85 speed, although your TotalVelocity may be 85 speed, you are usually are stuck at 84.99 speed for quite a while. (You do eventually do reach 85 speed) The reason why you would want to reach 85 speed is because you go the same speed at any speed value from 85 to 94.99 speed. (and from 75 to 84.99, 65 to 74.99, etc)
Sometimes I even find it better off to use 87/88 or even 89 speed, because it still takes some time to reach 85 speed with 86. Though at that point it might be more preference, and which stats work better for the map, because the time save is almost negligible.
But yea, I don't usually use speed values that end in 5 (for racing at least)
Pretty hard to explain this concept, so it might be better to see for yourself inside a tas..
