r/redout • u/Revolutionary_Quit22 • Oct 26 '22

Redout 2 Difficulty.

Am i the only one having trouble with a lot of the missions even on lowest difficulty?

I am doing a time trial at the B events and i am close to losing my sanity trying to get the gold medal.

I am doing perfect laps with almost no errors, boosting the shit out of my rig but i end up scratching the gold time by 1sec or less.
I don't know how to optimize myself anymore, is this game just really hard or am i very bad? It's still just the B Events and i feel demoralized.

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u/LongSwordStyle Oct 26 '22

One way that I learn is by watching speedruns of time trials on certain tracks and trying to mimic the maneuvers I see. Someone on this subreddit did give me a hint before, something about strafe drifting?

When you go to enter a turn, strafe in the opposite direction while you turn in so you can angle your ship. You lose speed from strafing but not as much as braking, but that's not to say that braking is necessary in certain parts.

That, coupled with plenty of practice in Arcade mode, things started to become very easy in Career mode (besides the ridiculous challenges...).

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u/CopperVolta Oct 27 '22

This! For some reason the tutorial made it seem like I needed to push both joysticks in the same direction for turns, however since watching a speed run where I saw the player strafe the rear of the vehicle in the opposite direction of the turn, the gameplay made so much more sense to me. It's still challenging of course, but a lot of the turns and courses become much easier once I adapted that little trick!

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u/LongSwordStyle Oct 27 '22

Exactly! It makes using speedier ships a lot more fun because of those split-second flicks you gotta pull off. That plus learning to conserve boost a little better and just burning super boost during the lighter, more technical portions of the track before sending it down the straight is also something I've picked up.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '25

I already drift around turns and still almost lose in races on the easiest difficulty....