Rayman Pirate-Community

Yeah, I know the most used tricks, like grabbing things with power suit, saving valuable objects as late in the combo as possible, and use enemy combo time for the long runs.

Hedgehog: Keep in mind, the key to success is patience and persistance
If ya wanna aim for a great score, you need determination and shouldnt give up that easily
How's your score developing btw?

Regarding my personal situation:
Frankly, my interest in Rayman 3 pretty much vanished a lot during the past weeks, however, I think I'm motivated enough right now to grab the game for another time
Even though it would be understandable if you had moved on for various reasons, it's still a damn shame that the activity here is a joke
Yesterday I was kind of bored and had nothing to do, so I read through the whole topic (therefore rediscovered the interesting discussions and incidents) and became nostalgic again, leading to my decision to aim for 1 million
I bribed Nekrophil to invent some more far-fetched stories and allowed him to hack the game, while nobody will accuse me, as I can refer to the shared tales

It's been a long time since I last made some serious efforts to improve my score and enjoy the game, hence I may be a bit rusty
But considering I've racked up a little more than 91k points after BOM Part 5 and provided my goal is to get 100.799 (and thus am not far away), it should be an accomplishable task

I'm happy that I decided to go for the Triple Glitch despite my previous troubles, and thus avoided having a rather frustating time in Part 6

I won't underestimate the situation though, and I'm afraid I may be fed up again soon

After I'm done with that, I'll most likely play something rather relaxing, like LOTLD or DOTK (cuz' I'm still curious about potential secrets)


I expect unsatisfying answers, but anyone currently playing guys?

I suppose we can all share your story about motivation. I haven't played the game for months now. I believe I'm still somewhere in TLOTLD, though I don't remember where specifically, aiming for those additional 1500 points. The game itself has developed some glaring deficiencies, namely its tendency to randomly freeze and cause me to restart the whole thing. That combined with the fact that there is pretty much zero activity in this thread (and also I'm clearly not going to be able to improve my rank position ) my enthusiasm for the game has run dry.

I wonder, who exactly is this Nekrophil and what scoring techniques have you been discussing?

Xenon wrote:I suppose we can all share your story about motivation. I haven't played the game for months now. I believe I'm still somewhere in TLOTLD, though I don't remember where specifically, aiming for those additional 1500 points. The game itself has developed some glaring deficiencies, namely its tendency to randomly freeze and cause me to restart the whole thing. That combined with the fact that there is pretty much zero activity in this thread (and also I'm clearly not going to be able to improve my rank position ) my enthusiasm for the game has run dry.

I wonder, who exactly is this Nekrophil and what scoring techniques have you been discussing?

Shame to hear you're experiencing problems as well, though those points in LA shouldn't be that hard to score under normal conditions

I can refer to your frustation though, I need to get into the game as well and several issues prevented me from playing this game until now

Concerning Nekrophil, it's Necromancer a.k.a. Cut's double-acc, who claimed to have produced scores like 105.999 in TTOTL or 111k+ in CF due to ridicolous methods, you can remember, right?

I was just joking there when I mentioned the hacking issue

Also, disappointing news:

I had a lot of savegame issues in the past, and now I'm suffering again:
I recently discovered that I'm on the standings of January 09 (which means 827k)
Of course this has meaningful consequences for my score, the hard work I did in LA (43k), Summit (111k) and HH,CF (max) is wasted
Needless to say, this significantly lowers my interest in the game, but as of now I'm trying to get 99.999/100.799 in BOM, regardless of the deletion
It sucks hard to play from scratch there whereas I had 91k+ after Part 5 already
Bah




EDIT: More annoying stuff:


I just figured out that it's not possible to improve my score at long sight without quitting the game
To be more precise: When I searched my folders, I just found a copy of my old savegame, not the original data
On the copy, I had 79k after BOM Part 3 (back in the days, I scored 91k as a final result there, some may remember)
30 minutes ago, I finished this part, and restarted BOM to attack the max once again
After completing Part 1, I got to Part 2, where I made a blunder (of course its barely possible to finish it in one try, despite the low difficulty compared to the other parts)
I reloaded my savegame, but I wasn't taken to Part 2 like expected, instead I found myself after BOM Part 5
Summarized, I have access to the savegame, but I can never continue properly, unless I never restart again

It's not the difficulty that's at the heart of this: it's the monotony and dullness of playing alone. 2009 was the zenith of scoring activity in this thread, and ever since then people have become less and less interested in playing because of the decreasing quality of competition.

I actually had a feeling Nekrophil was another one of Cut's identities! It was one of those moments where you randomly associate someone with a certain name. I was too embarrassed to say anything though, of course.

And about the scoring, I'm really sorry to hear about your savegame issues. If you replay TBOM on a different savegame and post a screenshot of 100799 (should you achieve it), I'll enter your details on the HOF and make the relevant amendments. Would this resolve matters?

Edit: Judging by your most recent edit I assume not

mostwanted82 wrote:I'm happy that I decided to go for the Triple Glitch despite my previous troubles, and thus avoided having a rather frustating time in Part 6

So you managed to hit Razoff four times!? Respect! I was never able to do that.

I don't understand the situation about your savegames. Sounds complicated. But I can understand your frustration.

As for playing, I'm in a rut like everyone else. Too busy with college and not enough time for the game. However, I haven't finished what I started. I will make the final improvement in FC and whether or not it will prove to be the max. score for that level only time will tell. And I will also improve LS sometime in the future.

I still read this thread and I will post here as soon as I have time to play again.

Xenon wrote:It's not the difficulty that's at the heart of this: it's the monotony and dullness of playing alone. 2009 was the zenith of scoring activity in this thread, and ever since then people have become less and less interested in playing because of the decreasing quality of competition.

And I actually had a feeling Nekrophil was another one of Cut's identities! It was one of those moments where you randomly associate someone with a certain name. I was too embarrassed to say anything though, of course.

And about the scoring, I'm really sorry to hear about your savegame issues. If you replay TBOM on a different savegame and post a screenshot of 100799 (should you achieve it), I'll enter your details on the HOF and make the relevant amendments. Would this resolve matters?

Yeah, I couldn't agree more on your first statement
Times were so fun and interesting, and at this date I would have never thought things would turn out that bad in terms of activity and fun

About Cut, if I'm not mistaken, this was already figured out 2 pages ago, Mand summarized it nicely here:

MandM81 wrote:

Anyway, it was nice to have have confirmed what most of us had guessed, namely that Cut = Nekrophil. Getting the four green gems in the Xowar room in combo with a Pig for 6000 combo points my a**.

Concerning your last sentence, thanks a lot for the offer, I'm not sure tho whether you read my last edit
After some research, I found another savegame with 131k points, but I'm not willing to replay all the way up to 838k based on such a weak score
I'm pretty certain I have another savegame on an USB Stick (~750k - 800k-ish), tho I can't find it
Otherwise, dark times are looming for me


Mand: The problem is, whenever I try to improve my score on the 827k savegame and then restart, it always takes me back to BOM Part
The problem is caused because I merely own a savegame COPY, but not the ORIGINAL
Unfortunately, I don't have any other savegames, besides of one with 131k
Bleh

Good to hear you're still kind of active though

I also haven't been playing: school and drawing comissions.

I need to improve the TSBTC and TTOTL scoring.

Haruka wrote:I also haven't been playing: school and drawing comissions.

I need to improve the TSBTC and TTOTL scoring.

Good to hear people haven't lost interest in Rayman 3 altogether
What's your current score right now?

By the way, as my confidence in finding a working savegame with a decent score stored is near to zero, I decided to swallow the bitter pill and play on the 131k savegame

Yes, I know it sounds pathetic, and it'll take a long time until I rebuild the massive score I used to had again, but weirdly, I'm fully motivated

The only things which can block my way now are social life and school, because I'm really looking forward to accomplish my project

Like said, it's going to take serveral weeks, even if I'm dedicating time and effort to it on a regular basis (like a bit every day)
Regarding the fact I needed to bear countless save game crashs and losses already, it shouldn't be an impossible task, I'll be super careful now though and store my progress as often as possible in safe places

Maybe some more players are willing to join and the activity might pick up a little again, who knows

mostwanted82 wrote:What's your current score right now?

TFC - 29758

CF - 70808

TBOM - 42400

TLOTLD - 99594

TDOTK - 84597

TLS - 40760

TSBTC - 45689

HH - 63455

TTOL - 61871

Total score: 538932

I can share your guys' demotivation. Can't get myself to play as well. Still stuck with my experiments in part 2 of LS. Can't seem to get the green gem in a bigger combo. Either not hitting the door, getting stuck on a platform or not even making it down there in time.
As for FC, and improvement wouldn't get me up much higher. Like half a year ago I calculated what score I would have if I played MandM's combos. Not a satisfying result, though. LS just doesn't motivate me if I can't get this outstanding improvement to work. And I'm pretty sure I won't.
Oh well...

Also, I met a guy on youtube. He kept asking me questions about scoring and I finally advised him to sign up here. He told me he did, his screenname is ReignOwner. Hasn't posted so far, though. I was hoping we could get some activity.

DTUCC wrote:I can share your guys' demotivation. Can't get myself to play as well. Still stuck with my experiments in part 2 of LS. Can't seem to get the green gem in a bigger combo. Either not hitting the door, getting stuck on a platform or not even making it down there in time.
As for FC, and improvement wouldn't get me up much higher. Like half a year ago I calculated what score I would have if I played MandM's combos. Not a satisfying result, though. LS just doesn't motivate me if I can't get this outstanding improvement to work. And I'm pretty sure I won't.
Oh well...

Also, I met a guy on youtube. He kept asking me questions about scoring and I finally advised him to sign up here. He told me he did, his screenname is ReignOwner. Hasn't posted so far, though. I was hoping we could get some activity.

Not too pleased to hear that, I hope you can regain some motivation soon...
As for the combo, it would be really fantastic if it even was possible
That would at least clear the confusion, and I'd have a new reason to punch the monitor screen
If you're getting back to it sometime, good luck with further exploring
And, you could always further investigate in DOTK or TOTL

About the guy, I didn't had the pleasure to talk to him so far, but I'm looking forward to it if he ever posts
Even though the activity was mind-boggling not too long ago, it's not a heavy surprise we're lacking active users after almost 8 years since the game came out
Well, at least for me, the game still offers potential fun and possibilities (I'm not entirely sure how this'll look in a few days)


Haruka: That's looking pretty nice so far, I'm confident you can get 600k soon
If you would ask me, you should work on DOTK or CF if you're in the mood to play them, you should be able to squeeze out quite a lot of points there
But sure, it also depends on your favourites and gaming style

By the way: Anybody knows the score I need to reach before the massive combo in LOTLD, in order to receive the maximum?

I actually have a savegame with 88k after SBTC part 2 but I don't think I'll ever pick it up from there. Rayman, albeit a great way to challenge myself, was primarily about fun for me. Nowadays, I have no fun-parts left, so it's most likely I'm done forever at 845000-something.

I guess I'm not getting as demotivated as all you guys. I had the game for Xbox a few years ago, I never actually cared about the scoring, then. I think I've played the game in attempts to get better score in about three months now...

mostwanted82 wrote:Hedgehog: Keep in mind, the key to success is patience and persistance
If ya wanna aim for a great score, you need determination and shouldnt give up that easily
How's your score developing btw?

I'm trying to think out some own, easier solutions for good combos. I think I'll list down my scores so far. They're not exact, and not very good, either.

FC: 28,000
CF: 73,000
BOM: 40,000
TLotLD: 71,000
DoTK: 57,000
LS: 36,000
SBTC: 41,000
HH: 65,000
TToTL: 45,000

Yeah, they're not that great, but I'm still improving

sfn42 wrote:I actually have a savegame with 88k after SBTC part 2 but I don't think I'll ever pick it up from there. Rayman, albeit a great way to challenge myself, was primarily about fun for me. Nowadays, I have no fun-parts left, so it's most likely I'm done forever at 845000-something.

It's a shame to hear that, even though your situation is understandable
And I agree that SBTC Part 3 is not the best part to start with after such a long time

Hedgehog673 wrote:I guess I'm not getting as demotivated as all you guys. I had the game for Xbox a few years ago, I never actually cared about the scoring, then. I think I've played the game in attempts to get better score in about three months now...

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I'm trying to think out some own, easier solutions for good combos. I think I'll list down my scores so far. They're not exact, and not very good, either.

FC: 28,000
CF: 73,000
BOM: 38,000
TLotLD: 71,000
DoTK: 57,000
LS: 36,000
SBTC: 41,000
HH: 65,000
TToTL: 45,000

Yeah, they're not that great, but I'm still improving

That's a good foundation already, nice
I personally advise you to try TLOTLD or DOTK, but it's your choice, I'm always ready to help out tho
You have any particular goals?


Regarding me:

Made quite some progress, yesterday I was able to complete LOTLD Part 2 with 66k
I'm aiming for the max now, afterwards I have no other choice than playing DOTK, even tho I rather planned doing something else originally
But if I have the opportunity to get max on the first playthrough, I'll most likely use it, and investigate in potential secrets in the meantime

sfn42 wrote:I actually have a savegame with 88k after SBTC part 2 but I don't think I'll ever pick it up from there. Rayman, albeit a great way to challenge myself, was primarily about fun for me. Nowadays, I have no fun-parts left, so it's most likely I'm done forever at 845000-something.

I sympathize with that. It is possible to pass 112.000 points in SBTC but I can’t bring myself to play this part ever again. Just thinking about the millions of restarts makes me sick.

You could still do some work in FC, but I guess that’s equally frustrating and not at all funny.

Xenon wrote: I believe I'm still somewhere in TLOTLD, though I don't remember where specifically, aiming for those additional 1500 points. The game itself has developed some glaring deficiencies, namely its tendency to randomly freeze and cause me to restart the whole thing. That combined with the fact that there is pretty much zero activity in this thread (and also I'm clearly not going to be able to improve my rank position ) my enthusiasm for the game has run dry.

Hmm, the difference of being in the 850k – 860k bracket rather than the 840k – 850k bracket should be sufficient motivation.

DTUCC wrote:I can share your guys' demotivation. Can't get myself to play as well. Still stuck with my experiments in part 2 of LS. Can't seem to get the green gem in a bigger combo. Either not hitting the door, getting stuck on a platform or not even making it down there in time.
As for FC, and improvement wouldn't get me up much higher. Like half a year ago I calculated what score I would have if I played MandM's combos. Not a satisfying result, though. LS just doesn't motivate me if I can't get this outstanding improvement to work. And I'm pretty sure I won't.

I tried the LS part 2 thing some time ago and I was far away from doing it. It’s easy enough to get to the top level using the right moving platforms, and it’s also possible to reach the lower room before the gate closes. But it seems impossible to get a Crown, fall down/helicopter and then hit the wall with a curved shot in time to keep the combo going. My best effort was seconds away from being a success.

Hedgehog673 wrote:I guess I'm not getting as demotivated as all you guys. I had the game for Xbox a few years ago, I never actually cared about the scoring, then. I think I've played the game in attempts to get better score in about three months now...

That’s the spirit.

Don’t let the tired old players bring you down with their less than encouraging ranting.

Your scores are ok, but there is plenty of room for improvement. And you can take courage from the fact that the game for you will be funny and exciting for a long time to come. Making new combos work is a great feeling. Many old timers will envy you.

mostwanted82 wrote:Made quite some progress, yesterday I was able to complete LOTLD Part 2 with 66k
I'm aiming for the max now, afterwards I have no other choice than playing DOTK, even tho I rather planned doing something else originally

Great score after part 2. The rest should be a piece of cake.

Do you remember your score after part 1?

It's great how you try to motivate the other members, don't give up now Mand
The timing could barely be any better

MandM81 wrote: Great score after part 2. The rest should be a piece of cake.

Do you remember your score after part 1?

Thanks, and it was easy indeed
As for my score in Part 1, it almost touched 42k, could have broken the mark if I tried harder, but decided not to worry about these few points

Like announced, 121.099 is done after 4 days of playing

mostwanted82 wrote:That's a good foundation already, nice
I personally advise you to try TLOTLD or DOTK, but it's your choice, I'm always ready to help out tho
You have any particular goals?

I'm trying to get better in DOTK, as I want to get the Hoodoo/Green Gem combo in the second to last part done...I never react quick enough to get past the Hoodlock

MandM81 wrote:That’s the spirit.

Don’t let the tired old players bring you down with their less than encouraging ranting.

Your scores are ok, but there is plenty of room for improvement. And you can take courage from the fact that the game for you will be funny and exciting for a long time to come. Making new combos work is a great feeling. Many old timers will envy you.

Thanks, I'm mostly into getting higher scores in DOTK and BOM, although I'm having some problems with, well, ALL the Razoff combos. Developed some of my own BOM combos, I might try The Long Combo when my score reach high enough. I'm most likely gonna ignore the Hoodlum restart glitch first, though, takes too long time

You think that's bad: When I'm in the Bog of Murk I never manage to get the Double/Triple/Quadruple Razoff combo.

Don't feel disheartened about that. Restarting part 3 thousands of arduous times and replaying part 5 to trigger the infamous Razoff glitch are tales of only the most hardcore scorers.

MandM81 wrote:Hmm, the difference of being in the 850k – 860k bracket rather than the 840k – 850k bracket should be sufficient motivation.

Well this was the mindset I had when I returned to TLOTLD. But now, this just doesn't cut it for me and all I see is numbers.

@ mostwanted: Congratulations! If only that image belonged to me!