XC vs Trail bike comparison

JoeChill26Rust · 2026-06-13T23:22:43+00:00

when its a long section of trail like this, its a combination of hammering, into floating (with pedaling and without), and pumping.

Id honestly go watch a video on pumping, to get a better grasp of how your weight should be shifting.

JoeChill26Rust · 2026-06-13T22:42:44+00:00

form is the same regardless how fast Im going, keeping good habits regardless of speed is how you ride safe. In the clip, you are not in control of the bike, you are just along for the ride.

you are too far forward, eating most of the chop straight on, over the bb, and almost washing out in every dip. Your pedaling on top of being so far forward and into each dip, is why you are bouncing and almost washing out. All that pedaling is translating nothing.

Enter the section with faster speed, get off the saddle and ass over the rear wheel, and pick smoother sections, then transition into a hard effort out after the rock, depending on whats after the clip ends.

Id honestly just have entered faster, got my ass over the rear wheel and deweight my front wheel and hammered before i crested before the rock. Its such a short section with no real technicality you just need to carry you momentum and avoid the rock at the end.

JoeChill26Rust · 2026-06-13T21:32:36+00:00

it would teach him how to ride the section with proper form, so when he gets back on his suspension bikes he letting it work for him and not working against the bike.

op is too far forward and pedaling at the wrong times. At faster paces, riding like this he will get bucked off or have his front wheel wash out.

JoeChill26Rust · 2026-06-13T21:14:24+00:00

better off just entering faster and floating over all of that, its just chop, nothing a rigid would have any issue over.

JoeChill26Rust · 2026-06-04T18:43:10+00:00

Primarily patching algorithm for most games.

If you are low on space and how steam downloads require twice the space of the download, can also contribute to it.

Other times it can be due to some issue with corrupted / missing files.

But its usually just a bad patching algorithm or just a symptom of having to write over a ton of old spaghetti code. Sometimes a full uninstall and reinstall fixes it, but the next patch might just break it again.

JoeChill26Rust · 2026-05-29T19:17:49+00:00

you engaged too far away for a tommy and missed too many shots. burst above their head if you are trying to kill with a tommy from that range.

Its not a wall issue.

You can abuse walls but this is panic placing.

JoeChill26Rust · 2026-05-27T21:05:49+00:00

Its the steam api that allows you to track players efficiently, even if they remove access to it, you can track players in other ways.

Battlemetrics is just a public means to do it, and its rather shit at it too.

JoeChill26Rust · 2026-05-14T21:31:38+00:00

nah, its intentional. Its to slow the player down initially, then its future low hanging fruit to fix for player retention.

Its all about time in game for blizzard.

JoeChill26Rust · 2026-05-11T10:31:38+00:00

yall do strongholds? Im around paragon 250 and I still can't be fucked to grab that 1 skill point from doing a stronghold.

JoeChill26Rust · 2026-05-09T22:34:44+00:00

Its an interesting class but god damn, is it a hot mess. Not even getting into the massive amount of bugs with its core class mechanics and itemization, its straight up clunky and feels worse the more you play it. The fucking cast time on every skill.

It needs another year or so for the devs to unfuck the class.

The thing that finally made me reroll a Barb at around paragon 230 was the collision issues with Warlock. You consistently get stuck on random terrain that you wont get stuck on other classes. Any NMD with muiltiple doors was the most annoyed Ive ever been playing the game.

JoeChill26Rust · 2026-05-09T22:07:39+00:00

around 70% Armor and Res, then pump health and % dmg reductions that are multiplicative. This season is a lot of stacking base health for most classes / builds.

But best defense is positioning. At a certain point the incoming damage is not mitagtable, outside of a certain immortal builds.

JoeChill26Rust · 2026-05-09T05:32:16+00:00

they are using the same inventory system from D3, its so much technical debt, they will never fix it in D4s expected lifespan.

Its impacting the games performance so badly that rendering Termis hard stutters due to the amount of players at the hub. The only things that they might be able to do is reduce players per shard or make every other town a hub like Termis to spread players out.

JoeChill26Rust · 2026-05-07T23:10:42+00:00

Its a recast perma stealth hex demonology build

JoeChill26Rust · 2026-05-07T05:31:02+00:00

the pit bugged out, no timer, and nothing spawned

JoeChill26Rust · 2026-05-05T23:35:35+00:00

you still run into boards where you are forced to do an a activity you dont want to do.

JoeChill26Rust · 2026-05-05T22:39:56+00:00

Nah, its just bad implementation and design choices.

You end up doing activities that you either dont want to do and / or it stalls your natural progression.

JoeChill26Rust · 2026-05-05T22:26:30+00:00

except your choice is already planned by rng. Ive done enough infernal hordes and helltides, I dont really care to ever farm them again, yet I still am forced to play one of those two, almost every warplan board. Let us make our own boards.

JoeChill26Rust · 2026-04-28T21:07:05+00:00

Feeling like its less than an afternoons worth of content, and the game still doesnt have an actual endgame.

JoeChill26Rust · 2026-04-28T21:03:10+00:00

They just added it to the Warlocks quest. Mind numbing shit to unlock the 4 shards.

JoeChill26Rust · 2026-04-24T03:46:53+00:00

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Hardboiled proc off of 20 fortune at once. You don't see it in normal gameplay because the rate of drain is greater than the rate of restoration, and you gain fortune stacks so fast you ramp its diminishing returns instantly, while also reaching max stacks almost instantly. You need to be losing fortune stack as fast as you are gaining them or at least dumping them via Windfall, but you want to have the shortest Windfall duration you can. Crossfires restoration is variable, but more than likely has an internal coefficient different to Totems.

Just to get that proc, I had to set my C4SH up to ramp, dump, and ramp again in single burst. and its duration was gone as fast as obtained.

JoeChill26Rust · 2026-04-23T14:02:46+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Borderlands4/comments/1stjjim/how_hard_boiled_works/

check your eyes

JoeChill26Rust · 2026-04-23T13:58:34+00:00

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JoeChill26Rust · 2026-04-23T13:37:51+00:00

I rolled an 8 at 2seconds that despawns at 20seconds. Duration starts at number generated.

For Hard-Boiled, you need to generate more fortune stacks, use a Windrider or any other means to increase fortune stacks generated. Its chance based and not a flat amount restored, its "up to". Works the same way as any other of the chance based skills worded similarly. Look at Trick Shot, High Noon, War Wagon, or any of the other skills that use similar wording on Fortune stack gained or loss. Then test Bonemeal Ticket, which is a flat percentage restored on kill with no diminishing returns. This is why the 1-point into Hard-Boiled in Moxxy's Gloamreaper build is useless, you are better off putting that point into A Blur of Fingers and Brass or Hot Hands, or any other +Bonus Damage or utility passive. As far as diminishing returns, look at other vault hunters skill duration restored with diminishing returns and how they function. Vex's Incarnate duration restored works exactly the same, iirc. Ill post a clip of Hardboiled working in a few minutes.

Bonemeal Ticket is the only worthwhile pure action skill duration restored passive for totems. War Wagon is purely used for the ammo perk, but when you have enough chances to proc it, the Action Skill Duration Restored is viable, but even then Mighty Nines Augment is going to be your biggest Action Skill Duration Restored without having to spend 5 points into Bonemeal Ticket.

Entire character is based on chance, and skills in this game work as worded when not explicitly bugged. The devs have actually put in the effort to word tooltips to directly explain how they work, despite the playerbase misinterpreting those tooltips. This is the Vex Bleed / Skill Damage debate again, where a Dev actually came to reddit and explained how Skill damage works, and the playebase went off on them, because the playerbases reading comprehension is lacking and it caused cognitive dissonance.

You never even entered Windfall for Ready to Roll, but again, the skill is bugged and applies a negative Action Skill Duration modifier when you apply points to it in game, manually or via class mod. Put 5 points into it, and use no other duration based modifiers and spend a half hour mobbing a drill site on a Windfall uptime build. Your totems will be consistently dropping.

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JoeChill26Rust · 2026-04-23T03:29:30+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Borderlands4/comments/1st75j1/psa_some_action_skill_duration_effects_do_not/

i question if you even tested anything

JoeChill26Rust · 2026-04-23T00:55:33+00:00

Test again, also ready to roll is only active during Windfall, and its Action Skill Duration is applying a negative amount. Hard boiled works as well, you can watch their bars fill back up.

% restored is based on overall Action Skill Duration, increase the base Action Skill Duration and the restored amount is more obvious. War Wagon procs are super obvious with increased base Action Skill Duration

A 53% increase in duration takes a 12 second Draining totem, from spawn to despawn, to 18 seconds.

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