Nobody wants to spend three hours doing backflips to unlock tracks. This isn't a free to play mobile game. I don't know if you're planning 'pay-to-progress' microtransactions but you probably are.

Pride and accomplishment doesn't come from regurgitating the same three ideas you had for challenges ad infitunum. Add some variety to them for the love of God and reduce the amount of time it takes to unlock things.

Nobody wants strangers avatars mocking them every time the complete a track. We don't give a shit about other players we don't even know, and if we do, we check the score board. We need the ability to turn of ghosts completely. Trials is very much a solo experience for a lot of people and this forced social aspect adds nothing at all to the game. You can't even select a friends ghosts.

Your loot boxes are shit. There's no incentive to even open them after the first ten because you just get the same old shit over and over 'legendary' items shouldn't be appearing four times in a row. And for gods sakes allow us to open them all at once. Opening them isn't the exciting event you intended it to be.

The map is unnecessary. I understand you've got themed maps for different cities and that's great, but the icons don't easily show what you need to do on each level. Why is my best time in tiny letters? Why do you think we want to be searching aimlessly around a map trying to find the things we need to do with your crappy progression? PLEASE just make an 'original mode' where all the levels are layed out in blocks so we can access them quickly and easily. This sporadic scattering all over the place is a mess. Yes, you can filter but what if I only want hard or extreme maps? Oh, I can only filter one at a time. Why change something that was so perfect? We don't want to be dicking around with filters.

The performance on switch is unacceptable, the frame pacing is bolloxed in docked mode, its a pseudo 3d racing game and its running at 30fps and often less at sub HD resolutions. The controls on switch are extremely unresponsive and pressing right on the joycon barely works in menus.

The PC version doesn't recognise xbox one pads correctly and displays all button prompts as L stick, but you already know this because you had a beta and presumably have testers.

Having to do a race on a generic track three times to get to the next section is not something that should be forced on people. WE JUST WANT TO PLAY THE TRACKS FOR PLATINUMS/DIAMONDS. it's really really simple. We don't want all this bullshit.

The real tragedy is that the game had by far some of the best map design of any of the games, I really do feel for the designers because their excellent level have been smeared with a veneer of shitty maps and levelling up tat. It feels like you've just to cram mobile mechanics, social mechanics and a load of other shit into a game that should just be pure racing for better times and perfection.

Late to the party, but this took years

The only reason trials as a whole doesn’t make you want to punch a hole in the wall is because as soon as you mess up you can gain instant redemption by pressing B. In skill games when you mess up, your greeted with a 5 second cool down.

It seems like such a small quality of life change, but this timer is making me reach new levels of rage.

Its fine on like the basket ball game and what not, but when trying difficult things like hill climb and ESPECIALLY loose screw, where a run can be ended in 0.2 seconds and you don’t get to react in time and press B/O

Updated: 11/03/2019

I wanted to give RedLynx our feedback in a positive concise way so I’ve amalgamated all of the Reddit feedback from the past few days into one place for ease and to help us avoid constant reposts about ghosts or the music. I will try and keep this updated if we can get it pinned that would be great.

TIPS on Progress:

Quick tips from me! u/Crispy_Squirrel -

I'm level 94 and top 1% on leaderboards. I unlocked the extreme levels at level: 88ish (finish all stadiums too.) Ninja levels: Can be unlocked by getting gold on all levels. I didn't use the two additional bikes.

I'd recommend playing through the game pretty chilled first time round. You're going to be replaying A LOT of tracks to do contracts and setting sweet mustard times is only going to make your life harder later on. Play a level once to check it out. Then again to do the contract. Then again to set a gold time. Then again once you've unlocked all tracks go set plat times.

If you're having a naff run. Finish it anyway, you'll get some xp and some coin.

Also, pay attention to the XP/Star icon on contracts. Some are worth far more than others. Red bull pays well but some f**ing suck and are very challenging. I found the university contracts quite easy fun and paywell.

The stadium times are bugged and if you set a top 200 time like I did last night you'll now have to beat the top player in the world to even re-set a new better time! My friend beat his top 200 time and it didn't save because he didn't beat the rival (top 1 player in the world!)

The Sticker system is bugged (on ps4 anyway.) Don't waste your time creating cool stuff just yet. my 45min bike decals were wiped so was my squirrel helmet!

u/korndog81 claims there are a total of 400 Contracts to complete currently if you care!

u/-seabass gave some great advice for Hiding ghosts ‘in race’ here: Turn ghost opacity to zero and ghost distance to 100, it makes it so they're never visible. They're still present, and you still have to see the annoying characters after completing a track, but at least they won't distract you while you're actually playing.

Grinding less,leveling up:

u/mustg3tbuck I recommend doing all the tutorials and all the skill games at least once. They have easy contracts worth a lot of XP. The mystery stranger challenges are a gold mine as well. They’re tough though. There are golden squirrels in the game to collect. If you want to scavenger hunt instead of grinding contracts you can do that as well.

u/mtomato : Red bull contracts give alot and are easy too!

u/Narcissus87 : Unlock the helium and donkey. They both unlock a set of contracts that are fun, challenging, and dilute the repetition of the Flips/Wheelie challenges.

u/TyrianMollusk gave a small tip for speeding up stadium challenges: Don't know if it helps, but each stadium can be used as a menu for its "league" tracks, kind of like the old games.

u/walshurmouthout gave a tip on beating very hard player opponents on stadiums. Play offline!

Getting Sweet Mustard Times:

u/Vantier: Has kindly documented how many users have diamond times, across all maps here! Letting you (kind of) calculate what levels are easier to beat or to find more challenging levels for you to dominate the leaderboard.

Community requested updates. Some don’t need explaining!

· Ghosts: ‘Disable all ghosts’ option.

· Ghosts: Show friends only option.

· Ghosts: Show ‘own best time’ only option.

· Leaderboards currently ignore faults. wtf?

· Leaderboards various Cheaters/Hackers taking top spots on levels.

· Option to ‘skip’ Backflip Challenges.

· Option to play two contracts at once.

· Option to remove the restart timer on skill games.

· Don’t display winning ‘victory animations’ on Backflip challenges. We’re not competing for times here! ⁽u/jimmymccorkell*)*

· Option to disable all ‘victory animation’s after finishing level.

· Option to remove assigned ‘victory animation’s from player customisation.

· Option to switch bike in game (via pause menu).

· Option to show 'split times' continually on screen. ^{( Chrispie1} )

· Option to default select the last bike you used. ^{( ajk_} )

· Replays: Make ‘view replay’ easier to find. This is a huge part of trials.

· Replays: Make 'Replay' have playback speed options (1x, 2x, 0.5x 0.2x, speeds)

· Replays: Make splits visible when replaying the run you just finished.

· Make 'Leaderboards' one click at the level end (or inside the level in pause menu) so we're not exiting the level to see our times. ^{( u/ChibaG7} )

· Allow individual soundtracks to be enabled/disabled.

· Make ‘stadium’ challenges optional.

· Make Backflip challenges appear after completing main quest rather than throughout.

· Issues with sharing creations. Please review ^(u/NGins)

· Loot Boxes: Lots of duplicate items in Loot boxes. Please review.

· Loot Boxes: Add ‘quick sell’ option for duplicate loot.

· Loot Boxes: Add ‘open all’ option to loot crates.

· Map icons are too small. Give us size options ‘small medium large’.

· Map is hard to see what levels are completed and what are not. Change colours on icons to blacked out.

· Map progression is slow. Decrease sponsor challenges and increase XP.

· Map icons are undetailed. Give us ‘extra detail option’ or ‘time trial’ option.

· Items disappearing from inventory.

· Items duplicating from inventory.

· Items bugged in inventory.

· Items 'favourite' button to stop us selling by mistake.

· Items with custom stickers erasing themselves and 'orange circling' .

· In game menus are slow. Please review tab switching and scroll speeds.

· Unlock hard/extreme tracks earlier in game for more experienced riders.

· Add filter to stickers to ONLY view unlocked stickers. *⁽*u/kingreaper504*)*

· Loading times of maps are very long. 'Smoke screen' sometimes appears for along time.

· People are complaining about ‘Asian novice class stadium’ pairing them up with very hard opponent players.

· The speed of scrolling around the map is slow. Add a 'Classic' view option.

· Some people's pre-order/gold edition items aren't showing up in game regardless if they've registered club.(^{u/ArmedBumblebee})

· Add more map filters. For example medal filters so we can quickly play bronze silver golds to beat.

· Increase size of national flags in leaderboards.

· Can we get private multiplayer?

· Sticker system needs reviewing. Features like selecting multiple stickers and being able to group them, resize/relocate them as one, and save them to be shared later. *⁽*u/Wafflexboy*)*

· <20mins on a ninja track doesn't show times or scores.

· The extreme contract on Angkor is bugged and fails too quick. Shows incorrect times.

· New High Score marker hides tracks below it.

· Replays: add option to only show time, faults and player input on screen during replay.

· Replays: add option to jump straight into a level after watching.

· PS4: Frame rate drops (1-2second freezes mid run), Background glitches causing gaming to run in slow motion,

· Switch: is running the game poorly. Please review control response times, frame rates and colours on HD screens. Game crashes once every couple of hours.

· Xbox One: Framerate drops/stuttering, most often when being up high or jumping high in the air. Time's glitching at the end of tracks. 'Go to contract' option sometimes errors and shows incorrect contract. Losing connection can corrupt challenger resulting in total game lockout. Friends scores are not showing in the friends tab in any leaderboards. Using dpad in menus has significant input delay.

· PC: Using xbox controller on PC doesn't show the correct buttons in menus.

· Track Central add option/filter for "tracks I've already played".

· Track Central When I'm using my own filter and I've finished a track I'm back to the "main" menu of track central instead of my filtered search.

· Track Central Can we change the voting system for tracks to be more user friendly? Please change it back to 1-5 stars, or at least rb-good, lb-bad track

Please keep comments positive. Everyone makes mistakes let’s hope Redlynx/Ubisoft listen to us.

My PSN is Crispy_Squirrei

Don't worry, the nightmare isn't completely over. I still have to do Pipe Phobia and the Inferno challenges next, so fully expect more mental breakdowns from me over the next month and a half. As you can see at the end of this video, Ubisoft's server's bugged out in classic Ubisoft fashion, so it didn't save this time to the leaderboards, which is pretty awesome. The same thing happened to me when I did Eye of the Storm faultless. I'll eventually go back and do this again with the Pit Viper, I guess, but for now I'm taking a much-needed break from this game. Currently in contact with Redlynx to see if they can cover my therapy sessions for the psychic damage this game inflicted upon my brain. Jokes aside, I want to give a huge thank you to everyone on Reddit, PSNprofiles, and the Trials Discord who gave me advice and words of encouragement for Top Roach. I appreciate each and every one of you ❤️

It's such a relief to pass this, the track is just checkpoints 6,7 and 10 and the rest is free but that didn't stop it being a horrible grind. Now I can finally say I've completed this stupid game!!

My favorite part of trials is beating my friends ghosts and rubbing it in their faces. Please let us change the ghost options.