Celestial Speedway v1.5

The update has arrived!

This is a new version of a track which I first released back in March. The original track was certainly a well received track, but ultimately it fell short of being accepted to CTGP because of a number of gameplay issues. Almost 7 months later, I have now updated the track to hopefully address the issues present in the original, and generally improve the overall quality.

The most significant changes happened within the park section of the track. In the original, it was widely seen as being too boost heavy and hard to navigate. The amount of fliptricks has been greatly reduced in this new version, and should play much better (especially online) as a result. A new shortcut has also been added in this section. Navigation is much easier now, thanks to more helpful arrows and the park paths being cleaned up a bit to avoid confusion, and to make it less brutal if you fall off from some turns. Those awful hexagon mipmapped walls are finally gone now! In addition, this area has much more decoration, including benches, lamps and even a fire pit area. This area also has many texture changes, since I feel like the MG textures were holding the track back visually.

The city section has less changes made, but there are still some changes. The sidewalk edge is no longer completely trickable, only trickable in certain areas. Different mipmapping is used in these areas to give a visual for where these places are. The ending split paths are also improved greatly over v1.0. The left one is the same as it was in the original version, except without as steep of an incline on it. The right one is completely redesigned and now takes the player underneath the left path, connecting to the road segment with the finishing line. A lot of effort went into balancing these paths, and (hopefully) it should lead to much more interesting gameplay.

I would also like to thank everyone who helped me with the creation of this update. CC, Pascal and Melg all had a lot of advice and input with the creation of this update, including ideas like the new shortcut, changes to the usage of the rainbow road theming, sidewalk tricks and more. The feedback from other council members and other testers was also incredibly valuable to the update process. (Sorry if I'm a little foggy on everyone's exact contributions, a lot of this feedback happened like 5-7 months ago). Additional credits goes to Jiyuu for a texture.

Thanks for watching!

=========

Direct download → https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachment...
Wiki Page → http://wiki.tockdom.com/wiki/Celestia...