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I'm having a lot of problem finishing up the last two trailblazing (the hard ones). I passed the cyber one but its the quadbike which is giving me a lot of trouble.

 

I searched youtube & some ppl r also having problems with it.

 

Im not realli good at racing games so I guess Im struggling more.

 

I must have tried like 25 times & I can only make it to the 5th checkpoint.

 

Did any1 else have problems with this or is it just me?

 

Any tips wud b appreciated.

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I just did my hard trail-blazing missions last night and yes they were hard but doable.

The trick is to run into groups of people to build up your bonus quickly and memorize the shortest route after a few tries.

You can also crash into gas pumps, it seemed to increase my bonus by quite a bit...

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My playing partner and I had no success with these after dozens of tries when we first started playing. Last night, we tried again and got both after one try each.

 

First, make sure you have nitrous boost for every car unlocked. You'll use this on the long straightaways. Be sure to drive on the curb: running over as many pedestrians and smashing into as many cars as possible.

 

Use the GPS line on your mini map but dont follow it exclusively. It takes you down the road, but ignores the short cuts. It'll keep you on track, but look for faster routes. One spot in particular has you traveling in a huge U, but you can just jump the hill and save yourself 10 seconds. (This spot is towards the end during the longer of the 2 challenges, sorry I forgot exactly where but it is fairly obvious.)

 

Like I said, I did this with a friend (I drove, he used moltolvs) but if you can throw the molotolvs aim forward at either 2 o'clock or 10 o'clock and try to hit the opposite side of the road you're driving on. Spam this as fast as you can. Hope this helps!

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Ye i have nitrous in all cars. But I find the quadbike has the worst controls. It keeps turning too fast or not fast enough.

 

Im wondering if I can use the free city takeover for these events? Will that still net me the trophy for that district or I have to actually do all events?

 

Can any1 confirm?

 

Yes you can use the free city takeover to save you all the trouble.

I would personally save it for the tougher heli assault missions though :think:

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You don't have to take the best path, but keeping a constant stream of time bonuses are key, whether you hit pedestrians or cars. Here's the video I made, and you'll see that I had a few embarrassing moments where I got stuck behind something. The key for me was to reduce the amount of time I wasted at the U-turns. I'm sure I didn't take the shortest route and I know I wasn't the quickest.

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtDTZrqduP8]Saints Row The Third ~ Trail Blazing [Hard] ~ Porkchop Sandwiches (PART 3 of 6) - YouTube[/ame]

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You don't have to take the best path, but keeping a constant stream of time bonuses are key, whether you hit pedestrians or cars. Here's the video I made, and you'll see that I had a few embarrassing moments where I got stuck behind something. The key for me was to reduce the amount of time I wasted at the U-turns. I'm sure I didn't take the shortest route and I know I wasn't the quickest.

 

 

Ye I saw that video on youtube. It was quite good but I ended up just using my free city takeover for that trailblaze.

 

Got my plat today lol.

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For anyone else who has trouble with this, I just finished the quad hard race.

 

The key is to always drive on the sidewalk and mow down pedestrians. I tried several times at first to go as quickly as possible through it, using nitro, etc. That only ended in miserable failure every time.

 

On my winning run, I didn't hold down the gas pedal, I carefully drove on the sidewalk, mowing down pedestrians. I had a few screw ups where I got stuck for several seconds, didn't race full throttle, and I still finished with like a minute left on the timer!

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I don't know why it is but the developers have made the decision to make you vehicle in any of the activities shite, it's like your lighter than a feather, controls dont exist not to mention the AI all panic and try to kill you :)

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After reading this I realized one thing.

 

I'm the luckiest sob on the face of the earth!

 

When I was given the option to do city takeovers I chose random Hoods which contained the hard trailblazer events, I just needed to complete one event on easy and the trophy popped :dance:

 

That.

 

You get a takeover in the upgrades menu, use that on the first hard trailblaze. Later in the game, after you give Nyghtblade back to Titus (you have the decision to keep him as a homie or give him back), STAG gives you another free takeover.

 

I don't have the patience for Trailblaze, and I was getting pretty pissy durign the HARD version of Escort at Cutter International. Thank god I'm done with that. Whenever I play the game I blow up every Anchor Van I see in a fit of rage :dance:

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I have one last ( Hard ) on the table and after couple of attempts i moved on since i fukd up always before last checkpoint. Somewhere between 9 and 12.

Few things were still clear very fast.

Memorize the route, use a nitro and grind grind grind those corners so you wont get stuck somewhere. It's same to start over if you cant keep running all the time.

Difficulties change quite a bit since mostly all the tasks were easy n simple but this one is actually pretty hard as it says. Doable, yes, definitely but you gotta just know the route and well... have some luck even since cars are spawning randomly.

Sometimes you hit right away passing car and 2 cars are heading towards and sometimes at the start theres maybe 1.

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Thought I'd be sharing...

 

jvaferreira said:
When I was given the option to do city takeovers I chose random Hoods which contained the hard trailblazer events, I just needed to complete one event on easy and the trophy popped...

 

Yeah you're lucky that you had saved your takeover tokens! I was banging my head on the wall upon realising my big mistake in wasting mine.

 

However with persistence I was able to nail the Trail Blazing Tron events on Hard! I did the Medium one first and then went for the last one on Hard. I probably had about 10 tries but even when I made errors I just carried on just to get the feel of the track.

 

My technique? Use your breaks and speeding is not always the solution and neither is going for TANKS (adds +2 seconds). Just hit the safe ones along the way and mind the ones that are traps - as for me there were always quite a few.

 

My eyes were more focused on the center line while being midful of the firewalls. I somehow started to ignore the bike and made it invisible. Slowing down helps a lot especially while turning. Think driving your car in a road full of potholes. The firewalls have a safe gateway as well... they are narrow but very doable - the horn-shaped flames have a clearing in the middle, and going through them helps cut corners a bit by blowing up the tanks ahead in advance.

 

Just don't give up. It's not like it's Shift 2 Unleashed drifting! (those who played the game knows what I mean by that)... now for 4 more collectibles and I finally get the platinum...

 

EDIT: 30.04.2022

I do not know what kind of had I been smoking up there but for the life of me I could no longer do these freaking Tron Trailblazers on Medium and Hard! These shits are doing my head in. I purchased the HARD Tron TB with a City Takeover upgrade on Deckers Ashwood.  Just waiting to reach and finish the Stag Party mission so I can do the same to takeover Deckers Burns Hill to skip the Medium Tron TB.

 

As for the Quad Bike TB, I never had a problem with those. Like what folks here have suggested - run over as much pedestrians as possible as they give the most points +4 secs if I am not mistaken and vehicles will only give +1 secs then BANK the bonus times gathered with a checkpoint to claim the extra time.  They are actually NOT awarded right away, we need to pass through a checkpoint to earn them.

 

For the Heli-Assault, I find them quite fun and only one gave me a bit of a challenge - the ones with 6 hacking locations.

 

 

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For some reason I had no trouble with the activities, except for some insurance fraud ones sometimes I'd get a minute amount of money the next I'd get the requirement in one combo and I never figured out why.

 

For trailblazing I found it helps to have shortcuts unlocked (or at least be on the lookout for them while racing), because you don't have to follow the path it gives you, you only have to reach the next checkpoint. Also there's little fires on the road you hit them and they'll seek out the nearest car or group of pedestrians giving you a free bonus.

 

On the subject of city takeover tokens, I used them almost straight away on areas I've barely touched, didn't think about what activities were in them.

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For people having trouble with these, I'd like to stress what has already been said; mow people down. I was having so much trouble with this at first. I ran into all the cars, as much as possible, and it gave me like what, four extra seconds? I was like, are you even serious??

But if you just run people over, you get way more time. At one point I filled my timer up to almost two minutes. Just keep hitting people and the whole thing becomes a joke.

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It's really strange, cos I haven't had any problems with the activities, all done max at the second attempt, including trailblazing and heli ones, while trafficking activities, that no one has mentioned before, were all terrible with endless waves of enemies and the idiot ai not moving fast enough! I did everything in hardcore (idk if level difficulty affect activity difficulty:confused:), but these were really stressful. The only takeover (I've not given Nightblade to Cyrus) that i used has been in the hard escort mission after like 10 attempts, no regrets!

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For anyone else who has trouble with this, I just finished the quad hard race.

 

The key is to always drive on the sidewalk and mow down pedestrians. I tried several times at first to go as quickly as possible through it, using nitro, etc. That only ended in miserable failure every time.

 

On my winning run, I didn't hold down the gas pedal, I carefully drove on the sidewalk, mowing down pedestrians. I had a few screw ups where I got stuck for several seconds, didn't race full throttle, and I still finished with like a minute left on the timer!

 

Exactly. You can just slowly drive over groups and rows of pedestrians, and finish with a lot of time left.

 

Slowly was also what worked on the hard Tron race. I just took the corners slowly and drove into whatever tank that wasn't too far out of the way. Though I had to speed up for the last 3 checkpoints or I wouldn't have made it.

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Precisely, the trick with the quad bike trail blazing is just hitting everything you can between checkpoints, preferably people, since theres a lot more of them than cars, you dont need to go that fast, just a steady speed which allows to nail them , got this with 30 secs to spare on the last checkpoint

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