I may be looking at this wrong (Destiny)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Tuesday, December 15, 2015, 13:29 (3361 days ago) @ kidtsunami

The past handful of races have had my competitors push me off the shortcuts. It has led me to train the turns.

Boy, let me tell you, perfecting the Venus zig-zag is exciting as hell. There's a cliff on the zag you can use as centripetal force by riding the edge that triggers adrenaline rushes every time.

I don't think I'm ever taking the Venus shortcut again.

I'm able to take the "long" way around without letting off the gas using side-boosts, so I'm able to benefit from the gates and out-race any short-cut taker.

1v1 me bros. If you're able to hit the gate right before the shortcuts, it gives you an advantage 90% of the time against even the best corner-huggers.

Although it is risky, and it doesn't always benefit you (30 seconds into the clip).

Just check your times on guardian.gg

Mars
Venus

I'd say my times (KidTsunami / XB1) anecdotally suggest that you avoid shortcuts.

I dunno. The site doesn't distinguish between best time and most gates hit. It just tracks what the best is for each stat. My best time on Venus is nearly identical to yours, but that was with 65 gates hit (my average), as opposed to my record of 70.

You're KoRnyMunKy / XB1?

So your best Venus time is 4:20.613 and mine is 4:10.009.

I wouldn't describe 10 seconds as "nearly identical". That would put me as "nearly identical" to the currently 8th best time on XB1 of 4:00.170.

I wouldn't use my Xbox account for those stats, I don't have any racing/trick sparrows there, so I'm stuck without fuel for the majority of a race.
Munky-058 is my PS4 account, where things are lined up better. I'm sure that if I was any good at the Mars map, I'd have a better time there too, but there are a bunch of curves and turns that I'm horrible at, but the shortcut ain't one of them (usually).

The shortcut on mars? Don't even need to turn on the normal way, just target the dark shadow of the underpass and no hard turn or side-step of any kind necessary.

And boost right as you hit the second gate, right? I know how to take that curve, and I still say that hitting the first gate, taking the shortcut, and hugging the right wall is the way to go.

The shortcut on Venus? Side-stepping at the right times gives you an insane amount of speed coming out of that turn.

Or you can just curve into a straight line through the gate, up the ramp, over the shortcut, and through to the next gate without having to get to the corner that needs boosts...