After getting frustrated with looking for undone Nadeo shortcuts in the TM2 campaign, I switched to the next best thing. TM2`s StarStadium Campaign aka "StarTrack² - Stadium Campaign".
About a year ago, I didn`t even know such a campaign existed in TM2. Some strong and known players actually hunted maps of this campaign, so I went through all the maps to check for cuts :)
Here are a few comments on the different cuts I found:
*StarStadiumA10*
Well, I suck at dirt. I tried my best to stay as close to WR before the overwall at the end.
Getting a good OW and also keeping some speed for the end is really difficult.
*StarStadiumB15*
This cut is way harder than it might look, especially since you are forced to play in cam 3, so you just look into the sky during the cut.
Because this cut was so difficult, I tried to perform the cut only in the first lap and drive the rest of the map in the intended way. But I drove the other parts of the map so bad that I had to do the cut every lap xd
Although there are some mistakes are in the run, I am completely happy with the result. I never thought getting three cuts in a row was realistic.
*StarStadiumD02*
Definitly the coolest cut of all. I wasn`t sure if the finish jump was possible, I hunted the end in the editor for a while and initially gave up. A few weeks later, I checked it again and finally found the correct approach to finish it. A banger of a cut and fun to hunt.
*StarStadiumD13*
Easiest cut for me. You might wonder, why nobody did this before me. Start-overwalls to the left are actually extremely difficult in TM2 (OW to the right is free). But luckily, I found a weird input combination that makes the ow to the left very consistent. The end of the run can be improved, but my start was really sick, so it won`t be easy to beat this.
*StarStadiumE03*
The cut itself is not that difficult; driving the rest of the map was more challenging for me. Obviously, the run is improvable, but I am happy with the one I got.
Mappack of the campaign:
tm.mania-exchange.com/mappack/view/476/startrack-stadium-campaign-tracks
I used Clip Checkpoint 1.2.2 for CP-splits:
github.com/bigbang1112-cz/clip-checkpoint/releases/tag/v1.2.2
Music:
th-cam.com/video/MXBCMgq7_xY/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/4QhnexCi3b0/w-d-xo.html
00:00 StarStadiumA10
01:17 StarStadiumB15
03:08 StarStadiumD02
04:46 StarStadiumD13
05:34 StarStadiumE03
07:47 Outro