LOSING A COMBO

Learn how to avoid losing your combo in SSX 3. Discover what happens when you crash, the benefits of rewinding, and when to cash in your multiplier.

Carrying a large combo for most of the track can be risky, however, because it is possible to lose a combo if you crash before you allow it to expire or cross the finish line!

You can crash and lose a combo by not letting a trick go before you land, by crashing into obstacles like a rock or a tree branch, or sometimes you simply have a stroke of bad luck and crash when you cross some uneven terrain, though this is rare.

Upon crashing, you lose several things: 1) You will lose several points of your multiplier (usually 3-5). 2) You will lose your TRICKY status, returning to a normal boost bar and 3) you will lose your entire Combo Bank!

You can tell when you've lost a combo when your combo bank turns red and then all the numbers will tumble off the bottom of the screen.

Rewinding after a crash allows you to regain a few things - you can regain your TRICKY status, you can rewind to regain your lost multiplier points. However, no matter how far you rewind, you WILL NOT REGAIN YOUR COMBO BANK! This is the risk for carrying a combo an entire length of track.

Once you hit 20x on your combo multiplier, it is perfectly fine to let your combo expire and cash it in. Mathematically, it is exactly the same as if you held it the entire time. The only thing you are losing is the combo bonus, which is not worth enough to risk losing your combo if you are entering a very risky section of track. So feel free to cash in your combo to be sure you bank the points and don't lose them.

So that's the ins and outs of how a combo works. But there's still one very large piece of the puzzle missing: your multiplier. What determines it? What makes it go up? What makes it go down? Well folks, that's a very good question - get to know the Flow system.