Other Tricks

Learn advanced SSX 3 gameplay techniques, including managing boost, mastering rails, performing advanced tricks, and utilizing 'Bunny Hopping' for higher scores and faster times.

This section covers various advanced techniques and tips for SSX 3, focusing on maximizing scores and improving race times. These methods involve precise control of boost, rail grinding, trick execution, and combo maintenance.

General Gameplay Techniques:

1. Boost Management: Pay close attention to achieving TRICKY status for unlimited boost. Save big tricks for sections where unlimited boost is most effective.
2. Rail Grinding: Boost fastest when your board is parallel to a rail. Performing Ubers on rails can slightly slow you down. Disengage from a rail by pressing the grind button and a direction on the left stick.
3. Increased Tricky Time Mod: Using this mod can extend the duration of your unlimited boost in TRICKY status during races.
4. Helicopter Jumps: Perform a high-scoring grab and at least one flip out of the helicopter to gain early boost and an advantage.
5. Airtime Control: Minimize airtime during tricks. Jump early off kickers to reduce the time spent in the air while still performing enough tricks to reach TRICKY status.

Trick Execution Techniques:

1. Tweak Tricks: Always tweak your tricks, including those performed out of the helicopter or off flat ground.
2. Maximize Trick Bonuses: Perform only one grab or Uber per jump and hold it for the entire airtime to achieve HUGE and MASSIVE bonuses.
3. Flip Focus: Prioritize performing only flips during jumps, as this is faster than combining spins and flips.
4. Grab/Uber Variety: Alternate between specific grabs (Mute/Stalefish) and Ubers (Blackbird/All You Can Eat). For other tricks, use 2-input variations like Seatbelt and Tail Grab/Stay Frosty and Royal Flush.
5. Avoid Duplicates: Keep track of performed tricks to avoid duplicates, which severely reduce trick scores. If a duplicate is performed, immediately execute a different trick.
6. Helicopter Trick Benefits: Tricking off the helicopter grants initial boost and increases your multiplier by +1. It also provides a 20,000 point bonus but can reduce speed and alter your intended trajectory.
7. Multiplier Maximization: Aim to reach a 20x multiplier as quickly as possible by going side-to-side up the mountain or performing flips/spins with tweaked grabs off flat ground.
8. Big Air Strategy: Prioritize large airtime for single tricks, as a 5-second grab yields more points than five 1-second grabs. Integrate small tricks between major jumps to maintain combos and reach big air opportunities.
9. Combo Maintenance: Maintain a continuous combo from start to finish to ensure Super Tricky status. Cashing in a combo mid-run is acceptable if the multiplier is at 20x.
10. Nose/Tail Press Importance: Nose/Tail pressing is crucial for maintaining combos between jumps, similar to SSX 3. However, it significantly reduces speed and can limit airtime.
11. Rail Trick Variation: On straight rails, instead of holding a rail Uber, jump off, perform flips with grabs/Ubers, land back on the rail, and repeat.
12. Rewind for Combos: If you fall into a crevasse or go out of bounds while maintaining a combo, use rewind to take a penalty and continue. Rewinding does not restore a lost combo after a bail.

Advanced Technique: "Bunny Hopping"

Events: Trick It

Importance for High Scores: Very important

How to do "Bunny Hopping": Perform very quick, short jumps with a tweaked grab between each major jump on a track.

Why Do "Bunny Hopping"?: Nose and Tail presses are inefficient for maintaining combos between jumps as they offer low scores and quickly deplete the combo timer. Bunny hopping with quick, small tricks not only sustains the combo but also increases the multiplier and combo count if the tricks are decent.

Why does "Bunny Hopping" work?: SSX makes it easier to land tricks. Performing quick tricks between major jumps is more effective for maintaining combos than relying on Nose Presses, which slow you down and can cause combos to expire.