Back To Top
  • Hey Guest,
    If you are interested in ghosting, the Ghosting Awards from February 2025 all the way up to June 2025 have just been announced:

    Statement regarding the delays

    Ghosting Awards for February 2025

    Ghosting Awards for March 2025

    Ghosting Awards for April 2025

    Ghosting Awards for May 2025

    Ghosting Awards for June 2025
    Dismiss Notice
  • what is a ghoster/spacebarrer

    Discussion in 'Anything and everything Free Rider' started by n0ne, Sep 14, 2018.

    1. Evman

      Evman Active Member Official Author

      Um?? Spacebarring is not cheating, in fact every single good ghoster used the spacebarring tactic. Find a good ghost by a well known ghoster and its a 99% chance that they used spacebar
       
      Totoca12 and cctvcctvcctv like this.
    2. Nicholas-Opuni

      Nicholas-Opuni Well-Known Member Official Author

      Apparently, this person I know is using almost many adult words to conscribe his thoughts.
       
    3. cctvcctvcctv

      cctvcctvcctv Well-Known Member

      I am NOT having this same generic argument about space-barring. Suffice it to say, even though plenty of people use it, there is not a unanimous answer among the community as to whether it is good form to spacebar or not.

      Edit: geez starting to sound like opuni there
       
      gun and Totoca12 like this.
    4. cctvcctvcctv

      cctvcctvcctv Well-Known Member

    5. spruce

      spruce Dumptruck VIP Official Author

      Awarded Medals
      spacebarring isn't cheating. It's easy to do and anyone can do it. People who don't spacebar arent taking advantage of all the possibilities and advantages that the game offers.
       
    6. Calculus

      Calculus Community Developer Staff Member Administrator

      Awarded Medals
      So, basically, there are two definitions to a spacebarrer, Sidewalk and Backtwice
       
    7. Calculus

      Calculus Community Developer Staff Member Administrator

      Awarded Medals
      You are not proving him wrong, your only making it worse for us spacebarrers, lol
       
    8. Calculus

      Calculus Community Developer Staff Member Administrator

      Awarded Medals
      It is simply slowing the game down allowing us to think of how to create a better ghost ( when I put it that way, does kinda sound like cheating)
       
    9. spruce

      spruce Dumptruck VIP Official Author

      Awarded Medals
      anyone can do it, so its not unfair
       
      Logeton and Totoca12 like this.
    10. Madara

      Madara eesoncanaocee Ghosting Legend Official Author

      Awarded Medals
      It's just how non- spacebarrers think, they think it's cheating because the spacebarrers beat their ghosts, it's how i used to think honestly but now since i spacebar I don't think it's cheating.
       
    11. n0ne

      n0ne Member

      i just tried to spacebar. was a pretty **** experience
       
    12. n0ne

      n0ne Member

      i agree with this post - i feel that it isn't exactly cheating, just taking advantage of one of the games features, and the ones who don't use it feel that "spacebarrers" have an unfair advantages but I don't believe it counts as cheating.
       
    13. n0ne

      n0ne Member

      was still boring af and i wont be doing it lmao
       
      Madara likes this.
    14. Anonyymi

      Anonyymi ♂♂ Ghosting Legend Ghost Moderator Team Truck Ghoster Of The Decade (2014-2024) Official Author

      Awarded Medals
      As a new player who just found out about spacebarring I have a question. Am I safe to assume that most of the experience I've gotten from non-spacebarring in the past few weeks is pretty much useless after I switch to spacebarring? Spacebarring feels so different and I keep getting way worse times than when non-spacebarring. Demotivating af.
       
    15. Madara

      Madara eesoncanaocee Ghosting Legend Official Author

      Awarded Medals
      Keep training and zooming in will help a lot, after hard training it will be much useful. And your non-spacebarring experience will help you just focus on your moves.
       
    16. TwoSoggyBoi

      TwoSoggyBoi Casual Member

      Keep at it. I've been spacebarring for about a year now and I like to think I'm pretty good. I barely made the leaderboards at all when I didn't. Some tips I have are 1. Use down+up. It's actually the best way to generate grip slowing down. 2. I spacebar at an average of 0.13 seconds per spacebar, 0.10 when focused, so that's the sort of range to aim for. 3. try to learn complicated trial maneuvers. Watch https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/504102-house-trial/r/tetrationiscool, and then try to replicate as much of it as you can (I can only make it to the second checkpoint tho). You can even make your own mini trials to help you practice stuff, you don't have to publish them but I would like some more trials. https://www.freeriderhd.com/u/notverygood/created has made some really hard stuff, some of which can be quite useful. 4. A good way to practice ghosting is to try your hand at trickghosting. Some examples can be found at https://community.freeriderhd.com/threads/official-featured-ghosts.6336/ and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2fMEhpgIVn8_P6VAnk1_g/videos
      Hope this helped!
       
    17. Anonyymi

      Anonyymi ♂♂ Ghosting Legend Ghost Moderator Team Truck Ghoster Of The Decade (2014-2024) Official Author

      Awarded Medals
      Thanks both of you for your advice. I've already gotten pretty consistent with my spacebars. It's still hard to get good times in certain maps because you can't really tell if your momentum is good or bad while spacebarring. Easier to just "brute force" the track until I get to the leaderboards.
      Other than that, spacebarring seems fun and I'm excited to start finishing some of the harder trial tracks.
       
      Nicholas-Opuni likes this.
    18. Nicholas-Opuni

      Nicholas-Opuni Well-Known Member Official Author

      Not an argument thread despite the extensive ghost-n'-spacebar interference to what you did under spasmodic situations.
       
    19. Nicholas-Opuni

      Nicholas-Opuni Well-Known Member Official Author

      Do I, by the way, know you already?
       
    20. Anonyymi

      Anonyymi ♂♂ Ghosting Legend Ghost Moderator Team Truck Ghoster Of The Decade (2014-2024) Official Author

      Awarded Medals
      nope
       
      Nicholas-Opuni likes this.

    Share This Page