Evergreen Forest
Evergreen Forest is a featured addon track, made by Sridhar.
Description
This track takes between 30-40 seconds for a lap so the default number of laps is 3. It also has some sharp turns where heavy karts find difficulties so this track is most suitable for medium and light karts. This track consists of trees, rocks, grass, wood barriers, barrels, vases, houses, huts, lake, boat, waterfall and particle and sound effects which gives a good look for the track. As it contains a huge amount of objects and animations, it has lags and that is the reason why it is not played online very much. The music used by this track is valley by DJ Helium.
The track starts with three gifts and then followed by a 30° left turn with 2 bananas on both sides. Next, there is a 110° right turn which is rather sharp with two big nitros at both sides and a small nitro in the middle. Next, there is a 60° left turn which is not that difficult to achieve. However, there is a wall of vases which hide the bananas and nitros. After this long straight there is a long 150° turn over the waterfall path with two gifts at both sides and right after the turn there are seven small nitros placed from right to left of the road.
There is also an intended shortcut before taking the 60° left turn. Without turning left you need to slightly turn right at the corner of the left turn and jump to a wooden road which is rather difficult like doing it in Gran Paradiso Island because you can fall into the lake. Then comes a long straight with two gifts, two small nitros and a big nitro with a zipper. After the zipper there is a sharp left turn which joins the main path with 2 big nitros and a banana.
After the two paths join, there are 4 gifts and a big nitro. Then, there a slight left turn and a big tilted right turn. This can be avoided by just going over the grass face which is not tilted and saves some time. Then comes a sharp left turn with three bananas on both sides with a gap in the middle. The one who manages to go between the close bananas gets a big or small nitro depending on the gap. Then, there is another sharp right turn with no items and very long left turn with nitros on the right side. After the turn there is a zipper with a long straight and three gift boxes. At the end there is an easy 90° right turn finishing the track.
Shortcut Balance
After all, the shortcut is not too fast. If a mistake is done while executing that shortcut, it becomes slower than the main path. But there is quite an efficient way to avoid this. This is recently tried by Sridhar:
- As there is much nitro on the shortcut it should only be tried the first time.
- After the nitro is collected, don't use it up for the first lap. Instead use that efficiently for other two laps and they should be taken by driving on the main path so no mistakes are expected.
By doing this, it took 1:27:179 for Sridhar in time trial. The Ghost Replay Recording
