Speed Testing Results

Preface: Turning and Jumping will slow you down.

• Skis and Snowboards have the same top speed (tested).

• The wingsuit has the same speed whether you are diving, climbing, or simply free-falling. In short, only turning sacrifices speed while wing-suiting (tested). Juking / Dodging in the wingsuit does not cost any speed. As such, if you can make corrections by only dodging, it will be faster than turning (tested).

• Skis turn sharper. Because skis turn sharper, you will bleed off speed faster (because turning sacrifices speed). Snowboards take wider turns so you will bleed off less speed when making small turns. This difference is minute but it's there.

• Paragliding in an updraft is faster than paragliding without any updraft - the larger the updraft (+1 to +5), the greater the speed increase. This is difficult to test because updrafts also increase altitude - I'm basing this result strictly off challenge times.

Sidenote: Skis are more responsive off jumps in that they get into flips and rotations sooner - the best way I can describe it is that skis snap off jumps quicker. However, snowboards can absorb higher G-impacts (tested). Skis will always crash when you hit 10+ Gs on landing. With snowboards, a correctly timed nose or tail grab can absorb roughly 12-14 Gs. Whether or not this is a bug or intended is unclear.

Edit 1: Testing methodology explained in this comment.

Edit 2: If you find erroneous information here, please let me know. I tried to be as scientific as I could in doing these tests - multiple samples were taken and an average was calculated (see above). I know some things in this game feel one way or another, but test it out!

Edit 3: Other great resource threads:

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