UberBug

UberBug is one of the biggest and most spectacular bugs in the game. It was discovered relatively late after the game release - around 2010, although the person who discovered it first is unknown.

To perform an UberBug, or as some call it - "MegaBug", a player has to:


 * have speed greater than 243 speed units
 * land on a road with the car front pointing down (approximately -10 to -30 degrees)
 * have the car angled enough to also perform the Grass Slide towards a wall (or some other obstacle)

If these conditions are met, after performing the Grass Slide during landing and then holding it untill crashing into a wall, there is a chance that UberBug will occur. It will launch the player with gargantuan speed into the air in the direction the car was pointing to upon crashing.

Thanks to the players from the Brain team, the formulae that game uses to compute UberBug is now known. Previously it was believed that the game performs some form of a miscalculation/division by 0 or simply runs out of floating point operations memory. That myth recently got debunked and the formulae is described below;

If U(x) = S(x)/D(x), where S is a speed function and D(x) = $$d_0 * \Bigl(1-s_1\chi\Bigr)*...*\Bigl(1-s_l\chi\Bigr)$$''and numbers p1. . . pl are disjoint sets, then if S(x) is a polynomial of degree less than l, there occurs a formula:''

$$[x^n]U(x) = a_1\rho_1^n +. . . + a_l\rho_l^n,$$ for $$a_k=\frac{-\rho_k*S(1/\rho_k)}{D'(1/\rho_k)} = \frac {S(1/\rho_k)}{\rho_0\Pi j\neq k (1-\rho_j/\rho_k)}.$$

UberBug allowed players to not only cut old maps using the bug, but also gave birth to a new - now legendary - team called FTU - "For The Uber".