ArtistDude88
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I get that as well. I guess groups don't track multiplayer ranks? :\
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Trackmania 2: Canyon |OT| Driving you loopy (Retail update now live for Beta!)
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I get that as well. I guess groups don't track multiplayer ranks? :\
Valley is indeed the next environment: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/09/27/looping-the-loop-a-chatmania-with-nadeo/
Nadeo said:
Update released: http://forum.maniaplanet.com/viewtopic.php?f=293&t=6547
Nadeo said:
Sell it.R1CHO said:
Does anybody else get a black screen sans UI every 45 seconds - 1 minute, sometimes quicker? I have gotten it since I bought this, and of course nobody in any servers is of any help and no patches have fixed it so far. I can 'fix' it by going back and forth between full screen and windowed and back again, but it's still annoying when nearly every run you attempt is ruined because you can't see anything. I have a 460 for reference, and updated my video drivers specifically because of this issue a few days ago, but no help.
ArtistDude88
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I have that problem, but totally not that frequent. Since the beta, I've only had it happen maybe 4 or 5 times. Radeon HD 5850 here.
The_Super_Inframan
"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
InertiaXr said:
Happened to me once in a total play time of around 10 hours. I have a HD 5770.
Sadly i have no clue how to fix your problem...a "blackout" every minute really must ruin the game for you...
The_Super_Inframan said:
Yeah it's bizarre, especially since going to window mode fixes it immediately. I still have control and can hear all the sounds but just no video intermittently. It usually gets progressively worse over time, won't happen for the first 30 minutes after I start up the game but after an hour or so I am unable to finish nearly any runs in the full 6 minutes...
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Deleted member 22576
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Woohoo! Just treated myself to This! Gonna play on the GB server later, I think. Is anyone here running a server for GAF folk?
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Deleted member 22576
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Cool! Well maybe I'll see you there! My maniaplanet ID is Jtwo. So yeah, thats me. I Just played for about a half hour. I'm not very good.InertiaXr said:
Dakota47
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I finally went ahead and bought this. I have hundreds of hours clocked on TMN and I never paid Nadeo a dime so it is only fair. The download seems pretty quick so I should be playing this in a couple of minutes.
EDIT That was fun. It is basically the same game in a newer engine. I knew I was playing Trackmania when I went vertical.
Two questions though:
No more 'steering' in the air?
Drifting is a good thing now?
EDIT That was fun. It is basically the same game in a newer engine. I knew I was playing Trackmania when I went vertical.
Two questions though:
No more 'steering' in the air?
Drifting is a good thing now?
Always-honest
Banned
Will this game ever be on ps3?
Always-honest
Banned
Yeah.... I was just hoping out loudThe M.O.B said:
Is there a way to disable the obtrusive server interface stuff on GiantBomb? F7 does not seem to work anymore 
It's stupid and ridiculous. It's limiting my ability to see properly to the sides. I'm using a 4:3 monitor at 1600x1200.
I can of course press * to disable the interface altogether but that's not fun since I want to see the vital info.
It's stupid and ridiculous. It's limiting my ability to see properly to the sides. I'm using a 4:3 monitor at 1600x1200.
I can of course press * to disable the interface altogether but that's not fun since I want to see the vital info.
Are there any magic directions for upgrading from the beta?
I've done a clean re-install of Windows 7 and pulled the installer from my backup drive. I load it up, but when it goes to update, it quickly flashes something I can't read, gives me a 404 error, and then just loads the beta state (with no single-player available).
I've done a clean re-install of Windows 7 and pulled the installer from my backup drive. I load it up, but when it goes to update, it quickly flashes something I can't read, gives me a 404 error, and then just loads the beta state (with no single-player available).
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Yeah, I've been playing just about every day since I bought it. Can only handled about 20 minutes at a time, but oooooo boy is it a special 20 minutes.
Ok just wikied the game. It will take a while to get another game like United.
I hope that at some point they will do another project like United though. Like Canyon + valley + whatever titles that will be in second series. Right now I really don't feel like buying into "episodic Trackmania 2" ...
I hope that at some point they will do another project like United though. Like Canyon + valley + whatever titles that will be in second series. Right now I really don't feel like buying into "episodic Trackmania 2" ...
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isamu said:
Nope. All I've got for my money is one big, juicy, digital paperweight and a reminder of why I should never purchase any PC game that isn't available on Steam.
Ever since I re-installed Windows 7, it's worthless shit clogging my computer. Even uninstalled Trackmania (installed from the download file I previously saved) and used the download manager to update it. But all I get is the fucking beta version that 404's when it goes to update to the retail version. Needless to say, it's worthless in its current form.
Googling the POS, I'm sent to UBI's store. And of course I denied buying UBI's extortion "download insurance" when buying the game, so I don't even know if there's a more "Up-to-date" download manager. It'd be nice to know for sure (can't imagine you could have an outdated download manager), but that's UBI. Fucking bandits.
EDIT: Figured I'd google around a bit. Only 404 errors I'm seeing are pirates who are trying to circumvent things. I can log in fine (since I purchased the game), it's just unwilling to update to the retail version. Gotta love DRM bullshit if that's what this is about.
Went to their forums, but since the game is a ghost town, most threads are like 2 replies long. Ah, that's lovely.
EDIT: Seems like they buried the "solution" in the beta forums. If you log into your player page on the internet, you can get the updated .exe by paying 100 mania planets. The file is 1.2GB, so here's hoping that solves things.
1-D_FTW said:
Sorry to hear about your problems man. I agree Nadeo/UBI could have handled things better. I personally haven't touched the game in over 2 weeks, but for different reasons. The controls are just horrible. Nadeo really missed the mark here. There is no good way to justify designing a car that powerslides all over the place, and coupling it with track blocks that would work much better with a car with tighter handling. The Island or Stadium car would have been a perfect fit for this Canyon environment but not this tail happy Mustang.
Not to mention I really don't like playing racing games with a gamepad/joystick/keyboard...but due to the horrendous steering wheel support I'm pretty much forced to. So when I fire up TM2 now it's usually just to spectate.
Hopefully Valley will be much improved in the controller support and handling department.
Re: Isamu
I think I have to agree here. I LOVE the Canyon car. Love it. But those ridiculously thin strips of road that infect the more difficult tracks have been annoying the hell out of me.
The car is designed to drift on a dime so why not design the tracks around drifting? Keep the wide roads, just make it so the best times require you to cut deep into 90 degree turns, just barely missing the inner wall.
I think I have to agree here. I LOVE the Canyon car. Love it. But those ridiculously thin strips of road that infect the more difficult tracks have been annoying the hell out of me.
The car is designed to drift on a dime so why not design the tracks around drifting? Keep the wide roads, just make it so the best times require you to cut deep into 90 degree turns, just barely missing the inner wall.
isamu said:
I agree with everything you said and stopped playing before I nuked my Windows 7 install. Although I also agree with epmode regarding handing. It hands great (if we're accepting they're not going to update the control method to something modern and grading on the Trackmania grading curve). It's just a terrible choice for the environment.
EDIT: Seems like they buried the "solution" in the beta forums (so many sub-forums). If you log into your player page though a web browser, you can get the updated .exe by paying 100 mania planets. The file is 1.2GB, so here's hoping that solves things for me.
2ND: EDIT: After a couple more hiccups that I won't bore people with, finally works.
This wouldn't be a problem if Nadeo/Ubisoft stopped being insane and just released the stupid thing on Steam. Of course. And I can only imagine that they're leaving a lot of sales on the table by not doing so.
I know, I know, MANIAPLANET. It's just that right now I'm not seeing any reason for the special treatment. Why couldn't Canyon just have been considered a new environment, like Stadium? Even the UI is identical.
I know, I know, MANIAPLANET. It's just that right now I'm not seeing any reason for the special treatment. Why couldn't Canyon just have been considered a new environment, like Stadium? Even the UI is identical.
1-D_FTW said:
Where did you purchase the game? If you went through Metaboli, instead of Ubisoft, the email they sent you should have the link to download the game. It was updated to the retail build when beta ended, not sure if it has since been updated with the patch.
I wanted a retail build but refused to pay some silly in game currency for a product I already paid for, with actual money. Found out after awhile the Metaboli version at least, was updated to the first retail build.
Carm said:
No. Went through the Ubi store. They were the only ones who wouldn't deny my credit card.
They really should sticky the solution in the main forum, though. When a game has been retail for months, that type of info shouldn't be in the beta section.
At least Mania Planets are worthless. Throwing 100 away isn't a big deal when there's nothing to really spend them on anyways.
Imp the Dimp
Member
So, how active is the community? Trackmania Sunrise was and probably still is highly active. And how likely is a Steam release?
1-D_FTW said:
I finally got some free time so I figured I'd try and get the retail version since the beta will NOT update. I gets the same 404 error you were running into 1-D.
After hours of searching I ended up at the same place you did, having to download the game client from the player page by paying planets, what the shit is that about?!
guess what,
the client download is a 1.2GB file that gets served up at a whopping 32Kb/s. The furthest I've gotten is about 37 megs in before the download just completely stops.
I was a die-hard trackmania fan, but this whole experience has been the worst thing ever. At this point it looks like I'm going to have to resort to shady means to get the client for the game I paid for. About to just write this off as a $25 loss
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I went from playing about a half hour a day to just a few tracks every now and then. Had it for about a month now. Great game, but sadly it's hard to be married to.
2Crisis said:
Are you using a download client like DownThemAll in Firefox? Was able to get around my max of 1.5MB/sec. But the first time I finished the download, it immediately reset to 360MB and had to redownload the rest of the 1.2GB file again (I've never had something like that happen before). It worked once it hit 1.2GB the second time.
CoolS said:
http://player.maniaplanet.com/
Sign in an hit the download tab. You will need the validation code you received with purchase.