Let's begin the game...

[Failmaster]

this link should work:
http://dj.proyx.eu/puzzle.png
http://dj.proyx.eu/puzzle.png
one of these two, but they are not HD i think, but still decent quality

[seeba]

Failmaster, you are aware that you have posted the same link twice?
And by the way: In the background, there is a small shape of the jigsaw-puzzle visible...
If you want it HD, I'd recommend using the official Link: http://files.trackmania.com/screen_full.png...

[djkueken]

Get ready for the next picture, DJKueken !

i hope, that we have to puzzle today

yeah get ready DJKueken

I am

[haenry]

Now we know that tm might be released in summer. my final question is: why when it's hot and beautiful outside. why when you can go swimming, ride with your (motor-)bike, meet friends and chill somewhere in the sun? why should i waste my time at the pc instead of enjoying the best 'going outside' time in the year outside. You can even release it (= the beat, who knows when the official game will be released...) Q3 2011 then and letting me get brown from the sun than being white like a dead man's body because i stayed the whole summer inside.

I agree to this, but maybe it will be in autum, so the summer is already over

[Wallaby]

or you hope for a rainy summer ...

from now on patience isn't the problem anympre , till the full game is ready to get bought by me. I guess the main problem was the time between spetember 09 and now when florent talked about the red boost in september 09. He talked about the player-stats still increasing in forever and announced Tm2...but well , the only thing we had was this one video , and we watched it again , in january , in april , in november and so on. Everytime you watched this video you wanted to shout "GIVE ME THIS GAME NOW PLS " , and as more you watched the video as more your patience deacreased.

That screenshot-puzzle was a good thing which gave this forum some activity again and made us talking about tm2 on servers again , hope some more stuff will follow from time to time to make the final waiting period a bit more easy =)

[eie]

I just hope next picture will be of a block or something. A car is cool, but I've seen thousands of them and I'd like to know more about the scenery and such, which hard when the background is all blurry in the picture we've got :p

/complain end

Still the picture we've got is pretty much really awesome, and if I understood Hylis correct, most parts of TM2 should be done, the work on Maniaplanet, however, still needed some work. Patience people

[Cephid]

Actually my only wish is, that the game is not as buggy as the snow car

[Hylis]

About september 2009, you should keep in mind that by that time, we were back on TrackMania 2 first, before ShootMania and QuestMania. Now, we are trying to make maniaplanet + TrackMania² + ShootMania + QuestMania at the same time. QM will take more time, but after the first title, TrackMania² Canyon, we should be able to release the SM one. So, with maniaplanet and ShootMania on our hands, with Ubisoft also ^_^, we have a little more work to do before the first releases. We have stop to work on the september 2009 environment, Valley, because it was too difficult to push this environement to the end from first try. This is why we decided to start with Canyon instead of Valley and use the car of it that is more appropriate for the american style desert.

We are working hard to be able to launch something that have to be alive for big and for long, and if we had to 'cut' in the dynamic of TM1, it was a necessity to make things better for the adventure of maniaplanet. It is a new start and even this summer should feel small compared to what maniaplanet could deliver of the time after.

December 2010 was the most active month ever on TrackMania (except for the launch month of Nations Forever) and I see many great things being made by the community. I believe we will have to wait for the beta of ShootMania to really feel the big adventure that is maniaplanet. Until then, I think we will also have good time discovering the visuals and articles around TrackMania² Canyon and the beta of it. Last block of Canyon has been made two weeks ago. We still have to work on the code and maniaplanet before releasing the beta, and even take one week of holiday for me, since I am really at full speed since long time and before being at full speed during the betas.

I hope players knows that we are so much waiting for the releases as well, and that it is a great challenge to accomplish. Making TrackMania² Canyon was a real big challenge and we are very happy of having spent the time on quality of pure things like gameplay and graphics!

[SiH13]

I understand you fully, Hylis ^.^
Im just glad knowing that you are working on it
Creative things are never finished until you force it to be finished!
More work = better product

GoGoGo Nadeo!!

[.dejavu]

Well, actually is really nice that you speak clearely to us, to what's happening.
By this way you will avoid misunderstandings and complains.
I can just immagine how much work especially behind to what's the game itself) you're doing.
I just hope that the month you give us (for the relase) will be true, because you're making us really excited with all these little news from time to time.

Than, if i understand, you will relase tm2 just when you're done with SM?