Shoot at cars?

[Knutselmaaster]

This evening i saw several pictures coming from the Official ManiaPlanet Trailer that reveal things about the upcoming games.
For example the Cryo environment for ShootMania that has been confirmed by Hylis, and a scoop on a possible Capture the Flag mode that hasn't been confirmed yet, but looks quite plausible.
So i decided to watch that trailer again, this time with lots of attention, in the hopes to find even more info.
Check the next three pics that i made, and pay attention to my artistically awful black arrows and circles.



The games are separated, but all touch the ManiaPlanet circle.
But look what happens, a car and a "soldier" are leaving their spots.....
The car seems to drive into the SM part, and the soldier starts shooting at it:



And he even goes into the TM2 part, shooting at the car that tries to save itself:



And also the big coloured circles are overlapping each other, the same counts for the SM and QM circles.
Does this mean that we will have combination possibilities?
The large circles that overlap can mean that we will be able to chat or send messages cross game, which has more or less been confirmed already, but what about the soldier shooting at the car and even running into TM2?

[Mandark]

And if you pay attention, you can see a dragon burning the car

[Trackmaniack]

It's something that's been bandied about in other threads, but Nadeo's keepin a tight lid on things... Probably to blow our minds with what they DO have when they do release I already know I'm crazy for TM2 and they've still only released those two videos...which, BTW, are saved to my desktop. One I've managed to hack into being my screensaver. I'm just THAT much of a geek. Hear that, Nadeo!? I'm crazy about you!

[Mandark]

Who's not crazy about that ?

If you listen carefully you can hear that guy saying: "One map editor" .. I don't know if he is referring to one guy who makes maps or one program of creating maps ..

[Hylis]

it is also something made in the presentation by the external contractors that has nothing to do with maniaplanet. They made it for fun, but it is not planned to make that possible.

once upon a time, I wanted to announce shootmania by making a silent update and then come into the game and start shooting cars, just for the lol of it. But we prefer to concentrate on making three separate good games.

if there are crazy fun things to do in the future, we have plenty of time AFTER. First, we need to make three solids games.

[Knutselmaaster]

That would indeed be hilarious, if nobody expects it xD
But i think we all prefer having a fully developed game to play for a long time.
And i wouldn't be surprised that someone will find a way to do such a thing one day, we already have blockmix and environmentmix in TM, so why not gamemix in ManiaPlanet.

[seeba]

And if you pay attention, you can see a dragon burning the car

But the circle of Questmania doesn't touch the one of TrackMania...
I'm not so sure if it's not just a marketing-gag to make the trailer fun...
It would be cool indeed, if it was possible

[Mandark]

I think they made it for fun.. it could be a battle "Which game is better?" and instead battles we are going to make polls

if there are crazy fun things to do in the future, we have plenty of time AFTER. First, we need to make three solids games.

N'ah ... i think if we would mix the games it will turn into a ManiaWarfare and it will never be the same

[Trackmaniack]

Nah. It wouldn't do that, Crazy, cuz the mania community is much different than some of the other comunities out there. With the advent of Nations a lot of free players got into the mix and kinda balled things up, at least in terms of the attitude of some of the players...but hopefully that'll improve with the advent of TM2, SM, and QM.

As for the OP: I don't even know if cross-reaction, so to speak, between the three worlds is even possible at this point, because in order to "weaponize" TM2, you'd have to input some sort collision detection that simply isn't present in the trackmania series.

[Knutselmaaster]

Yes there is, you can bang into a wall with your car.
It's just not present between cars.