TrackMania2: Centralised News about the Game

[TheStalker]

Collisions would be against one of the main TM concepts. Such game just won't be a TM game.

... and btw, with collisions you can forget/throw away :
- Time attack
- servers with more than 10 players (unless roads are way way larger than in TMF, and anyway roads would already need to be way larger for 6 players)
- equality of chances
- at least 20% of players, who have a far too bad connection quality to be enough real time for collisions (yes, despite of what some are thinking, TM is very bad-connection-friendly)

That's why It should be an option, actually more of a new gamemode.
- It could be limited to 8 or 12 players to prevent it from beeing too chaotic.
- It would have its own tracks. (you would probably need different/larger start and checkpoint blocks)
- 99% of blocks would be the same though. In TMUF there are already lots of wide blocks. And you can add multiple routes on some parts of the map.
- It would not affect time-attack and normal tracks.
- They should make it MP only, so they won't have to create an AI

I agree that you don't need/want collissions in your Trackmania, but for me (and a lot of other people) it would make Trackmania the best racing game ever.

[ionian]

I've been playing some TDU2 and GT5 over the past few weeks, both with collisions on and collisions off. Races with collisions tend to be much more luck based and create a bad atmosphere when players crash into each other. However, when I've hosted a game with the collisions off we have always had good fair races with a friendly atmosphere.

Why is this? Because people are only interesting in racing fair if they are winning, and some people will always find it fun to ruin other people's enjoyment. IMO, collisions + interwebs = rage.

[steelworks]

I think the problem, many people (and me) have with car-crashs in Trackmania, is that it wouldn't be Trackmania anymore.
I mean, have you ever heard about a F1-Game with a looping-map?

[eie]

ManiaPlanet does not exist yet.....

I was referring to this very website. it's called forum.maniaplanet.com. not exactly the same, but it still has a very similar name, you'd have to admit that ^^

[Knutselmaaster]

yes, this is the website/forum that has been setup in anticipation of ManiaPlanet and the 3 games that it will link.
But ManiaPlanet won't be a website at all, it will be more of a portal to the 3 games.
Thus, players cannot quite go around it, they will have to use it to get into the games.

[maniaman]

right now there is no new information about tm 2. i check this site every day for any new news, but there has been nothing new for a long time. come on NADEO!!
every one wants to see some new pictures about tm 2 or even videos but nothing is happening
at least you could post some now in april.
sorry if i am being rude.

[haenry]

There really is no reason to get rude.
So if you check the Forum every day, you should have noticed, that the Mr.BoB was searching for gaming magazines an gaming Tv-shows etc. some weeks ago. Hylis also stated, that they want to give the first big information in the press. He said, that it would need aroun 5-6 weeks to organize this, what means, the infos should be in press in April
Hylis said it somewhere in this zopic here

[weerwolf]

I mean, have you ever heard about a F1-Game with a looping-map?

Brilliant

[SiH13]

If there ain't any info or beta tomorrow...

[eie]

At least I hope there'll be some April Fools... that'd be fun xD
maybe we'll hear about laser-shooting cars or something