Beta 2 feedback topic

[eyebo]

Just a small report : I tried to shoot a Canyon replay (in the TrackMania Canyon station ofc), but my name is written over the car, like on a server ^^
I guess it can be avoided with the launcher options, ut it could become annoying.

This is actually something they've just fixed with this update. This is desired functionality. It's nice if you want to render a replay of multiple cars racing together and want the names above each of them.

You can toggle name tags above cars by clicking the "ABC" button at the top left corner in MediaTracker.

[Oyster]

laser denies rockets -feature.

It's a nice and innovative idea, but it just doesn't work for this game in my opinion. It eases attackers too much (Siege).

EDIT: By the way also in Elite. 1vs1 pole situations are hard for defender and now it's even harder when attacker can just rush to pole and block rockets.[/EDIT]

1) It makes nucleus as a useless weapon. It's now very easy to block nucleus with laser because nucleus is kinda slow. Example: you are last attacker with laser on siege against two defenders with nucleus. Defenders have a very small change to beat you when nucleus don't even recharge instantly when attacker destroys it.

2) It's hard to protect your pole as a defender when you can't anymore just spam rockets to some fairway. Example: there is small output for attackers to some area. As a attacker you just have to find a good angle for that output and destroy those rockets and then rush to area. Rushing is now a lot easier and it's a bad thing IMO. Siege was already easier for attackers (ofc depending on map, but generally it is).

Also now when you surprise attacker as a defender w/ rocket he have a change against you when he just reflex shots straight to you. It will most likely block your rocket coz you are so close to him. Happened few times and it was annoying.

All the other reforms was okay to good, but in my opinion this ruins the siege mode.

[dGARRido]

[Added by Cerovan: ManiaPlanet stop by itself]

Heres the log crash.

This happens when i shoot a nucleus,right before it exploses i just crash.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1_DS6 ... VBVNkg4WjQ


David"Xp3"Garrido

[NBAA]

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SET CurrentDir=%~dp0
cd "E:\Program Files\ManiaPlanet"
"E:\Program Files\ManiaPlanet\ManiaPlanet.exe" /LmQuality=Fast
pause

This is based on my own system

What directory is "%~dp0" ?
In what directory do i have to be when i run this .bat file? ..\My Documents\ManiaPlanet\Maps ?

[Zell]

All I have to say is: Love the update. The physics and graphics are really great now! And the sounds too!

But I have 2 issues.
1. even though I had 80 ping and 40 snapshot, my shots were always lagging, and I wasn't the only one noticing that. Maybe it was just the server, but it's a point to notice if there are other players experiencing that now.

2. Maniahome... Why remove that?
Now I haven't been able to figure out how to find buddies... When I click on buddies in the top, all I can do is send a message. I liked the Maniahome menu (except for the brightness bug). Now that maniahome is gone does that mean all the lottos and news and manialinks too?

[ajpen]

can you describe the situation

where you in Elite again?

it may be link with this mode at the moment. We have collected some crashlog thanks to the servers, but we have to investigate.

I'm playing, doing nothing in particular, and then suddenly, my game instantly quits, like I'd hit alt+f4, nothing shows on the screen.

maybe it is linked to the sound

it would be useful if you try to play without sound and keep us informed if it is more stable.

You want me to unplug my headset or simply put the volume of the game to 0?

[Cerovan]

2. Maniahome... Why remove that?
Now I haven't been able to figure out how to find buddies... When I click on buddies in the top, all I can do is send a message. I liked the Maniahome menu (except for the brightness bug). Now that maniahome is gone does that mean all the lottos and news and manialinks too?

All the ManiaLink is still there, for the moment you have to click on the home button on the navigation bar to open ManiaHome

@ajpen: deactivate the sound through the launcher

[ajpen]

So I just uncheck "Audio enable" in the Audio tab?

[TMarc]

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SET CurrentDir=%~dp0
cd "E:\Program Files\ManiaPlanet"
"E:\Program Files\ManiaPlanet\ManiaPlanet.exe" /LmQuality=Fast
pause

This is based on my own system

What directory is "%~dp0" ?
In what directory do i have to be when i run this .bat file? ..\My Documents\ManiaPlanet\Maps ?

You should read some information about writing batches.
Open command line or enter cmd in the execute application field or in the explorer's folder bar.
Then e.g. do
help if
help for
help cmd

%0 is the path the batch is executed, %1 would be the first argument, %2 the second etc.
with the ~ operator you can do operations on the path.
%~d0 is the drive
%~p0 is the path
%~n0 is the filename
so %~dp0 would be drive and path of the batch.
You can place a shortcut to that batch anywhere and therefore run it from anywhere if you add the execution path in the shortcut.
But in the above batch, the set current dir is useless since it is not used anymore

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@echo off
cd "E:\Program Files\ManiaPlanet"
"E:\Program Files\ManiaPlanet\ManiaPlanet.exe" /LmQuality=Fast
pause

this would be enough.
and as soon as it runs fine, the pause also is redundant