[Poll] What do you play most?

[undef.de]

My "like" order:

• Trackmania Canyon
• Trackmania Stadium
• Shootmania Battle
• Trackmania Valley

[oiram456]

99% Trackmania RPG (stadium) and sometimes a bit lol and Tech

[riolu]

I must say I'm starting to waste more and more time on ShootMania servers, simply because there is just not much new in the TM world - especially not competition-wise. Once there are competitions (or some new tracks to hunt), I play TM, otherwise I'm having fun on various SM servers for the moment

[niku]

I play all kind of titles/games, it really depends on my mood and changes from month to month. The only server I steadily play on is the Stadium "lolmaps" server, which is my "home server".

I enjoy all kinds of titles: TM2 united, elite, raid, stunters, battle, siege, obstacle, theme packs like paranoia/valley city, platform, royal (&royal roulette), RPG, etc.... (often out of planets, need.more.stations.)

There is something, besides me being a nadeo fanboy , i love since i first played tmo. Something all games have in common. I can't really describe it, it's a mixture of the editor concept, the simple/clean but hard to master gameplay, the looks and the totally awesome, always working & creating community.

I'd love to focus more on a single title to become good enough to play on a competetive level, but I simply don't have the time anymore since i'm in university (maybe i'm lacking talent, too). But, that's ok since I enjoy swiching between the titles whenever i want.

Tl; dr: I love all different kinds of titles and all main games. I always switch between them and can't imagine stopping

[Demented]

Wow, this got more response than I expected.
Glad to see there are so many still playing TM. Lately I've felt like the focus had shifted so much to the production of SM that TM had kind of been pushed to the back burner. It's also good to see that there are people like me who do like Canyon and Valley. I play those two the most.
I saw some comments that Stadium was preferred because of the physics and while I agree that Stadium physic and game play are a lot of fun, I think Canyon and Valley are just as fun, once you get past the learning curve. I didn't like either one when I first played them, but if you stick with them and get a feel for the handling they are actually just as fun to play. Valley especially though has a difficult learning curve and I think that's why so many gave up on it so quickly. It's really hard to handle that car. TMO Rally was a bit like that for me too. Even though I liked the environments graphics and blocks I hated the physics and only really got into editing tracks in it when the enviro mix came out and I could build Rally env tracks with coast car physics. The ability to choose a car now in TM² opens up a lot of new possibilities for creators.

@ HubbleSM: Thanks for posting that link to the statistics page. That's interesting.

[UrinStein]

I think Canyon and Valley are just as fun, once you get past the learning curve. I didn't like either one when I first played them, but if you stick with them and get a feel for the handling they are actually just as fun to play.

That's funny because I had the exact opposite reaction to Canyon.
I find it ans extraordinarily easy game to jump into and get a feel for it, but it quickly, very very quickly got boring for me becasue the learning curve gets very flat.

I also have bought Valley at release and I really liked the Solo campaign and the physics seem to be challenging but fun to me. I never got to playing it though, because the trees let my fps drop down to 15 or sth, it's unplayable (Hylis had said in advance that's it takes more pc power than the other games, but it was worth the try).
I also don't like the community maps I've seen in the beginning at all. For Valley Nadeo made these very specific blocks that you cannot really combine with blocks of a different kind. That was a by far easier task in Canyon and Stadium, so people just kinda said, suck on this Nadeo, I'll make crazy ass combinations anyway, and the maps got batshit crazy, I couldn't tell where to go at every corner.

Stadium... I played it for years in TMF, but I just got fed up with the bugs and limitations, it was simply time for a better version of Stadium. Therefore I got completely pissed, when they released Stadium with the exact same amount of bugs (even if people say they are slightly different now) and just a small collection of new blocks that didn't really have any impact on the game. I bought it for 2,50 on Steam sale and used it once to play with some old friends of mine from TMF times.

I play SM all the time.

I'd go crazy for a proper Stadium reboot though.

[Demented]

To clarify, just what are the bugs and limitations of Stadium? ...and please don't just post a link.

[UrinStein]

All sorts of landing bugs and corner bugs and the edge bug of normal street blocks, I've seen the craziest shit in that game.

And limitations in form of the selection of basic blocks, that really could have used a major update after 6 years...
After all that time I just want some new variation.

[Demented]

Ah yes. One that I can think of that really bothers me is when I'm having a good run, make a fast jump, then land on a flat bit of road only to have my car nearly stop, or flip over for no reason and loose a good time. That one does annoy me. Is that still a bug in TM²Stadium? (I haven't bought it yet)
One thing I do like in Canyon and Valley is that the car rarely ends up upside down. Of course most of the TMUF env's are like that too with the exception of Stadium and Island.

[Omnixor]

TM2stadium has same bugs as TMF stadium basically, and some others ^^