Thought I'd give my three cents on some general feedback for the game, including things which should be added/tweaked in the future.
First of all, the game runs brilliantly. Smooth framerates, great overall performance even while streaming and no crashes/freezes so far. Gameplay is great as usual, campaign tracks rule and the general apperance of the game is superb.
Yet there are many things which I'd like to see for the game. Vital features from previous TM games are lacking for some reason and take away the fun for many people. I reckon there are plenty of reports about things I will mention in this post, but maybe it's a good idea to have a big centralised thread from people with long experience in this game.
- - Camera 1 and 7 are gone. Many, many people did play with camera 1 in Maniaplanet and now the camera setting is simply gone. Everyone is now bound to either camera 2 or 3. What is the reason for that?
It is noteworthy that camera 1 is still available as a camera setting in the Mediatracker, so the camera technically still exists.
- No leaderboads for the solo campaign. Leaderboards have always been an essential part for the solo campaigns since TrackMania Forever. I just don't understand why it's not being implemented in TMT yet. Rankings do already exist, so why not display a whole list sorted by World/Country/SubZone like it used to be in previous TM games? You should be able to race against these replays in the campaign and download them to check them in the Mediatracker. This used to work in TMF and disappeared in TM2 for whatever reason. Having the option to check the leaderboards on the Turbo Playerpage would be another awesome thing.
- Unlock TrackMaster ghosts to race against after a certain amount of gold medals. It was like that in TMF and TM2 too and it's a nice way to motivate players to keep playing for the best time.
- After having finished a run in the solo campaign, there should be an option to immediately save the replay (e.g. a button for it during the outro). The current way of saving replays is nasty.
- Personal best times driven on campaign tracks should be carried over to the solo campaign as well. This is not the case as of now.
- Autosaving replays should also be a thing, especially for personal best times driven online.
- Toggle on/off opponents in multiplayer.
- Toggle on/off personal best ghost in solo mode.
- Map skip and restart votes for multiplayer.
- After loading a map in multiplayer, the countdown often starts at 2 already instead of giving you some time to prepare first. That should be fixed because you're often just being thrown into the race.
- The final map standings after an online race should be displayed for a little longer. It should be visible for a little longer so people can actually see and compare themselves to their opponents.
- There's quite a long black screen between podium sequence and the start of loading the next map in multiplayer. You only see the chat during that time. Not the most aestethic thing I've ever seen.
- Giving maps a proper name. There is no good reason in my eyes to prevent having custom names for your maps. The current way of handling map names, which is by just giving the maps a number, is horrendous. Imagine someone trying to explain a map to a friend: "Yo you remember map #29489 from Player xxxx?"
Some bugs I've encountered:
- - The super solo campaign sometimes shows wrong medals. On some maps I happen to beat the Super TrackMaster even though I'm not even remotely close to it. This is probably due to badly updated rankings since a game restart usually fixes the issue.
- Not sure if that's a bug or just badly explained: The unlockable mascots for the "Echelon Upgrade" do not work. I believe you unlock one mascot for each echelon upgrade, yet I haven't unlocked anything despite being on echelon 2 already (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/588 ... 47.24).jpg).
That's all what I can think of right now, whenever I encounter something else I will add it to the list.
Hoping to see some change regarding those things!
