Trackmania Nations Forever

[Lingwo]

It is finally out. After the success of Trackmania Nations. We now have Trackmania Nations Forever. I won't go in to detail about the game as most people will know what it is. People who have Trackmania United, there is a patch that will update your retail version. I guess that'll include the new tracks and compatibility for people to play with Trackmania Nations Forever players.

I suppose we can double up this thread to post peoples user id's and maybe arrange some games. My ID is Lingwo (i think). Been awhile since i booted up United. Hope to see some of you online.

Source:

http://www.focus-home.fr/trackmania/index...._info&id=94

Mirror to the game:

http://www.gamershell.com/news_48458.html

Mirror for the add-on for Trackmania United:

http://www.gamershell.com/news_48368.html

Edited April 16, 2008 by Lingwo

[Unimatrix Xero]

i had the update from Steam last night as i download the Trackmania United game from steam, you can add me as well my in game name is Unimatrix_xero

[+longgonebn Subscriber²]

You bought United Uni? I didn't know that....still haven't got it.

[kylejn]

Trackmania Nations is loads of fun. I'll have to download Forever when I get home.

[Unimatrix Xero]

You bought United Uni? I didn't know that....still haven't got it.

haha yea i decided to buy it last night as i really wanted to play United again, so now i have Trackmania United Forever, which has United and the Nations forever in the same game :)

[qdave]

ohh thanks for the news. cant wait to try this later today. i loved all trackmania games so far.

[Brodel]

hmm it only stretches 4:3 to 16:10 it seems. What is the deal with the 3d glasses option too, anyone tried it?

[Guest]

hmm it only stretches 4:3 to 16:10 it seems.

Hm, shame.

Still downloading though.

Edit: Check out this page. If trackmania nations can run in native wide screen resolutions, then I'd expect this to be able to do that.

Edit: Source 404's, OP.

Edited April 16, 2008 by Guest

[Brodel]

Yea I came across this too which says it does. http://www.widescreengaming.net/wiki/Track...Nations_Forever

What confused me was the config settings where it says 1920x1200 (>4:3 Wide) why would it not just say (16:10) ?

[tuckeratlarge]

enjoy your StarForce crapware drivers

[OblivionStalker]

Just started downloading. It is nice sometimes the developers to give the community something great for free.

[what]

I got the pack for United. It's a great update with lots of new challenges, and the way it merges the Nations and United communities is brilliant.

I was on a Swedish multiplayer server earlier which had 250 players on at once...it was so chaotic I couldn't even see the track properly lol.

[ViperAFK]

Cool just got this for free off steam, didn't know if it would be any good because it's free, but damn this is great for a free game, and nice graphics and performance to boot!

[+longgonebn Subscriber²]

It's on steam? wtf

[Doli]

enjoy your StarForce crapware drivers

Wikipedia says the Steam version of TrackMania United doesnt have StarForce and TrackMania United's starforce wasnt a driver like the eariler TrackMania games but built in the executable to check the key. If its the same as 'Forever' then that doesnt sound that bad.

[ViperAFK]

It's on steam? wtf

rofl

Yeah I just open steam and the upgrade windows said FREE GAME, so I was like hell yeah.

[+longgonebn Subscriber²]

The only TrackMania game I find on Steam is United.

[HawkMan]

while I'm not exactly a huge starforce fan, I must say it's never actually caused me any problems on either P or Vista in the games I've played that use it (X3, TMU and TMN at least ). well outside of not being able to play TMN for a while after I switched to Vista at RTM. but that was due to TMN crappy implementation of SF, X3 had no such issues, and TMN was released at around that time and worked on Vista anyway.

I'm sure star force can cause problems in certain system configs, but so can a lot of other things, and I don't lke the way it patches itself into the system, but on xp I ran 64 and so I do on my primary vista computer, so they have kernel patch protection so it's a bit safer anyway.

[ViperAFK]

definitely on steam lol

I doubt they put starforce in the free version, what would be the point?

[Doli]

The only TrackMania game I find on Steam is United.

It doesnt show up on the front page's 'Latest News' or when you open Steam?

[+longgonebn Subscriber²]

Nope, maybe not available in Canada? that wouldn't really make sense but

*edit

had to close down Steam and restart. It is there now!

[Lingwo]

Edit: Source 404's, OP.

Site went pear shaped just after i posted the source link. Changed it now to the working one, hopefully :p

[Huleboeren]

wtf

you need Trackmania United for this to work? :s

[HawkMan]

wtf

you need Trackmania United for this to work? :s

no.

but certain features like buying cars with coppers through the built in system requires an online key froma TMgame I think.

but then you need to own another TM game for your custom car to be visible to other players online anyway.

[blobblob]

You don't need TMUF for TMNF to work. TMNF is just a cut down version of TMUF. It only has one environment (Stadium, which is the best IMHO anyway), no online p2p (so no custom skins, avatars & horns), no coppers (in game currency) and a few other features. It's still a really good game though, especially since it's free.

Neither Trackmania United Forever or Trackmania Nations Forever has Starforce protection.

The old TM United and TM Nations both had Straforce Lite which as Doli said didn't install a driver but was just integrated into the executable. It was used in TM Nations to prevent cheats rather than prevent copying (since it was a free game anyway).