Trackmania Nations Forever

[MightyJordan]

Had a good couple of races last night, Xero! I'll be on again tonight! ;)

[clx]

ohhh nice one, whats your TM name so i know who to look out for

<- clx :)

going to have a look now, not played it online, so forgive my mistakes please :)

[HawkMan]

Is anyone using the Xbox 360 controller for this game? I can set accelerate to the trigger buttons but it seems that it won't let you set brake to a trigger button :/

And there is no cycle camera view button so I can't assign that to the controller either :/

Anyone know of any solutions?

if it's like it was in regular TMN assigning the right trigger to acclerate, the left trigger will be brake. no need for special drivers or separate asignments :)

[OblivionStalker]

I got this on steam a few days ago, fun game, can be frustrating at times when you cant get 1 corner right in order to get a gold medal. I haven't done any online gaming yet, too busy with TF2 :D

Gold medal? Try going for Nadeo medal. Finished all white except one really hard track, when you have to jump twice in a row to get a good speed.

[Guest]

The Nadeo medals are a right pain! I was 2 hundredths of a second off the mark on one of them!

Don't really bother will online myself, mainly because my internet is rubbish. Hopefully when that gets sorted I'll be able to play.

[clx]

i dont like the online version much. i played like 6 time trial maps, only finished 2 of them, and got REALLY frustrated with it.

I guess its coz i really dont like not being able to finish a challange.

im guessing this game will just sit there untill im really bored some day.

[OblivionStalker]

It is hard playing a racing game online with crappy internet. I have speeds of 256 down and 128 up. This means that I lag on the start, I also lag in every corner and whenever I need to do something really fast.

That is why I only play the solo maps. And I hope that people will not make hacks, cheats, trainers, bots for the game, that ruins the competitive play.

[Dc'1]

Good game! VERY frustrating though :| lol.

[Guest]

It is hard playing a racing game online with crappy internet. I have speeds of 256 down and 128 up. This means that I lag on the start, I also lag in every corner and whenever I need to do something really fast.

That is why I only play the solo maps. And I hope that people will not make hacks, cheats, trainers, bots for the game, that ruins the competitive play.

It might not just be your internet.

Due to the significant amount of vehicles on the tack in comparison to solo play (200 vs 2) your PC might slow down due to that. The bulit-in benchmarker is pretty good tbh.

You can press "O" To remove the other vehicles my friend told me, so that might help. It'd probably make it so you don't even download the locations of each vehicle, etc. Just upload yours which 128kbps should be capable of.

[Blackhearted]

Not bad for a free game.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

I guess I'll try this as soon as I can. It seems so popular but I'll soon find out why. :laugh:

[Xerus]

This game is just amazing, and its a steal to get it for free ( and the price tag on United Forever is awesome, as well.) It looks like a casual racing game on the surface, but when you get into its really hard core... taking the turns as tight as possible, controlling your car in the air, hitting jumps straight on, there are so many factors to consider to shave those last milliseconds off of your time to take 1st place... its really quite brillant. Oh yeah, and theres just endless content and a strong community to back it up. Its the perfect formula, and it looks like they finally dropped StarForce.

[Lingwo]

Yep, it is a good pick up and play game but for people who want to take it online and challenge for wins, you have to find the perfect lines through tracks and make up your own sneaky shortcuts. Shame i got no time to play it online at the moment, would really like to school some of you on it :p

[Pupik]

When I turn ingame, I sometimes press on the left trigger on the XBOX 360 gamepad and the game menu pops up, making my car to stop completely. Very annoying when you're in a MP game. Is there some option menu I missed, where I can disable the left trigger button, and maybe change other button configurations?

edit: Never mind. Found the thing.

Should of dig deeper in the profile menu before posting :D

Edited April 24, 2008 by Pupik

[Blackhearted]

Hm. While i may have said the game itself is decent, the controls certainly aren't. The complete and total loss of acceleration, half the time randomly, is rather ridiculous.

[OblivionStalker]

Hmm.. This does not happen to me. There is something wrong with your system. Try reinstalling the game.

[Lingwo]

Yeah same here, this is one of the few racing games where i think the handling and controls are near perfect. You will slow down if you hit certain pads and also if you run along against the wall it will slow you down. It may look like you're just touching the wall but it slows you down pretty quickly.

[acedriver]

getting a 3d card certainly help my lap times :laugh:

[Lingwo]

I need to lower my settings slightly, i had it all on high with full AA and AF, at 1920x1200 and i played on a server with 60 players on it, it slowed down a bit and i was struggling to get round :p

Only another week and i will be able to get in to the game properly and start owning again.

[Guest]

I need to lower my settings slightly, i had it all on high with full AA and AF, at 1920x1200 and i played on a server with 60 players on it, it slowed down a bit and i was struggling to get round :p

Only another week and i will be able to get in to the game properly and start owning again.

Run the benchmarker. It's really good.

Also, try hitting "O" during an online match to remove the opponent's vehicles if you find that helps (I find it so distracting having them there..)

[metallithrax]

Have just been playing online. Some good short tracks, but everytime I think I am doing well, I hit something smack on and stop dead. :angry:

[Lex224]

I've played this lots since it's release and it's just amazing. It's lead me to buy the United version which is going for ?5 in Game at the moment. And as you get the Forever as a free upgrade to United, that's saving me some monies. Steam is selling it for $40. 75% saved YAY.

Great game though, my ID is lex224 is anybody wishes to add me.

[Badie05]

I hate the random tracks....it's really hard..bust i played just 1 day so still lots to get used to. my ID is Badie05. Add me :D.

[Unimatrix Xero]

I now have a 24-7 dedicated server running for Trackmania Nations Forever, you can find it under United Kingdom - England - West Midlands, the server name is 'Binary Squadron' and features a selection of official and home made maps.

hope to see a few of you there

[Lingwo]

I went on there earlier but didn't last long as it wasn't time trials. I prefer to just keep going till the time runs out. I don't like having to wait for the round to end. Having not played Trackmania for about a year. I blooming suck now, i can only make the top 10 now on big servers.