Comments on: Trackmania Without End

By: Radiant

Radiant — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:18:43 +0000

They use starforce not for cd protection but for code encryption to stop cheating.

But anyway; I just found out my ps3 wheel works on my pc so my question is what other good pc arcade racer are there?

Apart from rollcage :)

By: restricted3

restricted3 — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:01:37 +0000

Thanks, Mickiscoole, I’ll definitely buy it on Steam then!

Fluffy – perhaps there’s a reason for that, but I’m glad Nadeo dropped SF (or allowed Steam to sell the game without it at least). I also got tired of being jumped upon in the official forums just because I said that SF was cumbersome and useless (in addition to plain bad for your computer).

But whatever, I’m glad I can finally play TMU

By: Masterdog

Masterdog — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:44:01 +0000

fluffy – that new content looks nice. Definitely looking forward to that. Hopefully we won’t see a raft of Nations-capable servers clogging up the serverlisting in United tho…still want to play my Desert and Alpine tracks. (Or ‘challenges’ as the game insists on calling em)
Btw – what’s your ingame name?

By: fluffy bunny

fluffy bunny — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:27:52 +0000

Uh, apologies for the harsh tone of that last message. I’ve been a fan of TrackMania since the early days (I got hooked on the betademo of the first game), and the constant attacks from the anti-starforce brigade has taken it’s toll. It’s so tiresome that _every single time_ someone starts discussing my favourite modern game, the discussion eventually turns into a Starforce-argument. So I’m probably a little too touchy on the subject.

That said, you should have read the thread before commenting. :-)

By: fluffy bunny

fluffy bunny — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:47:46 +0000

Forceflow: Do you ever read threads before responding? Or, you know, check if you’ve got your facts right? This game will not have StarForce, as was explained in the second post in this thread.

By: Mickiscoole

Mickiscoole — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:19:43 +0000

@restricted3:
TM on steam doesn’t use Starforce

By: restricted3

restricted3 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:05:53 +0000

I’m glad Nadeo decided to drop StarForce, and also a bit puzzled, since Florent (Nadeo’s boss) thought that StarForce was “the perfect neon to keep away some people having dumb behavior from the community” (referring to people that said that SF was bad an over the top).

A broken burner in my old machine says otherwise.

That’s Nadeo: great games, not so great people.

Edit after Forceflow’s comment: so does it have SF or not?. I was thinking about buying TMU, but I will definitely not if it has StarForce. I have dumb behaviour, you know.

By: Forceflow

Forceflow — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:04:04 +0000

Too bad it still features StarForce copy protection. For a bloody free game.

By: caramelcarrot

caramelcarrot — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:38:48 +0000

I wasted a good amount of my summer playing Track Mania Nations against friends and getting gold/naedo on all the training tracks, this should be awesome.

By: fluffy bunny

fluffy bunny — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:35:15 +0000

I love this. But the best news, for me, is the extra content for TrackMania United – TMN is a fantastic little game, but TMU is just…. omg.

Here’s a lovely user-made video of the new desert environment in TMU: http://www.vimeo.com/822926

By: Niall Sheffield

Niall Sheffield — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:25:22 +0000

Is it me, or do we not praise the developers enough, I think this is their third (dunno) free game, that deserves some mighty points in the gamers book.

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:23:42 +0000

re: scalability

The Trackmania engine runs great even on mid-to-low end machines. I had an older laptop it ran fine on. You tune down the pretty details, like motion blur, and you’re fine.

Online is great because it’s not bumper cars like other racers, instead – you are just racing for best time and coolest stunts. Other players on the track at the same time are shown as ghosts, so you just pass through them, thus saving tons of CPU cycles and bandwidth.