Comments on: Wot I Think: Burnout Paradise

By: 1nsane

1nsane — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:48:07 +0000

Guys i have problem with the game:
My steer wheel isnt working on it. I have: Trust Steering Wheel GM-3200 VFB. Do you have anything to do with the settings to get it work, or just plug & play?

PLz help me

By: Y3k-Bug

Y3k-Bug — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:38:46 +0000

A question to the room:

Anyone else have problems getting the Winamp’s global hotkeys to work while playing the game?

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:30:19 +0000

Thanks for your message Mr Webster!

A editable playlist is highly welcome because most of the soundtrack is simply bad teen rock music.

But also the soundtrack menu is awfuly badly done, it doesn’t make any use of the resolutions and size of our pc screens. It is obviously a copy of the console menu, like all the rest of the game menus which are a real pain, honestly.

I’ve had issues of savegame corruption when exiting to windows via the bottom choice in the ingame options menu, those corruptions don’t happen if I first leave to the main title screen and then exit to windows.

Your game if for the rest a really really good game, It surpasses the NFS franchise on every level for me, mainly because there is none or very little frustration from missing a turn or not winning a race. I’ve been longing for a pc version of any Burnout for years, thank you.

By: bansama

bansama — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:13:52 +0000

Yay, I finally got through to the Japanese EA store support system (which was offline itself =/) and within an hour, they fixed the problem with Burnout paradise. Snapped it up as soon as they informed me =)

The only problem I have now is that none of the ingame news information displays. It just gives the message “News not available”.

Also now looking forward to the “cops n robbers” content, the one thing I found missing with this game.

By: jalf

jalf — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:46:19 +0000

@Matt Webster: Any chance of seeing the game on Steam?
I’ll buy it the moment I can get a version with no limits on how often I can download/install/activate it. (Obviously a non-Steam non-DRM version would be even better, but any version with no limit on activations will do)

Loved the demo, so this officially gets on my coveted and highly exclusive “list of racing games that don’t suck” (which now contains a whopping 2 games. Doesn’t get much more exclusive) :D

By: iainl

iainl — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:18:46 +0000

Paradise doesn’t seem to be quite as mental as the previous games.

Spoken like someone who hasn’t reached the later cars; they’re eyeblendingly fast.

By: Drool

Drool — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:25:08 +0000

Man, I don’t even know where a shortcut to Internet Explorer is on my PC. Who uses IE anymore?

But thanks for the tip I’ll go fix it up.

By: Matt Webster

Matt Webster — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:08:50 +0000

actually… we think that just enabling “Allow status bar updates via script” should fix it…

-Matt

By: Matt Webster

Matt Webster — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:05:20 +0000

Thanks, we’ll add that to a nice-to-have list!

We’ve had some reports on the new page and I’m in the process of changing the error message. Seems some version of IE don’t come with the same security settings (or users play with them)

If you go to Tools \ Internet Options \ Security Tab \ Custom Level Button

Search for the scripting level, you should have

“Active Scripting – Enable”
“Allow programmatic clipboard access – prompt”
“Allow status bur updates via script – enable”
“Allow for websites to prompt for information using scripted window – enable”
“Scripting of java applets – enable”

That should sort it!

By: Drool

Drool — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:53:03 +0000

Custom soundtracks and text chat Mr. Webster. That is what I desire for ultimate Burnout PC perfection.

I haven’t had any problems with games online other than mouthy Russian dudes, but your in game news feed is still borked.

By: Matt Webster

Matt Webster — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:53:25 +0000

Hi all, we really appreciate all the feedback that we’re getting, as you all know this is our first time on PC so we’re learning a lot!

In particular I’m interested in players having problems with servers. If you can let us know at mailbag@criteriongames.com with PC Server Problems in the subject line and we’ll do whatever we can to solve them.

Thanks again, hope you don’t mind me using this page for our customer feedback requests!

The Burnout Team

By: G-Master

G-Master — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:07:12 +0000

@ skillian

Yeah, it has a party mode, where you complete little challenges in turns, like

“Do the most jumps along this road” or

“Drive furthest in oncoming traffic” or “Get the best time around this route.”