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Trackmania Turbo announced (PC/PS4/X1) TM2 Environments + 1 New
- Thread starter sn00zer
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At this point, they should just upgrade all copies of Trackmania² to a full Trackmania² release made of Canyon, Valley, Stadium and Lagoon.
Nadeo please
PLEASE
You already did stuff like this, it wouldn't even be a stretch.
Also, as long as Trackmania Turbo is manialink-enabled, the infrastructure for sharing tracks crossplatform is already there.
Nadeo please
PLEASE You already did stuff like this, it wouldn't even be a stretch.
Also, as long as Trackmania Turbo is manialink-enabled, the infrastructure for sharing tracks crossplatform is already there.
The woman in the YouTube (Keighley) stream, just before the conference started, said she hoped Ubi would just drop "uPlay is dead" on stage. It's a shame that didn't happen =(
Trackmania doesn't use UPlay. It uses its even more stupid cousin, ManiaPlanet.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
I actually prefer ManiaPlanet to Uplay.
T
thepotatoman
Unconfirmed Member
The trackmania multiplayer/time trial mashup is what makes Trackmania so fun. No need to hide it when it's the defining feature of the game. The problem with most driving multiplayer games is that one mistake and then you're out of it for the rest of the race, which is madly stressful and frustrating. With Trackmania, there's always a chance you'll clock the game winning time on that next reset, no matter how badly you did on the first run.
They only hid it because clipping into ghosts just doesn't look great graphically.
Though it seems like it'd be a little more boring without a keyboard to chat with people and weird server mods.
At this point, they should just upgrade all copies of Trackmania² to a full Trackmania² release made of Canyon, Valley, Stadium and Lagoon.
Nadeo please
You already did stuff like this, it wouldn't even be a stretch.
Also, as long as Trackmania Turbo is manialink-enabled, the infrastructure for sharing tracks crossplatform is already there.
Lagoon?
Also, but I paid for those
Why would you expect them for free? Because some of them didn't really deliver? That's even worse for the customers!I agree, it's not that bad because it's not as annoying as UPlay and doesn't force you to use features you're not interested in. That being said, it failed miserably and Trackmania 2 should have been on Steam on launch.
Lagoon?
Also, but I paid for those
Lagoon is the new environment.
I also paid for all of them. If you knew Nadeos histry, you'd know how an upgrade like this wouldn't be all that unrealistic.
So you want it for the server population to increase (and then maps too I guess)? Fair enough. I haven't played them in a while but now that I mention it I do remember it being a bit thin.
So is lagoon part of Trackmania turbo...or something else coming for the trackmania 2 series?
bigbaldwolf86
Banned
Loooooove Trackmania.
Day 1 for my PS4 without doubt
Day 1 for my PS4 without doubt
It's part of Turbo and will probably also be an environment for TM². And yeah, I want TM² to already get unified into a single package. Since most people are playing on Steam, where the multi-environment mode doesn't work, this way of distributing fragments the player base big time (steam players playing canyon can't get on valley servers etc.), effectively killing off the game.
Nadeo is really cool about this, allowing people who bought the game on Steam to just download it outside of Steam, but nobody knows you can actually do this and, to be honest, it's a solution for a problem, which shouldn't exist in the first place.
Also, Nadeo, if you are listening:
Trackmania Complete with TM² x TM United Forever pretty please?
Trackmania Nations (and Nations Forever, which is a free huge DLC to the free Trackmania Nations) is a former entry of the Trackmania series and is, in fact, free.
You can download it here: http://trackmaniaforever.com/nations/
Since then, Stadium has been expanded even further and it will be one of the environments of Trackmania Turbo, so you can play the free game to git gud for when Trackmania Turbo hits.
This is why I'm ready to let TM2 die. If Turbo unifies the playerbase again, I'm all for it.
Lemonte
Member
I didn't realise it had those issues! Used to just load one of them up on steam...it was a bit messy switching between them for sure. Okay cool, +1 from me too then.
OHHH RIGHT
Okay, so it is the 3 games plus another one. I should have skipped valley, but that canyon environment left a lot to be desired.
Oh, I'm also all for Turbo! But people, who already bought the Trackmania² environments shouldn't get left behind. They already bought like 75% of Turbo, yet would have to buy it again.
Some sort of discount would be really neat to not loose those players.
thelastword
Banned
Looks amazing, just tampered with it on PC many moons ago, but it reminded me so much of one of the first games I played on PC (STUNTS).
If you want to experience Trackmania² in a much more enjoyable state, copy the key from steam, download the Maniaplanet launcher on the official Trackmania site and just log into your account!
The keys *should* be compatible. Then you can switch environments without restarting and play multi-environment!
IIRC it's also possible to mix parts and physics from different environments (as in drive Canyon with Valley car) but don't quote me on that one.
Neuromancer
Member
Any chance of wheel support on Ps4?
bearythebear
Member
I've probably put in a 1000 hours into Trackmania Forever. I dunno if this will have the same crazy modding and mostly German community. #GPSBackwards
Thanks for the headsup! Guess I ought to delete the steam versions
IIRC I was playing non-steam canyon ages ago and then it came to steam and they gave us a copy I think and probably thought that was as good as it gets...anyway.
I'd also appreciate a discount on Turbo based on ownership of the other (up to) 3 TM2 titles, of course. Shit, I even bought shootmania storm ...
Trackmania is really hard to drive with a wheel. The announcement didn't really show this, but you regularly reach 800+ km/h.
Gamepad is the controller of choice for most, but there was a hardcore crowd, who played Island with a wheel so if you are dead-set on it, it could work out.
Hotseat multiplayer is actually great for this game even without it due to the nature of the game, I think. I sunk dozens of hours into the Wii version even after dozens in the PC version.
Teknopathetic
Member
"Any chance of wheel support on Ps4?"
Trackmania is not a game you play with a wheel.
Trackmania is not a game you play with a wheel.
Trackmania² has 4-players-splitscreen, so I don't see any reasons why Turbo wouldn't have it.
That said, hotseat works really well on short tracks, just passing the controller around. It's a great partygame, even!
Hey can you update the title that it includes the TM2 environments? Hopefully includes the levels as well
Glitchfire
Banned
$59.99 seems a little much for a game like this to take off. I hope they lower the price.
Even if it doesn't, somebody will just recreate them. An awesome thing on United Forever was being able to play Trackmania, Trackmania Power Up, Trackmania Sunrise, Trackmania SUnrise Extreme, Trackmania United and Trackmania United Forever campaigns all in a single game. Like, added on top of the 924926340786723480234 user created tracks.
You can play an older entry of the series here for free: http://trackmaniaforever.com/nations/
It only has one environment, but there is literally more user created content available for it, than you could ever play in your entire life.
Oh yeah, forgot about that. Finally we have a UI upgrade. The old one was 10 years old and it showed.
Edit: I hadn't noticed they mentioned uPlay but not ManiaPlanet. Also the release date: 27.11.2015
Try pressing *, it should disable all UI.
Thanks for that, will definitely give it a look!
Get custom tracks here: http://tmnforever.tm-exchange.com/ (429299 tracks) and here http://nations.tm-exchange.com/ (142653 tracks).
Holy shit!
Day one! I hope it comes to Steam too
I tried that once and it ended horribly
Day one! I hope it comes to Steam too
I tried that once and it ended horribly
That was a piece of shit, though. Horrible, horrible port and also not developed by Nadeo.