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This is the best racing game in about a decade.
Yeah it's fucking awesome,
I wish there were more players though. And more people making custom maps.
>Literally a consolized Trackmania2
>Best racing game in a decade
But yes, Trackmania is always great.
>>333587513
I heard it's coonsolized shit compared to the older trackmania games.
>>333588124
Consolized how?
>>333588207
read the steam reviews
>>333588390
The main issues I see are having to deal with uPlay or whatever the fuck it is and the lack of dedicated servers (which is kind of shit).
But overall it seems to be the most content rich TM out of the box to date. Whether the community supports it is an entirely different issue.
Forza Horizon 2 > Trackmania
>>333587513
For console maybe
For PC the old stadium is way better
>>333588654
>the most content rich TM out of the box to date
>What is TMUF?
>>333588207
Trackmania's thing has always been customization and tons of user created content which Turbo disallows (no dedicated servers, no custom skins/models, no server mods, etc).
There's a reason Nations Forever still has players, and it sure ain't Ubisoft.
>>333588763
>finally get a forza on PC
>it's a microtransaction-laden, stripped-down Windows 10 only shitpipe
WHY
>>333589145
so the xboan doesnt become completely fucking obsolete
Fuck me I remember when we used to play Nations on the school computer.
Why is this 60 fucking dollars though?
TM United is still the best TM in my books, despite community being around 100 folks during prime time.
I do own Turbo but mainly waiting on the custom tracks to build up to the point where the hosted rooms aren't just the Nadeo tracks.
>>333589090
What the fuck else do you need besides the trackmaker?
>muh mods
Egh
>>333590857
Global track leaderboards?
Competent replay editor?
Controller config? (Turbo doesn't let you remap shit)Per-track music also gave some servers hella flavor
What track mania should I buy if I've never played the series before?
>>333591025
Lol
>>333591163
Turbo is the active one currently. TM2 was so mishandled (partly due in thanks to the botched Steam version, as well as Shootmania) that it's hard to recommend with its current dwindling server count.
I've been playing United again and it's hard to believe it's as old as it is (atrocious server mod UIs aside). Nadeo have real fucking wizards working on the lighting in their engines.
>>333590857
>>muh mods
>Egh
>he doesn't like complete user customization
Half the fun of Trackmania is seeing what different skins people bring to the race, from Mazda 787s and Ferrari F40s to cars ripped from GTA to Sanic running with his arms out.
And drawing dicks, too.
>>333591025
All the Euro servers and their smorgasbord soundtracks have actually introduced me to a number of bands I wouldn't have listened to otherwise.
>>333591504
I know I play games for eyesore, out of place mods and dick drawings
Fuck sake, m8
>>333591504
Sometimes you get great Euro bands you never heard of, and sometimes you get to hear music you forgot existed.
The eyesore of mod UIs is part of the experience for me. I wouldn't play TM without it.
>>333591571
Good thing you can turn off other cars, then, or disable skin downloading entirely (not that you have to because 70% of people have their FUCKING LOCATOR FILES SET WRONG ANYWAY so they have the default grey cars anyway).
Lighten up a bit!
>>333591272
What if I only care about single player?
>>333591810
You never play TM for the single player.
>>333591272
>shootmania
what the fuck even was that? I tried out the demo and had no idea what was going on
>>333592024
Arena shooter where everyone has a railgun, and standing on certain tiles can change the weapon you're currently holding.
They basically tried to use the TrackMania "Build your own levels" formula on an FPS.
>>333592120
Did it ever take off for a while?
>>333592132
Nope! The general slowness of Nadeo and all the ManiaPlanet issues back then (made maintaining a server for either game hell) didn't help matters either.
>No time attack
Sale when?
>>333587513
>This is the best racing game in about a decade.
It looks really lackluster compared to TMNF and 2. And what's worse, it will spread the remaining people in the community across 3 different titles, so more servers will be empty and die.
is there a reason to buy turbo when i can just play tmnf?
turbo is jus tanother rehash of environments that have existed in the games for 10 years now. it also lacks basic features that i enjoy (mainly dedicated servers).
what were they even thinking? why even make a new game when you're gonna make it worse than existing games?
dumb nadeo cucks
>>333587513
>This is the best racing game in about a decade
>you don't actually race
>>333592495
define race
>tfw TMU doesn't make full use of your hardware for video rendering
I miss this feature a lot in Turbo.
>>333592754
What am I looking at here?
Also is it just me or are shadows and lighting in replays in United totally fucked on modern computers?
Turbo feels like Nadeo's attempt to fix TM2, with meddling from Ubisoft forcing them to consolize it.
>>333592545
its a social construct you shitlord
>>333592818
It's the game playing back a replay file outputting to a video so I can then webm it.
I'm also able to use arbitrary resolutions and 25x anti-aliasing for it.
>>333592941
>25x
>not 196x
I bought a new CPU back in the day just to render Trackmania videos.
Why do so many people suck at drifting in NFS?
This shit is too easy.
>>333592941
Oh, you mean replay rendering. Didn't realize what you were describving at first.
TMU doesn't have that?
>>333593050
25x is the limit for TMU unless there's something I'm missing. Never played TM2 that much since I fucked up by getting the fragmented Steam version.
Nadeo didn't think to make a general TM2 client for Steam and having the environments be considered DLC.
And fresh from TMU.
>>333593172
TMU has it, Turbo doesn't.
>>333593269
Meant Turbo doesn't, shit.
It's late. Can't believe they'd strip out something like that, though.
>>333593308
It's lacking a lot of shit I took for granted. Don't even think it's possible to do GPS on a custom track?
>>333593308
Turbo only has the "basic" video editor from TM2 which you use to edit and render replays. TM2's advanced editor was actually fully featured and had a shit tonne of settings you could play around with, it was more akin to a real editing program like Vegas.
You could also take incredibly high quality screenshots with it, like this one.
>>333593430
Said advanced replay editor was also used to make those silly intros/gps/mid-race-shenanigans.
>>333592818
Lighting's been fine here on Win8.1.
>>333593065
Those physics look awful.
>>333593430
That's really friggin' disappointing. I knew Turbo was gonna be bad but didn't know exactly how much stuff they'd ripped out.
Unironically Reddit
>>333593592
They are. At least it's a good stancefag sim.
>>333587513
>This is the best racing game in about a decade
Its fucking consolised crap.
>playing trackmania valley
>join euro server
>only american
>silently dominate while listening to eurobeats flying through the trees in a rally car
i have yet to experience anything fun with turbo that matches that
yeah the game looks nice, the music is good, but the multiplayer is already stale. why they got rid of global leaderboards, i have no clue.
Turbo is really fun, and I enjoy the environments almost on par with Sunrise's.
But there's really no excuse for the amount of missing content and features compared to the old games. If there was one example of a game ruined by being on consoles, this would be a prime example if it.
>>333593750
They ARE kinda limited on that regard, being a small team and forced to make a console version.
I just hope they readd a load of the missing functionality later on.
>>333593750
You might as well make a post saying
>fuck PC players
This is why devs shouldn't post on forums.
>>333593890
With how limited the game is I'm surprised it isn't cross-platform online.
That said, fuck the analog controls on Lagoon. Stick goes from barely turning the car to veering off to the left/right.
>>333593967
Lagoon's handling in general is a bit odd, but I find Valley more annoying purely because of how awkward it is to control on keyboard, has a tendency to snap into a hard turn.
>>333589145
it's the same game but with less cars
I'm enjoying Turbo a lot, it's amazing. But holy shit, what did they do to the cars? They're so ugly.
>no dedimania type of system for records online
all this game has is a decent singleplayer campaign which wont take it very far
>>333594181
Are the cars in Turbo even based off anything? All the previous Trackmania cars were real cars with the emblems filed off and usually the headlights/taillights stylized a bit (which leads to funny stuff like the TM2 Canyon car being a stylized fifth-gen Mustang that looks almost identical to the real world SIXTH-gen Mustang that hadn't been revealed yet).
>>333594108
I just moved to full analog for Turbo. TMU/TM2 I was keyboard unless it was Stadium, where you want to be able to make very slight turns.
But yeah, Lagoon....it's 'fine' on the rollercoaster portion where that hard turn is needed on any 90 degree pieces while maintaining fullspeed, but any track that's on ground is absolute hell to not wipe out on.
>>333594219
I only wish they used the same progression system as the prior TMs which went based on medal count to unlock tiers/sets. Not a literal "Do every single level" to then see the later/harder stuff.
>>333594219
>Decent single player
>Those fucking awful multilap races
All of my hate. All of it.
>>333594410
at least the later ones aren't 30 minutes long this time
>>333594410
>doing perfect run
>near end
>make a single goof
>gold replay car zips pass the finish before you
Is Trackmania 2: Canyon worth buying? From seeing people play I like that there's more focus on chucking cars round corners with huge skids
>>333595268
Better off waiting a few months to see what the future of TM2 is post-Turbo. There's already barely anyone playing the TM2 environments online.
>>333587513
>Racing
I bought the game and It's alright, but I have yet to see an actual race, it's nothing but time attack segments.
Am I a retard or there's no way to actually race, like doing laps around a track against other cars with collision and all.
>>333597193
Core of the game series is time attack.
Only thing with collision in it are those weird local multiplayer modes you enter via codes, which is new to the series. There's no traditional racing option.
>>333587641
>he can't run it on his shit pc
