General Racing (any type) Thread

[ZedClampet]

Bought this:

TrackMania² Stadium on Steam

TrackMania² Stadium is the return of the popular Stadium environment enjoyed by millions of players with TrackMania Nations Forever. Now part of the ManiaPlanet environment, Stadium allows for improved services around the game, better graphics and a powerful track editor.

store.steampowered.com

Driving is arcade, but fun arcade. Tracks are extremely arcade, but so far I'm enjoying them.

The thing that astonished me is that it lists the World Leaders, Country Leaders and State Leaders (for USA), and people have obviously taken this very seriously. My first race I did kind of okay and was in the top 10 percent among World Leaders (out of over 300k players), but that was an anomaly. I didn't get back in the top 10 percent on any other track that I played.

I'm not concentrating on the leaderboard yet, though. I'm just working my way through the tracks and having a great time with it. At some point today I might try making my own track.

 

[Pifanjr]

Bought this:

TrackMania² Stadium on Steam

TrackMania² Stadium is the return of the popular Stadium environment enjoyed by millions of players with TrackMania Nations Forever. Now part of the ManiaPlanet environment, Stadium allows for improved services around the game, better graphics and a powerful track editor.

store.steampowered.com

Driving is arcade, but fun arcade. Tracks are extremely arcade, but so far I'm enjoying them.

The thing that astonished me is that it lists the World Leaders, Country Leaders and State Leaders (for USA), and people have obviously taken this very seriously. My first race I did kind of okay and was in the top 10 percent among World Leaders (out of over 300k players), but that was an anomaly. I didn't get back in the top 10 percent on any other track that I played.

I'm not concentrating on the leaderboard yet, though. I'm just working my way through the tracks and having a great time with it. At some point today I might try making my own track.

I've played quite a bit of Trackmania Nations at LAN parties. You see the other players (and the ghost of your best time) but can't hit them and you all try to get the best time on a track within a certain amount of time.

It's a good game, but the later tracks get absolutely ridiculous.

 

[Colif]

if they are the world record times, most of those won't even be possible without knowing all the tricks used. If they are author times, and not custom tracks, then you might have a chance.

I have watched the videos about World Record progression on some of them, they go from being as accurate as possible to thinking outside the box... often involving jumping off track or in some cases up the track. everytime a bug is worked out and can be found to be useful the records drop.

People grind tracks to beat the times... for months at a time.

 

[ZedClampet]

if they are the world record times, most of those won't even be possible without knowing all the tricks used. If they are author times, and not custom tracks, then you might have a chance.

I have watched the videos about World Record progression on some of them, they go from being as accurate as possible to thinking outside the box... often involving jumping off track or in some cases up the track. everytime a bug is worked out and can be found to be useful the records drop.

People grind tracks to beat the times... for months at a time.

I honestly think my first race where I scored so well was a bug because I have scored horribly (compared to all the people who are apparently gaming the system) in all the other races. I'm not really worried about the cheese. Just trying to beat the "Gold" times.