Ship Explosions

I have to say, I don't like this new ship flames and spins onto the track way of dieing. What happened to the BANG and flying pieces when someone is eliminated??

If all deaths are like that video thats almost an 80% reduction in the enjoyment of hunting people down, as someone who enjoys knocking other players off its like no proper reward for the effort put in. :frown:

How about some downloadable patching, you can call it the classic/satisfying/proper death patch.

What does everyone else think? :banzai

Don't know about you, but isn't it more satisfying watching the ship 'wreck' over the track then watching it just dissapear?
Maybe we can have burnout style deformation of the craft upon elimination? Crumpling body panels... ooh yeah.

Hell yeah! That sounds sweet imagine how much fender body damage would occur during those extremely fun Avalon events. A good explosion a must in online racing. There is much satisfaction after eliminating some shithead. More to come definitely now:twisted

Yeah I thought of this once back when we were thinking of the crafts being magnetic, and the body parts that are still slightly twitching on would push a craft out away from it when it did twitch on... scary stuff... haha mabye if they re-did the first Wipeout and the craft parts seem more ancient thus capable of danger...

I prefer the new explosion type. More realistic, and more fun to see wrecked ships on the tracks.

This post needs a poll to quickly see the whole opinion.

I don't know if you guys noticed yet, but the burning carcass of eliminated ships stays on track for the rest of the race. I definitely prefer this to having the ship blow up in smoke. Now, every time you speed past a ship you destroyed in previous laps, you're thinking 'HA HA!' :P

And can you bump into ships' carcass ?

It seems there is only in Zone mode with its VR style where the ship desintegrate slowly ?

No, you can't bump into the wrecks. You hover over them. They lie on the track and burn. It looks sweet.

is there a link to a video showing the new crashing? i've just seen the recent vids where the zone mode isn't as crazy.

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Originally Posted by eLhabib

No, you can't bump into the wrecks. You hover over them. They lie on the track and burn. It looks sweet.

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Erf, I guess we can not have our cake and eat it u_u, but it's true with WO speed it would have been difficult to avoid.

No, I mean you actually hover over them. They are lying on the track. Your ship is flying a couple of meters above the track. Even if there was a collision model (which I doubt), you still wouldn't be hitting them.

it didn't seems to me that the ships were flying that high, but well, we will surely still be fighting against our instinct to avoid obstacles >_<

Will it be the key to win ? ...

Check out this and this :pc
and yes, that's my Assegai in the second picture :bomb

Actually, I feel more like the I'm clipping through the wrecks instead of flying over them. ;)
I'm not yet sure I like them lying there for the entire rest of the race - especially since there are now FAR more eliminations (one in almost every race) than before. I mean, where's the logic if working ships can be warped back on track and wrecked pilots can't be brought to safety the same way?

It looks cooler! ;) Best logic there is...

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Originally Posted by eLhabib

Check out this and this :pc
and yes, that's my Assegai in the second picture :bomb

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Those screen shots are fkn awesome! Cant wait! Lol at the first picture at the EGX ship. Seems like that Kia exceeded its five year warrenty. Lol.

*sigh* why do people want Wipeout to be 'more realistic' it's almost getting annoying having to read that over and over..

So what happens when you die? Do you get to watch the rest of the race or does it cut to photo mode?

That is one freaking amazing hot Icaras you got there! The Mirage is looking sweet too, I really like the look of the cables underneath the wings, but I think the wings are coming from a very small and fragile part of the ship. I would imagine it to break with the smallest collision. Mirage is looking so much like the Goteki45 from Pure.

When you die. Thats depending on how **** a pilot you are... You are prob cursing at the screen... As leungbok quoted to me 'The bastard' on Arc Prime Rapier, or as i was on MSN a few weeks ago i said 'Goddam ****in cnt aaarrrrhhhh!' When i got ****ed over bad. You remember RR on MSN? Lol. More good times to come:g

When you get eliminated (offline), you can watch the rest of the race and take pictures, yes. I don't know about online, but I reckon it would be the same there. So the first person to get eliminated will turn into the 'dedicated photographer' ;)

Apparently when you die online you respawn. :blarg

WTF??

Someone explain this....you can turn it off right?

WHAT THE FLYING ****?! Now this is just... wrong...
Seriously, who's the ****ing idiot that came up with that idea?! He deserves a smack in the face :bomb
This really upsets me. I'll get a petition going to have that fixed in an update ASAP! Aaaaaaargh!!! :-

EDIT: I apologize for the harsh accusations in this post - thank you Colin for providing insight into this issue in the petition thread.

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Originally Posted by Rapier Racer

*sigh* why do people want Wipeout to be 'more realistic' it's almost getting annoying having to read that over and over..

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I want the ships to look absolutely new and clean up to the instant they're destroyed.

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Originally Posted by eLhabib

WHAT THE FLYING ****?! Now this is just... wrong...
Seriously, who's the ****ing idiot that came up with that idea?! He deserves a smack in the face :bomb
This really upsets me. I'll get a petition going to have that fixed in an update ASAP! Aaaaaaargh!!! :-

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And this years academy award for the most dramatic and beautiful over reaction goes to. . . .

:)

Ah that soothes the soul Lance, :banzai totally unrealistic in every possible way, just how Wipeout should be.

Chill the hell out guys about the online respawn... yeah I don't like it either but grow up...

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Originally Posted by Rapier Racer

Ah that soothes the soul Lance, :banzai totally unrealistic in every possible way, just how Wipeout should be.

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Which makes Barrel Rolls okay using that logic, since they're also proven to be unrealistic, amirite? :-

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Originally Posted by Colin Berry

And this years academy award for the most dramatic and beautiful over reaction goes to. . . .

:)

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You are right, I overreacted, and I am sorry for offending the person on the receiving end. Thank you for your statement in the petition thread. Still, I sincerely hope this issue can be compromised in the future.

well I don't really understand the difficulty behind turning off respawn (the problem of host quitting is the same wether he is playing or he is dead, just the context which is different) but if we could turn it off in the future, I've nothing to complain for the moment.

Why the respawn is so fast is another point which bugs me (nearly no handicap for having been destroyed ?). It is even quicker than Motorstorm respawn (but which game isn't ^_~)

Yeah but does it start you on a head start just like if you were to fall of the track and then respawn, or does it start you motionless... cause then you'd have to speed up...

Yes please let this not coninue, I don't like this respawning idea...

Good for you eLhabib... You the man!! ;)

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Originally Posted by Mad-Ice

That is one freaking amazing hot Icaras you got there! The Mirage is looking sweet too, I really like the look of the cables underneath the wings, but I think the wings are coming from a very small and fragile part of the ship. I would imagine it to break with the smallest collision. Mirage is looking so much like the Goteki45 from Pure.

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Yes those two screen shots are just unbelievable. It think the way the Mirage ships structure is set up is that it would have dense heavy strong steel connection, the front of the ship to the rear pilots cabin section to achieve a low and even center of gravity. While the curved structure at the front of ship would have some light kevlar and/or polyeutherane material to contunue the correct weight balance.

Icarus looks hell sweet. If this is the most fastest ship in the game (that doesn't require a DL pack) i will be using the ship by default:g

Yes indeed and it so looks like Lance his avatar!

Not quite like my avatar, but pretty damned nice!

IIIIIIIICCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAASSSSSS

Actually, Lance, the new Icaras looks like your avatar was the concept sketch for it. The front is a little beefier, but other than that, exactly the same shape. Down to the little antenna thingie under the nose. Lookie here!

Yeah, I'd saved that pic already. :D Thanks for it. Pretty sleek alrighty. A classic design. But not the quite the right colour-scheme. Needs reddish-purple and pink. ;) And a slash of orange. Mine is even sleeker and has a bigger.... thruster. :g

Lance, it looks ALOT like your avatar pic lol.

My avatar is a reduced-size reproduction of an original concept sketch done for Wipeout 3. So it's ooooooold.

But great!

i still can't seem to find a video of the new crashing. seen the online crashes where it respawns you, but i wanna see offline crashes plz.

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Originally Posted by Chill

Yeah but does it start you on a head start just like if you were to fall of the track and then respawn, or does it start you motionless... cause then you'd have to speed up...

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The video posted by Darkdrium shows it.
Since you respawn after the ship crashed and made a complete stop, you respawn without speed. But it is regain very fast.