What happened to Van Uber???

[jklasdf]

i started playing wipEout at Pure, and my favorite team was van uber. i loved the look, it was so unique, and the performance was great!

Now I've bought pulse, and Van Uber is gone!! they're not in the download packs or anything. does anyone else think this is bull?

[TearsToShreds]

I've never played Pure but I can say I hated its looks in Fusion. The only thing I find bull in relation to Van Uber is its name.

[Asayyeah]

Van hoover

[Rapier Racer]

It's gone, probably forever. Do I think it's bull? As long as Assegai are in moi isn't caring.

[Lance]

The Van Uber ships flew through their own flamethrower blast and incinerated themselves.

[mdhay]

// Lance: .

They were probably axed by the Anti - Gravity Racing Association for being little more than eye - candy.

[Rapier Racer]

I can think of other teams that deserve the chop a lot more than Van-Uber. Harimau comes instantly to mind as one of the most useless ships in history. But Van-Uber didn't look good you say, and Mirage does does it?

[Fascia]

Not so Über after all are they?

The reason Van-Uber were in Pure is the same as Tigron, they were only legacy ships that happened to remain from the F9000 Racing League, because the companies behind them had gone backrupt/moved on after the issues in the F9k league there was no money left in it to upgrade the ships to FX400 specifications.

[Rapier Racer]

I thought the Van-Uber race team owned Ubermall? They live on!

[Lance]

I always liked the way van Uber looked, but as to their other characteristics, well......

[RJ O'Connell]

Probably what happened to the smaller F1 teams recently like Arrows, Jordan, Minardi, etc - ran out of money.

[stin]

Or maybe ran out of thin breakable metals?

It is a good ship but it`s too fragile to handle.

stevie

[DjManiac21]

I can think of other teams that deserve the chop a lot more than Van-Uber. Harimau comes instantly to mind as one of the most useless ships in history.

Hey Rapier, I was playing this week's TT in Arc Prime Black, and managed to get a really good time with a Harimau, 0.23.74, Rapier, so probably we might find it useful this time, at least for a couple of tracks

Poor team...

[Rapier Racer]

How does it fare against other ships in single race combat situations? Thats what I base my assessments on.

[Chrono]

I can think of other teams that deserve the chop a lot more than Van-Uber. Harimau comes instantly to mind as one of the most useless ships in history. But Van-Uber didn't look good you say, and Mirage does does it?

Mirage might have been good in multiplayer (atleast on phantom) but Harimaru is infinatly worthless in Pulse. If I'm not mistaken, it was less, but still worthless, in Pure. Medieval,

[Lion]

medieval was great for novelty races.
the 1 shield challenge was a great way to end a night of racing... I think I did that a couple of times where noone finished the race

[jklasdf]

well i liked the way van uber looked (but i agree the name was stupid).

wen i first started playing wipeout (pure.....and only a couple months ago ) i liked the way the split-nosed ships looked the most(qirex immediately comes to mind). but i was disappointed that there were really only two ship types: single hull and split-nosed(i couldn't think of anything else to call it).

it would be nice, i think, if they added another kind of ship design, like van uber from pure where the hull splits, but then reconnects at the tip. they're pretty creative ppl, im sure they could figure something out

[Lion]

triakis is a triple hull construction, and goteki45 in pure was quite different too
the mirage concept in pulse is more-or-less the reverse of the pure goteki

[Jenze]

yeah I miss von uber as well, loved it in fusion, loved it in pure.

but now, harimau is my favorite, I don't mind it's gone..

[P52Smith]

Liked it in Fusion (what little I played it), loved it in Pure, upset it's gone but understanding!