Random HD Questions that don't need a thread of their own.

[OBH]

Always been there mate. It removes the AI ships completely so you can have a head to head race.

Also improves the frame rate drastically.

[tug_14]

online seem to be off ...
same for u ?

[yeldar2097]

Why (when logged in as yeldar2097) was my name showing as 'Tobotius' during/after races? o_O

[OBH]

no idea, remember when my name was saying problemsolver? even when racing him, kgb was spinning out once cos there were two problemsolvers in his race!!

couldnt tell you exact reason behind it, but since my ps3 was formatted a loooong time ago it hasnt happened since.

[KIGO1987]

I remember this buggy thing that happen last year when two of the same names appear. Was told by a few people there where a couple of KIGO1987's in a room. I was like wtf, going to have to hunt down these clones that use my tag. Just a bug, seems like it is coming back again.

[Darkdrium777]

I've always wondered, but are boost starts in split screen mode WipEout HD absolutely impossible? I've never done a single one.

Quoting myself.

[yeldar2097]

Likewise, never ever managed it.

[amplificated]

I had to test it out myself to see what was going on, and couldn't get it happening. I never play split screen so I never noticed before.

Tried going a little early and a little late as well as on time, but out of the 5 or so attempts I tried, nothing worked, with either player 1 or 2.

I never miss a boost start normally so I'm guessing you either just can't, or the timing required needs to be incredibly precise.
Since the game is running at 30fps, it could be something to do with that instead of the typical 60.

[KIGO1987]

multiplayer on WOHD feels more like 15-20fps. Sick inducing. Fusion has a better frame rate than HD in multiplayer, and where going back to 2001!

[Aeroracer]

turbo in split screen has never worked for me or anyone i have played with...
split screen mode basically is total crap...like kigo says it does make you feel sick with all the jerkiness and low frame rate..

[Connavar]

btw, Fusion is 60fps

[yeldar2097]

What does it mean when using the W3O HUD during a race and some people's names are in dark grey instead of white? Just saw it on andybob's screen and wondering what was goin on.

[Darkdrium777]

Nope, that happens with the WipEout HD HUD too and I still don't know what it means.
Perhaps that they are ghosting (in ghost form and not solid form) ?

[yeldar2097]

Nah I looked out for ghosting and it didn't seem to correlate in any way. Hmmm

[mdhay]

maybe it menas that they're getting hit by something or lagging?

[yeldar2097]

Has anybody else noticed that in Time Trial, if you leave your ship for a while and your ghost finishes the 'race', eventually the ghost will start again: I left my PS3 on running a Time Trial for about an hour (unpaused), when I came back I saw my ship zoom past me. Noticed it again about 20 minutes later.

[KIGO1987]

I think there is a 9:59minute reset on those ghosts. so every ten minutes the ghost starts again regardless of where you are located or stopped on the track.

[yeldar2097]

Ahh very clever kigo, never though about that.

I also realised afterwards that as a result of this my ghost became bugged and was 0.2 slower than it should have been. Beat it by a ship's length and still didn't beat my record.

Moral of the story: Don't leave Wipeout HD unpaused for more than 10 minutes in SL/TT

[amplificated]

I've had bugs affect my ghosts as well, though they just seem to have happened on their own. Sometimes it's like the data just decides to corrupt itself and then get replaced after every lap, and sometimes I just start a new race and it thinks the ghost data is basically corrupted and gets re-written.

Only happened a handful of times, luckily; though one of my WR's ghosts got screwed and while the ghost is still a WR, it's not the WR

[Danterich]

WEIRD:
was online for hours, hosted a phantom room, i used Harimau, but it felt like Mirage, with the mirage sound!! anyone else experienced this ?
I better let my PS3 sleep 4 a while...
+ i was in a phantom room with zoners, and chattin...suddenly..i think twice for few secs, a girls voice could be heard, loud and clear