New PlayStation blog post

[Paul Tweedle]

What's the deal with the different color contrails? Saw red and green contrails in the pics. Playing with pictures, or new thruster technology? Team affiliation via exhaust color?

Hi,

The new Fury ships have red trails which look absolutely ace. It's nice when the pack ahead of you has a mix of reds and blues.

Paul.

[Jambo]

Well thats going to look sweet!

[djKyoto]

Hi,

The new Fury ships have red trails which look absolutely ace. It's nice when the pack ahead of you has a mix of reds and blues.

Paul.

So the current non-Fury ships can race with the new (and slight better stat'd) Fury ships?

Hmmm.

[Paul Tweedle]

Indeed they can. I have to say that the upped stats are only very slightly upped and really don't make too much of a difference in race. The old ships are still relevant and are just as likely win a race as the new versions.

Paul.

[eLhabib]

Hmmm, slightly better is still better, y'know?

[rdmx]

Surely there are some subtle changes under the hood to differentiate it from the HD ship with less stats? Stats do count in the end after all and I think one of the strengths of the original game was how everything was fairly well balanced.

[ACE-FLO]

can you fire backwards without turning 180 like in Fusion? That was infuriating, but this IS Fury!

[Paul Tweedle]

Nope. The firing/flying backwards is specific to Eliminator.

It's really satisfying taking someone out head on.

Paul.

[blackwiggle]

Any chance of letting us know how many new trophies there are,I don't particularly want to know what they are.

Two other questions,how large will the download be and will all countries be getting the release at the same time,or will Japan have to wait longer again ,that's assuming Japan is getting FURY.

[Jambo]

Hey Paul, I know this is maybe not entirely relevant to Fury but when the pack comes will the update include an improvement in communications?

Everything else is awesome!

[blackwiggle]

I'd like to know the answer to that as well,I bought a SONY headset especially for HD but it's just gathering dust because voice chat doesn't work.

Or are we going to have to wait for the system 3 update for this to be fixed?

[lunar]

Hmmm, slightly better is still better, y'know?

Exactly, no-one is going to knowingly choose a slower ship for anything other than pleasure cruises, and we are AG pilots who seek victory or death, we don`t do pleasure cruises But whatever it`s not the end of the world I think. The new ships look fine to me I just hope there will be some skin variations.

Nope. The firing/flying backwards is specific to Eliminator.

Paul, I love you. There is already enough carnage online so it`ll be better to keep this to eliminator. I hope you can patch some of the mine carnage out of the main races though. Thanks for all the posts and info on the blog.

[hIGHWAYtOhEAVEN]

These are great news, can't wait to race in FURY!

[NightArh]

I think Fury may be more popular among people in other countries if they will know about it. So PR may be more intense... Here is an interesting fact: there are 260 mil. people who knows and speak Russian... This game is officially selling in the russian PS Store so why it has no Russian language? And selling without Blu-Ray media? Most of people do not want to buy the game if it has no Russian interface... There are few things to think of... IMHO

[Paul Tweedle]

Wipeout HD DOES have Russian text. Always has.

[NightArh]

really! my bad!

[ProblemSolver]

In the post's comments: ... Some people will be pleased.

I've read that comment days before, but didn't wanted to say anything
about it coz the situation is [DELETED] up beyond repair with respect to
HD. Sure, Fury is going to fix it, but why took it so long...? Some
[DELETED] even recorded a video and released is to the public such that
all those [DELETED] now get one of the most difficult trophy for free. Last
but not least, the leaderboard of Anulpha Pass ZONE is now at its worst.

So either there was a really hard problem to solve, and in this case I would
be very pleased to know about it, or they simple didn't spent enough time
to fix it, alas the problem didn't made it onto the top10 bug list, which
would be [DELETED] because there is a gold trophy associated with it.


@myself: calm down....

PS: I moderated myself.

[guillaume]

If the glitch is fixed, then the video is pointless.
If they fix the leaderboards, then it's all good, isn't it?
Why would you care if some cheater got Zone Zeus?
I say better late than never!

[Paul Tweedle]

I've read that comment days before, but didn't wanted to say anything
about it coz the situation is [DELETED] up beyond repair with respect to
HD. Sure, Fury is going to fix it, but why took it so long...? Some
[DELETED] even recorded a video and released is to the public such that
all those [DELETED] now get one of the most difficult trophy for free. Last
but not least, the leaderboard of Anulpha Pass ZONE is now at its worst.

So either there was a really hard problem to solve, and in this case I would
be very pleased to know about it, or they simple didn't spent enough time
to fix it, alas the problem didn't made it onto the top10 bug list, which
would be [DELETED] because there is a gold trophy associated with it.


@myself: calm down....

PS: I moderated myself.

If this is about the Zone mode Anulpha Pass thing. It wasn't a particularly difficult thing to fix but we didn't know how it was being done. We tried to find out many, many times how this was being done. We even played the level over and over to try to find it ourselves but couldn't. Once we knew how, we fixed it.

Also, fixing a bug is only part of the process. Every patch has to go through a lengthy testing process so it takes time I'm afraid.

As for the tables, once Fury is out we're going to see what we can do to sort them out.

Paul.

[guillaume]

See ProblemSolver? You can't reject all this love Paul is throwing us!