Vector Pilot
Connavar's site is excellent but there are too many missing records since the ingame leaderboard is down. Currently I'm n°1 of the overall zone ranking but I'm sure it's not my real position because some players (including some very good ones) don't update their records.
I really hope it'll be fixed soon.
Content Contributor
meh.
How about an update?
Extreme Pilot
I got the synchronising records message today when I viewed my times, the first time I've seen it in over a month. I don't know if that has anything to do with anything, but it's best to let everyone know. For all I know it's just a red herring.
In the time the leaderboards haven't updated I've improved on all of my times, very annoying indeed.
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Veteran Pilot
Probably a false alarm amorb, I get that message EVERY time I check my records and EVERY time I return from the records to the main menu.
The game is taunting me, I can feel it. "Synchronising Records" my arse
Venom Pilot
I went online for first time in a while yesterday and got the update 2.0 notice again.
This was before even the main menu had loaded, and I only get sychornisingnow whenever I have offline records to update (as it should be).
Content Contributor
[Portal Turret Voice]Are you still here?[/Portal Turret Voice]
The silence is deafening...
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Zone Pilot
Any idea if the leaderboards update at all? My old records from tracks are there, but my new ones aren't. Will the leaderboards eventually update and include them in a few weeks time, for example?
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Rapier Pilot
Refer below for what's updating and not.
Originally Posted by XBARNSTERX
Zone Pilot
cant someone email the programmers who visit this site nd ask them to fix the leaderboard..im sure they would do it if asked...kindly
Extreme Pilot
Better not, because I think there are already some persons here that do
PN-bomb the SL guys. xD And from the perspective of an SL guy it becomes
annoying to get 'hundreds' of PNs only because (s)he is working for that
company. It's better do complain out in the public as long as possible. If
you like, write an entry in the PS Blog, since you can be assured that this
entry will be read by someone working for Sony.
Content Contributor
Woo, and then nothing will happen.
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Extreme Pilot
Could be true, but I don't think so. It depends on how you ask. It's much more
difficult (for Sony, for the Product Manager, i.e. Joey Payne) to neglect an
entry when this entry is written in a more seriouse way.
Joey Payne wrote;
The important thing for me is whether he is true to his words or not.... Honestly, i dont know the answer to this, so i have asked some of the
fantastic guys at Studio Liverpool to help me
Should have an answer for you soon ...
And if SL fails to solve the issue, for whatever reason, then this thread is
the documentation of their inability to do so. That's it.
Content Contributor
How soon is soon anyways?
Two weeks? Three weeks? One other month? Two months?
We're nearing two weeks, and a critical game feature advertised as supported is still not working (Not counting the months before you posted on the blog either), and again we have strictly no information on whether it will be fixed or not. Now that wouldn't be the first time (Voice chat... enough said) but it would be the first time something working was broken and never fixed.
I personally don't care so much about the leaderboards but this situation is the perfect illustration of the issue I had highlighted some time ago in a very long thread I had made.
The issue is that there is little to no communication from Sony/Sony Liverpool to the fans and the media about one of the oldest franchises ever on the PlayStation family of consoles. Not only is WipeOut one of the oldest, it is also one of the greatest, and to have it treated in such a way by the corporate staff is simply mind numbing.
I think it's a fair question to ask: "Why can't you talk to us more?"
Now I've been over at the Borderlands forums for a while, and holy **** do they have the wheel spinning. There are news articles and gameplay footage from a **** ton of sources being posted on the forums every other day, the devs are numerous and registered on the forums (The president of Gearbox Software is posting FFS, the president!), and the creative director has a twitter account and is answering questions of the fans today the whole day!
Worst (or best, depends on the point of view) of all, Borderlands is a fresh new IP. It's not an established franchise, it's brand new, and look at the buzz!
Just think about comparing this with the situation for WipEout HD... You'll immediately understand there is no comparison.
So, again I ask: "Why the silence? Why the secrecy? Why not getting the word out to more media outlets?"
I understand that Borderlands is a significantly larger game than WipEout HD, but really this game needs a big boost and I feel now more than ever that it's quietly being shoved aside and into the cemetery.
Extreme Pilot
Are we really comparing PR tactics of a relatively small, multi-platform, third party developer (Gearbox) with those of a first party developer that is managed by a multinational corporation (Studio Liverpool)? That doesn't seem realistic. As far as first party developers go, Studio Liverpool seems remarkably open and communicative-- much more so than Nintendo internal studios, for example.
I strongly suspect that fixing the leaderboards is at least somewhat outside of what Studio Liverpool has control over-- just like I am sure that SL would have wanted DLC for Pulse released in North America.
Content Contributor
My point still stands that the communication from Sony (Not saying Sony Liverpool specifically, it's not their fault like I said in that other thread) regarding one of the oldest and best franchise on their platform is virtually zero.
If you want, I can compare to Guerrila and Killzone 2, Naughty Dog and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Insomniac and Rachet and Clank Future: a Crack in Time... All first party developers (Or comparable to first parties in the case of Naughty Dog and Insomniac) working exclusively with Sony.
Comparing with who or what doesn't change the fact that this issue has been in place for two months, and almost two weeks out from ProblemSolver's post on the PlayStation Blog we still don't even have the faintest of ideas if this will ever be solved or not.
Is it outside of Sony Liverpool's control? Yeah probably. It still has to be fixed, no matter if you have got to go and see God up in the heavens before you can even attempt fixing it or not.
Zone Pilot
Well I couldn't resist and have put my name on there as well. Probably won't do any good but it's better than doing nothing.
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Rapier Pilot
Just got the #1 MP time on Anulpha Pass Rapier (1.39.51). I needed to announce this somewhere as my girl doesn't seem to care but I know you guys do... or not.
Here's hoping all these times in limbo will update when/if this gets sorted!
Extreme Pilot
DD777 - FYI the voice chat DID work in the 1.XX days - I know, I used it back then!
So that's two things broken and not fixed.
Factor in the return of (although MUCH less frequent) mini freezes - and we've got 3.
Fury makes 4 things. (okay, so maybe I'm in the far minority with that last statement).
I don't demand any answers that would violate their NDA, TOS or otherwise jeopardize their employment - but at the same time - if I adopted the communication scheme of SL/Sony - I'd have been out of a job long ago myself.
Veteran Pilot
Is the Wipeout crew that developed FURY still in place?
Are any further progress of Wipeout HD/FURY under development?
Colin Berry has not be in charge of any Wipeout project since the initial release of HD.
Paul Tweedle took over this post in April this year,[that's when he joined this forum]
Paul has not visited this forum since the 14th of August.
I think we have been left to rot IMHO.
Zone Pilot
We can imagine they're still on hollydays, now that Fury is released and the brd ready to hit the stores. I'm still confident that all the issues online will be fixed soon. Good things about wipeout Hd are coming, a blue-ray on shops means more players online (and 3 or 4 new bling brigade threads here), wipeout hd in 3D seems to be confirmed and a new dlc seems totally possible with new modes and 8 tracks, HD contents should equals the psp's games.
This thread needed some optimism i think
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