Friendly Wipeouters

[Feydius]

Hi,

sometimes while playing with other (for me unknown) people I try to message them to congratulate for a good race or to pay tribute to these players. Now the strange thing: Nobody has ever ignored me or was unfriendly. Most conversations ending with a smile and sometimes with a new training partner on the friend list. I've never seen such a pleasant/nice community like this. In other games one is often ignored or a hateful message is returned (rare but happens too).

Well here's my question: Am I the only one who had made such an experience? Or is it reality? :)

Edit: Hmm made a mistake in the title. Should be "Friendly Wipeouters" :(

[bobbybadfoot]

I've messaged people after races with those same results, too! I think it's a reality for us Wipeouters. We're just a group of friendly people. :)

[Hellfire_WZ]

It's true, the number of people we've experienced over the years who have been utter tits can be counted on one hand. Not sure what it is about this game but it certainly seems to bring together the decent part of the gaming community :)

[UB3R~JKP]

WipEout is easily the greatest game for community. Never ONCE had problems.


I love you all.

[JFthebestJan]

this community is great, cause EVERYONE is welcome! if you have a question, im sure it'll be answered here, if possible. most of the community members over here are 30+ of age, and have a 'balance' in RL (own family etc.). so you won't get stupid (childish) answers or comments most likely ;)

[Asayyeah]

Same goes to me, virtually through PSN and also in reality when we decided to acheive steps forward and meet for real through European Wipeout Conventions or North American ones. Welcome to a family-kind community :)

[AGSys]

I absolutely love this community. This is easily the best one I've signed up for so far. There's something magical about WipEout that surprisingly brings everyone here together, like what Hellfire said. Long live WipEoutZone!

[scarfrogers]

Yeah great community!! I think it is partly because the game is very individual in the way that you don't have teams so it becomes more important to be friendly and message other pilots during races. All my firends on PS3 are Wipeouters!! Even if they have "retired"...

[Defjukie16]

With the exception of the xX333-3Xx and xX333-1Xx and of course the "sheep girls", I've never had a problem. I could get a bit competitive and go on the war path but that's only if I'm really p-ed off. :)

[Feydius]

Thanks for your answers. :)

I fit into the group JFthebestJan mentioned. With 30+ now I've played some Wipeout games before (started to play Wipeout 2097 on a brand new Playstation console back in 1996 I believe). I think most of you have played a Wipeout series game before HD/2048. This creates a question in my mind automatically:

Is the Wipeout community growing? Do young people (who had never played this game series before) stay with Wipeout a longer time and not to get the game trophies only?

Everytime I see the online lobby of Wipeout HD it's getting more empty. Although many PS3 users got the game after the PSN outage. But maybe it depends on the game genre and most people have other preferences.

[dreadofmondays]

Who were the "sheep girls"? xD It sounds like an interesting story...

[Defjukie16]

dreadofmondays:
Well the sheep girls are a group of racers that are in the online play sometimes and kinda trash talk you after each race, I remember I was playing a_sheepy_kiss_4U and I eliminated her then the message started coming saying it's not wise to shoot sheepgirl then everytime she won a race she messaged saying go go sheepgirl. Not the toughest racers but not to be taken lightly... :)

Feydius:
Of Course that's the case! I've been playing WipEout for a year now and I know onlykpop has been playing for a year as well and his is already one of the top players on online racing mode. I've played all the classic WipEouts and tried to master them for the love of the game. The storyline of WipEout is so interesting that new players can't help but get drawn in and the scenery in every WipEout game is beautiful. Not to mention that if you're playing Gran Turismo for example, you can't shoot your opponent off the tracks with missiles!!! But you do have to factor in the patience level, because if you've gotten all the medals in campaign mode in every class, you might think you're one of the top players well wait till you get online and see how good you really are. That's when you lose players. At this point the players have a choice, to stop online play right there and only play the game without online mode or step up and push yourself to the next level, you may get beat hundreds of times but if you stick it out, study the tracks and practice barrel rolls like crazy and have the heart of a true WipEout player, you'll be one of the top players on WipEout. That's with any mode in the game eliminator, zone.

[scarfrogers]

Defjukie16, spot on there mate about the time needed to become a top pilot! :)

Races become very interesting with a_sheepy_kiss_4U. In fact they become more like eliminator. But are very fun !!

[Oryx Crake]

First time I race sheep girl, I was racing green first lap "it" mined and bombed me to keep me off and then second lap it did something that I personally find to be bad sportsmanship, namely brake to get behind you and rocketed me up the arse and killed me, that I didn't appreciate, I still beat the sheep girl but got a message saying something like "IT*S SHEEPGIRL!" sadly I made the mistake of feeding the troll and wrote back since then whenever I see a sheepgirl I get rude messages.

though I'm unsure if it's actually a group I think it might just be one person with many different accounts

[UB3R~JKP]

I love going head-2-had with Sheepgirl and her mob/split personality.

She kept sending me messages and I just said: "Flattered by your obsession, but I'm not interested." :lol

[bobbybadfoot]

ohhhmg!! Now it all makes sense... I met a sheepgirl the first day I ever played online!

I was hosting this Flash class, Single Race lobby when a sheepgirl popped in and made it her point to attempt to eliminate me every race. That happened for like 10 matches, then someone jumped in the lobby with a ridiculous PSN ID and she claimed her new victim. (Which was great, cause I started winning races after that!)

That first "go go sheepgirl" message confused me a whole lot, until now. But she was friendly enough, sending "rocket kisses, muah" and whatnot. She even asked if I missed her "lovin" at some point. Such a random first day!

[UB3R~JKP]

I guess she's the WipEout community's *cough*-pest? :p

[Medusa]

Umm I've got theory about the sheepgirl sheepy kiss identity and here it is: not a girl (takes a b to know one, you see and some wording in messages gave it away bub, sorry), from the attitudes I think this fella is an ex-member of the zone and well, sometimes the random messages are just so sad I want to send virtual hugs in return
But I've always returned messages in good fun because regardless of that member's exit from here and circumstances it's quite obvious ("s")he still loves wipeout. You don't have to be principled, extremely high-moraled and friendly to love wipeout, that's just what I expect from the zone. Always interesting, sheepy ;) I feel sure you're going to read this at some point.

BTW sheeps really doesn't like it when you have a wipeout noob friend over, racing under your ID, and then you randomly take over. That was funny, really funny...

[amplificated]

Obviously the WipEout community isn't perfect. If you talked to Infoxicated about it, I'm sure he'd be able to provide a few stories where players have not been that nice.

While I don't play anymore, when I did I almost never sent messages to anyone unless I was spoken to. However, if there was an always-on voice chat during the race, you can be assured I would not have had many nice things to say about most racers who hit me with weapons or dogged my racing line ;P

[Medusa]

:lol yes of course it's not perfect, it's just pretty close in general don't you think? Anyway the sheepies' trash talk has always had friendly tone to it, what ends up in my inbox at least, and I merely posted my little theory as a sort of heads-up for all us nice perfect people here at the zone :P

[AGSys]

I think I've encountered one of these sheepies before. When I was playing WHD at my friend's house, some random racer kept sitting on the weapons pads and shooting all sorts of annoying things just to eliminate the others. Even though there may be a small 'friendly' tone to their messages, it's so freaking irritating since you can't do anything about it.

[Knux_Chaotix]

Do not like the sheepies... At all. Aside them, everythings all good in my experience ^_^

[Hellfire_WZ]

Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought this thread was about friendly interaction between community members? Yet nearly half the posts are talking about someone you find irritating :? There is actually an opposite thread somewhere in this forum talking about people who are annoying, can we keep this one positive?

[GekkoP]

hope to find this kind of friendly players as soon as I get online. Still a newbie, be patient. :)

[Medusa]

I love everybody who races nicely, and even better the ones who exchange pleasantries after many close races. When you're not a top player, it's more difficult to find people close to your skill level(as in, you can't guess skill level by rank like the 101s can, lol), and when it happens it's like finding a blood brother, you know? "Yay, somebody skill-impaired at the same level as I!!!" Even if been exchanging bombs for two hours, any language can understand a message with a ":)" and a "thank you for the races" in it. Not that I do that often, just for special pilots.
Gekko, just jump right in, it's amazing what you learn by watching the top players lap you!

[Defjukie16]

Well skill level does factor in the races but personal ability is truly the key. Elite racers are not invincible, you just need to practice and believe in your abilities and master them. That way, skill level doesn't factor it as much and abilities step in to play. Of course I'm not saying that a pilot on level 1 could easily beat a pilot on level 101 but you never know...

[amplificated]

Hmm... I'm pretty sure personal ability is skill. It may also be the ability to learn faster in the circumstance, but regardless, that's still a skill too.

[Defjukie16]

I'm talking about the level you're on in WipEout HD, the number of your rank. let me rephrase that, "Well your level in rank does factor in the races but personal ability is truly the key."

[Colonel]

I think it's worth remembering that there are loads of hardcore HD players that don't come on here. And loads that visit as guests, but don't post. As long as you're polite and courteous to people you'll always get on fine.

In fact the other week I had a really funny encounter with somebody in an Elim room. The lad who beat me (can't remember his name) send me a pretty abrasive message, lording it up "You got pwned sucker!!" or something . Over the course of our conversation I ground him into submission by basically being really nice, and refusing to argue.

Eventually he had no choice but reciprocate, and we got on just fine. One nil.

[​Ω​]

Just started the online yesterday for the first time and while I didn't have any messaged conversations with people, the experience was pretty great. Nobody trashing each other in messages, no rage quitting, some good long sessions... all in all a very enjoyable experience. It was also a pleasant surprise to find I wasn't finishing at the bottom of every race which is what I had expected coming into it. I'm still not a fan of how luck based 'weapons on' matches are which put me near last a few times and other times let me beat clearly superior pilots with 4-5 seconds to spare. It keeps the matches interesting I guess.

The only thing I'd mention is give me a few seconds after you switch tracks (not naming names). At Phantom I lamely can't use Icarus effectively on every track, and it'd be nice if I was given a few seconds to switch ships if I need to. It's odd we're not able to do that in the 15 second count down.

Oh and is the lobby I see international? I only had one chance to select a server region, but that lobby seemed to have people from everywhere.

[Oryx Crake]

the lobbies are international and well the countdown starts on it's on (if you get 15 seconds that's what has happened otherwise it's 5 seconds) after a while, a very short while if you have 8 players in the lobby though I'd suggest picking a ship you can play with on all tracks comfortably, as icaras doesn't really give you much of an edge, ship choice is pretty much all about personal preference, especially on phantom.

try adding some people you feel like racing with from wipeoutzone though and you'll definitely find some good conversations :)

[​Ω​]

Ah, so that's what's happening, do the maps cycle randomly too then?

With the physics changes I'll probably end up switching back over to Harimau. I've noticed Icarus lost its definitative pre-patch advantage now that air breaking makes you lose so much more speed. I preferred the psuedo-drifting system in place before... I suppose this makes better handling ships more viable now that I should be primarily using standard turning, but it's still a pain to relearn the sharp corners.

My PSN is temporary and is more of a joke account to learn the new physics before I go for my run. That said, you can add me if you want as it's always nice to play with some familiar faces. ID is To​My​Fallen​Homies.


Edit: ...I can't do this ever again. Anyways Icaras still feels like the way to go.

[Bollywood_Bandit]

Hi fast pilots :)

I think I've raced most of you before. You're all very nice people. :) See you on the tracks sometime ;)

[dreadofmondays]

Regarding the 15 second counter: I'm not sure how many people are aware but it's a real pain for server hosts. It's supposed to start the game automatically if the host idles for a little while, but it doesn't actually check if you are idle. So the host ends up going into the menus to change their ship or the game settings, but after 5 or so seconds the counter starts on it's own, forcefully taking them out of the menus and back to the main screen, where they have to deactivate the counter and try again. This happened to me. :x

[Bollywood_Bandit]

A small correction.

The countdown timer won't start if the host changes the game settings. but it will if he wants to change ships. Odd.

[Ragsus Maxima]

Aside from a case which someone sent me a hate mail for defeating him/her several times at Chenghou Project reversed on Phantom, I see the Wipeout community as healthy and mature. It's one of those fan-bases which I'm glad to be part of it.

[GekkoP]

Finally got my first races online. Don't know if any of you guys were racing with me (PSN id: Gekko_P), but well, you were absolutely right. Gorgeous experience overall, and I have to say beating pilots with 74 and 101 badges makes me proud. Though I didn't chat with anybody so far, hope to catch some of you online soon.

[Ragsus Maxima]

When the next Ozone event is planned and ready, then you'll have a chance to chat galore. ;)

[Colonel]

Next one's Saturday 24th November, and there'll be lots of "Friendly Wipeouters". I'll post details in a couple of days :)

[Bollywood_Bandit]

I'm gonna miss it :( NOooooooooooooooo

But I'm sure you guys will do a good job of recording / uploading the vids, which are always fun to watch here :)

My thumbs are twitching already... I shoulda bought the PS3 with me. This sucks.

[wooleydaddith]

With the exception of the xX333-3Xx and xX333-1Xx and of course the "sheep girls", I've never had a problem. I could get a bit competitive and go on the war path but that's only if I'm really p-ed off. :)

sheepgirl is not a group of players ! it's one girl ( or guy ) also goes under the name of weapongirl. you say not the toughest player? I disagree. she is tough and relentless. If you happen to eliminate her ( which I did once) she will come after you. and when she gets you ,will email you " Kiss" lol she must have alot of frustration inside. I stay away and try not to get her attention.


Who were the "sheep girls"? xD It sounds like an interesting story...

sheepgirl is one person

[amplificated]

I think wooleydaddith is saying that the "sheepgirl" player is one person.

Can someone double check that for me?

[JFthebestJan]

double checked. :D

[ID_7of9]

and another sheepgirl discussion... :D It's indeed 1 (one) person, owner of countless psn ids, the last i noticed has been "queen of wipeout" LOL !!!

[Feydius]

Since I opened this thread, I've played with sheepgirl and the xx333s. At least from what I can remember the messages between them and me were all positive and nice.

All I want to say is: In Wipeout is enough room for different styles of playing the game and you don't have to play with people you don't like.

I don't think my words will reduce any new threads bashing on a specific person, but keep in mind someone could write the same about you. ;)

All in all, I've not met an unfriendly Wipeouter yet.

See you on track soon. ;)

[Saltir3Warri0r]

I can say with confidence that I have never had any problems with fellow Wipeouters. I love the game and I love the community. ^^

[Scary_Mary_01]

I can only agree with the majority of posts here. In my experience, the vast majority of Wipeouters are friendly people who enjoy a bit of banter.

[KronicReaper]

Who are these xX333 twins? I think they are not friendly and I'll never race these bleeping idiots again. Thank you for my time.

[Aeralys]

The xX333's...They're ok when they play teams nicely, but I have had experiences of one of them camping in a spot with rockets to intentionally get the other one to win. It's not as much of a challenge as it is disencouraging when that happens.

[Cipher]

^never met em lol, please invite me when one of them is camping, i'd gladly save a plasma :D
met 2 sheeps though :p

same as with feydius, msgs were friendly ^^
<3 the wipeout community

Cipher

[KronicReaper]

The sheepgirl, I think she a major problem if she gets her way.

[KronicReaper]

I meted the xX333 crew again and they are very nasty and hard to beat, I love to face them again if I have a chance to beat them again. COME GET SOME!!!

[KronicReaper]

I friend requested a Japanese girl last night, her PSN ID is ayaea2525 and she is very good. She a friendly pilot to race with.

[Feydius]

Yup, it's fun to race with ayaea (at least the rare times we met in a lobby). Although I wasn't on first place in such situations. :D

[marcingru]

Been racing with user: mannjon ,very friendly and good pilot as well!

Regards!

[terra-wrists]

The xX333's...They're ok when they play teams nicely, but I have had experiences of one of them camping in a spot with rockets to intentionally get the other one to win. It's not as much of a challenge as it is disencouraging when that happens.

hehe, i take them out :D no problem. They are predictable :) Keep shield or rocket lap 3 and 4 for the camping xx333 player if you are in the front.

They are good pilot. But not good in team because they make silly mistake lot of the times :)

[Cipher]

hmmm, they kicked my ass many times earlier today >.<, always teamed up with weapons, bah, made me mad! got him when his friend left though, told him to try without the weapons, they became not so friendly anymore and started up an elimini, i was leading and they quit :P

'twas on my incognito account as well, so i was low rank and they didn't start the race (his friend left), eventually he got bored and launched one, kicked his ass, and suddenly his friend came back LOL

also, there's a triakis pilot (forgot the name) that likes to camp on a weapon pad, so keep your eyes peeled...

Cipher

[XxSuperRyugaxX]

The Xx333xX players aren't so good... especially in phantom. The only good player is Xx333-3xX, but, if he is alone, he never wins. He has always the support by the other team mates ( Xx333-1xX and Xx333-2xX ) with rockets..

[Cipher]

^exactly that, i usually pass 333-3 but then he shoots me and passes me, and i end up sandwiched between 333-3 and 333-1, and then 333-1 shoots my ass -_-

Cipher

[GekkoP]

^ did you catch yesterday races on video by any chance? I know I stayed for few races, but it was fun. :)

[Cipher]

Sry gekko, didn't, have a whole backlog of footage that i need to work through (over 400 gigs), so took the hard decision not to record until i get that sorted, otherwise i just keep accumulating footage :P
If you want me to record a couple of races, just ask via a msg though, cleaned up about 1 terra of footage already, so have a bit of space ^^

Cipher

[AGSys]

Goddammit man, my internet connection sucks the life outta me every time. >_< I can't take it anymore! Cipher and Piano_practice (whoever you are if you're on here) sorry for my abrupt departure from those races. It took nearly 2 and half hours to fix my connection issues. Oh geez, frustrating as all hell.

But anyway, hope to see you guys again soon. I've been practicing on getting all those little mistakes straight. Also, I realised that I need some warm up time (no ****) before racing online. I always ignore warm ups :P

[Cipher]

we were wondering what happened, speculating what happened, internet was one fo them, but were also thinking along the lines of, busted by the parents late up at night XD
but no problem CJ, good races, thanks for joining :)

And yeah, i need warm up time as well, 3-5 races usually, but there's days i just can't fly for **** :p

Cipher

[scarfrogers]

Got a nice message from sheepgirl saying bye froggers gotta sell ps3 been fun.

so I dont think we will c her online anymore. Quite sad as iv always found her a bit of a laugh :(

[Cipher]

awwwwww, i'll miss the bomb kisses and what not :(
He/she was a great pilot hen not in weapon mode :p

Edit; yup got a similar message on my incognitos and my main :(

Cipher

[AGSys]

Aw what...?

She was so fun to play with and insult to get funny replies. I'll miss her. :(

[blackwiggle]

I put ****-Girl on my block list.
Anybody that needs to stop and let me past, then blast me from behind ..... well I do not consider them a Wipeout Racer.
They have the wrong race type, they should be playing Eliminator

[KronicReaper]

I agree with you 100% blackwiggle about sheep girl, but I have problems with the xX333 crew already. I don't like their racing because they like to sit and let another racers pass and shoot them with rockets, missiles, or a quake. These kind of racers need to play Eliminator not in single race or tournament mode.

[AGSys]

but there's days i just can't fly for **** :p
...And some of those days happened to be the last few when I raced with you and some of the others online. But today I raced just fine. So weird and sort of annoying when that happens lol. Also, I tried adapting to/practicing with others ships but nothing seems to be working so far. I really wanna be good with FIESAR, or at least Qirex but ain't workin' mate. I am one with Icaras.

[Cipher]

practice makes perfect i guess ^^
changing my sensitivity (air brakes) back to 100% was 1 of the best things i did, strange, but it worked, got it back to 90% now and seems optimal for me :)

Cipher

[KronicReaper]

I meet this new pilot named SoloWingPixy2097 a couple of races ago and he or she is very good.

[terra-wrists]

my PSN friends list: all wipeout pilots :D

also, today xx333-1xx said nice things, and played very good with me in rapier room :) respect xx333-1xx

[KronicReaper]

I found a new wipeouter named Xo-Blood_Lust-oX. and she is good at Wipeout HD, but this new pilot is a good one to race if you want to race her and friend request her if you folks want too.

[wooleydaddith]

I put ****-Girl on my block list.
Anybody that needs to stop and let me past, then blast me from behind ..... well I do not consider them a Wipeout Racer.
They have the wrong race type, they should be playing Eliminator
Sheepgirl I think would consider you not much of a Wipeout Fighter. I like her challenges

[stinkleroy]

Why don't people just turn weapons off and see the sheep run. Be a goat ;)

[Fr3dd3rf1984]

Fr3dd3rf1984 feel free to add me, still new &learning, but can handle myself well enough in venom/flash.

[Red_Ricky]

I will add you would be nice to see eachother get better someday.
For anybody that wants to add me (Red_Ricky_) go ahead i'll happily have a chit chat, no racing for now.

[terra-wrists]

Why don't people just turn weapons off and see the sheep run. Be a goat ;)

Lambs... tastier meat, the goat always escapes :D