Auricom is your favourite? :o I would never ever have guessed. ;) :turbowink: :D
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Auricom is your favourite? :o I would never ever have guessed. ;) :turbowink: :D
Welcome to the WipeoutZone, am_auricom. :)
A warm welcome to the Forums, am_auricom!
My favourite visually is either Auricom or Goteki. They're very different from all the others but that's in a good way. Goteki is simple yet elegant, but Auricom looks like some kind of rabid dog imo.
While Pirhana is easy to handle, my favourite has to be AG Systems.
Acceleration > Top Speed. (Except on the last Prototype tracks and Altima)
But why are you now flying with Icaras, Mark? ^_^
Well, if Thrust > Top Speed in Wipeout 3, then how come Icaras, which has the poorest in-game acceleration of any ship in the game, has almost every #1 record on the tables and not Qirex, which has a 4/5 in both Speed and Thrust?
I think that's a point only valid in Pure. But what do I know, really. ;)
In WO3, when Icaras catches a boost pad, it reaches a substantially higher speed than any other ship, and the boost lasts longer; no other ship can hold high speed so well. Most of the tracks have at least one really long straight where that high speed helps a lOt, and when you reach the corners. Icaras' slow handling/yaw rate lets it use turboscraping more reliably, too.
Er I meant in WO1 and Pure really when I said Acceleration > Top Speed, which is stupid because this is a Wipeout 3 thread... er, yeah lol. I love Icaras, but for different reasons from those I stated for AG-Systems. I enjoy AG-Systems, but Icaras is actually a better craft in general, over all of the others, really. The only way I can describe my playing style is by looking at the stats of EG-X in Pulse. (The stats are shown in alot of the videos on YouTube.) Acceleration and Speed sacrificing Handling and Shield. But if I had a choice between better handling or better shield, I'd go with Handling 'most every time.
But because I suck at Turboscraping and Turboboosting (how can I press that button without letting go of the accelerate button, my hands are small lolz), I find Icaras harder than AG-Systems to fly, even if I end up with better times... I used to play WO1 avidly, and there I trained myself to avoid walls but keep a good line. The playing ethic in Wipeout 3 is totally different. A slight scratch against the wall actually helps rather than stops you dead. Anyway, point in case, I need more practice at Icaras and Wipeout 3 to find it easier. But the more I play it, the easier and more useful Icaras is.
I've grown to appreciate it more, I think, as it has molded into my playing style. Once I start to play 2097 and 3/SE as much as I did WO1, I will hopefully start to become better at those games too.
In short, the reason I don't always fly with Icaras is because I suck too much, but am getting better so it always seems more appealing until it becomes worth my while flying Icaras and becomes an even more appealing experience.
I have finally switched over from assegai to icaras =D
Icaras
I did that later on too... ;) "Admiring my Icon"...
Did what? I was pointing out the misspelling of the team name.
You fool! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by andy
Coming from a guy who used to call himself ''Assegai Developments'', this response is not surprising. :D
I was talking to both of andy and you, not to just you, so my post still has reasoning... HWA HWA HWA!!!!! :batQuote:
Originally Posted by Lance
What's wrong with a little bit of speed freakyness?? We're not fools, we're champions! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rapier Racer
I don't remember Icaras winning any championships. I remember Icaras complaining about the state of the tracks and never finishing a race..:beer
That's because they're all or none, that's just how we roll, or should I say... FLOAT!!! :banzai
how very Ricky Bobby
if you're not first, you're last
In the begining Assegai Developments but after finishing Phantom Class i managed to change my fav into: Piranha Advancements :D
Traitor! >:|
and to add further confusion, his avatar is now Triakis
Signs of a widely-travelled pilot?? Personally I'm a huge traitor to AG-5Y5 right now in the wipeout world...it's sad. Qirex in WO64, Puma1 in Pure, Icaras in SE. I plan to return gung-ho to the AGS-all-the-time-club in Pulse.
(Piranha on Phantom in Wip3out...I dunno about that one. Maybe you're thinking of Pure...)
Haha! yeah im a traitor maybe:P but the reason why i have Triakis avatar is that its: Hardcore:D and i love Hardcore music, just try to listen something from this label:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lion
Braindestruction Recordz
In The freetracks zone you can find out what is really Hardcore;P
Anyway i started flying with Triakis in Pure and i must say its awesome ship cause now in Phantom Class PUMA1 is too messy to fly:P too much handling :D
ooh! ta for the link, there's some good stuff in there, including some vojeet tracks I haven't heard before
So being traitorous is quite common? In that case I confess:
Qirex.
I love AD handling and stuff, but there's something about screaming down the track in a two-ton battering-ram that really gets me going :D
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lion
Yeah you tried Vojeet - SC-Board Project 2?:D
I love Assegai cause of its really awesome design totally different than other ships :) and the livery :)
like pirhana craft, here
Back in the ole' days ('99, 2K, etc.) - Piranha
March '08 - Qirex
Now - maybe Icaras :o
...damn that Sampa Run vector race...I think it got me addicted to Icaras' higher speed. :dizzy
Icaras, once i got used to it, there was no going back.
....FEISAR, live on baby! i dont care if they are slow, its more of a respect for the team thing for me, i just love them and their story.
Assegai :D Because I live in Durban , South Africa , where Assegai's headquaters are based . Also their is a town near where I stay called Assegai :) , on the wipeout website they say it's the African word for spear , but more precisely Assegai is the Zulu word for spear :nod
Assegai's name and color combo are quite interesting, indeed...I've seen pictures of it in a wiki article and such...and guess how it looked: brownish-green (always looked a bit on the green side to me...maybe its my colorblind-ness =O :lol ) with the speartip in light blue! :P
Where is THAT color pattern familiar... LOL
Assegai is a pretty neat team, but overall I mostly fly Icaras now. (I personally feel I've been doing much better in the record tables since the switch...hehehe)
The original W3O Assegai looks dusky gold and blue to me. [I'm not colourblind]
FEISAR
The ship in Wipeout 3 looked great and was great for me anyway
Auricom
Pirhana
Feisar
no Quirex (how ever somebody will call it. I'll call it. What it is!)
no Assegai ( No AmigoJack (?) NO )
I made a tune for Goteki 45..
Go Go Goteki Go! Go Goteki 45
just something from Speed Racer that makes disliken that small (easter island like) team more aweful
I'd have to go with Piranha. and then Auricom.
ever since i got piranha in 2097, with its maxed out stats, it has held a strange presence. And then auricom because once you learn to pilot the all-rounder, you can just about fly anything (except icaras).:+
I thought you been in Adelaide and all would of gone with your city team of Triakis. I hope you didnt take my opinion of Adelaide to directly Quasi. Perth is a bit of a hole also.
My favourite team would of had to be Auricom from Wipeout to SE. Fusion would of had to be XIOS and EG-R, Pure Goteki, Pulse Goteki and EG-X.
Hehe, no problem, adelaide is a very strange (and not too pleasant) place.
i had no idea that triakis was from adelaide though, and i could never imagine an AG-racing team to come out of the small-minded city.:?
truth be told, since I was such a Qirex diehard in XL, I actually never used anyone other than them in WO3. Granted I had to use all the other teams to UNLOCK stuff, but once I had accomplished that, i went back to solely using Qirex :3 Just something so damn fun about their ship in the old games (Except WO1... Auricom all the way, there)
When i bought Pulse in Dec of last year i noticed when i was reading the manual that Triakis HQ was in Adelaide. Had a small laugh. I dont know what Studio Liverpool where thinking about when they thought of that idea. But when you think about it Adelaide is the Detroit of Australia where most of the Aussie built cars come from.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quasi
my favourite ship is pirhana
i use icarus on porto koro for my first race to warm up =] then its pretty much pirhana all the way on all the other tracks except porto koro
Icaras by far. Used to be qirex back in the day of 2097, but icaras stole my heart away. So elegant, so fast. And the weak shields meant the player had to have some experience before getting behind the wheel of one of these beasts.
changed my mind, favourite is Icaras and then AG Systems. I've started using the internal camera view and I reckon they've got nice cockpits, and they're both nice and fast. Which one I choose usually depends on the track. AG Systems is a nice craft to just breeze through a track with, and Icarus is the one I use for lap times if I feel like a serious race or maybe just the added challenge.
I recently bought a brand new Wip3out off of eBay so now all the tracks work again so I can really choose a favourite ship or two now =D