Influx of new players....

I dunno why, but in particular when playing WipEout, I never set an expectation based on who i'm playing for where to finish in the pack. You're going to have slip-ups no matter how good you are at the game, in fact the slip-ups are what make WipEout interesting. It allows me to see where i'm going wrong and the rough patches there are. For most games there can be "masters" but in WipEout, I see "Legends" and "Veterans" the day WipEout becomes the kinda game where you can be flawless is the day it loses it's magic for me.

Of course, this is just an opinion. heh. :D

Add the above to the weapons used and it really does make for interesting races at times... Although irritating when it turns against you. I was running a 12 race tournament today, and was leading up until the last race on Sol 2, when someone got a missile on the open section and hit me with it... resulted in me spawning back on the track straight into some mines, fell off again... Eventually finished but I missed out on that win. :(

I feel your pain, Ripper! :(

lol, on Sol 2 it's the worst place to rescue yourself from falling after being hit by missile on phantom... for example, you're about to fall to right, you're doing sideshift to left and fall there :g(it happens really often to me :redface:)

To me, my greatest problem in Wipeout HD are the reversed Wipeout pure tracks (sol 2, vineta k, modesto heights, etc). I got so used at racing them in pure that when I try to race them backwards it just comes out all wrong! :redface: Modesto heights is a pain in the head, most times I just leave my ship stopped in a corner until the end of the race so I won't be eliminating myself over and over again...

Do speed laps on flash on those tracks :D
btw. I've played those tracks on PSP as i have Pure too 8) LoL, ships physics are totally different, but it's not so hard to master it :g

I suffer from the same problem, I can run Sebenco Climb and Sol 2 near perfect on Pure, but in HD the physics are all different :( Growlithe, saw you online today, lets just say that I only saw you for about 2 seconds before you disappeared... I just can't keep up with you guys :P

I lurves teh modesto heights! fwd and rev such a rewarding track when you get things right! that said... I want my controller to start working properly again! :blarg:paperbag:brickwall

Modesto is indeed such a rewarding track, especially when you get the perfect line through the chicane section, then perfectly sideshift out the two 90 degree corners at the end (or vice versa, depending on rev or fwd). You feel invincible when you get it bang on. Until you use a turbo over the jump (fwd) and fly straight off the track. -__-"

Ever since the Welcome Back Package, Japanese racers have been bringing it!

I would like to mention my appreciation to all the new Wipeout players and they are learning, but what's with the ramming barrage at the beginning of each race! It's becoming epidemic. :evil I feel relieved to just get ahead of the wolvepack. :dizzy Is this now the norm? :rolleyes: Actuality it is kind of funny & twisted in a sick way. :twisted :lol

New players, New strategies. :p

OK! I'll buy that. But hell two thirds of them self-destruct by lap two. It's a chain reaction to hear: so & so eliminated back to back to back. :(

I think they do it out of frustration because they struggle to get anywhere but i reckon it just slows them down pretty much like in most car racing games.Its this sort of thing that makes me search for rooms with experienced people as they can give you bump now and again but its mostly an "Excuse me i,m coming through" type of thing but by enlarge they keep it clean.

Dave..:P

There is a lot of barging, and several times it has cost me valuable shield energy when I'm down near 20 or so, due to BR'ing :/ That's why I pilot Triakis now: so I can barge back :P

Feisar wins in barge vs barge situation everytime. hehe.

Na, Triakis does :P Either that or get away from them completely with Goteki 45

It's whoever has the highest ping. ;)

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It's whoever has the highest ping. ;)

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Is it possible to view your own ping ?

Dave.:)

Nope I don't think so. And please refrain from quoting posts directly above your own.

wow :cowboy

new sherif in town !!

Take cares guy !!

"rapidfire" Unc T.M.

I have yet to see any newcomers spoil any races that I have been in - I just fly around them if they get in the way. As for the weapons, it's common sense to avoid them as with any other racer old or new.

On a more positive note, the newcomers I have been racing with have been really competetive, but most of them still have quite a bit to go.

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I would like to mention my appreciation to all the new Wipeout players and they are learning, but what's with the ramming barrage at the beginning of each race! It's becoming epidemic. :evil I feel relieved to just get ahead of the wolvepack. :dizzy Is this now the norm? :rolleyes: Actuality it is kind of funny & twisted in a sick way. :twisted :lol

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yeah, the ramming is plain annoying.
Im still learning to pilot well so some times getting infront can be tough, especially on tracks im not used to,

Just done 1 tourny and the ramming was just mind boggling, i can understand a little side ramming every now and then especially at the start, but these guys were just plain and simply broadsiding me and pushing me off the track, still, you carry on, win some loose some,
would be nice for some whiplash free races every now and then :g

Well, I guess the ramming strategy has alway been an issue. Hell, now I just ram back, move to the front & hopefully pick up a speed boost to gain some distance. Say! have you every been Quaked in the middle of a barrel roll? It's very intense. :dizzy

can't say i've been quaked mid roll, doesn't sound very plesant tbh :dizzy

i guess i gotta practice some more so i can make sure i get to the front, and stay there :D

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Say! have you every been Quaked in the middle of a barrel roll? It's very intense. :dizzy

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Yes, its a lot of fun. And if you side shift the landing, you dont slow down. Didi you know that???:g

Being quaked in a middle of a barrel-roll often results in me falling off the track... Just to add a little insult to injury. :?

^ What Wizzer said! :D

I wonder what its like to fall thru the track :D

Honestly don't know what I did to this guy to merit this kind of response. Compounded by fact PSN's messaging system doesn't let you do multi-delete of messages.

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...inking_die.jpg

(it was a NEW player in wipeout hd)

it also doesn't let you send multiple messages very easily? meaning that guy had to spell that out and hit send every time :lol


Clearly this person has too much time on there hands, there are plenty of train lines they could have been playing on instead :P

Unless of course he was just a German with a stutter? :lol

What a pussy, I would at least make it: 'Die mother****er' or something, some variation you know, sending 10 times the same 'Die' is just wack :lol

LoL, nice noob from this ""Die" massages sending fu**** g***** stupid piece of s***"... If i'll see him on track, i'll be following him and shooting him with everything i have :g You're on my black list "stinking" :mr-t

:lol Why are there such sad people in this world?

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Honestly don't know what I did to this guy to merit this kind of response.

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You should be flattered to even merit that kind of response. :|

With my skills these days, yeah, you're right >O) But it wasn't just an odd 10 messages as perhaps inferred from piccy. It was more on the order of hundreds.

Many a good friend's proper and legitimate missives had to be multi-deleted cos of that. :(

You know you can protect messages you want to keep, right?

I'm still laughing at the stuttering German...poor guy just needs some therapy.

You make a good point. It's sort of a 'backwards' way of thinking about it, but what did I expect when I bought a PS3?

The German guy with a speech impediment does make me feel better, I have to agree :) Die Die Die Die Die DIe ... Die... what??? Sorry, I'm not naturally racist.

I actually have a lot Germans on my list of buddies, friends met through playing games, largely. Germans are cool, usually.

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it also doesn't let you send multiple messages very easily? meaning that guy had to spell that out and hit send every time :lol


Clearly this person has too much time on there hands, there are plenty of train lines they could have been playing on instead :P

Unless of course he was just a German with a stutter? :lol

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imho germans are the most friendly decent people i have met online! but they do like to use weapon pickups lol ; ))

The Germans are ace, the only nationality I've come across that has a dryer sense of humour than us Brits :beer

Oh and their techno kicks ass.