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[IH8YOU]

I think I crossed Yeldar2097 today - and my connection was TERRIBLE. Made me so sad to sacrifice such a good racing opportunity.

Boo lag.

[MarkXIII]

Played with GT3x24x7, MarkVIII and other guys...

After so many bad races I deserve to be demoted from XIII to VIII

[guillaume]

Awesome racing night tonight! I borrowed the PS3 from work today, and spent most of the evening playing HD.
Oh the joy of playing at home!! A cigarette and a glass of wine next to the sixaxis, to let the tension go once in a while
Played with SaturnReturn (thx for hosting these killer tourneys!!), Soccermums, Luxoflux, Chaos80, Andybob35, TarquinFarquar, Tordmulen, Alejess, silverfox073, z1r0rei, Feisar31, ... and sorry about the many others I can't remember right now. Thanks everyone!!
See you all on monday evening I hope (after that, maybe I should return the PS3 back at work... )

Yours truly, wzFro.

[yeldar2097]

yeah i was sorry not to have raced you more ih8you. there's always a next time
great races today with some great racers so thanks to all of you
sorry to have cut loose so soon, i had to go back early due to perilous conditions on the roads.
it's a shame really, i was beginning to feel right at home in my little (big) qirex.

[AnErare]

Ah guillaume, you've certainly forgotten a few I've been on yesterday as well for e few races, some pretty very fast ones!

I'm a bit stunned about the racing tactics of a lot of pilots though, it's like a warzone out there.. Lots of shoveling and tossing around, I'll need to find ways of dealing with that asap Like right now

See ya!

[Constrictor]

Think we met yesterday for a few nice races. I got the same impression. Also, for the last days I got slaughtered multiple times. I could not remember being shot to pieces this often - never, NEVER! As I prefer contactless driving in real life my abilities to adjust to heavy contact racing in WOHD needs to get improved, I think. Will this help in getting out of this mess?

[guillaume]

Ah guillaume, you've certainly forgotten a few

Sorry about that! We indeed had some good races, and with Constrictor4U too!
Yeah there's a lot of bashing, but between sunday and yesterday nights, I didn't feel it as intentional (or maybe just sometimes). Still it's pretty annoying...

[AnErare]

I will not go into rant mode but the war driven racing I find pretty annoying to say the least...

The simple way of avoiding such pilots would be to turbo or br away and stay away but sadly the new and improved quake meddles with that

On the positive side I've only had 26 hours on HD so utter speed could be the answer

[guillaume]

I played against the elite AI today and it really felt like online with 8 contenders.
So I'm not sure the mess is only due to how pilots fly, the physics engine may also be responsible in some way. Like how a ship can push you from behind and in half a second make you face the wall on one side (sorry if this is bad worded...). If you add the sticky walls and the massive amount of damage you get from both walls and ships, it indeed gets pretty annoying (and makes pilot assist feel like some kind of patch instead of a feature, on a side note...)

[AnErare]

Ah yes the AI, they often try to nose you out of their way like you weren't even there, but that is pretty easily overcome by countersteering I've not seen them try to shovel you off the track or into walls which some more human 'pilots' are doing.. Maybe shifting in return and nosing them into the gutter remedies this

[guillaume]

To sum up how I feel about this, I'd say there are three factors: physics engine, lag, and bullies

Totally different thing: I forgot to brag about eliminating Wellington86 on sebenco reverse. One long rocket shot at the end of the 'little turns' before it goes down and left, at the beginning of the track. I was just getting out of these chicanes, fired the rockets, and one of them reached Wellington when he was about to pass over the bonus pad. AG Assassin unlocked right there!
So... Thanks mate!

[Mad-Ice]

I will be online in a few minutes. See you all there!

Wauw those were very good tours with: SaturnReturn, Olouk, oolpro, Wellington, Greenix, Elois3, reachbig7, oeps I forgot who else, sorry!
The last tours were too tough, no getting through for me. 3 quakes and a bomb in the first lap kind of things. Well it was fun anyway.

[guillaume]

Fiasco from yesterday: I set up a 12-race tournament and brought people in, only to have the PS3 freeze on me at the end of the first race. Which I had won!

So I'm gonna try again today, around 1PM GMT+1. Please join if you're interested in racing/getting the trophy if you haven't already, but only join if you have the time/will to do the whole tournament, and are at ease with phantom speed. Blackwiggle told me only 4 people finished the one from yesterday...
Btw, MarkXIII, there's no way you're gonna quit WipEout-best-game-ever(tm) because of this tourney! (more on that later )

Hope to have a full room in about one hour from now! (friends only, host wzFro, feel free to send friend requests)

EDIT: oops, operation cancelled, busy lunch break. Back on monday I guess!

[xtriko]

Just made a few really hot races with osama-bin-haydn, soccermums and oolproo. as always, osama showed us some pain XD

[OBH]

haha. some great stuff. nicked a few extra wins at the death, and had a race entirely of bomb dodging corner, after corner on metropia cheers guys. Plus a great plasma shot on yourself from soccermums.

Some great 1on1s earlier in the day with djKyoto too... we should do that again!

[xtriko]

so the plasma was soccermums... I shall remember that XD lol I got a turbo when i eared "Plasma" the moment I absorved it, i was hitted by that nasty plasma... result from 1st to 3rd with 3% shield XD I have to ask my wife again to film these races

[Soccermom]

That was a rather golden plasma down the long side on Ubermall reverse

... those were some good races, and you are right... Haydn did show us a lot of pain ...

[lunar]

thanks to everyone I raced with on the last couple of nights, and sorry to whoever sent me a PSN message after I went offline last night - it was deleted by a child before I could I read it so I can`t reply!

@ alterego - either I have got slower or you have been practising, Team Italy is looking strong

[stin]

I`m on online now, who wants to play with me?.

stevie

[guillaume]

It's Monday now, and lunch break is on its way!
Hosting a 12-race phantom tournament at around 1PM GMT+1 (about an hour from now).
Please join, details are a few posts before this one.
See you on the tracks!

EDIT: Tourney over, thanks everyone: Aka-Sho, imre92, JJPAP, Luxoflux, oolproo, Wotan998 & Zoth-Ommog!
I didn't do so well but the races were fun and intense anyway. Trophy earned as a side bonus!