WipEout Fury Official Release Date!!!

[Nunalho]

So far no problems for me apart from the dark campaing menus and ship skins ( they were platinum and now look black).

A few things i dont get it:

- Why do i have 16590 photos taken?
- Favorite ship is definitly wrong as it does not represent the ship usage time, or my most used ship which is Assegai.

Also the Race total is for what? Racebox races? Or campaing aswell?

[TheFrostE]

i havent had one issue all day...in fact all of my gripes have been addressed ....totally pumped for fury in 2 days!!!

[AnErare]

My photo count is also off kilter. It looks like there's something off with the byte alignment.. 8k-"number-of-my-photo's" seems to be what it is showing..

Also, my ps3 consistently freezes when I scroll through the available online hosts when they exceed the displayable amount. What I find strange though is that the audio just plays along. That means the software is still in control of something but it doesn't respond to input anymore.. At least not noticeable.

[jon1255]

Greetings,

Here are my post-2.0 remarks:


1/ Zone Mode
Slowdowns / Framerate drops noticed during Zone Mode. I played 7 zone rounds on Analpha Pass after the patch had been introduced, and noticed around 3 slowdowns per Zone round mode played.
[Note that i reach between 64-70 zones per Zone round]


2/ Nudge
May anyone kindly clarify to me the use of the 'nudge' feature?


3/ Black color background in campaign
I truly dislike to background color of the medal screen in the campaign. The black color is simply ugly, and does not suit my Elite gold medals.



Unlike a few here, I have not had a freeze yet.

[Hellfire_WZ]

+ the stopping power of mines seems to be reduced ever so slightly, not sure about rockets

Nope, rockets will still bring you to a standstill for an eternity

[lunar]

Also, my ps3 consistently freezes when I scroll through the available online hosts when they exceed the displayable amount.

same freeze here.

[fusionfrenzy]

To be honest, the one thing in all of these patches that I've really wanted is a fix to race-devastating trackside objects. It feels like the track walls just arent big or tall enough to contain your ship in Phantom - it's very frustrating when I'm hurling around corners at some speed, only to snag a post or some kind of track-side object, stop dead and be hurled backwards, totally destroying my race. And how did it get past the checks to write "HD Fury is available now"...it isn't! Even though I knew the date, I still quit after reading that and checked the store. Grr.

Also, what's with all the bugs and gameplay choppyness? I love Wipeout HD, and the clearly passionate dev team, but really, who the hell is checking this stuff? I've never known any other title with so many issues and problems needing (and caused by...) patches.

...Only a few days till Fury though, that's something (though I can't play it for 10 days as I'm going away! ARGH!).

[Darkdrium777]

What do you mean by "campaign thumbnails"?

Paul.

You have these pictures before entering the grid with the race events... Like Meltdown, Headrush... They have a ship with some logos on it, and there are some sound effects playing. Not sure I can explain better what they are. They are the things you cycle through right after pressing "Campaign" on the main menu.
What I'm saying is I remember them having more vivid colours before this update, just like the platinum skins of the ships were more shiny in the menu before this patch as well.
For example, Meltdown's background was actually white, and the decorations/text also I think, were purple I think (don't have HD up and running atm.)
Now it appears there's a grey fog drawn over them and the platinum skins. I personally would like that to go, thanks

[Nunalho]

After a few more races i ve noticed some hicups.

[multibodydynamics]

Also, my ps3 consistently freezes when I scroll through the available online hosts when they exceed the displayable amount.

That has been a 100% successful PS3 freezing method for me during the whole evening. Veeeeeery annoying!
I guess it will be fixed, I'm trying to remember to use the filters to keep the list short in the meantime...

[brummpahh]

Hi,
after the 2.00 update i encountered massive frame drops
while playing online. anoying. once smoothly,
now like a "Feldweg". Hope SL will speed it up again.
I occassionally watch TV now while piloting at phantom.

Thought this was a patch...
regards

[okam]

For me the freeze seemed to occur at the bottom of the screen, like it couldnt handle the actual scrolling bit - was it the same for the rest of you?

[djluring]

Several freezes scrolling online lobby. Music continues to play but the PS3 doesn't respond to any input other than hard boot.

[Handmadelion]

Several freezes scrolling online lobby. Music continues to play but the PS3 doesn't respond to any input other than hard boot.

I get this a lot but it was pre-2.00 as well.

[TheFrostE]

i also got a freeze while scrolling the lobby today

[HISHO[JP]]

Several freezes scrolling online lobby. Music continues to play but the PS3 doesn't respond to any input other than hard boot.

JP users reports same thing. This must be fixed before FURY.

And additional one.
Control settings may be initialized once when updated.

[ProblemSolver]

... Also please look into the SuperZen track skin, there is some mip map error I believe, it's already been pointed out by ProblemSolver. It appears the equalizer in front of the ship is of a different colour than the blag surface of the track. You can see it on Anulpha Pass forward when you reach Zone 42. ...

Almost every color scheme has this kind of thing / effect at a constant
distance away from the craft (moving with the craft). But only in
SUPER ZEN it looks wrong.

What do you all think of the new ship and track select screens? ...

I like it.

But let me tell you something. WipEout HD's interface isn't professional
up to, well, my standard. First off, it isn't clean. Anti-aliasing is missing
virtually everywhere. For example, within the Statistics all the track icons
are aliased. Secondly, and even worse, the interface lags! It happens
rather often that I select the wrong menu coz of lag. Same holds for the
menu popping up when pausing a race. If you go through the menu,
switching some music options or whatever, the menu lags. Why?
And please, bring back the semi-transparent menus. The new coloring
(i.e. the contrast) looks way off, esp. when pausing the game or when
being in photo-mode. Just my daily rant.

... 4. I noticed _huge_ video lag when someone was eliminated anywhere near me (at one point the ship right in front of me ran into a bomb and blew up, bringing the FPS down to under 10 for a second or so)...

... 1/ Zone Mode
Slowdowns / Framerate drops noticed during Zone Mode. I played 7 zone rounds on Analpha Pass after the patch had been introduced, and noticed around 3 slowdowns per Zone round mode played. ...

(Analpha? xD)

There are some huge slow-downs randomly distributed in time when
racing ZONE. They are game-breaking.

Far-views now runs as smooth as cockpit-view. That's a huge plus!
Everything moves more fluent. But there is a downside. The game now looks
much more aliased in motion. If you look in the distance you will see that all
the edges are pronounced like never before. Same holds in ZONE mode, esp.
the SUPERSONIC color-scheme now produces a rather aliased look. Either
this is the penalty for the improved framerate or there is a bug within the
rasterizer. I don't know, but it seems like that the polygonal edges are
computed without sub-pixel accuracy, they do pop. Something is clearly
wrong with the rasterizer. Here is a worst-case example; Pause the game
during a ZONE session and go to photo-mode. Now use one of these filters
and compute a screenshot. If you continue the game you will clearly see
that all the polygonal edges are now much *more* aliased than before. You
have to restart the game to get rid of it.

[Darkdrium777]

Almost every color scheme has this kind of thing / effect at a constant
distance away from the craft (moving with the craft). But only in
SUPER ZEN it looks wrong.

I know, that's why I am talking about it only. It was fine before whatever update changed it, they haven't changed it back since.

And please, bring back the semi-transparent menus. The new coloring
(i.e. the contrast) looks way off, esp. when pausing the game or when
being in photo-mode.

I agree with this, I don't like the pause menu so much anymore. It seems that everything that was a light grey in the menu/game got changed to a darker one... Doesn't look very good to be honest.

[LOUDandPROUD]

Well, overall, I'm quite happy with the 2.0 update. Barrel rolls are just....beautiful now. My times are improving solely from that, as I don't need to try to get as much air as possible to attempt one anymore, which allows me to not only execute the BR and get back to the ground as quickly as possible, but it's also allowing me to pull off BR's in places I usually had trouble doing so or couldn't pull one off at all. Sooooo happy!

I haven't personally had any real issues that I attribute to this update (other than the thousands of photos I've supposedly taken ha ha). I mean, I had a few laggy type issues while racing online, but that type of things happens sometimes anyway and didn't seem like anything out of the ordinary.

I was a bit disappointed to see that the in-game chrome skins look as they always did, as I'm partial to that black chrome look they're now sporting on the ship select screen (that many have complained about...TheFrostE knows the deal though ) . I assume that black chrome look is some sort of mistake or whatever.

Didn't experience any speed lap freezes or scrolling freezes, as others have reported...though I didn't attempt any speed laps, nor did I scroll to the bottom of the list...ha ha.

Anyway, I think SL deserves major props for all that they've done and for being so active on this forum. SL has certainly earned my respect! Thanks!

[Darkdrium777]

Oh yes, some positive thinking before people think I am grumpy:

Thanks for fixing the weapon pad issue! I now get a weapon every time I hear the beep of the weapon pickup. In the situations where before I would've got none, it now takes a while longer than normal, but it works! It's still not perfect (IMHO it should be like in Wip3out, instantaneous) but it's much better than before.

The lighting has indeed changed, now objects cast true shadows See this tiny beam of light, it will actually affect an individual area on the ship, not like before. Awesome

And now some mitigated:

Fire effect has been downgraded on your ship, but it now shows up on all ships, not just yours. It is very ugly on your ship, but looks ok on the others. Sometimes it's barely visible in a race on other ships but the red light effect is always there.