Who wants to see le night dominator. Plenty of times. And miss-pronounced.
That's my guess.
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Who wants to see le night dominator. Plenty of times. And miss-pronounced.
That's my guess.
New Pilot
hello guys
i want to ask which ship is the best use for time trial in meltdown ?
i have 2 tracks there which they are horrible driving me carazy
viena k 5 laps and that other one is one on the up left
thnx
Content Contributor
Use the ship you are most comfortable with. There's no "best ship" in WipEout HD, though for time trials if you want look at the leaderboards and use the same ship as the person who has #1 world record (But really you can do it with any ship)
Practise is key, do speed laps until you are able to do near perfect laps with all the barrel rolls and never slowing down (Letting go of the thrust button.)
Then you'll beat the campaign no problem.
New Pilot
Hi
I achieved campagin legend long time ago my best ship is icaras (silver)
Just need finish two stages in meltdown on skilled diff.
I have them finished on novice only (gold)
Barrel roll doing me problems in vieneta k
Last edited by Evoss; 9th August 2009 at 08:39 PM.
Rapier Pilot
SL and their design approach
Well I had noticed this a while back, and last night while i finished my dinner and let WO run its demo showing the tracks and so forth, i realized how prevalant this was.
From various structures like the Tech de Ra dome, the Auricom ad in (Amphesium i believe), parts of the track, an active ship shield, and even Assegai's outer skin structure.
Why the hexagon, honeycomb design?
It's a constant throughout the game.
Is it its functionality and versatility in design?
Easy to work with whatever software they use to Create wipeout?
Is it technically needed? (Since it's not everywhere and used for everything, yet used a lot though)
Or is it just a personal preference of SL?
-Thoughts, comments, opinions...
Content Contributor
Hexagon madness started in Pulse
Rapier Pilot
True...i forgot about that, but in HD i can see it so much more than in my psp screen.
And that makes sense, considering many HD/Fury tracks are derived from the Pulse game.
But why the hexagons?
Content Contributor
Because they have six sides.
No idea, maybe it's to have a more "futuristic" feel. Look at the Pulse site, it's pretty awesome IMO.
Rapier Pilot
yeah, i've seen it. I was just looking for theories as to why that shape was chosen for so many design aspects. It is a nice different approach to our standard over use of squares and rectangles.
Look around you, lots of squares and retangles all over the place.
Frame around your computer screen, stair steps, pc towers, billboards, books, filling cabinets, ceiling tiles, calendars..etc...etc...
I'd like an architech's point of view...
Rapier Pilot
That honeycomb structure is prized for its weight to strength ratio.
Content Contributor
Actually my PC tower is the Antec Nine Hundred, which has plenty of hexagons on it
Rapier Pilot
Yes, but you see what i mean. The overall outline and even the front is sectioned off into rectangles.Originally Posted by Darkdrium777
Actually my PC tower is the Antec Nine Hundred, which has plenty of hexagons on it
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Legendary Pilot
Maybe they got used to seeing the Ridge Racer 6 main menu and it just permeated their souls?
Phantom Pilot
have you ever listen about geodetic domes?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic_dome
quite futuristic and charateristic kind of structure, the engineers still study the real applications of these structures, i've watch a documentary on discovery last night about the plan in the near future to cover the entire city of austin ( i think was austin, i'm not sure of remenber well ) with such dome
believe me, when SL tell us that they have talked with futurologist and they have studied various fields to develop the game environments , they don't say lies
Venom Pilot
Got AG Assassin yesterday... won't be online for a while
Why can't you change back to the original SL opening video? And why isn't there a proper opening video?
PS. That Austin dome thing, that was on Mega Engineering, right? lol that's cool... yeah, those things are all over Tech de Ra, there's one in the Amphi as well
Last edited by CJS; 13th August 2009 at 07:20 AM.
Phantom Pilot
yes
an yes that domes actually are the idroponic greenhouses of tech de ra, since it is in fact an idroponic farm where around has been built the track
and a couple of them are on amphiseum too, the climate would been not much different since it is in nevada...and i think nevada of the 23th century...umm
Rapier Pilot
Does anyone know how to get the timer when starting a game online to go to 15 seconds or so because I can't find how to do that.
Zone Pilot
When you have 4 or more players, just leave the game idle and you'll eventually get the 15 second countdown.
Venom Pilot
Hey, has anyone noticed this: The Modesto Heights starting grid, that pointy thingy above the track, it says 2197 on the bottom like in the Pure Vineta K... thought it was 2207 now 0_o
Zone Pilot
@farside..as far as i am aware, you got to win on phantom speed only elite seting..rapier wont work for that trophey..
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