Quote Originally Posted by superpj1 View Post
In my opinion it shouldn't be removed because Wipeout is a (very) hard game and PA helps the popularity of the game . Here in France when Wipeout HD came out, it had excellent reviews from the games magazines, most of them talking of PA as a great idea to help beginners get into this game that was always considered very difficult. Personnaly I started playing with PA for 1 month then I disabled it progressively to gain speed. If PA didn't exist I don't think I would've bothered with Wipeout HD for more than 15 minutes because the way the ship halts when you hit the walls is sometimes "shocking" (compared to the other racing games) anyway PA slows down and disallow some shortcuts so it's not a easy way of beating good non-PA pilots
Okay - maybe I came across as a little harsh on that point. It's not that I don't like the idea of PA, it's just the way it works out in online races. It can be extremely frustrating ending up behind someone using PA and veering all over the place, making it almost impossible to get past them, or at least not without getting bumped around like crazy in the process.