New Wipeout HD patch

[yeldar2097]

First to Supersonic all tracks can be the new game :3

[Constrictor]

Some new 'findings'

- just finished a ~6 single race and 12er tourney on phantom that had lag as hell. Vista-like pads, pilots off-track and jumping back and forth, missiles running circles around the target - btw, meesiash was hosting but don't remember the server location. Never had that for a long time. @Colonel: lag ... 2nd that !
- though, the finishline-microfreeze was not that extreme as yesterday ... @docfo4r: maybe that's also latency related. Never had that w/ 2.20
- after the tourney, just before shutting down my PS3 I recognized a somewhat distorted sound during the WOHD menu theme. My AVR/soundequipment was tested fine after exiting WOHD.

[Sausehuhn]

If we are talking about the same microfreeze, than this also happend to in Racebox to me. Shouldn’t be related to online multiplayer then, should it (although I was connected to the PSN)? But it doesn’t bother me much anyway, as it does not do any harm to the game.

[Colonel]

It happens at the end of a Zone run too, so it's not just a multiplayer issue.

Another glitch: When you filter the online lobbies to show "friends only" it goes blank (despite numerous friends online). Then when you "unfilter" it to show all lobbies, that's blank too. I tried overcoming this by pressing triangle to join a specific friend's game but it just brought up the location menu. No way around it but to restart the game, it's happened a couple of times now.

[Aeralys]

That server maintenance definately improved the leaderboards loading/responsiveness in the records and post-race menus, so +1 on that. Whether it'll update any new records of mine I made today will have to wait til tomorrow. The time it takes for post-race menus to appear is back to normal too from what I can tell. Before I was waiting about 15 seconds for it to appear after wining a race.

I Noticed the weapon pads throwing a rave party on Moa Therma today. I had a clear lead but the pads were flashing off and on when apporaching them. They did always give me a wepon regardless.

Also anybody getting issues on races where the starting invincibility wears off almost instantly? When I get a boost start from the back half of the starting grid sometimes I start crashing into people, literally just at the lap line.

[BlackReign]

I Noticed the weapon pads throwing a rave party on Moa Therma today. I had a clear lead but the pads were flashing off and on when apporaching them. They did always give me a wepon regardless.

Also anybody getting issues on races where the starting invincibility wears off almost instantly? When I get a boost start from the back half of the starting grid sometimes I start crashing into people, literally just at the lap line.

I've noticed the same issues as well last night. Weapon pads are sometimes having "rave parties". lol. I've crashed into a few others at the start line too.

Also have you noticed that some ships seem to get too much boost off the line compared to their ship stats? I played a few races the other day and there was another good pilot in the room using Icarus. The field was small with only about 3 racers including me and he would routinely beat me off the line with Icarus (Fury) if he was in 1st position and I was in 2nd using AG Sys (Fury). If I was in 1st and the other guy in 2nd I would only manage a very tiny lead at the start of the race. It was as if his Icarus ship had the nearly the same about of thrust as AG sys. I'm very good at getting off the line and still can't understand how and why this was happening so often. In over 3 yrs playing this game I don't think I ever recalled that happening before. Weird.

[goddessloviatar]

Online in the lobbies, the track name in the lower right is sometimes in lower case, not capitals as before- something to do with cross play?

[Aeralys]

Also have you noticed that some ships seem to get too much boost off the line compared to their ship stats? I played a few races the other day and there was another good pilot in the room using Icarus. The field was small with only about 3 racers including me and he would routinely beat me off the line with Icarus (Fury) if he was in 1st position and I was in 2nd using AG Sys (Fury). If I was in 1st and the other guy in 2nd I would only manage a very tiny lead at the start of the race. It was as if his Icarus ship had the nearly the same about of thrust as AG sys. I'm very good at getting off the line and still can't understand how and why this was happening so often. In over 3 yrs playing this game I don't think I ever recalled that happening before. Weird.

I can't say for sure as I'm on the other side of thrust power piloting Harimau+ or Qirex HD, could be an inaccurate tracking of your opponent, as if it's not showing different thrust boost starts properly online anymore, only to catch up slightly later (at the crucial first weapon pad...).

The record I made yesterday playing Rapier at Sol 2 managed to be updated into the leaderboards in just a few hours. However another record I made before this (but still on this patch) at Vineta K isn't updated. It still has my old 1.30.XX instead of 1.29.XX, go figure >_<

[terra-wrists]

new patch not good for me metropia reverse flash online i have number 1 time (1:47?) and not show. Also other very good times not shows. Why not shows old times? only showing new times?

Game feel slow now. not same like before. game broken? I not understand to good. Please some body explain me

[Colonel]

It's getting worse. 3 game freezes tonight, 2 of which have needed a complete restart of the PS3. For f**k's sake, I'm trying not to be a moaning bastard here but it's getting ridiculous.

For the love of God Studio Liverpool, please sort this out.

[Danterich]

One additional bug for the list: "players-met-list"(HOME-menu) is not updating since 2.50 !
I´m not the only one who thinks this is really annoying. But otherwise this means less spam.

[Light Buster]

I can barrel roll just fine in the 2.5 patch. Maybe the game itself after numerous patches is making it unstable. (This is a theory, not a solution.)

[DrMannevond]

That's why he introduced that Podrace in SW:EP1, now i see things more clearly.

Actually the podrace was ripped from PinchCliffe Grand Prix.

[Colonel]

One additional bug for the list: "players-met-list"(HOME-menu) is not updating since 2.50 !
I´m not the only one who thinks this is really annoying.

Yeah it's annoying. There are many players who aren't on my friends list who I still speak to when I race them, it's not as easy when they're not in your "players met" list. It's just a bit of a pain having to enter their ID manually, there's a lot of weird names out there

[Olivario]

Online errors:

- Can't enter online with the session opened. I need to disconnect and connect after selecting Online.
- All the lobbies appear like hosted by US players.
- Most of the lobbies appear intermittent all the time, but there's actually a race taking place and it isn't neccesarily finished.
- While I'm in a lobby where others are racing, I can't see the current race progress, the screen always shows 0/4 laps.
- More time is spent than before when entering a lobby.
- When finishing a race sometimes the results screen (the one wiht the times, points..., not the badges screen) isn't displayed until maybe 15-20 seconds after finishing it.
- Lag is MUCH more frequent than before. Also it seems that some ships start with an acceleration they shouldn't be able to have.
- Too many screen freezings. To be honest I've always had annoying problems with freezings in Wipeout HD, but there are even more now.

I think that's all.

[GiraffeRider]

new patch not good for me metropia reverse flash online i have number 1 time (1:47?) and not show. Also other very good times not shows. Why not shows old times? only showing new times?

Game feel slow now. not same like before. game broken? I not understand to good. Please some body explain me

Yeah, all times done before the patch don't show in the leaderboard.

About the slowness, they did change the physics, so we are all slower now than we were before the patch. It's apparently an intentional change, though I'll be damned if I know why they did it; so it's not likely that it'll ever get fixed.

[tug_14]

the speed of ship did not change, it is just the effect of the speed glitch that was taken away...
the speed glitch allowed to go more quickly by using air brakes and an action on the pad of direction that the right online normal speed but it also intervened each time you used air brakes in turn (airbrake+direction pad) or by making a preparation of br by orientating to the right or has left ship associate in a ss...
That's why, you can find ships a little heavier today, there is no more surcroit of speed coming from speed glitch effect in exit of turn or on certain preparation of br but THE SPEED OF SHIP DID NOT CHANGE ...
Whatever, if your time is not a top 10 ... u should be able to beat your time even without the "speed glitch effect"

[Dark_Phantom_89]

The Zone leaderboards are borked. They're only updating new scores, and they're overwriting the previous ones by other players that were much better.

The Syncopia WR was 16,000 points according to the board. I had a go at it and was put in #1. I only reached Zone 87 with 250,000 points... yeh, nowhere near the WR. The previous WR's position is now determined by the number of people who have played the track post patch.

[XBARNSTERX]

ive set a few good times there over the last few months , none have updated. If its true about the glitches fix effecting overall performance of the ship i very highly doubt ill better these times. seems pointless to carry on now sl/tt ruined for me and im sure many others. online level resets annoyed me slightly also. i was considering the vita, not bothering now.

[MyNameIsBom]

Don't even get me started, my list will be longer then anyone else's...