P175
01-09-2005, 12:48 PM
Great game indeed.
I got this just before Christmas not having known that it was out previously. Since then however we've established quite the following and are getting a lot of support from our community at www.thedirtynation.com seeing as we live for dirty racing ! :D We have a dedicated forum and I will be encouraging all of our members to subscribe to this forum and contribute their thoughts on this gem of a game.
As earlier stated however there are a number of increasingly annoying issues that are beginning to spoil the entire experience for a few of our members. Some of these have been listed previously, however for clarity sake I'm going to re-state so please forgive me as there are no recent threads.
Locking. I'm experiencing the game freeze as well but for me it is more an issue when hosting and coming back to the lobby from the game result screen. The loading text in the right corner simply freezes and you have to restart completely to recover.
Loading. When starting the game there seems to be a number of connection issues that are becoming more prevalent. Mainly the timeouts of various players on the grid resulting in them exploding before the start. This seems to point more towards router conflicts than anything else as I know for a fact that the people being dropped have superb connections in other games and can host more than the average with no problems at all. Games such as Ghost Recon 2 and TOCA 2 for example, both high bandwidth requirements, these folks host full rooms with no issues at all, but are continually getting dropped from the start line when not hosting. When Hosting, they regularly lose the entire room. When they do make it to the start grid however, there do not appear to be any issues whatsoever.
Team Games. I've noticed that it is very difficult in certain game modes to be able to change to the team of your choice. The host doesn't seem to have a choice, and certain players in the room cannot switch without the server automatically switching them back. This often results in unbalanced teams that we can do nothing about. Also the hosts screen players list flickers rapidly for say 10 secs as if it were automatically shuffling the player list. This is very frequent in team kamakaze and is hugely distracting as you cannot read the list at all.
Those are the major issues that I have, I am sure if these were remedied that this game would enjoy a much greater following given the pure entertainment value.
As far as enhancements go, I'd like to see a couple of things resolved. Having blown yourself to peices and watching those still running in the race it would much better to know the position they were holding while still running. As it is sure you can watch, but they could be in first or last place, you have no idea at present. Switching game modes without resetting the room is a must as you keep losing a number of players that perhaps cannot find you as easily as they might. A Roof or Hood cam would be a great addition, the bumper cam can be a little disoreintating at times, and seems to effect the handling somewhat from what I can tell. The engine note sound effects are the most dissapointing aspect from my perspective, they could certainly do with some enhancement. MIght I suggest also that you include a link from the CNB website to this forum as it is rather difficult to locate.
Overall however I must say this is most fun I have had on four wheels in a very long time, I'm thrilled with the game and if we could get the issues ironed out it would be superb ! Watch for some contributions from our Dirty Nation members .. in meantime congratulations on a great title !
BlueFin175
I got this just before Christmas not having known that it was out previously. Since then however we've established quite the following and are getting a lot of support from our community at www.thedirtynation.com seeing as we live for dirty racing ! :D We have a dedicated forum and I will be encouraging all of our members to subscribe to this forum and contribute their thoughts on this gem of a game.
As earlier stated however there are a number of increasingly annoying issues that are beginning to spoil the entire experience for a few of our members. Some of these have been listed previously, however for clarity sake I'm going to re-state so please forgive me as there are no recent threads.
Locking. I'm experiencing the game freeze as well but for me it is more an issue when hosting and coming back to the lobby from the game result screen. The loading text in the right corner simply freezes and you have to restart completely to recover.
Loading. When starting the game there seems to be a number of connection issues that are becoming more prevalent. Mainly the timeouts of various players on the grid resulting in them exploding before the start. This seems to point more towards router conflicts than anything else as I know for a fact that the people being dropped have superb connections in other games and can host more than the average with no problems at all. Games such as Ghost Recon 2 and TOCA 2 for example, both high bandwidth requirements, these folks host full rooms with no issues at all, but are continually getting dropped from the start line when not hosting. When Hosting, they regularly lose the entire room. When they do make it to the start grid however, there do not appear to be any issues whatsoever.
Team Games. I've noticed that it is very difficult in certain game modes to be able to change to the team of your choice. The host doesn't seem to have a choice, and certain players in the room cannot switch without the server automatically switching them back. This often results in unbalanced teams that we can do nothing about. Also the hosts screen players list flickers rapidly for say 10 secs as if it were automatically shuffling the player list. This is very frequent in team kamakaze and is hugely distracting as you cannot read the list at all.
Those are the major issues that I have, I am sure if these were remedied that this game would enjoy a much greater following given the pure entertainment value.
As far as enhancements go, I'd like to see a couple of things resolved. Having blown yourself to peices and watching those still running in the race it would much better to know the position they were holding while still running. As it is sure you can watch, but they could be in first or last place, you have no idea at present. Switching game modes without resetting the room is a must as you keep losing a number of players that perhaps cannot find you as easily as they might. A Roof or Hood cam would be a great addition, the bumper cam can be a little disoreintating at times, and seems to effect the handling somewhat from what I can tell. The engine note sound effects are the most dissapointing aspect from my perspective, they could certainly do with some enhancement. MIght I suggest also that you include a link from the CNB website to this forum as it is rather difficult to locate.
Overall however I must say this is most fun I have had on four wheels in a very long time, I'm thrilled with the game and if we could get the issues ironed out it would be superb ! Watch for some contributions from our Dirty Nation members .. in meantime congratulations on a great title !
BlueFin175