I’ll have to get that one with the big tank…that looks amazing.
I’ve basically given up on challenges, at least for now. I just spent about an hour trying to do the “Smash 10 market stalls” one, and still no hope so far. It seems like it should be one of the easiest ones, but I either do the challenge and come in 2nd or 3rd(at the last possible second screw-over of course) or I get 1st without 10 stalls to smash. There was one time I didn’t even see any stalls left; I guess if the AI smashes them up first, that also fucks you over since this stuff doesn’t respawn…once it’s gone, that’s it.
One time, I had first place on lock, basically…NO AI cars were even showing up on the mini-map anymore. The challenge was also completed…so of fucking course, I get hit with either Hydra missiles or level 3 Sonic Rift maybe 2 FEET away from the goddamn finish fucking goddamn line. There’s nobody there but OOPS the 2nd place guy MAGICALLY FUCKING APPEARS to get 1st. There were no green flames so it wasn’t a Warp. The game just decided to appear right there and win.
In other news, that Casket kart is awesome… I had to get it. I went ahead and bought Vampy with the casket kart and the Van +Van mod. Casket might be my new favorite car-body…a new creation with that might become Mayuri’s regular kart.
*I also won a fully populated race today for the first time on Boardwalk, which is one of the easiest tracks, imo. Those other folks must not have been as familiar with it. Anyway, I went on to win by a nice 5 second margin between myself and whoever it was in 2nd place…niiiice.
Okay, it took like a whole week, probably 20+ hours in total, but I finished revamping my Jet Moto 2 mods and made them brand new karts. All I need to do now is pick 4 of the best stages from Jet Moto 1, 2, and 3 and make them, then I’ll be good to publish a Jet Moto pack. It will be glorious. Not making any mods from the other Jet Motos because Jet Moto 2 had the best cast (and music. Rollercide GDLK) Anyway…
Some very sick track designs in this vid… too bad they’re all from the beta and the people that uploaded it didn’t reupload them to the retail game. Y’all should check out the packs the site owners are coming out with. They got a Crash Team Racing pack, Looney Toons pack, and I think a Toy Story pack. Pretty sick.
Edit: Just found out that I’ve clocked 135 hours in this game. 84 of it is in the Creation Studio and the rest is races and Modspot. You guys should check out the leaderboards and stats. Lots of interesting stuff there, and you can see how well you and/or your creations are doing compared to peeps on your friendlist/peeps in the current modspot you’re in/etc.
I haven’t been playing much lately. I’m still playing MGS: Peace Walker.
I’m currently working on a simple “8” track. Might have it done in a few hours…
Sweet! Thanks bro! :tup:
It also came with “Mouse Trap Mod & Kart.”
Modnation Online has a lot of really amazing track submissions. I’m dling a lot of tracks and getting tons of inspiration and stealing nifty tricks they used to do some things in their tracks.
lololol, indeed I did. I think I got hit by a weapon the AI used, then I fell into the water and that was it for me
GGs!
Wait 'til I make my first real track.
I’m gonna start remixing this track tonight. Gonna be fun.
Also, I’m still trying to figure out some of the tricks these ppl have been using. There’s this one track I downloaded with floating islands and floating trees. It was a fantasy themed map, and it looks amazing. I have no idea how this guy made the trees float and stuff.
There’s another map that is 95% indoors. That one’s easy to figure out, but it’s a sick idea.
While Mods and Karts are fun, I think Tracks are where you’ll truly see how creative people can get in this game.
Floating trees (props) are easy to do. Just hold triangle & hold up to bring your tree in the air. Holding down will, well bring it down lol. As for the floating islands, I’d have to see how they look, to get an idea of how it was done. I’m thinking he used Boulder Terrain/Building Blocks & added Foliage on top of it.
I’m on @ random times, but I’ll def message you for some races, if we’re on @ the same time.
The ideas keep hitting me even though I haven’t played in awhile…
Clamidia Clyde with the Venereal Van!
“AIDS” as a character…or perhaps “HIV”.
Sally Syphilis.
Booty-Face.
Orkin-Man
random pizza delivery guy
Disgruntled Postal Worker.
heh, And Many More!!! I must get started on these and so many others today…
-----------y’know, extending the Play/Create/Share a bit here…I’d LOVE it if the next one was a straight-up “vehicular combat” game…the “Modnation/LBP” equivalent of a “Twisted Metal”! It would instantly be one of the greatest games OF ALL TIME. Of course, you’d have the preset characters and perhaps a single-player story-mode to go thru with some unlockable items and characters. The real draw of course would then be the customization. All the weapons and “Special Attacks” would already be set from the story-mode characters, and you would simply pick what Special(s) your character has, and everyone has access to the other simple attacks like missiles, shields, napalm, etc. Design your character, the vehicle and the arenas. It would be legendary.
Wow, track editing is hard as fuck. Making a simple stage from Jet Moto 2 is taking a LONG time, because I can’t figure out some things like how to remove fricking fences, among other things.
edit: nvm, figured it all out. only took me 6 hours… ugh.
edit 2: am i the only one who has been unable to get on mnr’s servers all day?
I finally beat the Market Stalls challenge. On paper, it sounds like it SHOULD be one of the easiest challenges in the entire game, but time and time again there was all kinds of amazingly cheap bullshit going on. Anyway, it’s finally done. I beat 2 other challenges today as well, and I didn’t have as much trouble with those.
New stuff! http://img412.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=3rdturdwithstaintrain.jpg
new shit-character “The 3rd Turd” with his awesome ride the STAIN-TRAIN. I was considering the name “Boo-Boo Choo-Choo” or something like that, but Stain-Train was too good…I’ll have to print it somewhere on that. “Stain” is written on the license plate. The seat inside is a toilet of course. The other picture has my new character Booger-Bear with the Mucus-Mobile?. It’s still under development though…may make changes later. I also made AIDS, but I’m sure that one might get some complaints…pictures of him and his kart (a casket body-type of course…ahah, SUCH bad taste) later. I also finished making “Crazy Captain Crunch”…pictures later of course.
Man, racing against real people is actually a lot easier (and fun!) than the cheap ass AI. I didn’t have my headphones hooked up but I had some fun today in XP races; finally got up to level 10. It would be nice if there were some rewards for the level-ups…like new customization items to work with…that would be nice and provide an obvious incentive for people to keep racing.
*heh, I piggy-backed someone’s Level 3 warp today. There’s something so great about that situation…it never stops being awesome to me.
I changed my settings today…I went from +1 Handling to +1 Drift, and kept +1 Speed… I think this is working better for me already. It appears that having more control over drift is at least slightly more important than the more generic “handling” stat…ooooooh and I implemented a new “style” and strategy that worked beautifully in a race just little while ago. Of course, it helped that I was very familiar with that particular track anyway. It’s so satisfying when you come up with a certain battle plan that works out 100% perfectly, allowing you to basically cruise to victory. I finished with a good 14 second lead on those guys. They weren’t showing up on my mini-map anymore. Even if I was hit by a level 3 attack towards the end (I wasn’t), a 14 second lead is most likely enough time to STILL hold on to that #1 spot after recovering. Goddamn I love this game. I should’ve taken a picture of the results on that race.
*the strangest character— I was just looking thru my “manage creations” screen in the modspot while online, and I saw this dude drive by that I will never forget…because the visual was actually kind of “disturbing”, like something out of The Shining. It was a simple concept, but the effect was interesting… I guess there is a “dynamite” odds/ends piece, and he simply duplicated that over and over, with each piece drawn out to the largest possible size. It didn’t even look like a “mod” character anymore…just a bizarre “dynamite porcupine” creature or something…no face or anything…just a cluster of dynamite sticks driving a car. Unfortunately, he left the modspot before I could take note of the name, or look up his creations to see if I could download that.
heh, a certain friend I know has this game but never races! That’s just weird. Sure, the customization is the main attraction and selling point of the game, but there’s also the whole “kart racing” aspect in there. Seriously, I don’t think he’s even raced anyone online ONE TIME so far…and he probably doesn’t play Career mode either…basically, the dude just downloads other people’s stuff and occasionally makes his own characters and cars. Of course, I’m pretty sure I would absolutely destroy that guy if we did race, since he seemingly gave up on that aspect of the game a long time ago. That’s just sad, man. He’s clearly not getting the full value of this great game, imo.
Sorry I didn’t get to play with some of you over the weekend. I was @ Devastation. Good times, good times, but if you catch me online, hit me up for some races!
