#Trackmania 2 stadium set car mods
It's a new unique environment but the entire game is separate from the TM2 "platform", and the whole thing is consolized including features and menus (no mods or server browsers). Trackmania Turbo is a completely separate product, has nothing to do with Trackmania 2. Nadeo sells each environment separately, they have 3 environments for TM2 with a fourth one coming out soon. Each environment for Trackmania 2 is very well developed and can easily stand as a game of its own. The whole "game" is split into "environments" consisting of a unique theme, car type with its own physics, its own track set with a bunch of unique track gimmicks. For someone who's never played these games, I would say the point of entry is anything from Trackmania 2. Trackmania is an arcade racer with funky physics and a really robust track editor. I think it's generally why they have a hard time attracting new customers: their messaging is a dumpster fire. It's not terrible but Nadeo generally does a pretty poor job of explaining it to non-fans. It's like they hired a UX designer to come up with something that looks "good" in an academic flat-UI sense without working on the interactivity that works well for games.ĮDIT: I guess I can look forward to Lagoon being folded into TM2? Although there's no guarantee they won't fuck with the physics on that either. You used to get these really weighty-sounding "bell" dings every time you got a new medal, that's completely gone since they just silently drift into view now. A small change that ends up being a big detriment is how unsatisfying getting medals. There's hints of good design here and there but there's tons of jank everywhere and there's some really bone-headed changes. Not to mention the new Maniaplanet UI is awful. How is this even going to work for Nadeo's tracks for Canyon for single-player? Are some of them going to be unbeatable or really hard to beat now that those tracks were designed for a physics engine that isn't in the game anymore?
#Trackmania 2 stadium set car update
But with this incredibly stupid update I'm unlikely to buy Canyon at all. What the fuck? After the news of the new Maniaplanet update hit I jumped back into TM2 Stadium and heavily considered buying Canyon and Valley since I never got around to playing them.