Shootmania beta

That's a shame I thought it would carry on more than that, hardly a beta, more of a preview.

Hmmm....I suppose that is quite a good price though! Not sure about it...I do like it but find some of the weapons and lack of choice a bit frustrating.

I think the maps with 10+ a side get too depersonal as well, teams don't work together, they all just work for themselves which is a bit of a pain.

On the other hand...I love the ranking system! :D

What are you planning to do?
 
Quite enjoying this, whilst I don't think it's amazing I do see some potential there, especially when you factor in the community.
I do love the stripped back nature of it though, no moaning about weapons and kill streaks and all of the other bull **** that clogs up modern shooters, this just feels so pure and old school :D.
 
TheBigCheese said:
That's a shame I thought it would carry on more than that, hardly a beta, more of a preview.

Hmmm....I suppose that is quite a good price though! Not sure about it...I do like it but find some of the weapons and lack of choice a bit frustrating.

I think the maps with 10+ a side get too depersonal as well, teams don't work together, they all just work for themselves which is a bit of a pain.

On the other hand...I love the ranking system! :D

What are you planning to do?
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Am sure we will have some new weapons by the time the game is fully released. At the moment i am really enjoying the game so yea i bought the preorder loving doing some jailbreak but also elite is very competitive and strategy really comes into it.
 
Very good points Ampeg!

Sounds like you've explored much more of it than me Rockchef, I'm yet to see you online though.

Can I ask you about the LP that is awarded...what's that all about?

Also is your ranking affected by the player you kill? Does your ranking increase more if you kill a much higher ranked player than a lower one or does that not matter?
 
TheBigCheese said:
Very good points Ampeg!

Sounds like you've explored much more of it than me Rockchef, I'm yet to see you online though.

Can I ask you about the LP that is awarded...what's that all about?

Also is your ranking affected by the player you kill? Does your ranking increase more if you kill a much higher ranked player than a lower one or does that not matter?
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yea the ranking system is quite complex but by what can make out if at the end of a match if you have came higher in the table than say a 1000 lp player then you get more lp points so if you are say ranked top 100 in the world then you have to really work hard to keep your rank. yea have been doing some mapping so havent been online as much.

But this weekend i am giving mapping a break to try some modes i havent tried like jailbreak joust and some melee and maybe some laser insta gibb.:D
 
Cheers for that!

What can you do with LP? I also saw something called planets, and to add more than 50 people on you buddy list costs 150 planets...is that a micro transaction scheme?

Insta gibb is fun! :D Hard...takes a couple of seconds to reload but it's a wheeze.
 
yea planets are the ingame money you can see how much you have when you start maniaplanet at the top of your screen next to the little envelope for texting it shows how much you have. Every week you get more from nadeo. you can use these to buy all sorts from extra buddy slots to car skins and models from others in the community. Also you can earn planets by making your own skins or models or mods whatever you fancy really and sharing with us all. At the moment skins models and mods are only used in tm2 canyon but once the modders get going then am sure we will have cool stuff for storm.

Would love a link or mario model to use in storm lol
 
Aahhh interesting! I was looking at Trackmania Canyon...I've got United Forever (not played in years and logged in under another name I think :() so they tie in well together...clever.

Am I right in thinking you can only buy directly from Nadeo? Can't seem to find Shoot or Canyon cheaper anywhere else.
 
I think its a shame this isn't a free game, tribes ascend and blacklight retribution are free and tbh tribes ascend is leagues ahead.
 
I played about 10 minutes and I can safely say it left me feeling very unimpressed or inspired. Feels horrible. The jumping is like Halo, all floaty and slow, the projectile weapons are also slow and just annoying. It's like a slowed down instagib.
Don't think I will bother with it. I am a big Quake fan and I know it is not mean to be a clone but it does nothing new or exciting that would want to make me switch or play it as well.
It just seems kind of dull.
 
FeFiDoh said:
I played about 10 minutes and I can safely say it left me feeling very unimpressed or inspired. Feels horrible. The jumping is like Halo, all floaty and slow, the projectile weapons are also slow and just annoying. It's like a slowed down instagib.
Don't think I will bother with it. I am a big Quake fan and I know it is not mean to be a clone but it does nothing new or exciting that would want to make me switch or play it as well.
It just seems kind of dull.
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thats kinda the reason i would like a beta key rather then paying for it right now , just incase i dont like it ;x
 
Well I've bought it while it's on the cheap (£12.79) and the missus is getting it as well so hope to see some of you online soon.

It swayed me last night, had a brilliant hour or so as I was in a server with some decent people, it certainly makes all the difference.
 
anyone got a spare beta key they wont be using?

paypal messing me about on new card im tryin to add and really wana try this out!
 
By the way, anyone who has this apparently there's a rather major bug in that if you install the game in a root directory upon uninstall the game deletes everything in the root directory!
 
:eek::eek::eek:

I would usually have installed this on my e:\games drive which has around 800GB worth in it.

Luckily (?) for me my E drive decided to corrupt it's MBR the other day so I installed it to my work drive instead...thankfully in a directory on it's own - L:\games\maniaplanet

Absolutely awful bug if proved to be true!
 
For those of you playing Shootmania, they have released a new version:



We are making the final internal tests for the beta 1 to be released tonight

Main addition for ShootMania players is the 5v5 mode

Heroes
-5 players attacks against 5 players on defense. Scoring like Elite.
-Like Elite, the attack must capture a pole, and only one player in attack can do it. So, if he is eliminated, the defense wins. If all defense is eliminated, he still needs to quickly capture the pole.
-Like Elite, the defense are using rockets and attack lasers. Difference are that the main attacker is using the Nucleus and each player in attack have one armor.
-Like Elite now, it is possible to make maps with one, two or three poles.

Storm Woman
There is a female skin available in the profile menu now.

Blocks
Big tunnel openings, 3 bumper in tunnels, ability to make windows in castle rampart by closing the arch, more detailed cliff available to be placed by hand, dirt roads diags, metal ramp little corner to complete the ability to make little path, now more useful to use (see gameplay).

Gameplay
Metal is a little faster now, like for power paths, and castle & grass a little slower to widen the gap and increase the use of metal and techno stuff to move faster or make different cover ground speed. The blow into water does not enable to go too fast and reduce the use and signification of water.


About the code itself, various little fixes&tweaks. Most noticeable:
Sound in video shooting
Lightmaps color fidelity increased, but with around 25%-30% increase of map size.
Command line for map and replay files fixed
Update of titles without restarting the game

Also, work on sounds and visual tweaks.

We still have a lot of things to do.
A new update is scheduled next week.

See you online soon!
Nadeo Team

Found here.
 
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