WipEout HD

speed = top speed
thrust = acceleration

Yeah, this is the one. So a ship with best speed and worst thrust can beat any other racer, provided you never hit anything...

Do they pick the ship for you in zone, or do you get a choice?

Do they still have a "kill this many opponents" challenge? Wall-of-fire (or Quake as it was known) is very very good at that.

You can pick your 'team' in the zone mode, but it's always the same ship.

I tried the online mode for the 1st time last night and found it a bit user unfriendly. It seems you don't have the option to directly invite a friend to a race. You have to create a game, which yr firneds will then have to look for.
Anyway, there's something I can't figure out: how do you get additional racers (cpu or humans)? I was playing with one friend last night and would set up the race for 7 opponents (with 1 friend), but then there would only be the two of us when we did get to the race.

no answer?

not played online yet

one more game

baad - you just have to wait for people to join before you start the race. You create a room and it should show up on the list of rooms for people to browse through. The problem probably is, because people weren't starting races very quickly, when one browses through the rooms, you're more likely to pick a room that is almost full, than a room that just has one or two people in there, because nobody wants to wait around forever for people to join or for the person who created the room to start the race. It's too bad they didn't also include some kind of quick race option, so you could just jump into a race right away if you wanted , without have to browse rooms. It's also too bad to read there is no easy invite friends option (haven't tried it myself), though typical for ps3, I guess (slightly broken, not very thought out, online).

yeah the system is absurd.

okay I was up until 3:15 playing this last night

so so so so tired but happy

My hands are hurting from playing this way too long last night - I did call it quits at 11:30 pm though, so maybe I'm a wimp.

i was on that fucking fantastic contraption timesink last night instead of this timesink, which i am kind of bitter about tbh.

In fairness, I didn't start playing until 2:00.

unlocked my first new skin last night, but this game has gotten too hard for me.

particularly the snow level with the sharp corners. Tried it on Elite level, and by the last lap I couldn't even see the computer riders anywhere in sight!

at least i played this last night instead of fantastic contraptions.

They should do a mash-up of WipEout and FC, then turn on the LHC and wipe out time and space simultaneously!

I failed miserably in my first attempt at this game.

that's the nature of the beast. on my first go i wanted to see it at full speed so i picked the fastest car on the highest speed setting. it wasn't pretty.

Playing Wipeout online (and COD4, GTA4 & Burnout) just makes me realise how much I fucking suck at videogames.

You have to take into account that you only suck compared to people who do nothing else except play videogames all day.

There's a nice little "making of" video available for download from the PS network.

Does anyone play this with the motion control? its impossible

this game is amazingly fun but way too fuckin hard. still stuck on world 4. the time trials are such fuckin bitches.

yep, and why i've given up with it. The hardness factor seemed to overtake the fun factor on the later levels.

I hope I still have the desire to play this once those PSN cards are available in stores.

I at least downloaded the wipeout wallpaper though, which is pretty funky.

i don't want to be all johnny big testicles here, but so far i have made it through the first 5 levels. i have gold on all of 1-3 and all but 2 on level 4 and 3 on level 5. time trials are definitely the toughest. i haven't found it off-puttingly hard so far but i feel like that might be around the corner.

I find the races to be harder than anything else, but this is largely because I am a ham-fisted lummox.

For the time trial stuff, I find switching to the fastest ship helps a lot. You obviously don't need to worry about shields on that stuff. I can't remember if I'm on level 4 or 5. I need to play it more.

guys the original versions of wipeout were really fuckin hard too

the psn cards are available at blockbuster.

one thing i found weird, is that i was charged tax on the download. so 1 $20 card wasn't enough to purchase the game. had to charge an extra $5 on credit card.

I hate Sebenco Climb so much. The other tracks i can deal with but it seemed like pure luck when i made it round in first on that one.

okay this game is harder than balls yet I still totally love it, largely because the music is awesome and it is GORGEOUS

also this is the first game I've been able to play online yay

online is smooth as Dave Chapelle's balls for this game. only serves to highlight how fucked up online play has been for many other PS3 games.

One point away from unlocking level 6! Time trials are kicking my ass though - can't seem to get better than bronze :(

Not a lot of people playing this online anymore already it seems, which is a shame.

I don't understand how some people have run over 75 laps in zone mode. The best I've done so far is 29, and it's probably my favorite mode

Zone mode completely does my head in. I can't fathom how to get through it better than what I'm doing now (around 20).

yeah for some reason I got tired of this real quick

re zone mode, are you steering/correcting with air brakes?

I got to the final level in campaign mode but the AI ruthlessly annihilate you, bombs over boost pads, mines at an angle around corners, it's insane. I've found Icarus to be the best ship for speed laps and sometimes the time trials, it depends on the track.

Moa Therma and Anulpha Pass are good practice for Zone mode, i got up to Zone 35.

New 1.2 patch is supposedly up now, making the game easier with new lower difficulty settings for time trial, speed laps and zone available. Auto-start has also been added to online races one minute after the game is at least half-full, thank god.

They may have made getting golds actually too easy. I just did most of the golds in level 6 (on novice) in pretty much one try. It was probably easier than the equivalent in Mario Kart O_O

REVERSE ZONE MODE TRACKS! I didn't know the effects look different (maybe even crazier). I just got to zone 40 on Anulpha Pass reverse! 622 in the world. The good thing about zone - there's pretty much no luck involved. I definitely feel like I can keep getting better. Looking to break 50 but I gotta take a break - too tense.

^ It really takes practice. I've spent hours getting through portions of the level, slowly improving my skills. Zone mode and learning tracks by doing speed laps for golds is an excellent way of memorizing the tracks and doing better against both online opponenets and AI ones. I remember kicking ass online after doing speed laps in the Ubermall, just thinking how great it had been that I was basically practicing all day. Zone mode is great practice as well, though the looks of the tracks make it harder to memorize the look of the races.

Of course, the fact that the game is so damn hard makes it that much harder to jump into it as I did when I didn't play for two weeks. I sucked balls for at least an hour after that.

I still haven't given in to getting medals on Novice (I'm trying to do it on Skilled) but I may ave to give in soon. Those Time Trials are bitches.

Although, if you're getting to zone 50 you're better than me. Your work ethic on this game is admirable, though.

40 is my record so far.

31 for me, and that was a fluke.

FAVORITE TEAM: HARIMAU (except for a few tracks where I like Icaras better for its slight drifting)

there is only Pirahna

48 zones on Anulpha Pass reverse tonight. 114th in the world (well, out of the 22,525 who have played the track - shame more people didn't get into this).

That's the only zone level that should be played - it's the benchmark. Do you guys have trouble finding online matches? I agree - fewer people are playing these days, unless it's my slow connection...

I hadn't played this online for a while and was happily surprised when I turned it on today, as it appears they've actually finally fixed the online mode & there's races to be had. Most importantly, you can now browse all races ongoing and queue up to join any race. This leads to finally being able to race in full races! You can also spectate and invite friends / host private races. There's a new badge mode and ranking system too.