WipEout HD

i'm krangor, who are you??

what's with the stingy loyalty points distribution. How many sodding points do I need to just get one more skin?

guys this game is aweeeoeiwoeiwososome

SO JEALOUS

nb does it have zone mode?

yes it does

Zone Mode is gorgeous.

I don't get the zone mode - what exactly is it?

Just go for as long as you can without disintegrating. The longer you last, the better the medal.

but what are these different sections that are announced?

oh yeah, I wondered that as well!

the different speeds, cuz it's speeding up

custom soundtracking this game is the BESTEST.

so far, favourite = giorgio moroder, "the chase"

guys I love this game v v v much and my wife thinks it's the coolest thing she's seen in a long while

zone mode is odd, you don't press the accelerate it just goes at a set speed. the longer you go the faster it gets. the voice announces when you move up a level. the later ones are ridiculously impossible!

but the ship on zone mode looks amazing, as do the textureless levels

it is good, but I'm so close to thrashing my ps3 against a wall sometimes trying to get medals.

This will be the thing that tips me toward spending whatever Christmas cash I get on a PS3. I didn't want to do it, but Wipeout is about the only game I've ever played like a madman for years on end.
― Eric H., Monday, September 15, 2008 12:43 PM (2 weeks ago)

i really suck at this - any tips for a newbie?

it's all about choosing the right ship for the track, good handling for the tracks with sharp corners. Also, u&k learning to use the L and R triggers for turning I think.

I'm shit at the combat part

is there a diff between using L2/R2 and the joystick to turn?

yes, l2/r2 is a much sharper turn, it is croosh to master those

so jealous!!!!

and i think pressing l2/r2 together is fast break, but not on zone mode. is that right?

no - it's double tapping either of those keys

xxxp - aha - i've only been using l2/r2 since I started playing. Maybe I shd try the stick

that's what she said

it is good, but I'm so close to thrashing my ps3 against a wall sometimes trying to get medals.

I nearly did this a lot with the predecessors - it was always 50% argh I fucked up and 50% that was so cheap (after fighting my way back from fucking up).

oh man, claiming 1st place in the nick of time is so satisfying - especially if it's by obliterating your opponent with a random missile you fired accidentally because you pressed fire instead of accellerate in the sweaty last seconds of the last lap and you didn't even know you'd picked up missiles anyway.

hahaha Ste otm

I'm no expert, but here's my take on the controls for those above who were a little confused. Whenever possible you want to turn just using the d-pad (or stick if that's your preference). When you need to make a sharper turn, use the air-brakes (L2/R2). The reason you don't want to use the air brakes unless you absolutely need to, is because they slow down your ship a lot. Choosing the right ship to fit your style is somewhat important, but the differences between each ship seems pretty minor. If you're crashing into walls a lot and having trouble on the turns, pick a ship with better handling, if you're feeling too slow, pick a ship with better speed/thrust (I don't understand the difference between speed and thrust in these games though - anybody care to explain). In this version, it seems to me that finding the right racing lines is really important for making a good time - that means memorizing the tracks and knowing what's coming up and basically using the rules of good race cornering (sorry, I don't have time to explain that here). Finding the right places on the track to use boost (if you got it), and also doing the barrel rolls whenever you can (if you have enough shields) as those extra boosts can help a lot too - if you don't know how to do this, you just tap left, right, left or right, left, right on the d-pad whenever you catch some air.

for some dumb reason i use stick to steer but d-pad to roll

uh - disregard what I wrote above about the airbrakes, as I was just reading the in-game manual and it claimed the airbrakes don't slow you down.

Regarding offensive weapons: when playing against the computer, they're pretty much a useless waste of time. It's better to just absorb 'em. The only worthwhile-pick ups are speed boost and autopilot.

speed = top speed
thrust = acceleration

(i guess)

autopilot is worthwhile? i find it pretty useless. it often doesnt even go over the speed-ups!!

I don't know - I've only gotten it once actually in the new game, but I did pass two other racers when I used it. I've always been fond of the way it'll take you right through a difficult section at full speed (at least in the psp game) and give one a chance to sit back and relax.

smoke a d00b

i do find the weapons useful, especially the wall of fire one. cuz it really slows down the other racers.

plus the bomb/mine type ones are great if someone's really riding your ass!

If zone mode is the same as in Fusion and Pure, then you have to play it completely the opposite of the normal game: steer and correct using the airbrakes, and only use the stick if you have to - which, admittedly, will be most of the time at the faster speeds, but the turns and corrections you can make with the airbrakes are much more controlled and reliable. In Fusion you got a gold at zone 20, I managed to get up to 55 on the first course (I believe some people actually got into triple figures).

mines are pretty useful, and i just love the wall of fire weapon even if i have to use it on no enemies.

haha i've just dwnloaded all the OST music of every wipeout game, i remember i used to sit and listen to my saturn playing wipeout 1 music instead of playing it.

i think i played wipeout 2097 for about six months before even realizing the airbrakes existed - i was like "ohhh the game's not broken after all"

a few more tips I dug up online that may be useful...

1. To get a boost at the beginning of the race... Do not hit or press the acceleration button at all (not even once), until the start countdown is at "0" (when the announcer says "GO!")
2. when you have a boost available to you're ship, time its use with the boost pads (especially double boost pads) for extra acceleration
3. When you use Pilot Assist, it caps your speed at 90%. So don't use it.

via... http://www.gamemanx.com/ps3/wipeout-hd-tips-tricks-guide/2008/09/29/

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).

lol

Zone Mode and time trials are so amazing when you get in the groove with the right music. Might see if I can still play this.

i will admit that i had the Astra Zeneca sponsored W1p30ut car thought

https://i.imgur.com/Y3w70Fb.png

haha i love this

Weird that this thread didn't get a revive when the PSVR version came out, it's INCREDIBLE.

literally the worst thing about this pandemic is not being able to go round yours to play it.