Trackmania Nations (and United) Forever
Nadeo released a free addon for both the free version TM Nations and TM United today.
It adds new tracks, some other new stuff to the Stadium environment, graphical updates for Snow, Desert, Rally (United only, of course) and the interface gets a little update. I only had a quick glance but it looks pretty nice.
Also, people with the free version and the retail version can now play together on Stadium only servers.
You can also use some special 3D glasses with the game now, which seem to ship with the latest version of the game o_O
anyone playing, post your nicknames here
wahwah
pooroldlu
wanderingtaoist
Pharacon
Tkyl
Pasma
distantsound
TheRealEdwin
boogle
evilseed
Veloxi
BDR
breander
Moonrazr
kid_0k
Serengeti
Goldensly
ColdstreamGWJ
4dswisscheese
luffy_kun
CEJ
gknot
Do they have a version of this without Starforce now?
Can't confirm it, but I've read in two forums that Nations Forever doesn't include Starforce (one was the official forum, but that was not coming from a dev if I remember correctly)
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I Steamed this last night. Can't beat free.
"And my son, too, thinks everything is a launchpad, every bug a meal, and every sunny day a reason to take all your clothes off and roll around in the grass." - rabbit
It's pretty sweet ... I'm on as pooroldlu
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so." - Douglas Adams
Find me there as wanderingtaoist. So far, I'm having lots of fun.
You can't take the sky from me.
Gotta say, this appeals to my inner five year-old more than anything else has in quite a while. Vroom. Vroom.
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so." - Douglas Adams
Incidentally, there is a Making Of article in Rock, Paper, Shotgun for those interested.
Also in the news, this game is addictive.
You can't take the sky from me.
It's being steamed as we speak... err type.
Saving the world, one frisk at a time.
Hey cool, didn't know they put the free version on Steam, I think that, and that they seemed to have dropped Starforce, should get a few more people playing
There is also a GWJ group in the game which spunior created in TMU a while ago, don't know if that works across United and Nations though?
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I downloaded it off Fileshack but I might uninstall and use steam to play, I even painted up a custom car! It has a giant flag of texas on it because I have a lack of imagination. But I will screw around and maybe whipout something better. I also noticed someone running around in a Lambo instead of the standard indy car, so maybe I can get a custom car. I might go out and purchase this game now that is StarF_CK free via steam and pickup a 360 controller as well.
My name as always is Pharacon
Xfire: Pharacon
Tempest says: "A team hat doe snot communicate and talk to each other about what the next move will be is going to lose."
Very fun, now I'm addicted.
one more track, just one more track...
If only i don't have to go to work
Saving the world, one frisk at a time.
hehe! I love this game! You can even get new car models and skins! I found trackmania carpark where you can download all sorts of erew skins and cars. I just picked up a Viper and a 300c, I might even get off my duff and try to make my own car
If anyone want to racne together add me to Xfire or give me a time maybe sunday? We can get on vent and start a private server. 
Xfire: Pharacon
Tempest says: "A team hat doe snot communicate and talk to each other about what the next move will be is going to lose."
I'm on as Pasma. (My other nick)
On as Tkyl. I've done a couple of the single player challenges and a couple online matches. So far I'm loving this game.
Chumpy wrote:
I'm on as videotape. I'm not very good and need some practice though
I don't have a 360 USB controller, so I've been using my joystick. It's actually worked out really well, and I also get analog control over the speed. If you have something similar, I'd recommend using it.
Oh, and I've learned that going full speed all the time is definitely not the answer to not crashing.
Chumpy wrote:
I know that it should probably not be so surprising, after the game being free on Steam and all, but did you notice that in last two or three days the number of players has just risen maybe fourfold? Amazing.
Still loving the game. I will probably try to learn to drive using gamepad, since I just found out, like Tkyl, that there is some braking needed to be done as well.
You can't take the sky from me.
I'm on as distantsound, Tkyl and I had some fun online. I just wish it had voice so that friends could talk.
Steam ID: DistantSound
I've been on using just the keyboard and doing rather well. I'm not looking forward to the Black tracks (get a gold medal on all other tracks). Silver for the most part I can pull off, gold has been much more rare.
WoW Profile: Haruspex / Medivh Server
I'm on as TheRealEdwin.
XBox Live|Tshirts|My Music|GameFly|xfire
Got it. I am boogle.
I suck but it is fun as hell.
*Legion* wrote:
Im logged in as evilseed in game.
I'm Veloxi. Shocker, I know.
Edit: DAMN this game is addictive...I might just buy the full version...
I MADE A TRACK! BWAHAHA! Download it and try to beat my time!
My Tracks Download page on filefront
PS: Picked up a 360 gamepad for my computer and I think it has improved my game once I got the keys all sorted out! I will start to work on my next track and upload it to the same place once I get it done.
Xfire: Pharacon
Tempest says: "A team hat doe snot communicate and talk to each other about what the next move will be is going to lose."
Welp, after playing the free version for a spell, I ponied up for the 1 month subscription to the full version to try it out...and I absolutely love it. I've not been this giddy about a racing game since Crazy Taxi. I've been trying both the keyboard and my Microsoft Sidewinder Freestyle Pro gamepad, and I find I do better with the keyboard...even though I still kinda stink, I don't care, it's just so much fun.
Trackmania is the new Peggle.
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so." - Douglas Adams
Never played it (never even heard of it until I Googled it), is it good?
Peggle is the devil, lets put it this way, when TF2 came out they packaged Peggle Xtreme with TF2, Certis was playing that INSTEAD of TF2!
I'm currently working on a skin for a car and I'm thinking of going with the full blown version shortly (via steam) but it may have to wait until next month as I am saving for a house.
But I think a gamepad makes this game sweet, anyone up for a TrackMania night? We can all get on Vent and then hit up some random server or someone can host something. If everyone makes a track we can trade tracks and then race them.
Xfire: Pharacon
Tempest says: "A team hat doe snot communicate and talk to each other about what the next move will be is going to lose."
Ah, cool. I was wondering about that. I'll give it a shot.
Taste the Freshness!
Steamed it - couldn't make a new account because the mouse and/or keyboard (was hard to tell which was controlling) controls were all messed up. I'd press up, it'd move down. Awful.