We're sad to announce that the TDU1 servers will be permanently shut down

[BeSweeet]

Well, I just received my G27 today (HUGE upgrade over my FFGP), and I wanted to try it out with TDU1. Having just learned that TDU1 died a few months ago, I was completely shocked (and still am, and probably will be). Looks like I'll have to just mess with the game offline, should I actually get around to converting my online profile to an offline one.

 

Since nobody has replied to this thread in nearly two months, I'm assuming that all hopes regarding third-party servers have been demolished?

[ScoobSTi]

I'm assuming that all hopes regarding third-party servers have been demolished?

 

Your assumptions are correct.

[BeSweeet]

Your assumptions are correct.

 

Ouch :'(.

 

Oh well. I'm still fairly happy with TDU2. I guess people like me are rare?

[iNotACactus]

Very.

[Ryzza5]

Don't know how you can possibly play a sim like pCARS after playing TDU2. Took me half an hour to adapt back to playing pCARS after playing Horizon.

[BeSweeet]

Don't know how you can possibly play a sim like pCARS after playing TDU2. Took me half an hour to adapt back to playing pCARS after playing Horizon.

 

I just enjoy cruising in TDU2. I tend to quickly adapt to things :). I've just never found TDU2 to be as bad as everyone thinks it is.

[Ryzza5]

Yes well that says a lot about you :cheeky:

[RobikV3]

For me it says he has lots, lots od patience.

[jacovitti]

God damn it - I too bough a G25 just for this game. Not having been able to play it for well over a year due to a new router that I could not get to work with TDU's iffy NAT implementation I didn't realize that it was going to be shut down. I even made my ISP send me a new router cause the other one couldn't make it work. As late as a few days a go I was actually contemplating to get a gaming seat too - just for TDU, and an TrackIR too. I only found out this tonight when I decided to find out what that stupid Gamespy error message was...

 

I remember getting out of the idiotc singleplayer into the multiplayer and then onto hardcore mode with DocGullioitin looking down our noses at those normal-mode nubs :D

 

But my point is the game was flawed but the concept was brilliant. I've since bought games like shift but I got bored as hell with it - it doesn't even have a training mode. The way this game let us cruise almost endless streches of tarmac, drift our way up tantalus, set up races if we wanted too but more than anything friendly fun-filled cruises with friends in an open world car game. NOTHING I'v ever tried have worked so well - and while a lot was iffy: Car and tyre physics for the most bit a lot they did right. The ForceFeedback support, Getting my g25 to work was supereasy, things like in-helmet view on the MC-s really a nice touch, the fact that u could use track-ir with it FFS.

 

With all this in mind I was SO stoked when TDU2 was announced - I was going to buy a new pc just for that game. Then messages about the game being delayed due to focus on polishing content like on-line casino and such was announced and I started to get a bad feeling... And then more and more announcements were made and I got more anxious about what this would be like - then it was announced and was a DOG. Crap FF and wheel support, crap physics and so on and so forth...

 

Imagine if they had stopped and looked at what the TDU1 community actually liked about the game instead of going megalomanic about it creating sims with cars. Imangine IBIZA PLUS Oahu (nice touch that) with better physics, better gfx, better support for joining friends, ability to make gps waypoints without leaving your current cruise session etc... Instead we got some drivel that noone enjoys. I guess the chance of a proper TDU3 is close to nil. They musta've wasted tons of money on TDU 2 but FFS. Just wamp the physics and graphix and multiplayer lobby and I'll buy it - even if's just a slightly evolutioned reiteration - the good stuff was THAT good. I'd like pedestrians just for the look, not to mow down - its been done before, remeber Driver by reflections - that game had ppl in it but good luck hitting them. :D

 

Oh well - I wish we could set up private servers but I guess Atari don't want that - for reasons I don't understand... :'(

[Ryzza5]

Yes it sucks, a lot of us bought the G25 because of TDU, it was one of the first games to support the H shifter.

 

Note that the TDU1 devs left Eden and a new crew built TDU2 using a different engine, hence the rubbish result. We are quite confident that the TDU1 devs are making a new driving game so this is where our hopes lie for now, after Forza Horizon (which won't support your G25) was a bit of a let down wrt map size.

 

Hang in there ;)

[jacovitti]

LOL of topic but you have to give it to this forum. It's a forum for a dead game, I'm making a post at 6:02 in the morning, and I get an instant answer from a fellow TDU-ian in Australia. :D:D IF they are making a new game - fingers X'ed - I'll be superhappy. Why no other developers seem to get how fun a open world-driving game like that plays out is beyond me...

[MephistoRacing]

6:02 in the morning, and I get an instant answer from a fellow TDU-ian in Australia

 

That's Ryzza. He's here 24/7. Always watching. Always.

[Ryzza5]

I'm a staff member - it's my job to keep up to date with what's going on. Just wish I got paid more often. :p

 

We're not TDU-Central any more in case you hadn't noticed. We're about all the popular driving games. Currently hot are Forza Horizon, Euro Truck SImulator 2, iGP Manager, Project CARS, and waiting for Assetto Corsa to be released soon.

[Guest MrLolololXD]

Horizon isn't hot anymore. It's as stale as a 2 week old loaf of bread

[Ryzza5]

So it's only been not hot for 2 weeks then. I still see a few people playing it.

[The Compensator]

I like how Flo always return here to post new screens when a new Forza game is out and after few weeks he runs away. I thought FH would be better and more enjoyable, seems we all had big expectations as we wanted (and still want) a new TDU-like game. :(

 

Oh, hai jacovitti. Welcome aboard.

[Eudemon]

Even today more than 6 years on or thereabouts (depending on your platform) the best TDU type game is in fact TDU. Others have done better aspects such as graphics and customisation; Midnight Club Los Angeles, bigger environment and smoother roads; TDU2 and of course the handling and sounds with Forza Horizon. Not one of them has been able to package it all up like TDU did though, it had the big environment, it encouraged being social without giving you tons of social tools and the driving was 'ok' for all types of player from casual to sim-racer.

 

Even today due to modding, players are picking up the game and megapack where they can and enjoying the game offline which says a lot about it.

[vit-jan0]

Hi guys, im still Playing TDU1 and i emailed Atari regarding private TDU1 servers, even offered to pay server costs, but no reply, any idea how to contact them on the right spot? TO make them consider giving TDU1 servers into public?

 

I said i will not support Atari by buying their TDU2, i will buy it only from second hand so i dont support them.

[Eudemon]

They won't entertain the idea at all now as they won't want to admit that TDU2 is crap for a start, but the main thing that stops any chance of your request being acknowledged is that they are completely useless. The only way you could do this is if you bought Atari and did it yourself. :hmmm:

[iNotACactus]

How much does bankrupt Atari cost, a fiver? :mhmm:

[Guest MrLolololXD]

I'm sure if we all put $5 in we could buy them

[TIMELESS]

I'm sure if we all put $5 in we could buy them

 

Multiple times.

[Paladin Skylark]

Multiple times.

 

They might even throw in some crappy employees for that price.

[hassan1995]

$5 is £3.15

 

[The Compensator]

$5 is circa 105 CZK.

 

Yes.