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...

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... :'(