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Woah - that's almost a new map. I had to think twice about where that lighthouse pic was taken from :)

Leadfoot isn't filming his own car - he just goes to bumper view (as explained), turns off the HUD, and tells the stunt drivers to...

...overtake

...drift

...etc

while he films while driving or parked from the side of a road. Check out the link in my sig for more videos.

It would be cool if the location of wrecks was random, or based upon where players had previous crashed or got stuck offroad. That way there is more diversity, and you can't upload a map with all the wreck locations for others to look at.

I like Diablo's skidmarks/fence idea too.

If anyone wants to, you can launch Google Earth and turn on the YouTube layer to get vids from the specific area. I started along the west coast but didn't find that many driving shots compared to just doing a search on YT.

I found a few more videos, this would be a bit easier if Seat didn't have a car model called the Ibiza :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3G566dMmOU

Let's join forces to filter through the Nightclub/Hotel slideshows and find some decent videos of Ibiza showing driving along roads or destinations of interest.

Here's one I came accross now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa5Coo8uHRo

(Limit one embedded video per post please)

The first part of a series of driving videos is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRN4ST4Pdog&feature=related

Could you imagine us lot sitting still for the length of the ferry trip. At least one person would end up in the sea. :laugh:

When I read the stuff about wrecks, my thoughts were similar to unlocking the liveries in FUEL by finding cars that were hidden offroad. Then I thought of this concept screenshot:

Obviously that looks nothing like the pics of Ibiza already showcased, but it may shed light on the hidden wrecks scenario. Eden want us to go offroad in SUVs, so that we forget about the smaller area.

On the European forums, we once did an offroad race, from the NE lighthouse to the SW one, was great fun, and it took about an hour or two (in Audi RS4's and Lamborghini's). I went in a Koenigsegg since I figured the extra power would negate the need for 4WD if I could keep my speed up and not get stuck.

Well, you got the last bit right, but I'm not about to start another pointless war. :)

One of your best CoTM vids yet, and I had nothing to do with it this time :D

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Maybe not so much a club that you have to 'join', but a building that you can only gain access to if you are driving the correct vehicle (i.e. a Ferrari, or a Lotus, or whatever). Once in the building you can see a timetable for scheduled cruises, track days, rally stages, etc). The game is supposed to be more 'social' this time, so the idea would be pretty good instead of just looking at a filtered map screen.

If they could pull off mapping the social features of the game to their forum, that would be even better.

+1 to the above music comments. Personally I wouldn't care too much if TDU2 came with no music, but if it did, take a leaf out of the book of the old NFS games. I have all the music extracted to MP3 files from NFS2SE through to NFS Shift and besides the Undercover soundtrack, the majority of the great music comes from the old games. That's why I use those tracks in a number of the movies I make.

That said, the 'interactive' pursuit music in NFS MW was pretty cool as well.

Hehe, I've been playing NFS4 recently (with NFS 1 & 2 tracks modded in). The first and only game mode I've done in the game for the past few weeks was Hot Pursuit, more often me being the pursuer.

+1 for Shift physics

Like TDU1, I'm happy to have 2 sets of physics available, just as long as you implement these two changes:

1 - Allow the selection of the harder physcis mode right from the start of them game, so that the single player mode isn't so boring.

2 - In the map screen, add a filter so that we can see where all the drivers are of a certain physics mode. Maybe make it so that H mode drivers can filter to show either H mode or noob mode drivers, but noob mode drivers can only see other noob mode drivers (except for people on their friends list). This could help prevent n00bs crashing into people who take their driving seriously.

Well so far Windows 7 is the only thing I've ever legally purchased from Microsoft. Maybe I'll get a new Windows phone later this year. But if I'm going to get a 360, they have to add support for the G25 so that I can use it with Forza 3. Otherwise I'll be left waiting for GT5, TDU2, whatever NFS game comes out (being built by Criterion Games), and whatever Codies release next.

So we're back to the concepts having the island enlarged (either in scale or just bits added to the north coast perhaps), or having multiple islands, be it O'ahu, or the nearby Spanish islands, or both.

]What about other games (not installed on the [COUGH]overpriced[/COUGH] HDD)?

You can't go too hard on 360 owners. On April 6 MS is letting them use USB flash or hard drives up to 16GB each to store stuff. I was reading the comments posted at the bottom of the article, laughing at how they defended their choice of console, yet 50% of them didn't know what the announcement meant for them. :D

It starts off ok, but when you're cruising, people don't see the H next to your name either (quite humiliating), but you can prove that you're in H mode still by flying over a jump.

The only problem is, you eventually notice that the physics change to n00b mode as well. The steering, braking and gravity changes back to normal as well.

Hmm, the Atari Europe TDU forums are down again, maybe that means they're updating the TDU2 website again :p

I'm wondering if the likes of Tool and Djey will play TDU2 online more than they have TDU1 :D

When I read the bit the wheel motion blur in photo mode, the first thing that popped into my mind was... 'What if they just photoshopped it like a lot of TDUC members do for their pics...?'

Hopefully they didn't, though :)

Where are you getting all these pics from Bobby? :)

Maybe they can release new islands as DLCs for the game (along with cars, game modes, etc) every year or two.

They specifically said 8 player races. There wasn't any word on the cruising limits. I hope it's more - even 12 would be better if not 16.

The "instances" part is great - organised cruises should actually work well now :)

Shame about the 8 player limit though.

As long as they don't behave like EA did (with NFS Shift) and limit DLCs to the consoles again, I'll be happy. (Fancy releasing new cars and tracks for PS3 and 360 and telling their PC fans (where most of the sim racing fans come from) to get stuffed). :(

Yeah I know. The only way would be to ban everyone in advance for 24h :)

That's a joke, btw.

I remember reading somewhere that Speshul members gets a bigger image allowance, does anyone remember the specifics?

I've often thought that the time forum moderators spend (esp with menial tasks) on their forums often goes unnoticed (maybe not so much on these forums, but you get the idea).

I was looking on this list of international observance days and saw that 1) International Talk Like a Pirate day is included, and 2) July has hardly any observance days.

I read the article for Pirate day to see how it took off and was added to the list, and was basically by word of mouth.

If you like this idea, simply mention it on another forum that you belong to, until a large number of forums are aware of it. Then, on July 17 of every year, we can, um, (haven't thought this far yet...) sing the praises of these selfless people and promise not to post bad stuff (that needs moderating) for 24 hours. (Other suggestions would be appreciated).

Feel free to post below and let me know what you think.