Test Drive multiplayer Thur Nov 2 @ 8.30pm EST

Hercy · Post by **Hercy** » 02 Nov 2006 07:52 am

So yeah, this is tonight. Remember that you don't need an invite to a private lobby like a lot of games - you just need to show up at the clubhouse. If you get disconnected or show up late then you can also join back in at the clubhouse.

Twit · Post by **Twit** » 02 Nov 2006 07:54 am

I haven't played this for awhile now so I'll probably be a bit rusty. Not that it matters - Hercy will punt me off the road on the first corner (then I'll take an alternative route and pile into everyone at the next intersection as I rejoin the race...or something).

DjBigK · Post by **DjBigK** » 02 Nov 2006 07:56 am

Don't think I will be able to make this

Having some mates come round for some PES gaming goodness.

t0mby · Post by **t0mby** » 02 Nov 2006 08:33 am

Doesnt matter, you dont have a headset anyway!

Ok, I dont know what version of 830 you are going by, but by this post you guys are 10hrs ahead which means I can be home possibly around 9ish your time. Might be a little later but I will hop on and see if you guys are around. Try and get those banana seats at Rancho Relxo used abit more!.

DjBigK · Post by **DjBigK** » 02 Nov 2006 08:58 am

I am indeed headsetless.. though I'm becoming a wiz at typing messages.

t0mby · Post by **t0mby** » 02 Nov 2006 12:24 pm

Love to see that while you are racing down the highway at 300kph!

GreyWizzard · Post by **GreyWizzard** » 02 Nov 2006 04:48 pm

I'm all set for tonight

Seeya there!

Hercy · Post by **Hercy** » 02 Nov 2006 04:55 pm

t0mby wrote:Ok, I dont know what version of 830 you are going by, but by this post you guys are 10hrs ahead which means I can be home possibly around 9ish your time. Might be a little later but I will hop on and see if you guys are around. Try and get those banana seats at Rancho Relxo used abit more!.

Melbourne, Sydney, and Canberra time as shown here.

GreyWizzard · Post by **GreyWizzard** » 02 Nov 2006 06:20 pm

so... uh is that 7:30pm my time? QLD!

awesome, that makes things easier for me

DjBigK · Post by **DjBigK** » 03 Nov 2006 07:55 am

How did this go?

Couldn't make it due to PES6 allnighter with mates.

Twit · Post by **Twit** » 03 Nov 2006 08:08 am

It was good. Certainly better with more people. The game has some...issues, but it's still pretty fun.

I wish there was an option to let all players race until the end rather than starting a countdown when the first player finishes the line. A couple times there we were watching a good battle in progress before it just stopped because 10 seconds or whatever had elapsed.

Some of the lag issues have interesting consequences. Sometimes you'll see a car in front of you wildly jumping around all over the road. Other times there will be a continuous trail of smoke, which makes it hard to see. At one point I was hooning along in a cloud of smoke, which suddenly gave way to a nice view of the ocean (which I promptly flew into).

It would also be nice if missing a checkpoint just added some time or something, rather than forcing you to turn around and go back.

We managed to get a bunch a few of us together for some stuffing around in free ride too. Doing jumps, smashing into people, the usual juvenile stuff - good fun. Except I got sent to jail.

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Edit - also, once they have the photo upload facility worked we should get some cool pics out of it.

Kreghor · Post by **Kreghor** » 03 Nov 2006 08:19 am

It was a good session. Shame my headset has decided it no longer wants to work...

The free ride was awesome fun. not as much lag, which was strange....

DjBigK · Post by **DjBigK** » 03 Nov 2006 08:34 am

If another one gets organised I'll be keen to come along.

Twiztid Elf · Post by **Twiztid Elf** » 03 Nov 2006 09:38 am

Was good fun, and I thank all the people who showed up for participating.

The game itself though...
I don't think I saw a solid Kreghor all night. Kreghor was skipping around all over the place on mine. And getting caught in someones lag cloud spray cone is not pleasent. I was behind Twit when he went screaming through the smoke and off the edge into the ocean - that was very cool.
Strangely, there was voice lag and skipping which I haven't experienced since the original xbox - so that was odd. Me and Ram had some very close races (as usual).

All in all, to me, there is no reason to play this online over PGR3 which is a far superior online racing experience, EXCEPT to play against you guys.

Hercy · Post by **Hercy** » 03 Nov 2006 09:52 am

We managed to get 7 people along which was cool. Getting into the same server instance was much easier than I'd been led to believe by the internet. I think the piss-farting about in free-ride is probably more fun than the staged races. I think that's where this game has a point of difference over PGR3, just in the sand-box style tomfoolery that can be had.

Twiztid, I agree that the online code isn't a patch on PGR3. I don't know if something was up with Kreghor's connection though because he was the only one to be constantly skipping all over the joint for me. I was getting a lot of break-up in the voice chat though.

Ram · Post by **Ram** » 03 Nov 2006 10:19 am

Cheers for the races guys,that was good fun.
The lag was a bit of a pain in the races but for the most part is was ok.

The jumps we were doing in freeride were hardcase,i snapped a couple of good photos.I cracked up larfing a few times on the cruse.Dodging traffic at full noise then looking behind to see someone stack into the AI cars is awesome.

Twiztid Elf · Post by **Twiztid Elf** » 03 Nov 2006 10:29 am

I couldn't seem to hook up with you guys for free-ride. Still the strength of the single player is excellent. I was playing well into the night when all you guys were long gone.

Kreghor · Post by **Kreghor** » 03 Nov 2006 10:41 am

The lag last night was pretty bad. Most of the time I could see most people fine, But I was getting the same issue with others jumping around, and lots of smoke......

Does it use the TDU servers for these, or does one persons machine become the host?

GreyWizzard · Post by **GreyWizzard** » 03 Nov 2006 04:58 pm

awwww man I missed the free ride. That would have been awesome. I could have gotten my skyline out with the sweet paint job

t0mby · Post by **t0mby** » 04 Nov 2006 08:40 pm

I did pop on that nite but by then most people had left, none were logged into xbl. I did have a lot of work to do though so I couldnt really skip that to come home. Once Ive settled in though it'll be sweet. Working your own hours ftw!

Hercy · Post by **Hercy** » 14 Nov 2006 02:15 pm

Anyone feel like meeting up tomorrow night, say 8.30pm EDST? That's Wednesday the 15th for the calendarally challenged. Meet at the club because it's easy, but then we could either just cruise and muck about, or try to enter into the public multiplayer races?

DjBigK · Post by **DjBigK** » 14 Nov 2006 04:58 pm

I'd be up for it tonight if anyone else is. I haven;t touched this game since PES6 arrives, so I'll be a little rusty...