HD Online Meetings

[LOUDandPROUD]

Haha remember the other day I was telling you about Liquidmodrin?

LOL...I just ran into him this morning for the first time. He was hosting Rapier races and I recongnized his name from this thread, so I jumped in. Beat him by 4 seconds on Metropia in my first race...promptly got a message from him saying something like, "****ing Icaras noobie racers...you can only win by using weapons and never by skill". I was laughing so hard, as I've always considered Icaras to be an advanced player's ship (low shield, average thrust and handling), not to mention he was piloting Assegai and hit me with mines, rockets and a quake in the next race...LOL. Anyway, I just ignored the message. After a few more races I got a couple of random messages from him complaining about some other pilot and he also let me know he was leaving that room and setting up a new one and to join in. So, I replied back with "Lol" and "ok" and stuff then asked him what was up with his rude comments earlier, to which he basically chuckled and said he was just messing around trying to get a rise out of me after I won...the whole intimidation factor...and we both laughed it off. He's no Chiryu007 after all... :lol

[Vartazian]

Next time You see him, Tell him Vartazian the "MooseFu**er" says hi!

ever thought he was trying to save face?

[LOUDandPROUD]

Maybe, but I don't care...this is online videogaming anyway, not real life.

[Vartazian]

He seemed to take "videogaming" quite seriously.

Oh well maybe we just got off on the wrong foot.I even tried being nice after his little splurge of hate.

[JaceMc]

Just Had some Phenominal Races with Silverfox, Oolproo and JaceMC.

Lol, probably be the last one you and I ever have. I don't think I can take much more 15 second losses :(

[blackwiggle]

I was playing yesterday ,Chenghou reverse and djKyoto is in the field.

Anyway I get out in front and pretty much stay there for the whole race,but I'm seeing all this "Contender eliminated" alerts coming up really frequently,a lot more than you would normally see,I thought maybe the Taliban had set up road side bombs,it was carnage.

The race ends and I'm looking at the podium and the badges.

All explained - djKyoto-Plazmafier badge ,I couldn't stop laughing.:lol

[KIGO1987]

Was online a few hours back. Saw Kanar in a room, JJ was in there too. Had some good races, then Saturn, Stink, and TarotCardKiller joined the room, then the room went off. Everybody in the Wipeout community then joined in. Really unexpected. ****ing great races guys. Sorry for the other guys PSN inboxs ive spammed, i want to get people into the chatbox and to get into the spirit of things.

But damn! It was an unofficial Avalon event so to speak, huge, great races guys. I love these random off beat get togethers, there is no stress from representing your country or a team, its just you representing yourself and some great fun races:D. Thats what online racing should be all about. Later:g

[SaturnReturn]

It was a lot of fun tonight. I was amazed by the amount of zoners logged on. Good races all round. Was good to see Greenix back on the tracks too.

[Darkdrium777]

****ING THING SUCKS!

The game froze again.
****ing look back bug.
Why does it always have to happen when I'm enjoying the game the most!!!??? I swear, it will never happen when there's lag you can cut through with a knife, but when everything's perfect, (#@$&^!@#$ ARGH!
Coming up on the last lap on Metropia forward, I'm 3.4 seconds behind AK-Furtif, I've finally gotten rid of Connavar and I'm in second place, so I looked back to see where Connavar was, go down on the magstrip, switch to front view, freeze before the speed pads before the loop back to horizontal level!!! OMFG! WTH this is so annoying and frustrating :(

Good games with AK-Furtif, Connavar, Wotan, JJohn, T-Rex, Infinity, Divide... Very spectacular action all around, and thanks for the bling brigade help earlier as well.

Mass Effect time now. :( Gotta shoot some geth to vent the frustration!

[kanar]

thx for the races guys & Cat last night, sorry if I didn't stay for long, wanted to save energy for today & 1.40 lol. Really appreciated to chat & race wth you. Would be awesome if the freezes & glitches will be cleared in wipeout & transfered into real life. I could have more time to play. Feel depressed sometimes to see how much time I'm obliged to spend doing boring/nonsense stuffs, instead of...

[blackwiggle]

I've notice that Avalon type races are becoming rather popular amongst none zoners.

I have to give SL a pat on the back for one part of the 1.30 patch,and that's the ability to see who is racing online.
Before where the races started it looked like there was nobody online as the race disappeared from the lobby board once it started.now there seems to be a lot more zoners meeting up which is brilliant,and a lot more people online which is also a great thing.

The biggest problem atm is having pilot assist left on [If you turn it off a lot of people won't join or if they do they leave after half a lap] and having pilots that are not used to Phantom speed "Pinballing" around the track [and into you,causing craft damage]

Of course we can turn it off once we have a basically full field of zoners,then it's "ON" racing wise,and I'm loving that,some really tough racing against the best.
I honestly think it has made me a better pilot over the last month playing online so much against other zoners,I went back and did all the cells in Meltdown Campaign against Elite AI and it was a doddle compared to racing some of the pilots here.:lol

[eLhabib]

Granted, having Pilot Assist turned off makes many people shy away, but I still always turn it off - those people using it wouldn't be fun to race against anyway. I'd much rather have a 1on1 with a skilled pilot than 7 PA-users to lap :P

[silverfoxy]

Some top quality racing this afternoon with Peh Hok, Blackwiggle, Designer79, HN9354, Chaos, FGDK and many others whose names escape me.

Far too busy trying to survive in the Warzones that were out there.

Also some good fun no weapons races.

Cheers guys, being out of work seems so much better when having mad races (do you think Studio Liverpool need some test pilots :lol)

[Vartazian]

Amazing Races with Wotan, Darkdrium, OBH (First time ever!), Mister Mateo, Redscar, LoudandProud, and Feisar31. Sorry if I forgot anyone! Those were really intense!!!

I almost forgot TheFrostE..... Man He wouldnt stop ighting me up either!

[TheFrostE]

good races today and still going guys. i wont list names because its not fair for ppl i forget, but you all know who you are ! :D

[LOUDandPROUD]

Yah, that was quite a room of Zoners tonight...awesome stuff...and no glitches! :)

[designer_79]

I really think patch 1.40 is doing a great job, no glitches at all in the yesterday races. Big thank you to the guys from SL! Online racing is much better now, and i even thought weapon balance is getting better too. Despite Rockets being still a tad too strong IMHO.

Anyone else quite enjoying 7 lap races? It seems it was part of the fun yesterday, cause there is more potential for changes in position. I make it a standard if hosting the game , 5 laps in Phantom already feels to short. Thanks to this awesome community anyway, you guys make for the best gaming experience i ever had.

[mic-dk]

A special shout out to Kanar for a certain Ubermall(R) race. Demolition Derby FTW ;)

Thanks to all the guys and girls I raced yesterday. Quality racers all around. I was really rusty when I first logged on, but at the end of the evening my Assegai was shining a bright metal gleam. but why did you have to polish it with rockets...? ;)

[kanar]

A special shout out to Kanar for a certain Ubermall(R) race. Demolition Derby FTW ;)

ah ah true. Cambodia will rule forever now. Thanks for the races guys & girls.

[OBH]

Amazing Races with Wotan, Darkdrium, OBH (First time ever!), Mister Mateo, Redscar, LoudandProud, and Feisar31. Sorry if I forgot anyone! Those were really intense!!!

I almost forgot TheFrostE..... Man He wouldnt stop ighting me up either!

Pleasure! :D As was racing everyone else I did yesterday, was on fire early on, then Darkdrium777 was on fiiiirreee late in the day!!

Next time though I hope its just me playing :) my little bro was determined to be mirage so everyone i was racing though i was sh!te! :blarg

[Rubix42]

Good races with Blackwiggle last night (US time) and a couple other people. Seemed like we were beating each other by some wide margins, but the first couple of laps in each course were grand fun jockeying for position.

[IH8YOU]

IDReaper gets my seal of approval - great racing across the board. :+

[IDReaper]

Yay I race with IH8YOU for the first time last night, awesome close races there. There was also that, um, CoatlKetzal I think it was? He was pretty good too. IH8YOU I'm actually not used to being up that late, lol DWI for me. I tend to race more around GMT eastern 6:30-8:00, probably will be on again today.

[IH8YOU]

Impressed that you held up in Phantom, but also in Flash and Rapier too! Great across the board! Hope to see ya soon.

[boo4ever]

I hosted several races yesterday that started out with just Feisar31 and myself but quickly became a great room. Quick shout out to Feisar31, Greenix, Sukkermund, Darkfaerytales, Andybob35, XBARNSTERX, fgdk, and others I have probably forgotten (sorry). It was great to share the tracks with such exceptional pilots.

boo4ever

[silverfoxy]

Had some excellent races tonight.

Must give a big thanks to Tarquin, Asayyeah, Caller77, Emwu23, Infinity, BigiPl and Thorinx.

Can't really thank them for all the weapons they sent my way but its all in the game as they say.

I would love to play some more but my thumb is absolutely killing me and I need it in reasonable working order for the qualifying tomorrow night.

Cheers for the races anyway guys, see you on the tracks again soon. :+

[Mad-Ice]

Yesterday night I had some great fights with Vartazian, who put up some great races. Later on I could not join the rooms of Caller77 and also I wasn't able to join EMWU23. Too bad. When I became host: I had really intense fights with Ericd7m, SaturnReturn, Asayyeah and TheFrosty. Thanks mates you are very fast and fun to race with. TarotCardKiller could not join me, I hope you will next time.

See you all on the tracks, greetz Mad-Ice

[TheFrostE]

awsome races mad ice and the rest of the gang, and some good races today with saturn, stinkleroy, fiesar, olouk and ziro. bbl wipers

[Mad-Ice]

Oh yes it was fun again! Thanks guys.

[yeldar2097]

had some awesome races this sunday with the usual crew, had some awesome runs as well. :happyyeldar

i also ran into the famous "judus", his pace worries me, especially considering he hasn't played since before 1.3 o_O

great stuff :D

[eLhabib]

Aaaah, good races tonight!
Thanks to everyone involved - you know who you are! ;)

[lunar]

After I haven`t been online for a while I always forget how fast you have to be and that lazy piloting is not an option! But thanks from me to all the awesome racers I met in "el`s coffee lounge." Apart from the fact that there wasn`t actually any coffee our host did a perfect job too, see you there again soon. :)

[eLhabib]

Oh I had coffee :P

[stinkleroy]

Haha yeah great races from the coffee lounge troop last night..nice to finally meet El online too. Good stuff :D

[TarquinFarqhuar]

Fantastic racing last night, even tho i was FLyingHigher than usual... :dizzy

[eLhabib]

The pleasure has been all mine, Cat ;) And you're really fast as well!

[TheFrostE]

awsome tournament with motor tonight!

[Asayyeah]

last night was absolutely great : we had some intense tournaments hosted by Spartiate ( a fellow fast frenchy) and Lunar (what a looong time i raced you my dear friend) futuring WZ pilots like MAdIce, Amorbis, Soccermum, Tarquin, Z1 and many others.
I also had the surprise to see Skippou racing phantom speed : i met him in my appartment 5 years ago ( the early beginning of the mini-convention :) ) with Anthony and Vic Cachou.

[lunar]

Thanks Arnaud it was great to race you again too and it was brilliant to see you pop up in my lobby when I wasn`t expecting many takers for my tournament! But it soon became quite exciting indeed :eek With 7 fast players on the track it was merciless and very tight for room, and I couldn`t get my head in the race mostly, but I have to say the chat rooms make online HD great and very much like Kai. :rock

Thanks to everyone I raced yesterday, great to race Mad-Ice again also, and Kigo it`s time for you to move to Europe I think - less heat and less lag, you know it makes sense ;)

[LOUDandPROUD]

Thanks to Mad Ice, kgb, Zoth, Nadia, Constrictor and anyone I may have forgotten for some awesome races today. After my poor showing during Avalon weekend, I was finally feeling a bit more like myself out there today and was able to offer up some real competition to you speed demons. :)

[KIGO1987]

and Kigo it`s time for you to move to Europe I think - less heat and less lag, you know it makes sense ;)

Yes. No:o, i mean **** yeah!!!!:hyper The only people that i know in my family that are living it at the moment, have moved to Europe, One in Zurich, the other in London. **** the Australian heat seriously i hate it with a passion, also the net in this city is utter crap, cant even get ADSL2+ in my area, complete ****ing bullshit. The only thing thats holding me back is completing this uni degree. Soon as im done im ****ing outter here;) Still havent seen snow before in my entire life yet. Be nice and pleasent weather over there. No cranky Kigo anymore:D

[Zoth-Ommog]

Good stuff today with: Cerium, JJPAP, WzFro, Luxo, Jan709, + many other who i'm forgetting.. sorry. Grate racing and funny chatting, that was a well spent 3 hour session! Thanks a million and see you guys soon!

[JJPAP]

A good evening in WO-land. Not too many wipers, but it doesn´t really matter when Kanar is around. Great fun. Thx to IH8YOU (I hate you! LOL), Phoenix437, Z1, Cheetah (very short, though - but when a lady steps on me twice, I leave the bar :lol) and others. See you all. Soon.

[IH8YOU]

That room was a blast, had a lot of fun with you all.

And I swear, I didn't drop that many mines - I've got only 2 "miner" badges - and both of those came from that very room.

I didn't even remember dropping them - then again - with Kanar, and JJ inhaling my fumes, I was focused on getting away - damn the expense. :lol

[LOUDandPROUD]

Wow, had the most intense session today. Got invited into a Rapier room completely full and with every pilot flying Icaras. Some great pilots in there, most of whom I'm friends with, including PEPEDA, Anderkovver, Kabuto, Morfeo, DividedXZero, and couple of others I can't remember. What a war zone! I don't recall being in a room like that before...multiple eliminations on lap one were common. Absolutely insane and super-competitive...often only 1-4 seconds separating all the pilots. Thanks to all involved for an awesome time!

[TheFrostE]

awsome races with eric, kanar, stink, and a bunch of others i cant even remember since i played all day lol. ill see everyone tommorow :D

[stinkleroy]

Yeah good races FrostE, was knackered and had to go to bed though...shame to leave Cambodia so early :lol

[mdhay]

Yes. No:o, i mean **** yeah!!!!:hyper The only people that i know in my family that are living it at the moment, have moved to Europe, One in Zurich, the other in London. **** the Australian heat seriously i hate it with a passion, also the net in this city is utter crap, cant even get ADSL2+ in my area, complete ****ing bullshit. The only thing thats holding me back is completing this uni degree. Soon as im done im ****ing outter here;) Still havent seen snow before in my entire life yet. Be nice and pleasent weather over there. No cranky Kigo anymore:D


Yeah!!!!

[mic-dk]

A quick thanks to K_Haruki, micmacdonald(?), Xtriko and Zoth-Ommog for great races yesterday. Unfortunately I had to bail early - work called :(

Great stuff!

(and you .jp guys better get a hold of Haruki - bloody fast!)

[stin]

Looks like I decided to play today and I will start hooking up my ps3 now.
Just for time being!

stevie:)

[Cerium]

Some good, brutal, races today with Mad-Ice, chaos80, JJohnEames, eric7d and a few others. "Cambodia" doesn't even begin to describe some of them, though. :D

Sadly, I had to ragequit during the first tourney. The wipeout gods were smiting me every race, and I was one respawn away from putting a dualshock through my TV.

[TheFrostE]

big ups to everybody i raced today. especially IDreaper and REDALRT. we had some great 3 man races goin on and then me and reaper had some heated 1 on 1 for about an hour. great times guys, cya around.

[IDReaper]

Hey FrostE that was some epic racing last night, I may have to switch over to Harimau when I race you for now. That Feisar absolutely slices those corners. I need to go ahead and add REDALRT too, we've played a number of good matches already as well.

[stin]

Well, I had played HD for well over 8hrs of racing this weekend!:guitar
So many intense racing! and I did actually enjoyed my experience and I will keep play but I must concentrate on my golf!

Thank you guys for competing!:clap

stevie:beer

[LOUDandPROUD]

Yah, that was good stuff, Stevie...first time I've ever had the pleasure of racing you, I believe. Hope to see you on the tracks again soon! :)

[stin]

Heh!, thanks LoudandProud but last night, I was really drunk as a fart while playing on Rapier level! Did I ever won?:?

But nevermind, I had a rare time that weekend and maybe I will play tonight but depending how I feel!

stevie:)

[stinkleroy]

Aaah that explains your ungentlemanly behaviour then Stevie...mines, rockets, mines, missile, quake :p
Boy you were firing everything you had at me last night haha...good races though and was nice to play rapier again, good change of pace :)

[stinkleroy]

Had some good racing tonight, thanks to Chaos, AnErare, Danterich and his clone, FrostE, Graeble (nice to race with you for the first time) and some other peeps I've probably forgotten because I'm baked :D

[TheFrostE]

baked...mmmm reminds me of brownies OMNOMNOM... good races today !

[Mateo]

Great races today, special thanks to Mad-Ice and Alejess who went through all the 16 tracks twice with me.:clap Also thanks to rowan_psn, Greenix, tug_14, fluorescence, chboing and all the others who joined.

And again there were happening strange thinks on track. bhutata showed up again and believe it or not, he raced once (Anulpha Pass Reverse). Of course then he had to rest a few hours on track to regenerate after this enormous amount of effort. But I found out why he is doing this. Though you don't get loyalty points if you're not flying, your Online Rank definitely increases. I tried this after I reched Level 37 today. I entered a race and quitted, so I fell back to 36. Then the next race I kept staying at the starting line like bhutata and after the race I earned 0 loyalty points, but my Online Rank was 37 again. I think we should really complain about this guy, he blocked today again a spot for more than a hour.:mad:

Also a new phantom appeared. His name was AlienZico51fury (British flag) and he was flying an Assegai with a fresh PSN-Account. My theory is that he's z1r0rEi, though he tried to convince me that he's the real Zico.:g z1r0rEi went offline about 20-30 minutes before alienzico appeared, they're both British, he's already rank 50 and maybe bored + he loves conspiracy theories as we have seen this weekend. But thats just a conspiracy theory by myself, could also be anybody else, that's what we talked about (PSN Messages):

I: great name lol
Zico: it is me
I: for sure...
Zico: i am sure, testing, secret
I: lol
Zico: (:

Later another fresh British account MEINFURY (Harimau) entered, I guess this was Paul then...:g

[blackwiggle]

If it was zico & Paul , then I suspect they were testing the fixes for HD that Paul Tweedle hinted at in the account fix thread, as well as FURY online.
They only just worked out what was causing the problem.

I have sneaking suspicion it has been some sort of conflict with the SL server/ HD online & the PSN messaging that has been causing the account problems and Vista pads,none BR's etc.
The reason I say that is that my messaging went down for a few days 2 weeks ago,but I could play online and it was like when HD first came out,no lag,fast,all pads working,BR's worked etc.
As soon as I got messaging working again online went back to having all the problems.
I posted this experience in the HD section before,then a few days later Paul posts that they finally found a fix.

I know that either Colin or Paul had told Elhabib that the account problems had been passed on to SCEE as SL couldn't find a permanent fix and they suspected a PSN problem.

[Mad-Ice]

Ohh, yes what a great fights we had yesterday! Thanks for hosting and the fast and furious racing Mateo, Alejess, Greenix, rowan_psn, tug_14, fluorescence, chboing and all others.

I think we really should have a grid position system for the host because yesterday was really bad. For almost 1 hour I was put on start position 6,7 or 8 all the time. It sure makes up for good fighty races but no possible way to make any new personal bests.

[yeldar2097]

haven't been online in a while but i'm having a great time trying to rekindle my wiping skills etc... great room at the moment with barnster, fabimus, akfurtif, evolite, LUNA, and of course z1. had some awesome races with klocki earlier as well.
great times all around, i'm getting ****ed up the arse by all sorts of weapons, BRs don't work, **** loads of lag, wrongs skins being put on my ships, random bastards quaking me aways from new records, vista pads, xp pads, no pads, it's like i never left :D it's good to be back!

edit: IDReaper just arrived! :D

[IDReaper]

Lool yeah I just got a disconnect :| I swear I was determined to win that metropia reverse and just before the finish...:frown: Lol back in spectating tho.

[IDReaper]

Woah, 12GMT Eastern time and I've run across some powerful players. Just had a few games in a room with z1r0rEi, imre92, Elois-13(How do you make Triakis get 1:47 on Ubermall:o ), Evolite and a few others I can't remember off the top of my head sry:frown: Incredibly intense racing though I'm glad I joined in. I loved the high brutaity level:twisted

[stinkleroy]

Some good times had tonight in the rapier division....makes a change, was still quite Cambodia though :lol

Thx to Sat and Wowo (for the chat), fgdk, Mjolnir74, Mus, LUNA_bgd, INFINITY_1, Constrictor4U, and my new friend EsoXLucius75

Happy days :)

[SaturnReturn]

I knew this thread still existed. Couldn't find it earlier. Those were very fun rapier races. Thanks Cat for hosting. I probably wouldn't have had fun playing WipEout tonight if it weren't for you.

Off Topic: Also had fun with z1r0rEi just now on Bomberman Ultra, despite that fact that I sucked big time.

[stinkleroy]

Aw I'm touched Sat :redface: :lol

[JJohnEames]

Just had some great 20 lap races with chaos 80, andybob , zeroray, gtp, luxoflux and Evolite (!) Who i havnt raced in ages. It was good to see he hadn't lost any of his skill ;)

[Luxoflux]

Aha, so this thread is now in the pilots lounge. Oooowkaaaay. Well anyway, today has opened my eyes. I suck in HD compared to the likes off Elois :( He has set about 4 would be avalon records this week, and that were only the races i joined him. ;) Seriously this guy is to fast :) And lets not forget eric. I thought i was fast with a 1.45.80 no weapon race time on sol2 reverse, but 2 races later he was even faster then that. Anyway, i had loads of fun racing you guys today.

Also raced IDreaper for th first time today. Nice racing :)

[LOUDandPROUD]

Had a bunch of awesome races tonight with LUNA and DeepMix in a mostly full room...the three of us just kept flip-flopping between 1st, 2nd and 3rd on the podium...great racing, you two! :+

[Rapier Racer]

Just went for a game online to find the PSN is OFF for maintenance.

If anyone from Sony is watching I'd like to applaud you on your timing, I mean, who wants to sit down to an online game of whatever at 5.30pm eh?

[KIGO1987]

That explains why i couldnt access the PSN Store or access Account Management on my PSP last night. Yes there times are always the best isnt it;)

[kanar]

Dear Stinkleroy,

Thanks for the races last night. I was terrible, wasn't supposed to join cos' I was dead, but that was the last time I could see your blue AG-SYS before your moving. I hope you'll get back a connection real soon. I need my super double league team mate!! Oh ****. I miss you already. PLEASE COME BACK SOON!

Thanks to all the zoners I raced briefly too, Sat, Z1 (happy b-day again, and funny, we have the same age), Evolite, chaos, wotan, TreAtzTMA, LOUDandPROUD, machiasu... sorry for the pilots I forgot... damn there was a lot of aces, I need more practice for this we!

[AmigoJack]

Yes there times are always the best isnt it;)Since a lot of timezones worldwide are affected they'll never hit the right time :p While people may sleep in Europe pilots in the US are in the peak of their gaming... :D

[Rapier Racer]

I didn't think they'd carry out maintenance world wide at the same time. Its not like they can do anything else world wide like say, releasing their console ;)

[Lance]

lol. Exactly!

[guillaume]

Nice session today with G'Kyl, Wotan, Yeldar, Rapier_Racer and breadhead.
Too bad the PS3 froze on me when I had the time for two more races...
Rapier, you do know how to use your weapons!
Thanks guys!

[Rapier Racer]

Aww shucks cheers mate lol a little somethin I brought over from Pure :banzai

[IH8YOU]

Experienced one of the most brutal low-speed rooms I've ever hosted.

Cambodia would be understatement of the year - and this all occurred in Venom and Flash!

Props to:
texasalex - let the rest of us win once in a while, bud. ;)
e-nite - wish your system didn't freeze up on ya - kickin butt b4 u left.
Jigabachi03 - never see you before, but won't forget you now.
slayer34 - nothing needed to be said - good racing all around.
CHEE5E2EE - fought the longest - felt some of my pain. :lol
TwinBandit - good racing
Tailsman77 - way to hang in a tough room.
astragale - very fast and good racing... until they left their PS3 on and went for a nap or something. ?

[yeldar2097]

ooh i raced some of those guys today
sub-phantom classes ftw! pity i didn't see you IH8YOU...

[IH8YOU]

Yeah Yeldar, wish you joined - it was epic carnage..... In slow motion. :lol

To each who say slower classes require no skill - I challenge you just to SURVIVE one of those races. It was fun. :)

[IH8YOU]

Classic case of be careful what you wish for.

Yeldar joined - my thumb bleeds.

Need I go on? :cold

[KIGO1987]

The amount of Baguette Munchers in the room tonight was incrediable, that many online in one room i could smell the rank cheese from all the way in Australia. Good to get a couple of wins last night. I think im going to enjoy some Red Bull now:)

[IH8YOU]

You fought a bunch of Frenchies? Hell, forget the Red Bull, you deserve a hug and some Cocaine. :lol

[KIGO1987]

Yes it was horrific, so many foreign languages in one room, i didnt know what to do,

[Asayyeah]

i didn't know what to do ? : just die in silence :g ( damn , i bet his ghost getting out from his deadly body will throw a loud F***)

[KIGO1987]

My plasma hit you on Analpha Pass reverse earlier in one of those sessions didnt it Arnaud;)

Fuking pussy you guys are not to select neither forward or reverse of Moa Therma once.

[Asayyeah]

cause it's the dullest track ever, simple as that ;)

[KIGO1987]

i wouldnt go about saying that Asa, about a track that is in Sicily hey;)

[eLhabib]

But it is the dullest track ever.

[KIGO1987]

No that goes to that grey depressing track called Analpha Pass. Moa is in paradise, have a look for yourselves:)

[Asayyeah]

Paradise for lazzy people :lol

[KIGO1987]

So Le Havre isnt paradise asa? :lol

[Rapier Racer]

Basilico is the dullest track ever. I hope it dies with Pulse and never returns.

[KIGO1987]

Basilico Black, i agree. Nova Scotia must'nt be paradise then. But most Pulse tracks are pretty sweet, they all have great flow, thats whats makes a good Wipeout track.

[Asayyeah]

So Le Havre isnt paradise asa? :lol
Le Havre is more than an industrial area could be the true ancestor of Gare D'europa from 2097 imnshfo, we're far from the sunny-riviera coast where nothing happens really, glued desperatly to magstrip (+half of the track d'ooh), in a short word : boring

Geez not even broadband access for HD online here and derailing the thread from its source :o Let's stop this!

[KIGO1987]

Gare D'europa from 2097 is my favorite any Pre Fusion track. Just loved it. and that final part of the track with the flying jump. Thats what the core of Wipeout reminds me of. Gare D'europa.

[LOUDandPROUD]

Ended up in an amazing and unplanned Rapier room tonight with Stinkleroy, O_BR, BARTgai, IH8YOU, Motorsagmannen & caller77. What carnage! Just great racing all around...and we even had a chat room going, so it was really a lot of fun. Thanks to all for such a great time! Need to do it again soon! :)

[KIGO1987]

Stinkleroy's got net again, when did she get net again? i thought i saw her online last time i was logged into the PSN.

[sny]

Thanks for the matches today, Elois-13 and stinkleroy, I had loads of fun trying to catch a glimpse of your ships in the distance and not get consumed by the angry mob behind me. :D

[stinkleroy]

Yeah those were some crazy races! Good fun though :)

[stinkleroy]

Oh such a fun time tonight, thanks to TCK for hosting, I had a blast in more ways than one ;)

[ericd7]

i can't connect anymore :(
Thx that was great session toonight :)

[xtriko]

Just made the tournament of my life... YouAreFubar... YOU ROCK! It was so intense! it finished almost 10min ago and my hands are still shaking! me and fubar, 8 races, 1 point between us! It was like an eliminator game! Wipeout Zone won the tournament :D 1st and 2nd place!

[YouAreFubar]

:lol To be fair, that was intense and awesome fun! I havent raced a tournament in ages because people were in a habit of leaving as the tournament went, so I just end up sticking to single races. I was top of the leaderboard from about race 4 or 5 up until the last race but there was only 1 point between us. We were neck and neck on Sol 2 continuously taking over each other for about the first couple of laps until someone in third shot me and then it was all over. I still came second but my winning streak was taken at the last minute! Xtriko, that was good racing dude and I look forward to seeing you on the track again sometime!

[sny]

Hey razor_sharp84, that was some wicked fun racing we just did on all 16 tracks, swapping 1st and 2nd places almost after every event... I had a blast! (mostly from your missles :lol) What on earth happened on CP reverse and Sol 2 reverse tho? it was just miliseconds separating us on all other tracks. :o

Hope to race you again soon!

[Aeroracer]

Nice games today luna..apart from sol reverse when i didnt even get to finish the race..


Ps i was ok about the rocket.I had it coming:hyper:hyper

[Rubix42]

Good games to all I played over the weekend. I'm out of practice and coming about 6 or 7 seconds behind the leader on most courses right now, but I'm getting back into form and will be challenging people soon I hope.

[mic-dk]

A lot of familiar faces on tonight - checking out version 2.0.

Thanks to all I raced. All though I didn't put up much of a fight I had a lot of fun!

(RobCoxy, that quake on Metropia was awesome :) )

[OBH]

Friday evening ill be borrowing a ps3 through till sunday.

Been ages, cant wait :)

[sny]

I had all sorts of trouble trying to test the new patch tonight. :( First it was colleagues from work constantly ringing me for advice while I was trying to win races... I had to sit out two races until lap 4, watching in shock as ships passing me by had a rocket or missile waiting for me standing in the starting grid after every lap.

Then I had a race where I finally got in a game with one of my Goteki 45 idols, Hellfire_WZ, and was hot on his heels until like the third hairpin on Sebenco, when he inserted a masterfully place bomb right into my ship's nostrils, and all hell broke loose... literally everyone who passed me by had some sort of a weapon to stick into my poor ship, so I was at 3% shield like 10 seconds into the lap. :robot

Needless to say, whenever I caught up with the next to last ship, he had a missile or a rocket just waiting for me, so I ended up being eliminated twice and not seeing Charlie for the rest of the race. :( Oh well, another time perhaps. :D

And lastly, my Wi-Fi router just died on me, just as I was about to get back into shape after being blown to bits in the biggest Cambodias I've seen so far. I was like "ARGH! Not now, I was gonna have my revenge! :evil ".

Oh well, gotta hit the hay, but I'll give this new patch a proper testing tomorrow before I can call myself ready for Fury on Thursday. Hope to race you again, Hellfire_WZ and OlOuk, you guys were great!

[Rubix42]

Good games to those I raced last night. Vartazian, DividedX and others. Man you guys got fast on these new tracks quick!

I'm going to be playing more again, still not back up to speed myself though, I was losing to those 2 by about 4-5 seconds or more on some of the tracks. had a blast though.

[leungbok]

Cool races on the fury's tracks yesterday and today with Asa, Kaori, El habib, Expitarius, Amorbis, Dj kyoto, Luxoflux, Danterich, Reach big 7, Rapier Racer, Lunar and i forgot the others sorry ^^ Didn't notice any bug like vista pads etc. :D

[djKyoto]

Yeah, cheers for my first Fury races on Phantom speed eL / Leungbok / Reach Big 7.

It's hard. I was all over the place, haha. :coffee

Don't use a boost on Modesto Heights... I went to the heavens, haha.

[IxDELTAxI]

I will be online today so if you want to race me just add me on psn.

[Rubix42]

Don't use a boost on Modesto Heights... I went to the heavens, haha.

The straight around the finish is a great spot to boost, hit it right as you come out of the turn into the flat.

Or, if you feel cocky, heading into the chicane you can boost off one of the rolls and clear the whole mess in one straight shot.

[The Boye]

I'll be caning this to get my phantom groove back on.

Add me do for any online shitniz.

[IDReaper]

Um, lets see, I remember Coatlketzal, Vartizian,(owned me in zone battle, I can't dodge a barrier for my life) REDALRT, Rubix24 and that's about all I can remember sry if I missed anyone. Good Amphiseum race ;)

[Rubix42]

Good games to all I played over the weekend.

And yes IDReaper, you sure did give me a good run on Amphiseum. I've always been poor on that course since I first started playing Pulse. The long spirals with shifting amounts of curve give me fits. I certainly need to practice more.

Although, the race after you left, I was a full 5/6 seconds faster than when I was racing you, I think it had something to do with the distinct lack of mines and bombs on the course.

[IDReaper]

Haha yeah I got bombs, mines, and turbo like the entire race xD. Luck of the draw yay! Oh yeah I only find the glass turn hard on Amphiseum reverse, it's one of those wierd Sol 2 turns. It's like, turn harder-turn less-turn more all in the same curve.

[Rubix42]

For sure, when you use d-pad like I do, it makes it really tough to nail consistently.

I did some SL using the stick yesterday on that course and while I prefer the d-pad, being able to smoothly navigate those turns made me think I might need to learn some new tricks.

[As Heaven Is Wide]

Just had a few eye-watering zone battle races with JFthebestJan and ProblemSolver. I was a pinball by the end of that target 55 Modesto heights race. Was incredible fun :+

[djKyoto]

Cheers for the help earlier Kingheim / LUNA / Sequent_Blender. :rock

[Avenger2197]

I haven't raced in a while online, but had good session with Motorsagmannen, and Darkfaerytales yesterday. Thanks gents:beer

Thank you to anyone else I raced but can't remember as of now. :)

Edit: I remember now(somewhat), Crob thanks for the eliminator run we had. That was great fun.:)

[Harrye]

anyone up for a race on later on? i wanna find some active racers so ive actually got some mates to play online :v

my psn's Ebbleman, add me if your up for one !

[TarotCardKiller]

A few zoners and I had an evening worth mentioning yesterday. It was wasn't a Wipeout session but AnErare, Chaos80, Luxoflux, Stinkleroy, Yeldar, Z1r0rEi, and me played Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars. If you don't know about it, its a football/soccer game with supersonic acrobatic rocket powered battle cars. You can either do 1v1 or big teams. It was loads of fun =], even for beginners, and everyone seemed to catch on quick. If you haven't checked it out, I recommend you get the demo (you are able to play online with it). Its a nice change from wipeout once in a while. I'll try to upload a video to show you guys the action.

We should be doing this again soon. That game is awesome when played with zoners.

[z1r0rEi]

Had some nice wipEoutHD races, with ye1dar, jjeames,& elios, i think i played chaos80,il put ur name down, anyway,its hard to find any phantom races since fury, anyway,thanks friends & yes, it was fun, tck, playing SupersonicBattlecars, with all wipeout zoners, it was a blast

[Rubix42]

Had a bunch of great races with fellow zone pilots. Man, you guys are brutal. I could barely survive the first lap most of the time while we were all bunched up.

Glad I stuck it out for so long. I was quickly getting a bit more adept at dodging some of the weapons I was being barraged with. Although I want to say there was a race on Modesto heights, I was about 1.5 seconds in the lead after the first lap, then got passed by Vartazian or Darkdrium after a well placed rocket blast. At which point the other and a 3rd pilot passed me. They were going down the long downhill curve to the left (reverse course) and both of you dropped mines blocking the entire track, which I had boosted into trying to catch up. Only time in my life I went from 1st to 8th in a matter of about 6/7 seconds.

[Vartazian]

Speaking of "blast" sessions Me, JJohnEames, TarotCardKiller, Yeldar, GTP-Roscarch, and Deepmix had a "Blast" with the Minefields and bombs everywhere.

Who ended up being top Roadsweeper? TCK?

Its was a Great time boys!

RAMstein!

[Hellfire_WZ]

Good times last night with ProblemSolver, kingheim, Mad-Ice, Vartazian et al. Made me realise just how crap I am at the last corner on Tech De Ra ;)

[Vartazian]

Twas a good session Hellfire! You guys definatly made that tournament a Extremley difficult win!

Plus you rocked my Face on Vineta K was it?

[ProblemSolver]

Good times last night with ProblemSolver, kingheim, Mad-Ice, Vartazian et al. Made me realise just how crap I am at the last corner on Tech De Ra ;)
Yeah I remember that, I got you twice on the last corner. But I still have to learn a lot,
since I just recently started into non-ZONE racing. xD Currently I'm only competetive at
Tech De Ra and those tracks where I hold a record in ZONE, never touched the reverse
one. xD So you now know where to get me.

[OBH]

Was great to race against some familiar faces for the first time in ages last night! great stuff.

Cheers to Mad-Ice, Assayeah, TCK, Sat, oolproo, rerealm (who is damn fast!), plus a few more i just cant remember! :g

Cheers guys, looking forward to next time!

[yeldar2097]

Had a lovely session today with kigo, jasmin, obh, tck, oolproo, fabimus, senture, sabinslash, barnster and some others (sorry if i forgot you, i'm tired :P)

brilliant races :g

[KIGO1987]

It was fun Yelder. Thanks for telling me to use Harimau. Im sticking with that ship now, christ its quick, i can pull more BRs on Sol2 now with it :D

It was a fun room going, but when the room went over half full, to entire full the lag kicked in on my side. And yes in the infamous Vista pads where back on my end:( Seems like when i have a good host in the room with a fast connection, lag is down on my end.

The chatroom we had going was pretty good though, lol there :D

[OBH]

was that when i turned up late on? that was good times :)

[yeldar2097]

yeah, when i beat you :g

swish 8)

[OBH]

never playing late at night and half asleep ever again :g

[yeldar2097]

well to your credit you were surprisingly good (different occasion) when it was around 03:00 and you were pissed as a rat :beer

I still won though :P

*runs, hides, covers eyes, thinks of better times* :lol

[OBH]

what do you mean "surprsiningly good"!!? :g cheeky fooker

[yeldar2097]

Well we all know you're very good but I'd say you're better (surprisingly good :P) when drunk.
see? I'm not cheeky :P

....I'm just...better :g

*runs away yet again*

[IDReaper]

Had a good couple of races with Yeldar, boo4ever and, um oh yeah i remember ZoNeS cause i plasma'd 'em =D. Lots of heated races, good stuff. My first online races in a while. Yay who needs practice. XP

[eLhabib]

This week marks the first time in over a month that I actually find some time to play some HD again - so if anyone out there is interested in kicking my rusty butt, get online and find me ;) Hope to meet some old friends on the track!

[IH8YOU]

I dont know who Zones is as thier name is fairly new to me. But they put up enough of a fight to make me suspect its a zoner incognito.

Next, my new ps3 is the polar opposite from the old one. The launch ps3 definatelly has something going wrong with its cpu / gpu. Suck part is no moar card reader / 100 foot bluetooth range on the new ps3s - but my god I can be competitive again. Gaz, keep your eyes peeled on those Phantom rooms, as i may return. ;)

[yeldar2097]

GREAT! I think you need to stop being Grandmaster Flash and become the Phantom Menace :P

btw does this mean the new PS3's are better or what?

@eL: Hopefully I'll be seeing you online :D

[Zoth-Ommog]

IH8YOU: Zones would be andybob ;)

[KGB]

This week marks the first time in over a month that I actually find some time to play some HD again - so if anyone out there is interested in kicking my rusty butt, get online and find me ;) Hope to meet some old friends on the track!

It was nice to race you again eL, that was a good game last night with a room full of very fast plots. Amorbis is such a tart with those weapons though. :)

[Vartazian]

I had fun blowing Spec_r_99 and JJohn, Problemsolver and my apsolute all time favorite person to kill... Coatlketzal today on the track. Good racing had by all.. seemed like a very high quake zoen though...

[KIGO1987]

IH8YOU: Zones would be andybob ;)

andybob, been smashing the records recently, don't think the French will be too happy about this, especially Pacman.

[ProblemSolver]

Pretty pointless to race with Vartazian on Modesto. xD Good races mate. :+

[JJohnEames]

Yeah those races last night were fun. I dont how many times vart killed me last night but it was a hell of ALOT. Had a good time good though. I stayed playing right up till 5.30 a.m. I needed my fix. :p

[eLhabib]

Big thanks to the guys racing with me tonight - was a lot of fun, hope you didn't mind the lack of weaponry ;) but I need to concentrate on the pure racing for now. See y'all soon!

[yeldar2097]

Weapons off are fine by me :P

I'd forgotten how difficult it is to pass your FAT ASS ship :lol

[KIGO1987]

Good news, i might be looking after this house in a few days:) Good large tellie and the neighbours have fast wireless ADSL2+ that i can jump onto:) Might be able to have some lagless races in a few days.

[eLhabib]

I'd forgotten how difficult it is to pass your FAT ASS ship :lol

Nevertheless you did a magnificent job zooming past me without a scrape :) You must be one of the cleanest racers in the game, not a single orange scratch on my ship :+

[yeldar2097]

I don't play dirty, I'm a friendly racer :D Unless you quake me in which case i will hunt you down and take you out, ninja style

:)

Had a great session last night (playing BF1943) with Luxoflux, TCK, pacman, and z1r0rei. Was orsum. We won :P

[OBH]

You were having a bf fest!!! I want in!
Though it would have to be bf2, god bless bf2 days :)

edit:
on a side note, 8.15pm now, with a bit of luck ill be online a little later. tomorrow morning at the latest for a WC warmup :)

[stin]

I was having problems with my stupid BT connections, I`m sorry about that!:(

But, I did enjoyed it for a while! ;)

stevie:)

[Hellfire_WZ]

Guys, I feel I need to apologise to a few of you. I've been quitting a lot of races recently and it does look like excessive rage quitting. Truth is my controls have been unbearably erratic lately for some inexplicable reason. The sensitivity of the controls sometimes feels like it's changing during the race, and in the worst cases the steering is locking. It only occurs during online play so I can only assume it's due to my connection. It's happening very often and as you can imagine it is really f*cking me right off.

I'll be moving in a couple of months and so hopefully I won't be sharing my internet connection with every other constant-porn-downloading clungepipe in this area. I will try and play as much as I can, but just making you aware that if I do drop randomly, this is most likely to be the reason :(

[eLhabib]

I know what you're talking about - currently having problems with my provider as well, and there are some odd things going on with the handling here and there. I'm sure it will all be gone when the internet's fixed - hope you find your way to a more stable connection as well :)

[yeldar2097]

So it's more a question of connection stability not connection speed? Interesting.

Good thing my internet speed seems to be nice and stable :D

Bit weird though cos I'm pretty sure both of you (eL&Hell) have massively faster connections than most of us (or me at least).

Are you guys using the same phone line as other internet-using devices or are you using dedicated phone lines?

[eLhabib]

Right now, I have a really slow connection, because I need to save some money since I moved apartment. I only have 8Mbit down (as opposed to 30Mbit before) and only 0.4Mbit up!!! (as opposed to 3Mbit up before!) - so I thought there's no way I can play wipEout online at the moment. But, it seems, these slow speeds are absolutely enough for comfort, as I've had absolutely smooth, lag-free races in the last couple of days. Only problem is that my wi-fi is very unstable sometimes (don't know why), so there are days when my PS3 won't even connect, I get a DNS error, or I get weird handling and heavy lag in races.
So it's definitely not about the connection speed (which means SL did indeed pull off a mighty good netcode), it's about the consistency of the data packets, and the ping, of course.

[yeldar2097]

Ooh clever, now I understand :)


BUT: "I only have 8Mbit down"

Only?!?! I get MAXimum 100Kbit down speed. Not sure about my upload speed but it takes about 40mins to get a 40Mb file onto youtube :P

Only 8Mbit...pah!

:lol

[eLhabib]

100Kbit? That's highly unlikely in this day and age - have you tested your connection here (http://speedtest.net/)?

[mic-dk]

Yeldar probably meant to say KiloByte.

[eLhabib]

Yeah I think so too, which would make it roughly 1Mbit - not fast, but good enough for online play.

[mic-dk]

Last sunday I wished both you and Yeldar were on a 100Kbit connection. Maybe that could slow you down a bit :D

(see, tying in the whole "who met who online" theme!)

[yeldar2097]

Yeah I meant byte, I'm just lazy. Still sucks for downloading stuff though. Have to wait about 10 mins to watch a video on youtube. Interweb = fail

[eLhabib]

Amazing then that you can play wipEout HD online without severe lag! I bet you don't have that smooth of an experience in other online games!

[stin]

Martin, my connection is exactly the same as you plus three laptops and two online games but no lag!

stevie;)

[eLhabib]

You have your own personal lag caused by Stella ;):beer
P.S.: would be good to race you again soon!

[yeldar2097]

play wipEout HD online without severe lag!

Is that even possible? I think next time I go online for a session I will film every race - sometimes it's so bad that I get lag-spun 180 degrees at least once every 2 races. You will see :nod

Sometimes it's ok though, haven't found a correlation between this and any other factors yet though :)

[eLhabib]

Ever thought about getting a faster internet connection then? ;)

[KGB]

sometimes it's so bad that I get lag-spun 18- degrees

18- or 180? Me too yeldar, there is nothing worse than going 90 degrees down a track trying frantically to get out of the collision lag only to end up facing the wrong way.

[yeldar2097]

oops, typo there, cheers KGB :+

@eL: My connection is as fast as it will get. Got offered a free upgrade to 16Mb Broadband...until they found out where I lived, at which point they said "oh sorry, that's as fast as it's going to get because the cabling/exchange server closest to your house is too old". Broadband = win? Not from where I'm sitting ;)

[eLhabib]

You know that there are portable internet sticks (USB, via satellite) that are WAY faster than your current connection. And they're usually rather cheap compared to a 'real' internet bundle. And don't tell me you live too far away from a satellite ;)

[OBH]

They dont work with ps3s. Each needs to install its own software first.

Their also a total rip-off. We have one with a 2gb monthly limit, but if you go over your charged 20p per 1mb you view, that equals at least £1 per web page viewed. We were billed £52 in less than 2 hours net usage.

[eLhabib]

wow ok didn't know that. tough luck then...

[stin]

Sorry guys about last night, I was really pissed off with all the killings and shoving but I was not focusing well before you guys turns up and I decided F*ck this!, I`m off!

I`m was not right in a frame of mind.

stevie:(

[eLhabib]

haha same here Stevie! a couple of races later, I got gunned down so bad again and again and had to kill the ps3 as well before I throw a controller into the tv...
weapons races with 8 people are just ridiculous, nothing to do with pure wipEout anymore :( sure wish SL would fix some weapons *coughminescough*

[stin]

Yes!, that is exactly what I like as Pure race for HD, that game are more balanced than Hd game!

But HD, is now like, too much weapons killing to each other.

EDIT, Now I have hooked everything up for Pure game and seriously, I`m looking forward to this rather than HD.

stevie:)

[eLhabib]

Just had a beautiful set of no-weapons races with z1r0 and Sat - thanks guys, twas amazing! so close :+

[SaturnReturn]

Sebenco Climb was a good ending too. I lost count of how many times we swapped places in that race.

[yeldar2097]

Hmmm I was about to have a nice little session with Kyonshi and friends. That went out of the window when my father unplugged my PS3 and told me to go to bed -_-

No fair :(

[KGB]

Are you being serious? Tell the boring old sod to do one! How old is he by the way? Please don't say the same age as me.

[SaturnReturn]

I hope you politely informed him that you shouldn't go to bed when it's not even tomorrow yet. I always start and end my sleeping session on the same day.

EDIT: Or indeed, told him to "do one". :D :P

[yeldar2097]

I am deadly serious. It's not fair I tell you!

He's 61 and grumpy. We don't really see eye to eye tbh.

Even so, unplugging the PS3??? Noooooooooooooooooooo.

I managed to guilt-trip him a little by telling him that he may have broken it/damaged the internals :lol.

Ahh I do love a bit of bullshit now and then :P

[OBH]

Orange best sort out my internet soon or heads will start rolling :( about 60 days with no wipeout so far.

[eLhabib]

ouch, that sucks! :( hope you get fixed soon!

[yeldar2097]

Same again:

Was just in a 4-race tourney with Mad-Ice, Elois, Maderfacker, LUNA, Constrictor, Reach-big and some other randoms :rock
I was having a whale of a time until..."Turn that £%$*ing machine off and come get your dinner!"

I'd only had about 3 races that session, I was rather miffed :bomb

[SaturnReturn]

Just tell them to give you a 5 minute warning. That should work. Or time it better and be less addicted. ;)

[OBH]

Or get your own bloody house! :g

though then youd have to cook your own dinners :beer

[Vartazian]

After a 2 Month Hiadus, I raced online again.

I Definately suck now. Barely managing times in the top 200 Every race. The only Exception was Modesto Heights where I got a 1.42xx time :)

Those Japanese Pilots are fast... looks like I need to practice a bit more...

See you all on the track...

[OBH]

I didnt get as much online time as i planned today. Entertaining family and such instead. Still good fun none the less :)

look forward to next time!

[Ace3cube]

Today, we make lots of 20 laps races.
lol that's amazing and so hard for eyes @.@
I would thanks assoartu, mizunori, themaderfacker and others to be there for that crazy experience.
Let's make other in the future :P:hyper

[mizunoori]

Yeah, that were great races. The hunt on Sol 2 was great and your victory in Metrophia rev on the finish-line, my heart was racing too :hyper:hyper:hyper

[Ace3cube]

ahah our hearts were crazy ;)
I hope we will get other sessions like that. With others crazy pilots lol

20 laps = 7 minutes !
awsome !
amazing !
crazy !
ahah I fall in love :]:hyper
:rock:hyper:rock:hyper:rock

[yeldar2097]

Ok the only rooms I can find listed under 'Phantom' are all Zone Battle rooms.
Granted, there's only 3 of em, but that just ain't right :lol

[LOUDandPROUD]

Thanks to z1r0rEi for hosting some fun races yesterday. It was my first day playing WO in like 5 or 6 months, so I was quite rusty. It was weird realizing I had forgotten whether to airbrake or not (and when) around some corners haha. It felt good to be back, though I need a lot of practice. Others in the room were tug_14, Iwillbuildaduck, MrOrbital, Ace3Cube and a couple of others I can't remember. I had never raced against IWBAD or Ace, though I've seen them lurking these forums...they impressed and finished ahead of me regularly.

It's pretty wild how many good pilots are out there now. When I first got good at WO, I recall feeling confident in most rooms that I would come in first or finish in the top 3 when racing against names I didn't recognize from the Zone...not so anymore. The quality of opponents has risen quite a bit!

Anyway, I plan on trying to get in a few hours of playing time weekly again, at least, to try and get back to form and show all these new competitors what LOUDandPROUD is all about! :nod :)

[z1r0rEi]

Thanks LOUDandPROUD, was good ,racin with u again, fun races indeed my friend , & yes there are alot of good players now, than ever before, dont underestimate , anyone thats what i think:dizzy see you soon m8:P

[Ace3cube]

LOUDandPROUD > always pleasure play with nice pilots \o/
Ace at your service :P

[LOUDandPROUD]

Had some more fun races with today with Ace3Cube, SaturnReturn and ACE-FLO. Starting to knock off that rust and feel a bit more confident...had a couple of nice runs on Chengou F, taking 2nd in consecutive races, behind Saturn by 2 and 4 seconds, respectively. Hey, finishing that close to Saturn is a huge accomplishment for me (or anyone really) LOL. Also had an exciting finish on Ubermall F where I caught up to ACE-FLO around the final couple of bends then passed him with a turbo down the final straight to take 3rd hee hee. Thanks to all and looking forward to seeing you on the tracks again soon! :)

[ACE-FLO]

Yeah, that was awesome man! LOL, we had a good session then mate. Thanks to all zoners who rolled with me, or rolled me :lol always a fantastic experience peeps... Should be online for more punishment later, I like a lil virtual pain, only coz it's virtually painless :lol

EDIT: good races tonight, wanna thank the following pilots - JFthebestJan, Brainbeat, TehRedScar, Micko_bg, TokyoSushi, hacenetchik and also boo4ever, who caught my last race for the night. thanks guys... catch you again, tomorrow night :rock

[ProblemSolver]

Had a long stint with ShawnFrecle and his Italian followers, yesterday. It was
very enjoyable. :+ Best race I remember was on Sebenco where we both got kicked
at the end of the field first lap from where on we started a pretty cool
comeback riding close behind each other through the entire field until finish
line, he in first position an me second. Additionally, playing with someone
who is also quite competitive in ZONE makes up for a good spirit while meeting
online.

I now get also much more comfortable with the dpad. WipEout HD has become a new
game for me! Inputs and slight corrections to the racing line can be given so
faaaast. And my success rate for doing BRs has more than doubled. Jesus Christ!

[KGB]

Great games everyone just then, you know who you are. Nice to see a room full of fast pilots. :+

[stin]

Well well!, that were very interesting game today and loads of pretty epic battles and close races!

Two hours of wonderful races and I thank you guys!!!:clap

Hopefully more to come.

stevie:)

[blackwiggle]

Yeah,some great races Stin :+

[Danterich]

Yes, thank you two too :clap
I switched ships very often to make it more interesting ;)
race you soon again mates !
btw: there are lots of skilled pilots online these days :clap

[OBH]

Ive been gone so long L&P has returned!!!? :g never thought id see the day! :beer

[LOUDandPROUD]

HAHA! Yes, OBH! I'm back! Good to hear from you! I was too busy last week to hit the tracks at all, unfortunately...I'll definitely make some time for WO this week though! :nod

[kanar]

I believe one of the best thing we all can do to thank & support Studio Liverpool right now is to play online. Like we never did before. I'm a speed lapper from the start, I always prefered to play offline & work my lines, brs and so on. But today I think I must show to those Sony bastards how much I love this game, and the best way is to BURN their servers to death. So...

DECEPTICONS... MOBILIZE!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jia_gfiHh3E)

[yeldar2097]

Decepticons? Does that mean I'm not invited? :P

[kanar]

eh eh you're the hero mate, autobots = win lol, of course you're invited. I love Starscream myself, cos' I'm a raptor fan (well I'm a fan of its flying performances, not of its power of destruction...). When I was at Las Vegas last summer I wanted to go to Nellis AFB, but lol tourists are not authorized. On topic, I'm trying to go online each days now, gah feel hard to get my a$$ kicked like that (on the fury tracks in particular, OMG I suck so much). As I said before my favorite mode is speed lap, but it's so cool to race with all of you guys, despite all these mines - mines - bombs - rockets - missile - respawn - gah! Cambodia FTW!

thanks to Imre92, jodiroga, brainbeat, IDreaper, flaflasat, Wipe-Assassin, Luna, afuroky, boxman22, Whateverman, TorquedSoul, Hacenetchik ...and to all the guys I forgot to quote for these cool races last night!

[LOUDandPROUD]

Had some fun races yesterday with z1r0rEi, Luxoflux, shapealot, dobyblue and a couple of folks that apparently aren't here at the Zone, but who are both great pilots...SHENG_LONG (not the first time I'd run into him on the tracks) and TY_RAPTOR (never run into him before). I have to say, despite playing more recently, I'm still pretty damn rusty and not performing close to the level that I used to. It's fun trying to get back into shape though!

[il_mago_di_Doz]

Hei Loud_and_Proud ... I remember you! :) We did some races together when I was a rookie... :lol Hope to see you and the other zoner soon online!
For now.. thanks to ProblemSolver for the incredible races of other night. ;)
That was pretty damn intense! :eek :beer

[LOUDandPROUD]

Hey, il_mago_di_Doz! I remember you too! Well, I recall you being a fast pilot when you were a rookie, so you are probably much faster than me now! Yes, I hope to see you on the tracks again soon!

Had another batch of fun races yesterday with brummpah and z1r0rEi. Brummpah was kickin some serious butt! What also made it great was that we were in a full/almost full room most of the time and the three of us were on the podium at the end of just about every race. We would just flip-flop positions haha...though I only took 1st once (which I was very excited about, as a win against z1r0rEi is very rare for me lol...no disrespect to brummpah's amazing day, I just seem to encounter "z" on the track far more). There's nothing like the adrenaline rush that is WOHD! :hyper

[z1r0rEi]

Thanks L&P, had some close races there,was good, thanks to every1,i raced on the weekend:dizzy

[Mad-Ice]

It has been a while, but I had great fun racing with Z1, Greenix, Fgdk, Luxoflux, Themaderfacker, Kaori and oeps and sorry for forgetting other pilots.

I had a superb and intense racing night. Greetz Mad-Ice

[Raziel-X007]

Dang, it's been a while!! Hello, this is Raziel X and I'm hosting at this VERY MOMENT, a Zone comp in Mallavol... You want in, just look for Raziel_Sinister.. Though I'm only Level 3 (Thanks to my Little Brother stealing my last PS3), I'm still there... I think.. Come on by!

[SaturnReturn]

Raziel, I moved the above post here to the HD Online Meetings, because we would have an awful lot of threads if we all created a new one when we were hosting a race/game.

[KGB]

Did this thread get moved, I'm sure it used to be in the HD part of the forum?

[SaturnReturn]

I think it did. I'm not sure why it was moved though.

[Raziel-X007]

@ Saturn....- Thanks!

[SaturnReturn]

Had a great comeback session tonight. I've been away from WipEout HD for a bit and it was good to play again. Thanks to all who I played with tonight. :)

[Cyberio]

Yesterday I felt the online pilots are levelling up their skills nowadays.

A few months ago, winning a race was not very hard, today i can't.
I like it that way, a real challenge.
But the people still quitting when i'm selecting the combat zone mode :(.

[UB3R~JKP]

Having great fun online! Getting slowly better and actually competing with pilots. :)

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

Just got back from vacation in Great Britain and France. Will go online tonight GMT+8 to play HD,to see if sinus is still on my friends list(me thinks not as I have not played for about 2 or so weeks)and to try playing with jet lag!(headaches,start your engines!)Will try playing with minimum one fellow zoner.

[mic-dk]

I haven't played a lot lately - my two-wheeled rocket needs its exercise while the sun is shining - but tonight I had a great and very fun session.

Thanks to all I played, but especially z1r0rEi, Danterich and DreamyElf - you guys rock!

[Danterich]

thanks 2u2 mic, was a pleasure, hope 2 meet again, and of course all the other zoners i raced recently:clap
btw: the wipeoutHD servers are offline atm:turd
upate:
they´re online again!
i´m hosting Avalon Style 2day, feel free to join, whenever there´s a free slot!

[OBH]

Nice racing recently danterich :) ive been getting some good top 5 multiplayer times while youve been hosting :g
Been also racing a lot with LurifaxFlux, Whoopzilla, DreamyElf & others lately, kudos to all of you :beer

[yeldar2097]

Any particular reason for you doing so well only after you've left my house?

Dammit OBH you're supposed to be at your best during Avalon, not after. Sort it out :beer

[OBH]

i blame your mexican internet :)

[Challenger #001]

Having a lot of good races online with you guys recently, though it seems I'm late to the party - a lot of the time when I try to add some of you as friends it says your lists are full. Particular problem for DanteRich, who I am very determined to beat straight-out at least once in anything other than Zone Battle.

[KIGO1987]

Once your PSN friends list hits 100. it maxes out, and you cannot add anymore friends to it. Sucks bad, used to be only 50 back in the day. Needs another increase i reckon.

[Danterich]

No no ch. : NOT DanteRich, its Danterich like Friedrich, i´m poor;)
and limit of 100 sucks yes, shoulde be 101 ;)

[KIGO1987]

Should of been bloody 250 this time last year, i could of used up all those extra spaces.

BTW Syncopia room online atm. DP89 is hosting.

[blackwiggle]

I reckon they capped the friends list at 100 because it might slow your console down too much if you had more, I'm sure when they upped it from 50 it did.

Anyway, thing how many more times the message alert box would pop up at an inconvenient time during a game if you had more than 100, it can get pretty bad with 100 already.

[KIGO1987]

You learn to tolerate it one way or another will all the additional messages overtime. Is inconvenient when you have a message come up during a moment like doing the Zone Zeus trophy.

The Syncopia room went for ages, still think it is going now. When DP left i hosted it for a while, then when i left AnE took over i think. Had quite a few enjoyable races of both the laggy and non laggy kind, i think my PS3 is going to chuck another YLOD on me again, its running horrible atm. Quite a few people come out of the blue when there is a Syncopia room being hosted. had Deepmix, DP, IH8YOU, BB, AnE, Cat, Dantrick, Anek, and T-Rex joined the room at the end there. Good when meetups like that happen, bit of a rouge avalon meet or something:)

[Danterich]

WizardPlayHD is SYNCOPIA-host atm!

Dantrick is a good one:lol, its Danterich m8, call me Dante if u wish
man i lolalot these days

[KIGO1987]

Lol! seems like the Syncopia 24hour room concept is being put into reality right now.

Awesome!

[Danterich]

update:
SYNCOPIA is still on! Join avalon lounge 4 the pleasure!:)

[KIGO1987]

OMFG. Awesome! i got to inform the others about this.

[Danterich]

Syncopia-reminder:

Mustn´t mess with settings!!!!!

[Dark_Phantom_89]

It was a great day Syncopia-wise today. Woopzilla managed to set up a Venom, Rapier AND Phantom game. Was pretty cool being able to switch rooms if I fancied a change in speed.

[UB3R~JKP]

This Is all.

[UB3R~JKP]

Sorry for the double post, had some good racin' with Dante tonight :D
EnduTRANCE FTW ;)

[KIGO1987]

Syncopia 24hour room still going?

[Danterich]

No, it isn´t.

[leungbok]

It was a great day Syncopia-wise today. Woopzilla managed to set up a Venom, Rapier AND Phantom game. Was pretty cool being able to switch rooms if I fancied a change in speed.
Cool stuff :) :clap