Japanese Players

[NX-01]

I read on the forum about the Japanese racers bringing there "A" game lately online. Damn! What the hell! Is there a mini WipeoutHD workshop going on over there? About 2230 hrs (10:30 pm) PST a lot of races are hosted by Japanese players and they are racing circles around me. Hell, I don't claim to be great, but, I'm no rookie either. Hey! hmmmm? it could by a server issue, yep! that's it. No worries mate. :lol

[trackripper]

I've encountered Japanese racers before, but the one's I've come across tend to be pretty bad as even I can beat them with about 4-5 seconds to spare... Maybe it's just my timing? Actually it probably is as I'm usually on early afternoon... They're all sleeping lol :P

[UB3R~JKP]

The Japan representatives can be very fast out there, no doubt about it mate. :+

[Frailavi]

PONTA012 is my hero.

[trackripper]

A certain Aten13 literally seems to half-lap the entire field, he finishes around 15 seconds ahead O_o

[Dark_Phantom_89]

You've never heard of reach-big, PONTA, KujyoQtaro, NOBU-the-sprigan, SHENLONG-, etc?

Now those players are very good. :nod

[JFthebestJan]

hey DP, u forgot to name Su_Revival, fast all-rounder ;)

[Colonel]

... and in terms of other modes, ITOSIKI and Carro-Armato are both awesome players.

[UB3R~JKP]

Imagine how good an organised Japanese team would be! :D

[greenymac]

I dont think Aten 13 is very fast, but Pontao, Nobu, and reach big7 are animals...

[Xpand]

Man there was a time a few weeks ago where all I saw were JP servers, all with Sol 2 reverse and all in Phantom! I hate Sol 2 reverse but that was all that was there except for a few venom eliminator races...

[SaturnReturn]

I joined a game with two Japanese players last night, a short way into the first lap they both quit. But that's far from typical. They're a pretty dedicated bunch, with their own community/site so I think they may well organise their sessions. I always used to see a lot of Japanese players on Sunday evenings. Always polite and friendly too, if they are OK with their English and not too humble to give it a go.

Other fast players are rerealm, hn9354, knihTknihT, Aka-sho and so on and so forth.

[ion harvest]

So many japanese pilots. I think half of them are second accounts :blarg I was online just a few minutes ago and the are still at it :mr-t

Everyday I see rank 1 pilots from japan. They must be promoting the game in Japan i think.

[UB3R~JKP]

Well, the Welcome Pack just arrived in JPN not too long ago. :+

[ion harvest]

makes sense bro. there were lots of Japanese players online last night. I couldnt find a decent game.

[Whizawk]

Reach-Big & Ponta are insane competition.:clap

[PEPEDA]

Does anyone know something about heinz-ketchup (japanese too)??when i started to race wipeout he was insane good,always 3-4 seconds behind all pilots i use to race......

[Wotan]

I raced him long time ago . I think he played rapier almost all the time , but It seems he stopped wipeout since very long time . Not sure he got back in cuz i stopped since too l
ong too

[Colonel]

sinus1 had "Aten13" as his PSN comment last week. It's not one of his ghost accounts is it? :eek

[Dark_Phantom_89]

I don't think it is.

[Colonel]

Fair enough, it just seemed odd that all he had for his PSN comment was "Aten13". I was in a room last weekend and discovered that two of the players (with fairly high ranks) were people I know, playing under pseudonyms. It all gets quite confusing I have to say.

[R3BU5ER]

Aten13 isn't sinus, they are friends. I've been in a room with both of them sometime long ago.

[Dark_Phantom_89]

I really don't understand the people who play under multiple names. Where's the fun in starting over and losing all of your records?

[JFthebestJan]

u dont loose ur records by using multiple accounts, u just get multiple entrys on the leaderboards. that SUCKS! i used a 2nd account ('moghlie') in my early days of wipEout HD, until i told XBARNSTERX about it, he washed my brain and healed me from doing this. luckily all the records i set with 'moghlie' are deleted, cause i never used that account again for wipEout (i believe after 6 months of inactivity all records are deleted automatically [PROBLEMSOLVER]).

[R3BU5ER]

I know some phantom- pilots don't want to embarrass theirselfs on their normal name in phantom, so they use 2nd account lol. Some just want to bully around and some I think just have multiple personalities :brickwall

[siriusglee]

Don't forget that with a Japanese account it is possible to use a 'screen name' that is not your real psn id -- a feature that apparently some developers did not take into account while developing their online functionality -- such that any American or British player could create a Japanese account and appear as variable 'legitimate' players.

This being an impetus, many of the Japanese players you meet may not actually be Japanese, but just bored 101 level players trying to get a high by posing as a Japanese person.

[UB3R~JKP]

Dual-accounts aren't my type of thing but I guess people have a reason for using them. :+

[Medusa]

Dual accounts: people trying to hide the fact they are hikikkomori? :) (I'M JOKING)

But seriously, BILLION-GOD nearly made me fall off my couch when I first raced him (aka ReachBig). "Who the heck is this!?!?!?"

[xifdo]

Does anyone know who is an American pilot with several accounts "go_weapon_girl" or "yeeees_sheep_girl" or similar? always uses Icaras Hd and enjoys stop and shoot him and then send messages provocative, often see him take it with new drivers that exhausted leave the lobby.

[greenymac]

Hey xifdo I ran into this person last weekend.(go weapon girl or sumthin)I joined a rapier race cos there were no phantom rooms open. we raced a few times and I asked would she switch the room to phantom. she promptly decided to target me the next race and then send an asshole message and leave.lol

[FirstDave]

I think i have had messages from this person under the name go-sheepgirl i got three abusive messages about my psn id for no apparent reason.I just put it down to her being a bit of a moron and did not answer her.

Dave.

[Aeralys]

Ayee I've seen this sheepgirl person too a few times. I was in a few races with her, PrincessShay (I think thats who it was) and some others and I was getting messages like "GO SHEEPGIRL" and "go race boys" I was like lol stfu

girl got some issues...

Though about the japanese players, I do end up playing against Aten13 a lot outside of Phantom, good competition. Pretty sure I've raced PONTA before too, though not often enough to remember how good he was.

[ion harvest]

Sheepgirl is american.

She's a good pilot but plays a wierd game.

She stays back to shoot yo ass :D

[UB3R~JKP]

I have under good opinion that SHEEPGirl is a dual-accounter.

[R3BU5ER]

Yeah, I've bumped in to sheepgirls once in a rapier room I think, kicked the players ass by second and then started sending me stuff like; 'go sheepgirl!' and 'love sheepgirl' and what not... Also opened fire on me untill the point he couldn't catch up lol. I found it quite amusing and played along, then sheepgirl left :lol I even remember getting some random messages, when I wasn't even playing Wipeout. It's pretty sad :D

[UB3R~JKP]

What a daft username. :lol

[Ace3cube]

SNAKE714 or something like that. Around lvl 34 but a pretty good skills. I think it's second account (used as jp).

I like multi-account ............ :devil

[siriusglee]

It could be a devious Catherine marketing trick.

Anyway, I've actually befriended some of these sheepgirls, giving them ample space in my *very* limited list of friends. What happens? Next week I'm racing a different sheep girl, slightly different spelling. Need to re-add new one, delete old one.

What am I going to tell my steady girlfriend?

[ion harvest]

She's got more than 2 accounts. There is Hello sheepgirl, sheepgirl, go sheepgirl and probably a few more.

lol