In this thread I will explain to you why trackmania is a gayass ******g broken game. I installed it about 3 months ago, and in order to play it with your friends you have to pay 30 ******g euro for club access. I said **** it, bought the game and had fun with it. But what happened to me today made me uninstall it and forced me to start writing this thread. We all know the beloved COTD. Imagine this, i started playing it, got a decent time (not the best cause I'm **** at the game) and was excited to play the map and do my best. But guess what. GUESS ******G WHAT. THIS **** *** LIDL ******** DECIDED TO LAG IN THE MIDDLE OF QUALIFICATIONS AFTER I PRESSED ESCAPE. Note: it wasn't a fault on my end, my pc is more than enough capable of running this ****. So I said whatever, let's restart the game, no big deal and I will get back to playing. BUT GUESS WHAT. GUESS AGAIN. THIS STUPID *** ******G GAME DIDNT COUNT MY TIME I DID ON THE MAP AND I CONNECTED TO THE COTD WITH 30 ******G SECONDS REMAINING TO QUALIFY FOR IT, WHEN THE MAP IS ATLEAST 34 ******G SECONDS LONG!!! SO WHAT HAPPENED ? I DIDN'T GET TO PLAY AT ALL. I am not mad because i expected to win. Not at all. Knowing my capabiliteis I would be out in the first 5 rounds. What ******G BOTHERS ME IS THE FACT THAT I PAYED 30 ******G EURO FOR A GAME THAT DOES THIS TYPE OF ****. I definetly don't recommend this game if you want to keep your mental state intact. And also. I forgot to mention, NADEO can suck my **** and balls. That's all. Hope you have a nice day.
The reason your game lagged on hitting escaped was so the game can load the car skins of all the other players.
The game downloads other car skins in the background while you're playing, and then applies them next time it's paused.
If you're not a fan of that, or don't want it interrupting you while you're focused, you can disable car skin downloads in the settings.
Also, if you're this tilted about a minor game glitch, then you really need to get that checked out.
Well last time I played Trackmania I had two crashes aswell and I haven't played since then. He's right, the game has Issues.
It really sucks to get a world top 250 time denied because you have your game freeze in solo. (was on 50.9 pace, PB 51.2, map 21)
So your cute little explanation with loading the other player's cars doesn't add up.
I played 300 hours without a single crash just to have it happen twice in a day.
the recent crashes came right after a quick series of patches. there was a ranked update and then some hotfix patches right after. Sometimes while updating the game it can mess up, when you are experiencing crashes. Try using the 'verify files' option in the ubisoft connect launcher. I also had the game crash a few times. But this fixed that issue for me.
I would also like to comment on something more general. Trackmania2020 is an ever updating game where new things will get released over time. Every game that does this struggles with bugs, as it is hard to find and fix every bug an update may cause. Even games big as League of Legends have this issue. Nadeo is a much smaller team compared to Riot games so it should not be a surprise that it can be a bit more buggy or it takes a bit longer to fix these issues.
The game looks very good at first glance, but it gets uglier and uglier the more you look into it.
It's not just random crashes ruining our day, there has been 0 initiative towards combatting cheaters, only when it was way too late.
Oh yes let's just change the entire physics (again) and invalidate thousands of hours of mapping work.
Let's ignore AMD customers and their frames issues.
Let's just manually delete some random top50 times of unknown players and see what happens...