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Good evening!
I was a bit bored and started collecting everything written on this board that would improve the game or would be nice to see in a sequel. I broke everything down into some categories but it's not ordered in any way (like from "we need" to "would be nice") because everyone has another opinion on that. So it's a pretty mixed (and big) list. I'm going to extend this if something else pops up somewhere. For now, check if I missed something or if you would like to add something else.
Everything was collected here at the board or added by myself. Threads:
- Suggestions
- Ideas for DLC
- What would you like to see in DLC
Bugs to fix
- rotation hinges activate triggers
- explosives dont activate triggers unless their physics are activated through another trigger
- cameras are solid
- broken replay (shows that a player is falling in a faultless run)
- "Rock'n'physics" Bug (Details)
- Exchange "corrupted track" with "exceeded object limit" or don't let us upload those in the first place
- Patch "Stretch Armstrong" (down the stairs glitch) and fix the Leaderboards (Details)
- No Tracks visible in HD-Mode when they were done in SD-Mode (Details)
Bikes
- "Rollcage Bike" for fun
- "Tuned Donkey Bike" with more power, maybe 250cc
- "Tuned Phoenix" with LT acting ONLY as a break. To roll backwards press LT + RT
Driver Customization
- A female rider
- More areas to change the color
- Maybe a bunch of black'n'white symbols to use on your shirt & helmet like in halo
Replays
- Rewind
- Slowmo
- Save my own replays to disk
- Share my best replays with friends
- Commenting a replay with a headset
Track Editor
- Water extinguishes a driver on fire
- Undo / Redo
- "Overall complexity" in Menu or a objects counter to check how many are left
- "Liquid Room" for decoration. Just a room full of water, green hazard or lava
- "Change Wall" option to directly choose a texture (from the included) for the selected wall
- Ropes! Using them from point to point to hold things up (bridge?). Selectable strength (solid, swinging, breakable) and maybe a variety of materials (a drivable chain anyone?).
- pulleys, motors, and springs of several strengths
- While copying or setting a new object it would be nice to have a button to snap to the nearest object. Aligning small objects or traintracks can be a pain in the ***.
- Option to choose which bikes you can choose on a custom track
- Command to rotate camera exactly 90 degrees on the editor, a left-right and top-down view would be great for aligning stuff
- More objects per track (maybe double it or mark bigger tracks as "bigger track" but 56kb would still be a really light download)
- Save (complicated) objects to disk for use in another track
- Restricted object movement (move only along X, Y, or Z axis). This would be like holding ctrl-shift in Photoshop.
- Of course: More objects to choose from. Highly missed is a car obstacle
- "Unglue all" for an object
- Copy a "fat object" (which takes more the half of the rooms complexity) to the next room
- "Empty Room"-Command or..
- Delete more then one block at a time (maybe select the width, height and depth of the block you would like to delete)
- Water pressure (So the waterfall can act as an upward geyser)
- Make a line for the camera to follow (So the camera can follow you down a long, narrow hallway and not skip between multiple cameras on the way)
- Option to remove physics between objects with a link, this would be useful on for example glued together objects: you could deactivate physics between the glued objects and the object will remain solid but interact with the other objects.
- More customization for the current obstacles (eg: different cage wall configurations)
- A Squirrel, maybe even an animated one
Track Sharing
- Include the gamertag in the file and show it in a separate row on the screen. Gives us more characters to name our maps because we don't have to include our name
- Include a revision in the file and show it also in a separate row. Now we can see if the level was altered and how many times it was renewed.
- Leaderboard for user created tracks.
- A flag to set that my track is free to redistribute. So another user can share this track with his friends who don't have added me.
- Kill the 100 track limit and give us the chance to store as many maps as we can on our HDD.
- Global rating of user created tracks (one to five stars)
- Commenting a track would be nice but I guess thats beyond a DLC
- Sorting by Trackname, Author, difficulty and rating
- Custom Tournaments: Choose the tracks. Set the medal times. Set the faults. Share with friends.
- Mark people with new tracks/tracks I don't have bold on the list while the rest stays regular
General Improvements
- Statistics would be nice. Like "Time played", "Time in the Air", "Bails" and so on
- Selectable time/replay as ghost while playing
- More official levels obviously
- Double tap back button for restart to prevent accidental restarts
- "Training" or "Freeplay" mode to play levels without the timer & faults counter (won't give you medals though)
- Single Play: "Random Track" option. It selects a random track to play. Once finished, press A to play another random track.
Avatar props/gear & misc
- Dented flaming helmet (mentioned above)
- Broken off bike handle bars for your avatar to hold
- A flaming bike wheel that just rolls in circles around the avatar
- An RC Trials bike, similar to the Halo RC car
- The full riding outfit from the game
- Trials HD Theme
Multiplayer thoughts (Trials HD 2)
- Hotseat mode: Select 2 - 4 players, select rounds to play (2 - 9) and your mode. Great would be the fun tracks like breaking bones, longest jump and highest ride.
- Hotseat olympia: As above but every round means a new fun track
- No faults: the first player selects a level and gets to ride it until he falls. The second player has now the chance to get further then the first one to win the round. To be fair it would be better to select 1-10 tracks random (depending on how many rounds are selected).
- Splitscreen racing (up to two players)
- "Co-op delivery" for normal levels with one player controlling the bike, the other controlling another rider on the backseat. If he falls they'll have to start over
- "Co-op down the stairs" - self explaining
- "Micro machines"-kinda mode: 2 - 4 Players on one track, the camera is in wide angle, "back" and "B" is locked. Everyone has to try to outrace the rest (meaning touching the right side of the screen). Who is left behind disappears and will be back in the game at the next round (when someone outrun everyone else). Everyone who played MM in multiplayer know what I mean..
JORMA says if you hit LB and B objects will snap to closest surface. It may help...Originally Posted by lu3mm3l
Nice job getting a lot of this stuff in one place
Great post. Just three I'd like you to add to the list:
Level Editor - 'Empty Room' or Preset rooms, e.g 3x40x10 blocks.
Single Play - 'Random Track' option. It selects a random track to play. Once finished, press A to play another random track.
Custom Tournaments - Choose the tracks. Set the medal times. Set the faults. Share with friends.
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Added your suggestions and: the HD/SD-Tracks-Bug and the marking of people with new tracks so we don't have to check everyone for new tracks.
i have one to add: the ghost/time thing at the top with the bike, make an option for what you are riding rank wise, OR keep at 1st! i hate it, if i crash it goes to 10th on my friends list, 99% of the time i am trying for 1st unless its inferno 2
...oh and have the rider be your Xbox Avatar. But I think I heard MS doesnt allow violence towards Avatars....so maybe when you crash or get impaled rainbows could shoot out?
Thanks for putting in the work on this. One idea I had that I didn't see here is to have a score mode for tech runs. Trials 2 SE had an "Experience" meter that scored your tricks. This would double the replay value of Trials HD, and would be a great source of entertainment watching top videos from the tech leaderboards.
some more things I'd like:
editor:
-color objects a solid color if you want (like the rider's clothes)
-a realign axis's function to get tilted objects easier control after
-a "chase" behavior for physics objects that can make them stay after the player until you stop them with another trigger
-fan object with a wide range of potential force, including enough to make the player fly a bit
game:
-a track line point tool that lets you move a part of the track line forward or back to make driving a little cinematic in places
-ability to turn the bike around and drive right to left (so we can make real platforming levels easy
- STUNT MODE! scoring of tricks you do in a level plus you've got to finish it
- More "dangers" besides heavy explosives and falling. a pointy spike, a small and normal size cannon ball, and of course, evil robots (lol hey I can dream)
lol theirs a glitch you can do this alreadyOriginally Posted by radica1travis-ability to turn the bike around and drive right to left (so we can make real platforming levels easy
I'm sure I've said this elsewhere, but how about porting all the tracks from Trials and Trials 2 SE?
