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    RetiredRonin's Avatar Senior Community Manager
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    Trials Fusion MP Update with ANBA

    You've asked, and here's ANBA with some info on Trials Fusion's MP Mode, as well as when you can expect it. This isn't the full article, but you can certainly find a link to that at the bottom of this post.

    The Evolution of Multiplayer

    Before telling you where we’ve gone with multiplayer, we want you to see how we’ve learned from and improved upon the online multiplayer in Trials Evolution. Evolution was the first time online multiplayer was included in a Trials game, and the two online multiplayer modes in Evolution were originally single-player modes that we converted to work for multiplayer. While the experience was fun, we knew we could do even better with a mode built from the ground up exclusively for multiplayer.

    We were somewhat limited with what we could create after having With Trials Evolution, we had used every available resource on the Xbox 360, so our first multiplayer mode in that game (“single driving lane”) was based on a career mode. We used ghost riders to depict the competition but noticed that while they were meant to be unobtrusive, they were still distracting and blocked players’ views. Also, if you were too far ahead or behind, it felt like you were racing alone.

    Trials Fusion

    The second mode we created was similar to the Local Multiplayer mode, with four players riding side by side on identical driving lanes. The problem became the placement of the camera; it was randomly determined who was in the front of the screen and whoever was chosen had the best visibility. If you were in the back of the pack the camera was sometimes so far away it became hard to drive and see. While this isn’t typically a problem in Local Multiplayer when you’re with friends, yelling and having fun – it didn’t translate well online, where it could feel remote and unfair.

    Overall we weren’t fully satisfied with these multiplayer modes, and the players agreed. Our statistics showed that players only spent10% of their time in the multiplayer, and of that only 3.8% was spent in public multiplayer. In comparison, 33% of our players in Trials Fusion are using Track Central daily and more than 40% have tried Local Supercross. This lack of engagement with multiplayer in Evolution is the reason we redesigned multiplayer to provide a superior racing experience.
    Not enough? Please check out the Ubisoft Blog post by none other than ANBA himself, Mr. Antti Ilvessuo.
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    Seriously hyped!!!
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    Looks rad, hopefully the debbie downers that doubted multiplayer would ever come out will start singing a different tune.
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    Cool, looking forward to it, can't say how much yet, since there is limited information out at this point but I am totally going to keep my eye out for it. Thanks for the update!
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    Shifty, is there any chance you could get us a video of MP in action, even if it is just a little snippet? Stills are good, but you know we would like some more.....
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    If I understand correctly that there will be only supercross multiplayer. That is really disappointing. :/ Well, it is better than nothing, I guess :/
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    Finally \o/ Alleluja \o/ Yipi kai hey \o/
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    Very Interesting

    rendering the rider in front was a very good idea.

    still lot's of questions tough...
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    Ok the Hype is over. I hate to sound greedy, but the information is rather uhh... lacking? You have basically told us that we are getting 8 player super cross which don't get me wrong, is nice, but what about the stuff we ACTUALLY care about? Is there a reason there was no mention of private single player maps? The tone given by the post in regards to this mode wasn't exactly great, it wouldn't surprise me at all if you guys left it out entirely... Big mistake if this turns out to be true.
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    So 8 players, instead of 4. You will be rendered in the first lane, so no bikes will get in front of your bike.
    Is this it?
    Would you really call this a HUGE revamping? 7 months for 4 more lanes and riding in the first lane? Really?

    I'm not even trying to knock this, but just being truthful here. I have no dislike towards anyone at Redlynx...but I wonder who is the director of the show there.
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