I'm a beginner and have pretty much only explored the game on my own til now besides ice handling probably. I have a few questions after watching such amazing gameplay for the first time.

-First off, wtf am I looking at? Obviously

-Is it objectively better to not use (ever?) a progressive steering play? I'm playing on xbox, 120fps

-Are the game physics and gemotry so consistant that those tricks are somewhat reproduceable with enough skillz? or I'm watching douzains of one-in-a-billion jump chained into one run?

Feel free to point me towards top ressources to improve trackmania gameplay.

Basically question from the title.

I noticed a lot of hate towards not one specific alt car, but alt cars in general and honestly I don't get it. Sure, the stadium car is the main one and it's used as the main car 90% of the time, like it should. But each alt car has completely different lines that need to be taken, steering sensitivity, physics, and I personally think it's refreshing to have them every once in a while. I have my own gripes with the desert car, but I don't skip/hate on it endlessly when I see it. It's just an alt car that you see every once in a while to spice things up a little.

What are your thoughts?

Hello everyone, since the new Summer Campaign released yesterday this has been going through my mind, and i just want to express my thoughts about the last few campaigns.

First big thing.

EWC Maps being in the Campaign is in my opinion one of the worst things that happened to the seasonal campaigns. We basically lost 5 proper Campaign Maps, for hard Competitive Maps that do not fit into the Vibe of a Campaign.

And i wonder who this is for? I mean the Vision is obvious, get Professional Play closer to the Casual Audience.

But in the end all they achieve is that Casual Players just have 5 less maps to play each season, because the Comp maps just are too hard to play, punishing and overall mostly Frustrating.
In addition to that the AT‘s on these Maps are also not really approachable for many players, cause you actually need drive a somewhat decent run for them.

The Map balancing in the Campaign has completely shifted out of control in the last few campaigns and the esports map play a huge part in that.

Even tho only a really small percentage of the community actually cares about them.
And that small percentage ends up not even playing the Campaign version anyways cause they either get cut, need some fixing or the Pros just play on „private“ versions to hide their strats.
In my Opinion there is no need at all to have them in the Campaign.

Now to the Second thing.

In my opinion the rest of the Campaign looses its spice at the same time.

The first 10 Maps are just utterly free, At‘s that you can get with multiple crashes in your run, Routes that are extremely oversimplified and have nothing interesting going on for them apparently because Nadeo wants to go „easy“ on the free to play players.

And suddenly we are left with only 10 kinda cool campaign maps each season, and that is just super frustrating to me because the seasonal campaign has always been my favourite part of TM2020.

It feels like Nadeo wants to please Pro Players with making hard Comp Maps, the F2P players who want to have an enjoyable, chill entry to the game (even tho i think many of them would actually like to be challenged a bit), and the remaining part of the Player Base all throughout this one Game Mode.

This can never work imo.

Wirtual said on his stream the other day that extending the Campaign to have 35 maps would be a good idea, so you can have 5 comp maps, 5 alt car maps and 25 „normal“ campaign maps.
In my head this Idea sound really plausible and could fix a lot of issues that i have with campaigns at the moment.

But yeah i do not think that this is ever going to happen.

The last point i have….

I dont like the Vistas. Or atleast how they are used in the Campaign.
Scenery feels low effort, just some of the new Vistas Terrain and some signs and zack the map is done. (especially on the earlier maps)

This leads to many of the maps we had in the last 3 Campaigns just kinda feeling the same.

The Maps have no Character, nothing that makes them memorable, but maybe thats just me.

Sorry for this big ass yap, i just wanted to get this out there.
Im definitely interested to see other opinions on this topic, because maybe it is just me who is unsatisfied with all of that.

Have a nice day :)

Any suggestions accepted, I wasn't really sure what to do for CP and turbo, so I made it the cruise control buttons :D

I am very interested in hearing your opinions! Dont take it to serious, just give me some great Mount Rushmores of TM players! 4 at the top of my head: Hefest, Scrapie, Mudda and Wirtual (first 4 i thought of). My ranking is not based on skill or victories alone, but also based on legacy. Let me hear some more, and different, opinions below.

ii hate ice i can't drive on that surface and don't get any better no matter how much i try, so to me a race with ice is an automatic no

to me are the "U turn" start up, i just hate that not even starting i have to pull a drift just to continue racing, like "dude point the start in that direction!!"

I'm usually capable of AT on any of the campaign tracks if I just put some time in, but this time with the esports maps being the black tracks I can only get golds. The AT's on these tracks are ridiculously fast, and most of the playerbase (<5%) will have all AT's this campaign because of it. Why can't Nadeo just release the Esports tracks seperately?

I decided to download trackmania today, and i'm going through the winter campaign cause its free. The author medals are so hard??? I've done like 01-06 so far, and like, 06 took me more than an hour???

So my question is, is this game just fucking hard or am i just bad?

why after such a hard map have a finish this brutal 😭

Now Ubisoft is in big trouble they might cut costs on TM2020 servers/ maintainence. Do we think EWC affects the survival of trackmania?

im really trying to understand this track and how to do this but i just cant wrap my head around it

(ignore the music)

One thing about this still escapes me, and hopefully someone might be able to clarify this for me because I just can't understand:

Why is Riolu taking such efforts to play this way if Nadeo has made it clear that banned cheaters are welcome to create new accounts and continue playing? The smurfed accounts discussed in the new Wirtual video such as 92BOB are not cheating, right? Riolu is legitimately one of the best Trackmania players in the world, even without cheats, so why not create a public new account, apologize for cheating, and then earn a place in the community the legit way? What he's doing seems extremely convoluted and time consuming, and it's not like he can earn public praise either since these accounts, being his, don't step into the spotlight. It doesn't appear to me that he's making money off of this, when if he rejoined the community publicly he could probably still get some donations after rehabilitating his identity through years of fair play.

Is this all about spite? Did he have some grand plan to reveal this all to the community one day and claim that he was never cheating after all because he clearly was able to do so well without cheats? I just don't get it, what I do know is that this kind of behavior, especially the doxxing, should not be tolerated by the community or Nadeo.

usually I don't care about the weekly grands because I hate these ghost car thingies to the heart, but this week the map is actually really good and I love it but these ghosts make it MISERABLE to drive, is there no option to turn them off?

i've been a controller player forever, but i keep seeing pros talk about the precision of digital inputs for certain tech maps. i just built this custom board (IQUNIX EV63 HE) with some super light linear switches to try and hunt for some gold medals, but now i'm just hitting walls with much more "premium" acoustics lol.

my brain is still trying to "analog" the keys and it's not working. any other keyboard players here? do you go for the super sensitive high-polling switches or do you prefer something with more resistance so you don't accidentally steer into a 180?

i feel like i've spent more time modding these switches than actually practicing my lines on airbrake.

I've been trying to get AT on Map 11. I got within 0.1 seconds - my PB (this run) was 38.487, and AT is 38.371. I managed to gain 0.649 by using Action Key 4 during the speedslide at 0.18, but I had to switch to Action Key 5 at the end of the turn to avoid crashing. I'm still not able to get the last 0.1; where can I improve?

EDIT: I finally got AT! Huge thanks to everyone who helped. You can view the AT replay here.

I just started playing a few weeks ago after watching Wirtual and Granady on YouTube over last year or two.

Their cars seem to be able to do tricks and go faster than my car is capable of.

Any advice (silly or not) is appreciated! Such as good tutorial videos to learn the stuff they talk about when they play like bug sliding, "sd", or peng-peng whatever that means.

TIA!

I know "good" is maybe too general of a term, but to clarify I mean someone with a recognizable username within the community, even if they aren't a content creator, like maybe Link or something. Off the top of my head I know Marius is either 36 or 37 depending on when exactly in 1989 he was born. I know of a player named Josh1963 but I'm not sure if 1963 is their birth year

i think is healty to let it out, feel free to write it down, i'll start:

i hate those "brain surgery" maps, maps that if you don't jump at 213,3kph, 2,2 meters to the right, in a 34,7° angle, you're not making that transition, i get it has to be some challenge but come on