So the full version is out in case anyone was interested and didn't know. Anyone been playing it? I've heard many in the community voice some complaints over the lack of some features being carried over from Nations and the whole having to use mediaplanet bit but I'm too addicted to care. "Just one more lap, just one more lap..."

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Read any blog/news story on this and half the comments are "waiting for a Steam release." Depressing.

I have it since the beta release and I love every bit of it. Of course, it's not Nations... and that's also why I love it! The new environment is simply great, the new car is an interesting challenge to master and the tracks (especially the community-made ones) are deliciously difficult!

Plus, it's not a Steam game and Maniaplanet doesn't bother me at all.

So, yeah, for 20€ I'm more than happy! Now I'm just looking for a team or a group of players to play with...

It's great, but they should have renamed it DriftMania :-/

I'm looking forward to the next environments. Hoping they'll be expansions and not full-priced standalone releases. Not that the game is all that expensive, but getting a single environment for the same price as the 7 environments in TMUF just doesn't exactly feel like a wonderful deal.

Just Pavlov dogs .

Pavlov's cat was much more entertaining ;-)

I'm with you there. Looking forward to seeing how they support the game with more environments and hopefully easier sharing of tracks and the like. I will say that they've nailed the drifting though, I never botch a turn and think "This game is flawed!!!" And while it's easy to get down after a bit it's still difficult to get a perfect drift on every turn most tracks. Makes for lots of competitive fun.

Well, yes. I'm not saying thay've botched the drifting, it's very well executed. It's just that that seems to be all the game is about now, which I find kind of annoying. But maybe I just haven't played enough tracks yet.

Oh, and anyone besides me absolutely hate track A08? It's not about drifting, I'll give it that, but putting it in the easiest category? It's basically random what time you get.

They did that with Motoracer 3, which was quite annoying. The first two games were arcadish, but reasonable, then they released 3, and it was just ridiculous.

I was agreeing with ya, I was just saying that at least the drifting is satisfying seeing as that's the main thing to the game at the moment. Hopefully we'll see more tweaks come and along with user generated tracks the game will flesh out a bit. I haven't been particularly overwhelmed with the user made tracks so far but I realize it's still quite early.

No wonder. Gamesplanet is in russian by default for me. Can't find way how to change it.

I don't like Eddie Izzard .

A08 is all about precision coming out of the first turn, and then timing your acceleration in mid air while to avoid bouncing off the bumps. I usually run the track with a time of 19.5 to 20 secs.