Servers support up to one hundred racers, but the option to disable their ghosts is gone, resulting in a cluttered screen that makes it harder to concentrate on putting down a good run.Ĭompetitive offline options have also taken a hit. While it is possible to create a room with a good track-list that stays up as long as it is populated, without the option for player-hosted servers, I can’t see Turbo pulling the small but dedicated community that still exists in TrackMania 2. These servers were the reason I put two-hundred hours into TrackMania 2 Canyon instead of twenty, and spent hours carefully designing tracks with the hopes I would be able to get them onto my favorite server.
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It matters because the heart of the series always resided on ever-populated servers that ran a carefully curated list of tracks that attracted a dedicated playerbase. It matters because the custom plugins and music that really put the ‘mania’ in TrackMania are no longer possible. It matters because you no longer have local records on servers that help you gauge your progress on a favorite track. This might seem like a superficial change at a glance, especially since the location of a server doesn’t matter since you are only ever racing against other player’s times meaning latency is a non-issue. The online multiplayer options are severely limited players can no longer host servers, instead, they are forced to create ‘rooms’ which will be hosted on Nadeo servers. In this sense, Turbo has had its legs roundhouse-kicked out from under it. I spoke at length in my TrackMania 2: Canyon review about the importance of the community in this series, with user-made tracks and player hosted servers being in many ways the backbone of the experience, the thing that kept me coming back to see what new tracks were being made and if I could beat my local record on old favorites. While it is great to have all of these features in a tidy package, something is lost along the way. You can create custom tracks in a track editor with simple, normal and advanced versions that let you build tracks every bit as complex as the ones that ship with the game.
In online multiplayer, you can take as many cracks at a track within a given time span as you can manage, and whichever players have the best single-run time at the end will be atop the leaderboards. You only ever race against ghosts there is no collision between cars. In the campaign mode, you will race for medals on increasingly difficult tracks by getting fast times. In broad strokes, Turbo closely resembles the structure of its predecessors, but with a nicer interface and all four environments bundled into one package.
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