#nadeo

It’s a shame Xfire isn’t around anymore; Xfire did a lot of what Steam did with its social features before Steam did. It let you take screenshots, tracked play time, let you chat from an overlay inside of games, etc. As Steam got better, Xfire eventually shut down.

As such, I had this big moment of “Have I played much Trackmania? HEH” and I was gonna show off how I’ve probably put 50-100+ hours in to Trackmania Nations.

Unfortunately that was all in the Xfire days, before Steam started tracking play time. I am also actually talking about Trackmania Nations, which was the f2p release that only contained the Stadium environment.

Here’s an extremely old video of Trackmania Nations I probably recorded using Xfire.

Here’s a slightly more famous (and bloated) video, where I use a Sonic the Hedgehog skin for Trackmania United on some autodrive tracks:

But yeah, me and my cousin played a lot of Trackmania together back in 2007-2010. He kind of became too busy with life and we sort of wrung most of what we wanted to get out of that game anyway, but I still keep it installed and go back to it on occasion.

I also have Trackmania 2: Canyon and Trackmania 2: Stadium. I remember sending my cousin this video of the open beta for Stadium and him telling me, “That looks like fun.” I don’t know that we’ve ever played Trackmania 2 together.

I’m also less inclined to go back Trackmania 2 in general after their engines got “updated” to have worse visuals and slightly different physics (which broke a bunch of user-made tracks).Ubisoft or Nadeo or whoever really dropped the ball for letting that happen.

I also own Trackmania Turbo on PS4, but I’ll admit I haven’t finished it (as much as a Trackmania game can be considered “finished”) because I don’t know if I like it. It’s nice, I guess, but something about it feels weirdly… hollow.

Nadeo

Auf die Plätze, fertig, los! #Trackmania ist da!

Ab sofort ist das neue Trackmania auf dem PC verfügbar! Seit dem heutigen Mittwochabend, 1. Juli 2020, können sich rennspielbegeisterte Spieler das neue Trackmania herunterladen. Seit 18:30 Uhr stellt Ubisoft den Download des Titels der Entwickler bei Nadeo zur Verfügung. Sowohl für Solo-Spieler als auch Multiplayer-Fans ist im neuesten Serienableger etwas dabei.

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Trackmania available for FREE on PC via Uplay and Epic Games Store, with paid editions optional

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Anunciado #Remake del clásico #TrackmaniaNations con mejoras y nuevo contenido #Ubisoft

El clásico de carreras llegará con ciertos cambios a la fórmula que enfocarán el juego más como un servicio

Ubisoft Nadeo confirmó esta semana el remake del clásico juego de carreras Trackmania Nations, que fue lanzado en 2006 originalmente como un spin-off.

La decisión llega, según la compañía, en respuesta a la…