ModNation Racers beta started

ModNation beta started and no body interested in SW? I'm quite supprice, specially after hot LBP vs Mario threads that was poping-up whole week

I signed up at the modnation website and didn't get a code. :( Gamespot is out and I don't have qore.

Thanks for the heads up :)

Edit: Dam it's USA only :(

I really wanted to join the beta but i cant seem to get my psn to work, oh well...

I really wanted to join the beta but i cant seem to get my psn to work, oh well...

brennan7777

How do you get it?Messiahbolical-

I sign up before Dec 3 so i was automaticlly in ^^ I am fan of user generated content, so i'm interested with game at day of it's annoucment and i sign in in first days of signing up

You got still chance for key, you just need to sniff abound

they need to fix the net code but its pretty cool it was fun seeing everybody ride around in the little hub world before u race

I totally forgot about this game

:( Only got a PS3 Theme Voucher of the game.

The beta is really laggy and will probably be mostly unplayable until tomorrow. So far its pretty good but I find that it isn't as good at being a racer as LittleBigPlanet is at being a platformer.NightmareCV

Yea, i heard it's becouse download files are in same servers and ruch downloads is lagging them, i hope it will be ok soon, i already got my first track ready to upload :) track creation it's much easier then LPB levels.

Firstly i was thinking that it's because use it in Europe, but i never had problems with connecting and playing US servers before (On PC ofcorse)

How do you get it?Messiahbolical-

The only way I know is getting LBP: GOTY or LBP PSP.

The game is freaking amazing and the creation tools are more accessible and easier to work for.

Its more community active than LBP since the moment I enter the game I could connect online and interact with people in the mod spot, I could chat, voice chat, share with the people on my room.

Its amazing.

Gameplay is fantastic and smooth.

I made a Joker based mod and kart, made a track that is work in progress, gonna publish it when I make my big jump.

[QUOTE="Messiahbolical-"]How do you get it?Yandere

The only way I know is getting LBP: GOTY or LBP PSP.

And by subscribing to QORE just like me 8)

Can I still get it through qore?

[QUOTE="Yandere"]

[QUOTE="Messiahbolical-"]How do you get it?HAZE-Unit

The only way I know is getting LBP: GOTY or LBP PSP.

And by subscribing to QORE just like me 8)

Can I still get it through qore?

nhh18

If you subscribed before Dec 15 then it sould be already in your mail inbox i think

[QUOTE="HAZE-Unit"]

[QUOTE="Yandere"]

The only way I know is getting LBP: GOTY or LBP PSP.

nhh18

And by subscribing to QORE just like me 8)

Sniff around ;] you can find key giveaways on some forums

. . . I wish I got it. Instead, I got the ModNation Theme Voucher. I'm a very, very sad person right now.Racer_XLR

I got my code earlier, I was only able to get into 1 online race but it was really fun. Hopefully they get a patch or something soon. I still wish they could've somehow got with media molecule and used sackboy as the racers.

I got my code earlier, I was only able to get into 1 online race but it was really fun. Hopefully they get a patch or something soon. I still wish they could've somehow got with media molecule and used sackboy as the racers.

bczigothigh

Nah! Mods (offical name of characters) are more customazable. They already made Spiderman, Joker, Cloud costumes just by useing very limitied elements that are in beta^^

It is just what i expected and im loving it. I spent a good hour, maybe a hour and a half customizing my character and car. The hub is pretty cool, everything is laid out great and its fun seeing all the other people in a hub. I did about 5 races and the controls can use a little tunning, but other then that its great. It is a good fun kart game, the powerups work good, the boosting and ways to earn boost are good, and the maps ive played so far are great. I did the editor for about 10 mins and made a full course. The auto populator works great, but i can tell if you want to make anything spectacular you better do it the long and hard way. There is so much you can customize, i can see building a track of your dreams taking a few hours, but those hours will be fun. I am looking foward to building my own track tonight, its a day one buy for me.

[QUOTE="bczigothigh"]

I got my code earlier, I was only able to get into 1 online race but it was really fun. Hopefully they get a patch or something soon. I still wish they could've somehow got with media molecule and used sackboy as the racers.

ShadowriverUB

Nah! Mods (offical name of characters) are more customazable. I already made Spiderman, Joker, Cloud costumes just by useing very limitied elements that are in beta^^

Yea they are more customizable, I just thought it would have been a good way for sony to further intoduce sackboy as one of their mascots.. Either way though this is going to be a fun game once they get it running right.

dang it! i didnt know they were gonna have a beta... its too late for me :(

OGVampire try playstation blog.

Got in though and downloading will give impressions

And my impressions are going to be mad bias seeing how I completely and utterly adored littlebigplanet. One of my favorites games

I'm loving it so far. Trying my hand at building a track later on tonight. :D

It's loooks like connection is doing better now ^^ i finnaly able to play and i raced 5 in row. It's quite fun.

I like combo power up system, if you keep power up they upgrade if you get another power ups. Too bad that custom tracks are not raceable yet

[QUOTE="ShadowriverUB"]

[QUOTE="bczigothigh"]

I got my code earlier, I was only able to get into 1 online race but it was really fun. Hopefully they get a patch or something soon. I still wish they could've somehow got with media molecule and used sackboy as the racers.

bczigothigh

Nah! Mods (offical name of characters) are more customazable. I already made Spiderman, Joker, Cloud costumes just by useing very limitied elements that are in beta^^

Yea they are more customizable, I just thought it would have been a good way for sony to further intoduce sackboy as one of their mascots.. Either way though this is going to be a fun game once they get it running right.

UFG probebly start working on Modnation artwork before they Sony became there publisher. Besides there plan is to make more ModNation games (see interviews from E3)

EDIT: Opsss i mean "they" not "I"

customization is great and all, but post more about the actual gameplay. They need to get this down if they want my $60

gameplay is incredible. Graphics are also surprisingly great too. It is the framerate. Runnign sub 20 frames per second constantly. It causes control issues, lag, among other things. It really needs to be sorted out big time. It is 20 frames per second locked. It sometimes I feel ike goes to 8 frames per second.

customization is great and all, but post more about the actual gameplay. They need to get this down if they want my $60

mD-

Ok :p

Menu:

It's named ModSpot (similar huh?) it's a area when you drive with your kart and there other players too (if you online mode) you can talk via text and voice. Theres also sceens (similar to home) with info about rankings etc. to do something you drive to specific area and press squre.

Gameplay

-We got 2 online modes Casual and XP, Casual allow you to custom race settings, XP is ranking races, ranking races got only 3 prebulid tracks

-Theres tips that there gonna be split sreens mode, yet unknown how many players

-Theres Buster meter that increses when you make tricks, drifts etc., when you press L1 it turn on boost and deincrese the meter, you will when you load it up to half it will it will allow you use shield (that look the same way as Halo 3 shield granades :shock: ), i don't know how they work i only seen tip for them.

-Power-ups as i allready said, they being upgraded if you keep them and pick them more, i already seen: Missile, Shock Wave, Thunter and ofcorse Boost.

-You can also jump pressing X, when you doble tap it you will jump higher to avoid obsticules

Custmalization:

-Whole customlization part is name Creation Station and there you got 4 rooms for Mods, Karts, Tracks and Shereing machine to Upload and Download user stuff.

-Theres over 250 kinds of eyes, noses and mouths (only few of them are unlocked in beta) also you don't need them to make Mod playable,you cna customize color of eyes

-All stickers are vector graphics (for mods and karts), this means they look the same quality what ever you do to them, theres even some trasformation option in advance editing mode. Also you can edit every color element of every sticker

-As i said theres only few elements in each category and carrer mode is locked, so no unlocking in beta

-Track is quite advance tool and i didn't dive in to all tools yet, so i won't discribe it, you surly see some videos on YouTube soon for that.

My english is not as good to describe everything, so this major things that i notice, ask specific quastion as you like.

[QUOTE="mD-"]

customization is great and all, but post more about the actual gameplay. They need to get this down if they want my $60

ShadowriverUB

Ok :p

Menu:

It's named ModSpot (similar huh?) it's a area when you drive with your kart and there other players too (if you online mode) you can talk via text and voice. Theres also sceens (similar to home) with info about rankings etc. to do something you drive to specific area and press squre.

Gameplay

-We got 2 online modes Casual and XP, Casual allow you to custom race settings, XP is ranking races, ranking races got only 3 prebulid tracks

-Theres tips that there gonna be split sreens mode, yet unknown how many players

-Theres Buster meter that increses when you make tricks, drifts etc., when you press L1 it turn on boost and deincrese the meter, you will when you load it up to half it will it will allow you use shield (that look the same way as Halo 3 shield granades :shock: ), i don't know how they work i only seen tip for them.

-Power-ups as i allready said, they being upgraded if you keep them and pick them more, i already seen: Missile, Shock Wave, Thunter and ofcorse Boost.

-You can also jump pressing X, when you doble tap it you will jump higher to avoid obsticules

Custmalization:

-Whole customlization part is name Creation Station and there you got 4 rooms for Mods, Karts, Tracks and Shereing machine to Upload and Download user stuff.

-Theres over 250 kinds of eyes, noses and mouths (only few of them are unlocked in beta) also you don't need them to make Mod playable,you cna customize color of eyes

-All stickers are vector graphics (for mods and karts), this means they look the same quality what ever you do to them, theres even some trasformation option in advance editing mode. Also you can edit every color element of every sticker

-As i said theres only few elements in each category and carrer mode is locked, so no unlocking in beta

-Track is quite advance tool and i didn't dive in to all tools yet, so i won't discribe it, you surly see some videos on YouTube soon for that.

My english is not as good to describe everything, so this major things that i notice, ask specific quastion as you like.

[QUOTE="ShadowriverUB"]

[QUOTE="mD-"]

customization is great and all, but post more about the actual gameplay. They need to get this down if they want my $60

mD-

Ok :p

Menu:

It's named ModSpot (similar huh?) it's a area when you drive with your kart and there other players too (if you online mode) you can talk via text and voice. Theres also sceens (similar to home) with info about rankings etc. to do something you drive to specific area and press squre.

Gameplay

-We got 2 online modes Casual and XP, Casual allow you to custom race settings, XP is ranking races, ranking races got only 3 prebulid tracks

-Theres tips that there gonna be split sreens mode, yet unknown how many players

-Theres Buster meter that increses when you make tricks, drifts etc., when you press L1 it turn on boost and deincrese the meter, you will when you load it up to half it will it will allow you use shield (that look the same way as Halo 3 shield granades :shock: ), i don't know how they work i only seen tip for them.

-Power-ups as i allready said, they being upgraded if you keep them and pick them more, i already seen: Missile, Shock Wave, Thunter and ofcorse Boost.

-You can also jump pressing X, when you doble tap it you will jump higher to avoid obsticules

Custmalization:

-Whole customlization part is name Creation Station and there you got 4 rooms for Mods, Karts, Tracks and Shereing machine to Upload and Download user stuff.

-Theres over 250 kinds of eyes, noses and mouths (only few of them are unlocked in beta) also you don't need them to make Mod playable,you cna customize color of eyes

-All stickers are vector graphics (for mods and karts), this means they look the same quality what ever you do to them, theres even some trasformation option in advance editing mode. Also you can edit every color element of every sticker

-As i said theres only few elements in each category and carrer mode is locked, so no unlocking in beta

-Track is quite advance tool and i didn't dive in to all tools yet, so i won't discribe it, you surly see some videos on YouTube soon for that.

My english is not as good to describe everything, so this major things that i notice, ask specific quastion as you like.

The power ups from what I've seen there are 4 different power-ups with 3 different levels. All are generic and not really fun to use. Their isn't a Mine ish power up from what I've seen. Or something that shoots back at enemies behind you.

The framerate is sub 20 fps.

The track advance tools are clunky and need a tutorial. It is very easy to make a decent track (probably take 10 minutes) but almost impossible to fine tune it. There is no tutorial nothing that tells you how or what to do.

Also there appears to not be any battle mode similar to super mario kart. At least in the hub world. There is split screen, etc. But only racing, and time trial atm appear apparent. Anything else is just rumored and would need to change the hub world.

The gameplay is though incredible. Fast pace, not much lag either for the game(the network is great which surprised me). Framerate stutters at moments. Especially on start up and on track creation.

im a qore subscriber so i got mine, though i wont be downloading it.

I give props to Sony. This is about the only way they could release a 1p PSN game that actually works with PSN.

The European Beta doesn't start until after new year I think, which sucks. I wonder if UFG will send me a code if I send them a nice email... :P

As far as gameplay goes, I wish it had more of that power slide feel that Mario Kart used to have in either 1 or 2. Love they added the jump feature, but would be nice that you didn't lose speed when trying to use it like Mario kart lol. But over all so far for my little time with it, its going to be a blast for sure. Definitly when I get more used to it.

Heres some screeens that i find on net

ModSpot:

Some mod creations:

Hamster powered throne kart ^^:

The European Beta doesn't start until after new year I think, which sucks. I wonder if UFG will send me a code if I send them a nice email... :P

BZSIN

Nice customization pics of the modnation avatars. At first I didn't like them and I wanted to use Sack people instead so we don't have to pay for skins all over again. But since you can customize them any way you like, makes them better now. I had to stop downloading the beta last night and start downloading now. I'm at 61% percent.