Trackmania (Nations Forever, FREE game, Download or Be Banned)

[epmode]

I would like to get verification on whether or not the digital dl version indeed uses start force

The 0/10 review states that Starforce is only in the boxed copy.

[Chux]

Well, if no starforce on the digital download... here goes.

[epmode]

To be clear, I'm not sure if the digital version actually has Starforce. I'm checking up on that right now. All I know is that I've had no problems since installing.

[Chux]

Damnit ed.

[epmode]

From what I can gather, I think the downloadable version is using a lite version of Starforce (ie. no starforce drivers,) which means that it doesn't install any of the crap that interferes with DVD burners. Still not 100% sure, though.

[ChaoofNee]

Why not just e-mail the company and ask directly?

[Tain]

So the Starforce version has been installed on my laptop. Let's see how long it takes before my PC has AIDS.

Buuut, it does use a new version of Starforce. 4.0 or something. Is there any chance SF have cleaned up their act?

Game itself seems to be like I expected. You can't combine blocks from different environments (I think I was expecting too much, there), but rather, the Stadium environment is kind of a mix of the four prior. Definitely vastly changed from TMNations Stadium. And they've apparently added blocks to the TMO environments and the TMS environments, but I haven't seen any yet. I'd comment on the online community stuff if I had actually bought the game.

Also, the interface doesn't look as nice as the ones in the shots above, if you ask me. It's gone from a OS desktop-looking thing to a glass overlaying FMV of races.

[Tain]

update:

Starforce has been totally cracked out of this game. As in, you don't just bypass it now and get the game to start quicker, but you don't need the drivers on your PC at all. So you can pick up all of Trackmania for the price of one game and not worry about SF.

I don't think this ever happened to Sunrise, so this is an awesome surprise.

Don't know if it'll let you go online with the cracked version, though.

[Compass]

Details? I don't care about online so I'm very interested in this.

[Tain]

"Typical places" carry a crack by Reloaded for the latest patched version of the game. A massive replacement executable for the original that doesn't ask for a disc at all.

www.megagames.com might have it. They only carry cracks ("fixes"), which are more legal than some things I've seen posted in Gaming Discussion.

Also, no clue if 1) Nadeo will patch the game further and 2) if Reloaded will crack whatever updates they add. For Nadeo's previous games, they've released free huge expansion packs. I'm guessing if that happens for United, it'd be cracked, but no guarantee.