Astronoid : spaceships racing online from canyons to space at 2000 km/h

Hello !

After asking here :
http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/we...tml#post105661
People told me I could post a thread about that game I love. If you don't want this topic on your forum, don't hesitate to lock it, delete it or whatever you want. But please don't insult me as if I was a spammer selling viagra, and don't be aggressiv. I'm really who I say I am.

So here I go :

I discovered Astronoid 8 weeks ago and am really addicted to it. It’s so fun to race online with other peoples. I would like to race with more people, that’s why I come here to recommend it. We aren’t so much players yet because the game has just been released for the first time. The developpers haven’t got any money (nor time) to promote it. That’s why, we, players, decided to help.
It would be very kind of you if you could speak about this game around you, that would be so cool to support an independant game.



I’ll try to sum up the idea to you :

Astronoid delivers a multiplayer, high-speed galactic shoot-and-race PC game playable on the Internet. Racing (or shooting) other players online in a space ship with quick and fluid mouse-controlled steering and a 3-D front-seat vantage point, the game begins as simple, arcade-like fun and soon unveils a depth as impressive as the top simulation games.

It’s very innovative because it uses P2P which allows 5000 players to be online at the same time, adding everybody’s CPU and bandwitdh creating a sort of “huge computer”, no more problem of “host” for the game.

Before coming to race with us, have a look at a video, these aren’t official trailers, you will find the official one on the website. These are only classical races, the killkill mode is more impressive !

Astronoid’s website : http://www.astronoid.net/en/accueil/index.html
Official trailer (130mb) : http://download2.astronoid.net/video...id-ingame1.avi
Players videos : http://realjarod.free.fr/Astronoid/ingame/asteroa.avi (15mb)
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/djean007/_pr...selongwalk.wmv (26mo)


But the best thing to do would be to download it first, it’s free, you can play on 4 planets with 3 different ships. Of course, as usual, if you pay you can have more planets and faster ships. But lots of us only play on the free tracks, and we have fun like this too. But as I’m really addicted, I bought my licence

We’re waiting for you !

Best regards,

Snail (don’t hesitate to tell me if you try the game, I’ll be pleased to come and play online with you and give you tips


PS : Any feedback would be trully appreciated




Jam it back in, in the dark.

Downloading, it looks like fun.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Cool
If you want to play with me, I'm online right now, just join a game and I'll come.
I hope you managed to pass your driving licence test
Don't hesitate to come and play with me, I'll give you tips to drive better and killkill safer !
Cheers,
And thanks for anyfeedback.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

This game is pretty boring =\ I don't get the feeling I'm going very fast, and there is no music.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Of course you don't have the feeling of going fast... that's because you don't ! :lol:
When you first try the game, you only have the schoolship (then class I) which only go at 500km/h, the best ships can go at 2000km/h, but you couldn't drive them in first. That's why there's this step...

Have you looked a video ?
After few races you will unlock all the class serie, try class X, I'm sure you'll find it fast and that you will first have big problems to drive it. And it's not the faster ship. But the better would be to take the class III you'll quick manage to drive it (doesn't mean you'll never crash).

Have another try and you'll see I'm not kidding... 5 minutes isn't long to have a real opinion on a game is it ?

Also, if you race alone, the game looses a lot of its interest, killkill mode is great when you're more than 4 players, it's just thunder and lightning everywhere !

Please, come and play with me so I can give you tips and play a real fun game, believe me.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback, but please, give it another try

PS : For the music, you can easily take some you like and play it in your favorite media player.

I was speaking idiomatically.

So 500 km/h should look like I'm (and how appropiate) riding a snail? Also, I don't find "just put something up in your favourite media player" a valid argument for the missing music.

But yea - we can play sometime, no problem.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Quote:

So 500 km/h should look like I'm (and how appropiate) riding a snail?

As we say in french "mort de rire" which means lol, but more than that, kinda "killed by laugh". I indeed had a good laugh seeing this one.

Perhaps you're right about the music, it's just that personnaly, I usually cut the music and put mine.

I would be very pleased to meet you on tracks, which time would be cool for you ? (don't forget to tell me which time you're speaking of, GMT, New-York, etc).

Again, thanks a lot for the feedback

Has anybody else tried it ?

FELIPE NO

Well if you have MSN/AIM, just look in my profile and add me - we can arrange something.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Sorry... I'm a complete nOOb :lol:
I don't use msn
But lets meet just now if you can right now...
I'll give you my e-mail.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Hello everybody.
Just a little post to tell you that after discussing of the game with lots of people, some said me the game was to slow...

Just wanted to tell you it’s because when you begin, you only have schoolship, then class AI (only 600km/h max), but after 20 races you can drive class X (nearly 2000km/h) or class III, which are more funny. It’s only because people need to learn how to drive those ships.

Have a look at the videos, they are all real ingame videos, and see if it looks slow ! lol

Astronoid is the fastest multiplayer racing game !

Also, some found it boring because they raced alone or with only another person...
The game looses a lot of its interest if there’s not at least 4 persons. Killkill mode with 8 persons is just great, thunder, speed and lightning everywhere ! Great adrenaline for me, but it’s normal, I love racing games

So if you tried the game and found it boring (how can that be possible ??? lol), please have another try and come to play with us. There are peoples on servers right now.

Have a nice week everybody.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Hello everybody,
A little post to let you know that Astronoid 2.0.1 is out.
What’s new about it ? Beginner server is still free and there’s now a new track called moontwist. A really tricky and technical track with buildings and tunnels... don’t try it on rusty tanker ship first
Another new thing is that rusty tanker has been upgraded. The boost is far longer which means the races are lot faster. I had to change all my driving practices, but it’s more fun like this...
You don’t need to download a new version, just run astronoid and the update will be automatic. For those who don’t have astronoid yet and whom are too lazy to search, here’s the link :
http://www.astronoid.net/en/accueil/index.html

Here’s a new players video, it’s on race mode with tiger squale, no weapon, the idea was to show that astronoid is the fastest online racing game, and you have real collision and shooting in it...
Video :
http://downloadbis.astronoid.net/vid...pitaf-Prov.avi

That’s it
Hoping to meet some of you on tracks soon,

Have a nice week-end,

Cheers,

Snail

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.