Trackmania

[h1]Nothing that happens in this game is my fault, except all of it[/h1] The car has three inputs. Accelerate, brake, steer. No upgrades, no tuning, no unlocks, no build. Every single person on the leaderboard is driving the identical car on the identical track. So when the name above mine is 0.6 faster, there's no gear to blame and no meta to copy. They are just better at pressing a button than I am. It's the most personally insulting design decision in gaming and I've handed it 26 hours. Here's how it gets you. A track lasts under a minute. You finish, you get gold, you feel great. Then you see you're 0.4 off author medal, and author medal is the one that means "you have actually understood this track." So you go again. And somewhere around run forty you realise you don't have to brake at that corner at all - you can just lift, let it drift, and pray. You make it. You immediately die at the next checkpoint. Doesn't matter. You saw the faster line exist. You can't unsee it. You're not leaving now. Restart is instant. No loading, no death screen, no "are you sure?", no menu. Cross the line, tap restart, you're already in the countdown. Forty-five minutes vanish into one corner and you only notice because your hand hurts. And then, eventually, ice. [b]Ice.[/b] Ice does not acknowledge your inputs. Ice has reviewed your inputs and declined them. You will glide serenely into a wall at full speed with the steering fully counter-locked, and then the game will show you a replay so you can study exactly how it happened. Then you'll do it nineteen more times. My personal best on that map is still worse than the person who set theirs on a keyboard, and I think about that. Yes, there's a paywall, and I'd rather just buy the game like a normal person. I haven't paid yet. I'm still on the free campaign and haven't run out of things to be bad at. But I can see the day coming, and the genuinely annoying part isn't the money - it's that I already know I'm going to hand it over. Ubisoft Connect also launches alongside Steam. Every time. I've made peace with it the way you make peace with weather. Try the free version. If you clear the training maps thinking "these are too easy" - that's not confidence, that's the sound of the trap closing.

I wouldn't really mind the game being subscription based since the price is a remotely adequate, but their feints with moving everything out of steam is disgusting: * standalone launcher sucks. period. * you can't pay via steam. * even for tmnf they moved UPDATES out of steam. It's shady at best

Very fun game, but I cannot stomach being forced to get a subscription to play a supposedly free game. And on top of that, the money will be used to support the human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia

F2P is now locked behind a paywall for campaign maps, that were all F2P before...

The free version does not really offer much especially when compared to Trackmania Nations Forever. As for actually buying the game then thats not possible, its subscription only - stop paying and you lose access. That alone is enough for a downvote but to make matters worse it all runs through UPlay.

Trackmania used to be fun. But now it is locked behind a paywall. I really liked this game, but over time it got worse. Do not recommend.

I HATE THIS GAME SO BAD IDK WHY IM EVEN PLAYING IT HEAVILY RECCOMEND