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RE: Burnout Paradise

steamRobot — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:13:26 GMT

Been reading on gamespot that the year of paradise continues with the introduction of bikes in September. Apparently the top end bike will be the fastest vehicle in the game.

There will also be day and night, with traffic density changing depending on the time of day.

http://uk.gamespot.com/xbox360/driving/burnout5/news.html?sid=6196635&om_act=convert&om_clk=picks&tag=picks;title;4

RE: Burnout Paradise

steamRobot — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:13:35 GMT

well burnout was a little bit of a dissapointment last night but i enjoyed the marked man event, especially when you can't see anyone on the map when you are marked. I could imagine the game being a lot more fun when there are more people playing, 3 chasing isn't enough. Would have also been good if the time to hunt was longer, but still i enjoyed it.

RE: Burnout Paradise

steamRobot — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:03:44 GMT

It was weird, the auto update seemed designed to let the game know that there was a bigger download available and prevents you going freeburn without it. Not quite how the email from Criterion had described it. It came up saying you can't go there without the new content, hit button to start download - so you can do it all from the game.

Checked out the Airfield and they've flattened it out quite a bit. My car sounded a bit odd too, lots of wheezing sounds that i hadn't noticed before - and i've driven the same car for most of the game.

Hopefully i'll be on tonight, if the wife can stop watching The Wire.

RE: Burnout Paradise

bonobaby — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:45:17 GMT

d/l now try and give it a go tonite.

RE: Burnout Paradise

Chas — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:22:39 GMT

I downloaded this earlier, although it wasn't an auto-update it was a seperate download, not saying there isn't an auto-update (there usually is for a game with new content), but by the look of it at least the bulk of the content is contained in the seperate download (381Mb). Found it fairly quickly in the New Arrivals section though.

Full list of changes:

3 New Freeburn Game Modes:

• Road Rage
Up to 8-player team event. One team must race through a series of Paradise City checkpoints. The other team must stop them.
Cue incredible chases and battling through the city, tons of voice communication as players co-ordinate their efforts.

• Stunt Run (vs)

Pull stunts to score points - hit barriers, billboards and ramps; ace barrel rolls, flat spins and massive airtime to score big. Everybody competes to simultaneously reach the biggest total. Hit your rivals to kill their scores and gain multipliers.

• Marked Man

A player is selected at random and everyone gangs up to take them down. The Marked Man scores for reaching the end point intact and taking anyone down along the way.

70 New Freeburn Challenges
• 70 new timed multi-part Freeburn Challenges
• Leaderboards for these challenges that log your best time (as well as those people who did it with you)

Vehicles
• Hunter Olympus
• A secret Criterion Car!

New liveries
• Rossolini Tempesta Dream
• Two fan-created liveries – the Oval Steel Racer and Inferno Hippie Van
• Two secret Criterion liveries!

Ranked Race Changes
• Custom Routes are no longer featured in competition races
• Sanctioned Routes have their own Time Leaderboards
• Traffic can no longer be switched off in competition races
• No more ‘rounds’ in competition racing
• Cars can be grouped by Boost Rating
• Car Select now appears after the Race Route has been selected
• The host can't kick other players any more
• Grid position is based on player ranking
• Full Boost Bars
• Rank and Ranking Points are displayed in game
• New map icons differentiate the Start and Finish points

Other high-priority fixes and updates

• If you're in a 3 or more player challenge and a player drops out, the remaining players can still complete it (subject to it being a challenge that can handle this!)
• "Previously" section on the search games list now displays Challenges, Today's Best and Freeburn game modes, making it loads easier to decide which game you want to join
• You can now view Leaderboards and Options in an online game
• You can now mute other online players in the show players screen
• We've increased time-out for online races, and if all players complete the races within the timer, then you go straight to results
• The Airfield has been changed to help with the drivability of the area and make it a little easier to complete the hoop challenges
• Online cars now show damage - roll up to the start in a half-destroyed Hunter Cavalry and everyone else will see it!
• Added a stronger display message if you rule all of Todays Best
• The Easy Drive menu & Challenges page now loops from top to bottom
• Fixed the navigation system so that it takes into account the next check point in a race
• Fixed traffic not reappearing in Freeburn after a no-traffic race
• Fixed online races using Lawrence Road - it's been reporting finish distances with a little inaccuracy
• Revised 30+ car resets following crashes
• All new sound effects added for Easy Drive
• Driving backwards in Road Rage now ends the event as it does in Marked Man
• Option to invert camera axis for the look around camera on right stick
• Online player information made accurate on the instance a player goes through a checkpoint in races
• If you set VOIP mix to zero it is now saved correctly
• New highlight to show the player in Today's Best
• Easy Drive fades out if it's unused for 20 seconds
• Boost chaining no longer possible by drifting in open areas

RE: Burnout Paradise

Spenn — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:40:51 GMT

You can count me in for a night or 2.

I haven't been on for a while with holidays etc.

I will try later tonight for the update.

RE: Burnout Paradise

steamRobot — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:03:43 GMT

Finally the FREE Update, codename: Cagney, has arrived on xbox after a bit of a delay. Next time you stick your disc in it will update automatically, no need to hunt around like R6V2.

The update includes new online games and I've got to say that Marked Man and Road Rage sounds like fun, tig (or tag), for grownups!

· Online Stunt Run - you and up to 7 others compete for the highest stunt score
· Online Road Rage - where you team up and try to stop the other team from reaching their destination
· Online Marked Man - someone gets called out and everyone else tries to hunt them down

Hope we can get a group together to try this out

RE: Burnout Paradise

bonobaby — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:35:50 GMT

i still havent played online yet so maybe some time this week

RE: Burnout Paradise

steamRobot — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:41:49 GMT

Still no sign of the update.

Last night online was surreal. There is a lot of crazies online for some reason, or maybe its just Burnout that attracts them.

Would be great to have some fun messing around with you guys at some point instead of some randoms. I just can't get enough of Paradise at the moment.

RE: Burnout Paradise

steamRobot — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:05:36 GMT

cool. and just in time for the update on monday too!

RE: Burnout Paradise

bonobaby — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:33:49 GMT

just bought this so ill be up for some burnout next wk £18 amazon.co.uk.

RE: Burnout Paradise

steamRobot — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:42:12 GMT

been playing this with random people and gotta say its a bit of a lottery, especially when you get the higher numbers of players - often someone will drop out mid challenge. You also end up repeating a lot of them unless you host.

Despite that i have managed to get 214 done so far though! There's only a couple that i would say are challenging ( such as burnout for 20 seconds or jump while barrel rolling through a hoop).

RE: Burnout Paradise

SJ — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:01:22 GMT

It will be interesting to see how the challenges change with 4 people

RE: Burnout Paradise

Chas — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:56:16 GMT

Yeah cheers guys, was fun. We all got kicked out Spenn but yeah we did play on for a bit longer and did some more challenges.

RE: Burnout Paradise

Spenn — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:53:25 GMT

Good nights racing I thought.

Got through some of the challenges as well.

Just as Chas joined I got kicked out the game!!
Did everyone leave or just me?

It was midnight nearly by then so I called it a night. Did you carry on?

I'll be up for some more over the weekend.

RE: Burnout Paradise

steamRobot — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:01:11 GMT

cheers for the games last night guys, i can't beleive how late we finished. Feel a bit brain dead this morning.

RE: Burnout Paradise

Chas — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:23:59 GMT

aye I would love to play this again. Great news on the update.

RE: Burnout Paradise

Spenn — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:30:33 GMT

I am still playing with it and could do with some help on the challenges.

RE: Burnout Paradise

SJ — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:42:51 GMT

steamRobot (04/06/2008)While i'm here is anyone interested in hooking up to do the online challenges?

Yep, I wouldn't mind another blast on burnout

Burnout Paradise

steamRobot — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:16:07 GMT

Been reading that Burnout Paradise is getting a new FREE map update. Its also getting some other things too - this from the criterion website:

If you missed our recent bombshell announcement, we're bringing motorbikes to Burnout Paradise!

This is part of our "Year of Paradise" - a complete transformation of the Paradise City experience, with the introduction of night, bikes, new locations, all-new multiplayer game modes, Freeburn challenges and much, much more.

I notice a lot of advertising in this game - diesel, Gillette and Burger King appear on billboards and the sides of vans. I can only assume that this is why the map update is free.

While i'm here is anyone interested in hooking up to do the online challenges?