Category: Accessible Games
This game is one of my new favorites. The online play is incredibly fun and so is the offline play. Very realistic for the most part.
Yes, I, too, am having fun with it, though I need plenty of practice, especially with the on-line play.
I tried playing it, but I'm not very good.
If anyone is hosting a server sometime, tell me. I love online play and I guess I'm not too bad. I was doing really good the other day.
I like it, too, especially the online play. I might not be too good yet, but it's all and fun, so it works.
In deed!
Am a little clumzy, but, the online play makes it fun, especially if all in the session are clutzim like me. LOL.
To add to the online play fun, consider also having your ventrilo client connected to a server and channel where all the players are present.
Happy Racing,
-Dave
lol, i'd imagine that trying to voice chat as well as playing that game would make it very nearly impossible. it's hard enough as it is! i've tried to play it a few times but i'm no better than totally useless at the moment. i can do okay with no other cars on the track! i'm get seriously crap there after.
i haven't tried any online playing yet but i fully intend too at some stage. it's a good game for sure. thumbs up to whom ever made it.
That's what we do... So you can know who's droppin out or whatever.
Yah, and having voice chat going on while playing adds to the fun. You need to know the car numbers of the players. A nice addition to TopSpeed's online play would be some sort of usernames.
Cheers,
Dave
Yeh, that would be. Also, when the track/car creater comes out, a cool addition would be to submit a track or car and then the the person running the server could accept or deny it. LOL, I can't explain it very well...
I think I get you, Sk8Kid1.
-Dave
indeed. so, online servers anybody?
um i crash too much to try online think i will read the read me thingy and give it a go since i wont sleep for a while uggggg
There's bryanbkm.blogdns.org and josephweakland.no-ip.org. The former is also a ventrilo server. I think both are part-time, so, ping them first.
Cheers,
Dave
I made some cars on my own, their okay...
Well I have made a couple of cars but no tracks yet. I do no how to make them. One thing that would be cool for making the track is to have your own background music, race anouncer, co pilet, etc. This is a racing game that kicks ass. I give a ten out of ten.
I love the game! I hate those damn hairpin turns, though. I crash most of the time going through those.
I trust, you'll get better at anticipating the hairpin turns as you get to learn the tracks. Is it my imagination, or does the co-pilot give almost no advance warning of the hairpins?
Cheers,
Dave
You have to memorize the tracks. I'm makin a track for every U.S. state.
Hmmmm...
Maybe it's time for a Boston street adventure? LOL. I wonder if one can do one-way streets?
Cheers,
-Dave
Mmm, a track for every state would be cool. It would, I suspect, take a lot of work though. I think that some of the tracks should be built by train tracks. If you don't stop and a train comes... smash! I wish I knew how to make tracks.
Hmmmm...
There's much potential in the "street adventures". LOL. Is there a tool for making tracks, or, do people use the ones provided as examples?
-Dave
The info's on the comunity site. You can't do things like the train thingy although that'd be sweet. I submitted some of my tracks to the comunity site. They're up.
Thank you!
Also, I was referred to Topspeed docs on Andre Louis's site. Looks easy enough.
I enjoyed racing you Saturday evening.
-Dave
I too think a Boston street adventure needs to be added!
It'd be fun to try that!!!
It needs to be during Rush hour! LOL
Katie(who still has yet to play online against anyone)
and, let's not forget Comm. Ave, through the BU campus. That stretch must have many j-walkers. LOL.
-Dave
LOL!!!
Fenway on opening day would just be a stand-still; nothing too exciting about that, to me, anyway.
-Davey
oh yeah.. good point! LOL
Katie: 'tis ok. When you posted that, it was far too early in the AM for coherent thought. LOL.
DH
Guys, the point of the game isn't to kill as many people as possible, that's SOD.
Dave: I'd like to play you in a "rematch" sometime.
Thanks for the invite; just say "when", we can do it.
Gang: I made a new track; it's only in first draft; I call it Maine Coast. If you want it, let me know. It's not yet in the Topspeed community area; needs more work. Some feedback is welcome.
Cheers,
DH
Yeh, I wanta try it!
I have several of the new tracks, and cars from "Playing In The Dark" online, and even though I haven't really figured out how to play an online game of TS2, I go for a match sometime.
I'm just not sure when though.
It's easy to play online. You just need to put the ip in the server selecter and then go to the game and multi player game and internet game and... and... and... Just kidding, but what I told you to do was correct.
Yes, it was, and how concise, too!!
-Davey
I'm dying to race online.
Well, gimmee a time and place; I'm there.
-D
Tomorrow...if I remember, 5 PM. hkcradio.com will be the server, and I'll attempt to get on the zone Ventrilo server to talk to you all as I race. Hope for a good one.
Ok, 5 PM (EST). I'm there. Will be listening in the Game Room channel on the Zone's ventrilo server. If there's action, I'll fire up TS-2 and join y'all.
-D A H
Hi.
To make a correction in post 14, it's bryanbkm.blogdns.com.
I have a ventrilo server and if anyone wants to race me, let me know by email. I really like that top speed 2 game.
Bryan/bryanbkm
Dang, I missed it...
Yah, sorry you missed it!
I lost all but two of our 10 or so races; Nick, Babyboy, and I played for about an hour. All those crashes! I'm still picking out bits of broken glass, and the whiplash... Well...
Oh, my achin back!!
Hahahaha
-D. A. H
I played a bit yesterday. Did okay. Lookin for a game now.
hey, top speed sounds fun. Never played it. So, call me a dummy, where do you get it?
http://www.playinginthedark.net
I raced after not playing for awhile and I bet Joe Weakland!
One thing that would be cool, background music, race announcer, co piolet, and a turn signal that would be toggled by pressing enter so that you can distinguish your carfrom the other cars. And I have also noticed thaat the computer never selects your cars that you download or make. It doesn't even select the two motorcycles that come by default with the game. And if the computer players finish there laps, they rome around the track instead of stopping like your car does when you finish the laps.
Ok y'all, this game sounds way too fun! It is also sounding a little technical. How easy is it? I don't know anything about making computer tracks or cars. Can I just download the game, read the rules, and play? The Maine coast track sounds cool, would it be difficult to get that one. Tell me a little more please. If I got to the point of racing online, do I need to make adjustments to my firewall and security settings? Thank you!
It's very easy. Just us topspeed junkys make tracks, LOL. It's really fun and easy. Tracks are easy to get and if you don't know how, it's easy to learn. Making cars and tracks is actually easy as well! I haven't hosted the maincoast track. It is a little, well... Um, er, different.
I made a Maine Coast track, but didn't share it with anyone. Who made this one of which you speak? I'll compare it to mine.
Cheers,
Dave
As of March 17, 2006, I made a new car called the Formula Brick Racer. If anybody wants to try this car, let me know. I will see if I could e-mail it to you.
As of March 17, 2006, I made a new car called the Formula Brick Racer. If anybody wants to try this car, let me know. I will see if I could e-mail it to you.
I could host the car for you. Dave, we're talkin about your track!
Hi,
Would anyone mind explaining to me, in real simple terminology, how to create tracks? I looked at the community site and I thought I understood, until I looked at a track file myself. It didn't make much sense to me. I have a feeling I'll enjoy creating tracks more than I do playing the game. Lol. If someone would like to explain how to create cars too, that would be awesome, but it's not a requirement.
Thank You very much,
Dawnielle
Making tracks is easy, but the tricky thing is getting it so they work without you or the computer constantly crashing because you screwed something up and you have no monoverability.
The game is not set up to allow anyone to use there own cars or tracks since that woulod be too much of a disadvantiage.
And if he online game isn't allowing you to use the default motorcycles ten I suggest redownloading it because you can deffinitly use them.
My understanding is that the computer will never use the default motorcycles in things like 'quickstart' and 'single race' modes.
You can use the default motorcycles in single race mode.
I should know, I just recently had some races with both of them.
My adevice is stay away from the wild cat one, it's crap.
Thanks for the advice re: the wildcat motorcycle. Regarding my previous comment, I stand corrected. In my experience with 'quickstart' and 'single race', the computer has never put the motorcycles on the track with me.
Hi all, I see it's been a while since the last post to this thread, never the less I've recently taken up playing the game again however, I'm finding the community site worse than useless, when I attempt to connect to it it asks me to install some plug in, then whether I allow this plug in to install or not, the site just won't work for me! LOL. Anyway the point of all this is, I'd really like to know how to go about creating my own vehicles? Could anybody possibly explain on here how this is done?
Thanks for any help.
Dan.
I don't know about creating your own vehicles, but you can add new vehicles and tracks to the game. I haven't played top speed 2 in a while. but when i do it kicks ass especially when your playing against other players.
Thanks to the zoner who resurrected this topic. Lol. This morning, I played the game, after months of inattention to it. I had become bored with playing it by my self. Now, it's fun again. Who wants to be a server some time?
that would be cool! and for cars, look at a vhl file i think it is. sorry it wasn't much help, but as i remember there's not much to it.
Hi.
If I am correct the playinginthedark.net conunity site was hacked (while ago) and is now undergoing major reconstruction. Then again I checked last yeqar sometime...
yeah, but what's up! that was the beginning of last year! or was it 2006? i think it still is, but what's takin so long? also, you could look on damien's site X-sight interactive, software that excites the sightless!
Hope this helps for people seeking extra cars/tracks!
guys playing in the dark.net is back? or not
Is it very easy to play a game over the internet? I've just given up on that and played with my friends on a local network game, because it takes so long to connect.
Does anyone know how to create the tracks or cars on topspeed2? I did ask someone, but he keeps forgetting to e-mail me the instructions.
Actually I must confess to cheating here a little in the end, however I had no choice what with the (Playing in the Dark) website not working properly for me. What I did was to download a vehicle that somebody else had created, and then just open the vehicles .VHC file in notepad and modify things from there. You can change all of the cars/bikes characteristics such as acceleration, breaking, top speed etc. Plus if you have available sound files that you wish to use for the vehicles sound, you can even instruct the files to use them instead of what originally came with the download.
Like I say, it is slightly cheating in so much as you're just modifying somebody else's work instead of doing it all yourself from scratch, however the end result is your own car or bike and anyway, what's wrong with taking the occasional shortcut? LOL.
As for making your own track, I did find a track maker that somebody had available for download on another website not directly associated with (Playing in the Dark), however I couldn't tell you now the URL for that site. I found it though by just putting "Topspeed2" in to google. ?Try that and I'm sure you'll come across it quickly enough. That said, although I did create my own track using it, It wasn't very good and frankly, I'm not sure what I need to do to achieve better results. But give it a go, you may well have more joy than me.
Hope at least some of that helps.
Dan.
If someone is hosting a server could they let me know? I've never played online.
Hey, does anyone know how else I can get this game? I tried getting it from www.audiogames.net, and also from www.whitestick.co.uk, but, both times, I got an error message, saying the files I was downloading were corrupt, and I should get a proper copy of the files.
hi,
www.playinginthedark.net
hth!
I had nothing else to do one day at school and decided to play Top Speed 2. Come to find out, it doesn't work at school. i can't even get it to read the menu options at startup. It works fine at home. How could the network block it if it doesn't know about it, and why does it not work when I'm not even playing on a server?
Um, ok, tried that site, same result.
I just tried it. You just have to click on the link to go to the website.
Hey all:
I need some tips and tricks. I've played for weeks now, and still haven't found a way to get through those hair pin turns. Let's start from scratch, what is a hair pin turn? What strategy should I use when taking this turn? Any help would be appreciated. As you can tell, I'm a beginner. However, as soon as I get better, you can bet I'll be online with the rest of you, racing my computer to pieces. haha.
I've just downloaded Topspeed2 last week, but haven't managed to complete a race or complete all the circ uits of just one track without crashing, especially on the hairpin bends even with Automatic transmition and as an earlier poster says, the co-pilot gives you hardly any notice before you crash wne you draw nearer a hairpin bend. That's why I'd be a complete and utter embarrassment to anybody on any servers if I played online just now, lmfao, mind you, my favourite cars are the cranked-up quatro and the fistey mini, plus the, er, well I've clean forgotten the name, but it isn't the Wild Cat motorcycle, lmfao. I'm dreading installing new cars and tracks though.
Jen.
With practice, you will be able to anticipate the hairpin bends and go into them slowly. When to slow and by how much depends on the car.