Hi, it’s William Ho here for the Pre-E3 ModNation Monday post. I’m excited to give you some updates about ModNation Racers and what’s been cookin’ at United Front Games.
I can’t believe it’s been a year since we announced ModNation on stage at E3, now it’s out in the world! It’s been exciting to see the massive amounts of Racing, Creating, and Sharing going on. Our dev team couldn’t be happier to see our supporters enjoying the product of two and a half years of love and labor. We enjoy playing ModNation Racers as much as you do.
Now while there a lot of people that love the game, we know there are some issues that are affecting the fun factor of ModNation, and we just want to say-
United Front Games is with you for the long haul.
I’m always asked, “what are you guys up to now?” The answer is always the same: job number one is actively monitoring and supporting the ModNation community.
We are amazed by your published creations every day. We’re enjoying online races with you. We read your forum postings and your tweets. We discuss all of your suggestions, no matter how big or small. We watch. We play. We listen.
We are working on multiple fronts to make your ModNation Racers experience even more fun. You’ve already seen some improvements in our online racing. Our friends at Sony San Diego Studio officially launched community.modnation.com so you can stay connected to the ModNation community from just about anywhere. And there’s much more to come.
With that said, I have something exciting stats to share with you. The ModNation community has exceeded the 500,000 creation mark! We worked hard to build the most accessible, freest, and deepest sandbox for you to play in. With a half million creations and counting, I think we achieved that goal. Here’s just a few of the half million awesome creations created by the ModNation community:
Mod: Glass-eye Phil, Creator: Reavyn1
Kart: Glass Eye Television Repair, Creator: Reavyn1
Track: Modcoaster, Creator Name: hellstorm0157
Also, you’ve played more than 1,000,000 ONLINE RACES. That’s an amazing milestone for a community that’s only a few weeks young.
We can’t thank our fans enough for your support. We’ve appreciated your enthusiasm since we revealed ModNation Racers at E3 one year ago. We’re thrilled with all of the e-mails, forum postings, tweets, and fan sites, so keep ’em coming! We are dedicated to make the best possible Race, Create, Share experience possible and know we’re working hard on some rock-solid upgrades to ModNation Racers.
Look out for more information after E3, you’ll hear about it first on the PlayStation.Blog!
I love the game. Buy a gift for EVERYONE who worked on this game and put it on my tab. I love that you can create your kart, mod, and track! You can even customize your kart’s performance a little.
But could you add more performance choices for the kart, like stronger boost vs longer duration. Also could add the ability to do front and back flips in the air.
But again it truly is a great game. Props to all of you.
@97
Dumb question, but you got your router in DMZ?
There seem to be lots of people who use Verizon that have big problems with online.
If you go to the modnation forum, online section look for a thread named “Looking for info involving online connection issues some are experiencing”
I don’t think anybody’s mentioned this suggestion: sorting download screens.
When we hit a page full of Mods, Karts or Tracks, it would be great to have a further option to sort by Newest, Highest Rated, Most Downloaded, Friends, or By Creator.
I was just checking out the Charlie Browns, for instance, and had to wade through a lot of mediocrity (sorry, Mediocre Creators … if it helps, I’m one of you) to spot the good ones. And some items have many, many pages of available downloads – a sort at this point would be very handy.
Thanks for staying in tune with users.
Lots of fun.
Would LOVE to see option for making a “Playlist” or “Tournament” when playing offline splitscreen.
In other words, need the option to load up 3 or more tracks and allow us to race one right after another without having to go back to the player screen.
Wanted to say fantastic game UFG! I have a small suggestion besides the other larger ones that I have already read. If in a future update it would be nice to change the color of the karts frame. My friend loves to race in his kart that doesn’t have a body, he loves the classic kart feeling. Just a small suggestion, you guys are doing great!
Great game, will play it allot! Well done United Fronts!
I find that when i create something and post it, no one plays it(because it gets lost in the sea of creations). How can that be fixed?
@98
DMZ=yes; NAT Filtering=Open; still not connecting more than a couple of seconds.
I am on 25Mb Cable internet through Charter. No luck on that post search you mentioned, must have been pulled.
It seems like there are a small handful of people out there experiencing the same issue, but so far no developer insight or assistance. It’s too bad, UFG is not getting a good name on my site from all of this…
Great game other than load times i only have one gripe.
Can you make it eaiser to mute people? You have to click through what 3 screens? By the time im trying to mute 1-12 people the game begins loading and you can no longer mute them. Then i have to play the entire race with loud music or something playing in the background lol…
How does one report an issue?
Last night I was only able to “connect” to the servers twice in about four hours. I was in communication with a friend over Skype for some of that time, who could connect at times I couldn’t, and there were times it did work, so I know it wasn’t:
– my internet connection configuration (NAT, routing, etc, since that’s all static)
– the servers themselves (since my friend could connect at times when I couldn’t).
My friend also had intermittent issues, but they didn’t coincide with mine at all.
Also, once we both finally got into the same ModSpot at the same time, we tried to Challenge each other to a track that we’d each created. Each time we tried, there would be a failure to sync the tracks, and the other player would get “kicked”. Also, we noticed that the track name each time was strange – almost a random name of a track from someone else – never the actual track that we were trying to play.
A very disappointing evening I have to say.
@105
I posted a link to the thread but the blog police wont allow it to be shown for some reason!
Hey, I really love Modnation and the Modnation community site, but I feel like the Top Karts, Tracks, and Mods should be cycled every now and then, because everytime I go on the site it’s always Mario, Ironman, Drifting Superstar, and the A-Team Van. I feel like since the point of ModNation is to Create and Share, it’d be better to cycle the Top creations every now and then so that different tracks can get their own taste of the limelight and the community can try out new creations. Otherwise, really good creations usually get lost in the endless list of creations and are never experienced.
alot more masks and glasses/ accessories !
@108
No prob, I have been on the US and EU official forums and it seems this is still an issue that the devs don’t want to talk about for some reason, probably because they have no idea what is really going on.
I will give it some more time and if it’s not fixed in the next couple of weeks then I will just have to sell the game and cut my losses. Too bad, MNR had such promise but I am unwilling to deal with such gross technical errors and I don’t feel good about paying to be part of a post-release beta test.
how about in future dlc you guys add some parts so i/we can make something that looks like megatron in tank mode from transformers revenage of the fallen..that would be so sweet. also let us remix ufg created carts i so badly wish i could trick out my gow cart.
I hope they get more servers or something because I have never been able to get into an online race.
Career mode needs to be fixed, and it should be a higher priority than the load times.
I don’t mind a good challenge, but the AI is frustrating more because they play so cheap instead of them just being skilled. I would not even care if it wasn’t for the dumb decision to make us play Career mode to unlock new items instead of allowing us to unlock stuff by winning online races.
It’s really a great game otherwise, the load times aren’t as big of a problem as that.
I really like this game, especially the track creator. I would play with it for hours, if I could. Which leads me to my question, has UFG heard anything about the game freezing? It doesn’t seem to be widespread but it’s completely crippling. I get lock ups, usually in the track editor. The game completely freezes. The XMB is still accessible, but it runs very slowly. Quitting the game causes the PS3 to shut down with three beeps.
These lock ups occur completely randomly, and I’ve checked, by leaving the game running but not interacting with it, but it seems to be an inevitability. The game will hang after a random period of time, from 10 mins to 2 hours. I have tested other games, and am not having the same problem. I know this is a very vague problem report, but it is not isolated to just me, a google search brings up several others afflicted in the same way.
It’s really crippling my enjoyment of the game, I have to save often and when I’m creating a track and forget to save, and lose an hours work, it’s just crushing. Without some sort of fix I’ll probably have to give up on the game. Which would be a shame because you’ve created a really great sandbox to play in.
so i have not noticed whether this has been previously stated, so if it has I apologize. first off I love the game! absolutely great and hats off to all of you at UFG! my question though is this I’ve been converted from mariokart to mod nation (i know i know, lets all hate me for mentioning it) one feature of big interest to me and friends is battle mode though. I’m curious can we look forward to seeing anything like that in mod nation?
I haven’t bought the game yet(I will soon tho!)…but, is there a past top creators section?
You can browse Creator Leaderboards for All-Time, This Week, and Last Week.