Greetings everyone! Ramone Russell here with another ModNation Monday update!
ModNation Racers Creations of the Week
Amazing creations in ModNation get shared every day and we are playing a ton of them. If you are interested in submitting your mod, kart or track to be a future “creation” of the week be sure to visit up on the official ModNation Community site and who knows? You might see your handy work on the PlayStation.Blog.
Mods of the Week
Mod Name: ”Billiard Bob”
Creator: Deadsire
Karts of the Week
Kart Name: ”Transilvania Vehicle”
Creator: santagun
Tracks of the Week
Track Name: ”Bay Island Final”
Created by: Yika
Yika says: ”This track was originally intended to be a tribute to my favorite Studio Ghibli Film, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, but the more I worked on it, the more it took on a life of its own! And I am glad it did! I feel I made a track which is simply beautiful. Open it up in the editor to see how unique and detailed it is. The track itself runs fairly well, offering multiple routes with advantages and disadvantages. The road never gets boring, but there is never too much going on either.”
Track Name: ”The Farmer’s Daughter”
Created by: Coty4803
Coty4803 says: “An intricately farm themed track featuring one great shortcut through the farm’s barn. You can choose to take the main path over the barn which features two jumps; one over the barn and another over a dump truck. Drifting skill and precise driving are necessary to achieve fast lap times.”
Hot Lap Roster for This Week
Not only will we feature the tracks above this week, but we are giving tribute to Crash Team Racing on the Hot Lap. Try out some of the best fan tracks we’ve seen so far and see how you do.
- Monday: Crazy Crater
- Tuesday: The Farmer’s Daughter, Creator: Coty4803
- Wednesday: Bay Island Final, Creator: Yika
- Thursday: CTR Dingo Canyon Track, Creator: ComposerRyan
- Friday: CTR Papu’s Pyramid Track, Creator: ComposerRyan
- Saturday: CTR Tiger Temple, Creator: ComposerRyan
- Sunday: Landfill Island, Creator: VintageOctopus
Patch Info
I know everybody wants to know more about the patch that’s in development. We appreciate your patience as UFG places the final touches on it. There’s been a lot of community feedback and I think UFG has done a good job trying to include a lot of the improvements you’ve asked for. One of the improvements is the addition of a “casual” career difficulty that has less “aggressive” computer-controlled racers. I was able to spend some time last week playing the new build. Let me just say that I had a blast playing through the casual career difficulty and I think those that have been asking for this will be very pleased when you can get your hands on it!
Looking forward to sharing more ModNation Racers news next week!
So patch release?….days…weeks….um…months? ;)
I’m glad to hear that you guys are still working hard on the patch. I’m sure the casual difficulty will help out a lot of people who still haven’t finished the career. Keep up the good work! =)
In the patch notes, there’s no mention of load times. Please say that they’re fixed too :D
Casual AI sounds great maybe then I can get some more bling from racing instead of getting blasted to last within fifty pixels of the finish line every lap…
Well thats nice that they’re gonna make it a bit easier to do everything in the career……after i almost went insane doing it all in the first week!
But maybe it will shut some people up.
By the way, does anyone over there know why we can’t get that last silly seat? Cuz i would REALLY like to have it and know I’ve unlocked everything, since I have.
The game is fantastic, as long as you stay in one place. Try to go from the track creator to actually playing that track against friends and there’s like 4 loading screens. The loading times would be cut down if the UI/Modspot had more shortcuts.
I know it will be hard to lower the actual race load times, but please try to lower the amount of moves we have to make just to race. How about giving us the option to load the next campaign level instead of taking us back to the select screen?
Top mods should be top rated, not most downloaded. How will anyone beat the Mario mods in downloads?
@3 the download times arent as bad as they once were. or atleast thats how it feels to me.
but got to say “bay island final” looks like an epic track, will definitely download it later tonight
I hope when the patch comes out it fixes the glitches on Hot Lap, as there is no way to get the trophy with some of the times being posted by others, I’ve seen times of .0235, 0.000 for example. Also I hope it fixes the random disconnects that seem to occur.
any word on why the ModNation trophies aren’t listed on the us playstation site? whenever I go to check my trophies, they’re not listed even though I got the notification that I’d earned them & have synced them with the sever numerous times
@6 if you havent noticed the top mods and karts appear to be random now, if not i dont know how their picked, but seem to change either daily or weekly
The game makes me :D, but the load times make me :(
wah wah wah is all i hear about the load times, is that all you people can think about, the load times?
@ Kirkpad , you havent played for sometime have ya ? the top mods change quite frequently now .
@11
The load times are the big problem for some, the online part is the big problem for others….
They are allowed to voice their opinion.
@13 yeaah i know that, but it gets annoying after 2 MONTHS
@14 Then maybe they should have fixed it 2 months ago.
@14
I know. At first the loading times were the biggest problem for me but now its way down the list. (its a pretty short list ;) )
Well yea the difficulty on the last say 3 races were hard but those were doable if you had the skill. I’ve already got those ones it took about a week to complete that. I only have 2 trophies left and I think the majority of the community is the same- the 250k create exp trophy(supposedly 2500 now) and the 500000 xp overall to get to level 30. Please fix those two I think they’re the top on community complaints.
AWESOME news about the patch keep up the good work the game is a blast!!!
Russell if you cant tell us a rough release date for the patch, can we at least known the criteria for getting in to the top 3 mods/karts?
I might have one next week (crosses fingers) for the patch release. The new criteria for Top Mods and Karts are are most points yesterday that have been created in the last 3 days