Thread 2026943

>What is this game?
BallisticNG is a PC anti-gravity racing game available on Steam or GOG, based mostly on Wip3out, with optional mechanics from the newer Wipeout games.
If you like going fast, good tunes, and good fun, this game is for you.

>How do I join?
Get the game.
(Optional: Grab the Outer Reaches and Maceno Island DLCs too)
Download and install our track pack (instructions in the pastebin).
Launch the game, go to Multiplayer, and join us.

Links to download the latest track pack, install instructions, and some extras can be found here:
https://pastebin.com/d0KQeKGC
The mini-pack is just for updating from the previous version, get the full one if you're joining us for the first time or haven't played for a while.

>How do I play?
A 3-step guide will be posted containing the basics of going fast.
We can also answer any questions you might have, either here or in the lobby.

We have a Steam group: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/ballisticnv
This is used just for organizing race sessions or assisting if someone is having issues joining the lobby or something, no circlejerking. If you join the group chat you'll get a (You) chat bloop when lobbies go up on Saturday.

We have a regular session going every week on Saturdays starting at 9PM UK time, but hosting is easy and anyone can start up a lobby if people wanna get racist during the week.
Previous thread: >>1944851

did /vm/ get raided again? what the fuck happened? how did our thread fall off the board in less than 16 hours?
anyway heres the newfag guides
1/3

HEADS UP FOR AMERIFRIENDS
the usual hostfag (yours truly) is a bong and our clocks go back on the 26th, so the raceday on the 1st of nov will be starting an hour later than usual for you guys, after that we'll be synced up again
if someone would like to start hosting the raceday at the usual time for amerifriends on that day that would be very based, but otherwise yeah get an extra hour of sleep or whatever

>>2026946
An autist spammed the board, kicked a whole bunch of threads off.

>>2027099
thank you /vm/, very cool

>>2027099
So like what /vr/ has been going through as well? Someone was shitting up the catalog with Sega Master System threads and bumping shit off.

lobby is up bros
92.22.239.204
25565

>>2029091
I will not allow such slander

>>2029091
wrong file in previous post, fug

>>2028966
closed, great races bros
next week will be gimmick racism here's the poll
https://strawpoll.com/poy9kYKaQgJ

LOBBY UP
104.172.4.210
Port 25565 (AKA default)
First of the month so it's gimmick racism, 2280 seems to have won the poll.
Codemods enabled.

ggz kino races

>>2039591
LOBBY CLOSED
Thank you to everyone who joined, GGs.

Fuck my barrel roll life. gg

https://steamcommunity.com/games/473770/announcements/detail/547870056202109269?snr=2___
1.4.1 stable is out

notable additions:
square gate for analog controls, allowing full pitch and full turn at the same time for stick players
rollback hit detection for weapons in MP
team races, rush hour, upsurge, and eliminator available for MP
"Many more game events are now correctly synchronised, such as ships being eliminated, ships respawning, ships passing the mid and start line, etc." - possibly a fix for zombie ships and the mass CONTENDER bug on tracks like blackward decks?
whitelist for code mods in multiplayer (allows people to use their own custom HUD mods provided the host also has them installed, without others needing to install them)
2 new tracks, Oceana and Omega Loop
"Fixed unknown ghost players being created in Steam lobbies if a new connection happens during the handshake for another new connection" finally a fix for the steam lobby clone bug, looks like

hopefully no custom tracks were broken with this one

>>2041675
>team races, rush hour, upsurge, and eliminator available for MP
Big news for gimmick race nights

>>2026943 (OP)
>Truck of peace
every time

>>2026943 (OP)
Hi I'm new, what vehicles and settings are typically used during the weekend lobbies? I'll likely pick it up before 2026 so I'd like to practice using the same tools as everyone else

>>2042418
free to use any ship you want (though if you're any good at the game using something mega OP like the barracuda S will probably just be boring unless everyone else is in similarly OP ships), the custom pack download also includes 99 custom ships, i tried to make sure none of them were egregiously OP but there are definitely some stinkers in there - need to cull some of them when i next update the pack in ~a few weeks, i think
for settings: zen speed, 2159 physics, 0 weapon pad cooldown (always available), mines disabled and hunter enabled, forced weapons enabled (ships with 0 firepower are able to use pickups at a strength of 1 firepower) are the main ones, sometimes we mix it up a bit (mostly on gimmick racedays for the first raceday of each month, or for certain tracks)

>>2042428
Cool, thanks
Didn't know you had modded vehicles too, O thought it was just tracks
I'll start with the Russian one and go from there

>>2042446
diavolt is a strong ship, the 2nd best vanilla "legal" ship imo (only beaten out by nexus), handles decently despite its shitty handling stat on the ship select screen
two ships commonly recommended for newbies (that are also actually fast enough to win races) are hyperion and tenrai, you can give those a go if diavolt is too unwieldy to start

>>2041675
>last feature update

Wonder what their next project is.

>>2041675
I was hoping they improved the 2280 movability some day.
Not being able to strafe and pitch while in the air sucks.

>boughted a dualsense edge
>get this shit when binding it to bng
SNAAAAAAAAAAAKE
guess i'll just use steam input with xbox prompts, not a huge deal but triggers my autism

Track Pack update soonish(tm), putting it together now, waiting to see what the ETA on Uber's new SWR tracks is before i finish it up
you guys might want to do 2 things in advance:
delete your currently broken version of parashant from the workship singles folder, along with its .tch file from the cache folder, if you don't do this then the new fixed version of parashant coming in the track pack update will still use the old broken version's cache file and likely make you crash when we play it
delete custom ship ID 1809297565 Blue Falcon (it causes a crash on race end)
only two other custom ships will be getting gutted from the pack (3009166361 Freccia and 3105962495 Airship Delphinus) but feel free to keep them, they don't cause crashing i just think they're shit

>>2047444
oh, and here's a list of the new stuff already tested and confirmed for the update, incase anyone feels like trying any of it out for themselves before it hits the racedays proper, just remember to unsubscribe from workshop entries afterwards to avoid conflicts with the track pack

lobby is up
92.22.239.204

CODE MODS WHITELIST ENABLED, feel free to use the latest version of Streamliner or VanillaPlus custom HUDs if you want to grab them yourself, they will be included with the track pack download when it gets updated soon

>>2049461
lobby closed, great races bros