ModNation Racers Goes Region Free
One world united in modding.
Published: 9:45, 17/09/2010 by Kovacs.
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One (of a few) pet peeves we had with United Front Games’ ModNation Racers was its exclusionary practice of preventing gamers from different regions getting their race on together. There was some logic behind the madness, with the developers admitting that the xenophobic restriction was more due to how the game works; the need to build courses, mods and mod-mobiles and then deliver the mammoth of user-generated content to everyone involved somewhat tricky in the technology department. Restricting the streaming of assets to just people who were actually somewhat close to you more a performance decision than anything else.
They did admit that this area was something they were looking into, however, and lo and behold, by gum, they’ve cracked it.
ModNation Racers Update 1.4 does indeed now allow cross region invites. I feel a celebratory, one-world Meet coming on. I have to stop. I’m getting all misty.
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17/09/2010 at 10:08
Member since: Mar 2010
HUZZAH!
17/09/2010 at 10:52
Member since: Aug 2009
This was a huge bugbear for me so I find this superb news.
17/09/2010 at 12:37
Member since: Oct 2009
Was this the patch released yesterday? That patch seems to have speeded up the loading quite a bit ;)
17/09/2010 at 13:53
Member since: Apr 2009
Proving what I said earlier that it was just lazy programming in the first place.
17/09/2010 at 17:05
Member since: Jul 2010
So that update which i was forced to do earlier this morning was not a complte waste of time after all
sweet :)
17/09/2010 at 19:02
Member since: Aug 2010
ahh… now i know what kind of modnation update it was=) so it wasn’t 256 mb(or something like that) thrown away=)
17/09/2010 at 20:09
Member since: Oct 2008
now I can finally participate in the TSA competitions! and now that I can, they won’t have them anymore! : P