![]() Egads, what a difference! Why would you ever play with it off? It certainly boosts the challenge level when you have to avoid hitting the walls so carefully, but the pilot assist lopped several seconds off my course times, which is crucial to winning medals and progressing the single-player races. After racing a few times and failing miserably, I swallowed my pride and activated the pilot assist. I didn’t remember is the importance of the pilot assist feature. I would expect maybe a roar or a hiss or a whoosh or a TIE Fighter scream, but a boom? A deep resonant rock pounder boom? This hearty Norse thump, like someone swining Mjolnir one valley over? From now on, I will endeavor to just hold down the accelerate button at all times.īut at least now I know there aren’t any secret mining colonies under these lovely tracks. That’s the noise these sleek sexy hovercrafts make when you apply the thrust? It’s odd out-of-place sound design thump in an otherwise sexy game. ![]() What’s more, I can even see the exhaust flame on my ship light up. There’s a slight delay, as if it takes a moment to kick in. That deep boom corresponds exactly with me pressing down on the thrust button. I do plenty of that, and the consequences are dire, but not quite so booming. But this time, I wondered if maybe it was something I was doing. I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me during all the time I’ve played Wipeout previously. Like the pipes that heated my college dorm*, I learned to live with it.Īfter the jump, the mystery of - THOOM - Wipeout HD’s pounding diversion solved Was it some problem with my sound set up, maybe a - THOOM - crossed wire sending the wrong signals to my subwoofer? I even asked other players if they noticed it. Surely that can’t be how the game is supposed to sound. A perfectly sublime game - THOOM - ruined by its inexplicable proximity to invisible industrial machinery. I’ve never seen them, but by golly I can hear them. I had also forgotten that every race seems to take place over an underground mining colony hard at work with their, I dunno, rock pounders or whatever they’ve got that makes such a racket. Wipeout has always been an aesthetic feast. The icons for each individual track on the game settings screen. The animated folders for the - THOOM - Fury add-on. Even the interface before you’re into the game proper is beautiful. In the background of the - THOOM - above screenshot is a milling crowd I’d never noticed. The design of the fictional product placement around the tracks. Not just the course graphics, but - THOOM - pretty much everything about it. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.I had forgotten how beautiful Wipeout HD is. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does. ![]() Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests.
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