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You can run tmnf easily with proton on linux, just install it and it should work, this is assuming you use the steam version ofc.

If you don't, use lutris: https://lutris.net/ and search for the trackmania nations forever installer for retail.

As for tm2020, works with lutris as well :D

It's your trophy rank. Check this image for what position you need for each rank. You can get these trophies from playing live matches (not ranked though), earning medals in seasonal campaign and playing TOTD and COTD.

You can check your rank either by clicking your name on the top left in main menu or by going to https://trackmania.io.

Riolu just got 30.23 so this is not WR anymore. RIP.

All credit for finding the cut to Nino Snarzz.
I did not know about it before watching his video yesterday.

First of all, do you have Starter (free), Standard or Club Access?

You can find a detailed comparison of what you can do with which access here.

If you have Standard or Club access you don't even need to download the ghosts anymore, but can activate them ingame directly (Settings > "Interface" > "Always display records" and then open those by clicking on the clock symbol on the left side of the screen in the middle. Activate a ghost by clicking on the eye symbol) while playing in Solo mode. For Live you need Club to do the same.

For the free version (Starter Access): I honestly don't know if playing against a downloaded replay is possible, or if you need Standard or even Club there too.

Anyway, if you plan on buying it: Apparently it is advised to do so via Ubisoft, not Epic, that seems to have a lot of issues for a lot of players.

Validate your game files in Steam, and then follow the steps on the PCGW page to solve this issue. Finally, use the launcher to ensure your graphics settings are maxed. Yes, it works. No, Steam won't overwrite the fix unless a new patch is released.

> Why is it doing this?

This issue arises when using a graphics card with more than 2GB of video memory.

> That's pretty horrible.

Such graphics cards didn't exist until half a decade after support ended for this game. If you want a more modern experience, pick up Trackmania^2 Stadium.

> What other popular game isn't even able to set up its textures properly?

Let me guess, you'd like to speak with my manager? Seriously, you are out of line to be spewing that disrespectful noise, especially if you want us to help solve your technical issue. Please and thank you.

> or the joystick / pad (what's the difference?)

Its almost irrelevant to the drama, but for reference, Joysticks vs Gamepads.

You will have to find out yourself.. but if you try it on that windows 10 laptop then it will most likely work, but you might need to play on Low - medium graphics settings if the laptop has poor specs...if that fails, then you will have to try it out on the mac, Virtualbox is supported on Mac aswell as the extension pack (you can get it from here ).

So try them both out...

If you want to connect it via Bluetooth you can install DS4Windows. It's a driver that makes the computer see your DS4 as an Xbox controller, so it works with Microsoft devices.

Moreover it's quite customizable, you can re-map inputs and whatnot (i have set an RGB color scheme for the light in front, mainly cause I'm dumb lol).

As per this update on the ranked 3v3s by NADEO, posted 31st of August 2021:
"(...)At the end of every month, players will earn trophies according to their placement. The top player will win a Trophy 8!" :-)

https://www.trackmania.com/2021/01/27/earn-trophies-with-the-cup-of-the-day-mode/

This explains trophies on cotd.

You also get a trophy 5 (middle silver one) for placing between 101-1000 on track of the day, and a trophy 4 (lowest silver one) for I think 1000-10000. Author medals on the first 3 track packs gain 1 trophy 4 each, and on red and black you get a trophy 5 (which u already got). For trophy 6 you need to place inside top 10000 on the campaign at the end (which u are rn), get top 100 on totd or be really good I cotd (see link).

That's literally it. Playing normal live arcade lobbys don't help with getting trophies, cotd, totd and campaign's the way

https://www.trackmania.com/2020/06/27/trackmania-offers-details/

at the bottom it says:

If you do not renew your Standard or Club Access:

- The tracks of the official and "Track of the Day" campaigns will remain playable locally- The content you created or the one you got from clubs will remain playable locally.

Example: you get a skin car from Zerator Club, you can still use it in the free access but nobody will see i while you play online- You'll keep the advanced track editor, the replay editor and the skin editor

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if you dont renew, the rest will be reverted to starter pack as is listed in the link above

First off, it's completely normal to not be able to understand the membership levels and pricing. This blog post (even if written before the game's release) provides the quick summary. Full spreadsheet of features is here.

As mentioned, you open the game and there's several racing options. A typical game would be much more up-front about its racing modes. In Trackmania, "what you're meant to do" (in practice) is click around and explore the different racing options, find the tracks and game modes you enjoy the most, and play them better and better. Also there's map building. Hopefully this helps!

I am actually developing an app for Android to see leaderboards, maps, trophies and more. You can download a beta version from the Play Store:

Trackmania Companion Beta - Download from Play Store

At this stage the app only shows your uploaded maps and your profile nickname.

I am using the same method described on reddit for authentication and then I get information about the uploaded maps from https://players.trackmania.com/player/map

This page shows a list of the maps you uploaded in game.

Then I get the times by parsing the GBX file of the map.

I see that many of you are reverse-engineering the API. I think that if anyone can share its findings, I can build a good companion app for Trackmania with leaderboards, trophies and more.

Together we could be stronger.

Sorry for bad english.

They are called trophies and they are a game wide ranking system. There are 9 different trophies (3 tiers of bronze, silver and gold) and they are worth points on a logarithmic scale (1 point for the lowest bronze trophy all the way up to 100.000.000 points for the tier 9 which is reserved for the campaign winner and biggest competitions). The leaderboard can be seen here: https://trackmania.io/#/top

It's even better now, TM2020 is officially supported! Just install via Lutris, it will install Uplay and launch into the TM2020 installer directly.

The whole process, including downloading Lutris and TM, took less than 10 Minutes, and everything worked perfectly without a single tweak! Thanks you so much!

Oh and also, I get the same performance as in Windows, no noticeable difference :)

Yes, I'm using this Lutris script to install Uplay with WINE and the game is completely functional for me. The game sometimes crashes when I try to alt+tab, which is less than ideal, but besides that it's stable.

Here are Hylis' answers to testimonies (in French, but you can translate it using DeepL, it should work properly enough to be understandable), so you can hear from the two parties.

I found this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=markus.wieland.unofficalcupoftheleaderboard

Anyone tried it?

A list of notable features available in the free version would be a great addition to the FAQ. Could also include a link to Nadeo's list of features comparing the versions. There could also be a list of which paid features has workarounds to use in the free version.

Are you using the beta version of steam? AFAIK it only works properly with the beta version. I assume you are, but it never hurts to ask.

You could also give https://github.com/Ryochan7/DS4Windows a spin (I had to use exclusive mode for DS4 to work properly with TM: https://github.com/Ryochan7/DS4Windows/wiki/Exclusive-Mode-(Hide-DS4-Controller-config-option)-tips-and-issues).

Thanks, I had the same issue! What do you use now for your ps4 controller?

Also, I think when you restart ds4windows while trackmania is running the game is running better if that makes sense.

Another thing is, there is another version of ds4windows which is frequently updated. I just found that, maybe the new version is running better?: https://github.com/Ryochan7/DS4Windows

According to https://www.trackmania.com/2020/05/27/trackmania-details-racing-experiences-with-starter-standard-and-club-access/ ,

> After my access expires, will I lose everything I have earned? > No, at the end of your period, you keep the official tracks and Tracks of the Day accumulated

Oh really? I didn't realize that. So if someone doesn't play for a year, they'll come back to an account with 0 points and bronze 1 rank?

The original post about the ranking system says "Progression is constant; every trophy you win is acquired and cannot be lost" but maybe they changed that later?

All the way at the bottom of this sheet you'll find all the relevant information: https://www.trackmania.com/2020/06/27/trackmania-offers-details/

On the new TM or Maniaplanet/TMF ?

On the older ones, you get lps from any standard server up to 50/60K depending on the server, after there is some 20-70k, 40-80k, 60-90k servers to have more than 50/60k lp.

On the new TM, you get trophies, each trophies has a point value, here is an image that shows you what points each gives you : https://www.trackmania.com/uploads/2020/06/Trophies-1.jpg

You keep the skin editor
For more info on that, there is a chart published on the official TM website: https://www.trackmania.com/2020/06/27/trackmania-offers-details/

https://www.trackmania.com/2020/06/27/trackmania-offers-details/The subscription won't auto-renew, so you'll have to manually purchase after 1 year.

If you don't renew your access you will still be able to play the previous campaigns and track of the day locally. You'll also keep the advanced track editor

More points, that is. Here Nadeo says that every trophy is worth 10x more points as the last one so the silber trophy i have 7 of should give me 70K points, right??

Hello, the maps themself dont give you points. You esrn points for a set of maps compared to your current score. Details

Also it might take up to 15 minutes until points and times are updated.

"players ghosts" is "top 5 and self surrounding players ghosts on all maps" and "personal best ghost displayed on all maps" in the category "in-game worldwide & regionalized rankings and ghosts display on all servers" from the offers details provided by nadeo

Club vip ghosts are ghosts from members of your club that can appear in every solo map (training/daily/club).

Hi, i just commented on a similar post :

i'l paste it here =

"Yeah, also if you are playing on controller - make sure you are using digital and not analog, if you accelerate and brake with triggers it usually messes up and isn't accurate because they both are mapped into one axis, instead of seperate axis. So you should swap to digital you can do this by accelerating and braking by using buttons on the controller like A and B if you are on xbox controller or alternatively you can bind Accelerate and Brake to UP and DOWN in Trackmania, then use the application AntiMicro to map your triggers to the up and down, this will make triggers digital.

After switching to digital, my braking has become better. Also in TM2 canyon i can drift straight away now without that 1 second of delay."

Yeah, also if you are playing on controller - make sure you are using digital and not analog, if you accelerate and brake with triggers it usually messes up and isn't accurate because they both are mapped into one axis, instead of seperate axis. So you should swap to digital you can do this by accelerating and braking by using buttons on the controller like A and B if you are on xbox controller or alternatively you can bind Accelerate and Brake to UP and DOWN in Trackmania, then use the application AntiMicro to map your triggers to the up and down, this will make triggers digital.

If you are playing on keyboard, then i highly suggest using controller for the island environment. Keyboard is great and ideal for stadium but not for other environments.

This controller, TM2020, connected via USB to my Win10 pc as well. Windows recognizes it as a standard Xbox controller, but in going through all the settings I did find out that I'm having a tough time calibrating it. I go through the calibration tool but then when I push the analog stick about 30% it shows full left or right. Wondering if it's a hardware issue of some sort at this point.

I found this amazon listing for Nations with two reviews complaining that it was the same as the free download.. so it must have existed in physical at some point? Can’t find it anywhere else online though! Trackmania nations amazon