Help bring Carmageddon back

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Thanks, and thanks to all you guys on Pistonheads that have helped support us.

It's great to be back

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Fortunately we fought the BBFC in the High Court and won, so eventually the proper red-blood humans returned.

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Hmmmm, now then, I wonder if the developers purposely left a back door in the zombie version? Like..... Errrr.... Including all the red blood data and leaving a simple switch that any half-decent hacker could find....

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There was a C function in the source named MakeTheFlagWavingbdWaveHisFlagWhichIsTheLastThingHeWillEverDo();

And the #define that turned on zombie mode was called MICHAEL_HOWARD_IS_A_C...NT (for he was Home Secretary at the time, and had personally called for the ban).

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Famous Graham said:

Notice the quotes?

When it got hacked back to blood so quickly, we had to tut, shake our heads and say "Wow, I wonder how they did that then?", then quickly look at our feet. Of course SCi were very happy to not investigate further! There was quite a lot of mutual winking going on.

No.... Stop giggling at the back there... I said mutual WINKING.

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Enjoy. iPhone/iPad/Android Carma 1 out soon too - come see us at Eurogamer at Earl's Court.

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Hopefully by the end of this year - maybe early next year at the latest.

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Approx two weeks. The game is finished on iPhone and iPad (and iPod Touch), and is currently going through Apple's submission process.

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Make sure you 5-star us!

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Thanks!

We're loathe to make any big changes as we really want to get on with Carnageddon:Reincarnation.

But... funnily enough, a change I made very late in the testing process was for repairing to target the worse hit areas first. So if you've got a black smoking engine, this gets repaired first. It made quite a difference.

Other than this sort of tweak though, we want to avoid the temptation to change it too much. We've got a fully-fledged Xbox/PS3/PC/Mac/Linux game to write!

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mrmr96 said:

Hello Sir,

I have some feedback for you on the iOS Carmageddon, and this applies to the original games too: Why can't I get a replay of my game winning wastage? As soon as I waste the last opponent it goes immediately into the game end procedure showing me the score and the animation etc, and so far as I can tell there's no way to get to watch or record my game winning 'kill'.

Everything else seems awesome, thanks so much for making the mobile version. Any thoughts on the replay thing though?

Cheers

PS - If you ever feel like porting Carma2 onto iOS that would be lovely too!

Frustrating as this morning I was on Fridge Racer and got an awesome final wastage. (We were down near the bit with all the depth charges/mines near the big wall, and my opponent, whom I'd been chasing, hit one of these and flew up on the air towards the wall, I hit one too and it span me 180'. The oppenent struck the wall just as I struck him with the rear of my car, all this halfway up the wall! It was like a handbrake turn slamming him with the wall, except we were all flying. It was amazing!

Yes, you're right about the final wastage thing. We tried to fix this, but it introduced so many bugs, we had to backtrack. I promise it'll be fixed in Reincarnation!

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MGZRod said:

Down to level 79 now only issue I have is no sound? Have tried restarts etc to no avail. This is on an iPad 3.

That's weird. Send it through our support channels. Not heard that one before (if you'll pardon the pun).

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mrmr96 said:

FAO BATWICK : BUG REPORT FOR IPHONE VERSION

If you have an alarm set on the phone, which goes off while playing you cancel by hitting "OK". After this the game has no sound for the rest of that race, and the hangs on a black screen once race complete.

Can anyone else confirm this is an issue for them? (I'm using iPhone 5)

Cheers

Have you passed this through our support channels on Carmageddon.com? I don't recall this being a known issue, but it's far from impossible. I've got no friends, so nobody ever phones me whilst I'm playing it....

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hairykrishna said:

MysteryLemon said:

Gazzas86 said:

I always remember being able to shoot cars across the map with a spring type power up, was that in this version of the game?!?!?!

I haven't found it yet but I expect it is. I have had the Pedestrian Electro bd Ray which zaps pedestrians as you drive by

Opponent repulsificator. It was in Carma 2.

Correct. And you should see what I've already got prototyped and working for Carmageddon:Reincarnation. Loads and loads more physics-based stupid powerups. REALLY stupid powerups...

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Mezzanine said:

andycambo said:

Mezzanine said:

Updated but save game still having trouble being loaded again.

I've had this issue once on the iPad. It seems that when there is no data connection (WiFi or 3G) the game wont load. Closing down Carmageddon (actually properly closing the app in the multi-task bar) and restarting worked for me (once I had a signal).

That might explain things - tried loading again this morning and has reappeared on my save game list.

Thanks.

Yes, because we use the iCloud for our saves, we're a bit at Apple's mercy when it comes to bad connections. Not a lot we can do about it really - but you do at least get it back once your connection returns.

The other save game eating issue was a genuine bug in our code which we fixed with the patch.

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3sixty said:

Oi Batwick, Android version.... NOW!!!


(Please )

It's coming, honest! Just much more complicated as a) It's our first Android development and b) there are so many devices you have to support.

Might just make it before the end of the year. If not then very early next year.

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By the way, anybody want to buy my 600bhp Range Rover, as featured on the Kickstarter campaign and in front of the Eurogamer show, adorned with spikes and blades?

http://classifieds.pistonheads.com/classifieds/use...

Changing it for an even madder AMG ML63. Turning up in about a month. Already arranged to be tuned by DMS to about 620bhp and 700lb.ft of torque! And it weighs quite a bit less...