Couple things i was thinking about....
The backup feature is great, definetly needed that. However, i think you should implement a way to disallow people from backing up on the start, atleast disallow them to back up any further than the point where you start from.
The start gate needs to be randomly dropped. Right now, you can actually time when its going to drop after you catch on to it. This happened all the time in MVA, you could time the start. Hell, in MCM2 it didnt even work half the time LOL. Start gates are meant to test your reaction time and give everyone a fair chance.
There needs to be some sort of feature where you can slide the bike off a haybail if you happen to get stuck on or right behind one. This has happened to me alot because i really try to narrow down every corner, but then i may hit one and be stuck on it, and have to restart the race to fix it.
Are you working on any sort of track selection screen (with a preview picture), and bike/rider selection screen (with previews)? This makes for a lot cleaner look and will allow gamers to more easily select their preferences. I know there are already plans for user track creation, so i think it would be a great idea to have a very nice looking and organized track selection screen. I'm pretty sure there are plans for bike and rider skin creation aswell, and a similar bike/rider selection screen should be implemented. For the purposes of beta version, it is alright in its current for right now. However, if the objective is to work our way to the full version (or atleast full version 1.0), then things like these need to be tackled early so more important things can be focused on (tweaks to the physics, etc...whatever else).
-Bryan (as i go run another 30laps
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