At least 2 years and 3 months, If i count from the edited first post. Sadly, MX dosen't show the exact date and time of posts. But as the parts where build earlier, I would say we could assume that the project started in September/October and thus means we are closing in on 2 1/2 years

First post is 03 November 2013.
(Like on track pages, hover over the age to get the actual dates. )

Thank you for the information
But back to topic, maybe we get the final track for the TM2 lagoon release

I remember people complained that some builders hadn't submitted their part yet because they expected the track to be done by christmas 2013.

Ok,

Here is a taster =)

I joined all the parts I had into something semi-coherent.
These are parts:
1 to 9
11 to 19
74 and 75

I've done a first pass making the route obvious.
But its still far from 100% polished

I would appreciate if you could drive it and send me a first run replay so i can spot the bits I need to fix.

There are some really bad sections (particularly the ramp loops that randomly throw your car sideways)
Suggestions / edits are welcome


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Download Here (sorry Fast Shadows only for now)
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Feedback spreadsheet

Authors:
TGYoshi & nervousWillow 1+2
Basbaas»LT 3
FT»Lodec 4
NitroGuY! 5
Marius 89 6
MrA 7
eyebo 8
RachoVolker 9
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ymce 11
danodude 12
darkpuddle 13
FT»Osaka 14
Cxom 15
.zapph' 16
FT»Mandark 17
medinaDesbois 18
adsun 19
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comp & pfm 74+75

Wow, you gotta be kidding me. We get to see actual progress in this project besides words? Cannot wait for MP to finish booting

haenry says:
Wow, you gotta be kidding me. We get to see actual progress in this project besides words? Cannot wait for MP to finish booting

Well, I wouldn't call this exactly progress... more like going backwards lol.
I'm just gluing together some parts that came my way through beta-testing for cxom.
unfortunately I think the rest might be lost forever, and probably a lot of good parts from excellent builders will never be incorporated.

The objective is more to give some "closure" to the project, to give a feel of what "could have been" =)

I think the initial project was just too ambitious, it's soooo much work to make it all fit together and then do rounds and rounds of polishing and signage...the probability of turning out a good track was always low if you ask me.

As it stands, I may consider a few rounds of polishing the route to take out the more random/punishing parts.
And maybe extend the finish a bit (I wanted a really looooong booster straight to finish) =)

Depends on feedback and help/replays i get =)

Thanks pfm, I'll test it right away

anyways I'm not sad for not seeing my crappy part after a year I asked If I could send in a new part since my old one was build when I just bought valley
but the answer back then was a no..

edit: here is my crappy not so clean run.
dopbox

anyways i noticed that this map so far has a LOT of blind turns and spots.
many places with jumps and even when driving pretty slow you crash onto a wall..
near the end there are places with sharpturns but in front of them a booster.. wich makes you crash into walls...

there was one spot where I had a lot of trouble. a rather punishing part in the middle of the map.
(in my replay around 6-7 minutes I believe, I respawned 6-8 times?)

Awesome!

Hope I'll find the time to test it. Haven't played Valley for... 2 years?

If you have enough time on your hands, pfm, you might send the authors not incorporated so far a quick pm here in MX asking to send the part to you. Bad luck for them if they don't answer (within a month?), but at least you tried.

Thanks a ton keeping this one alive, pfm!