I have yet to be in a single French lobby that wasn’t full of rammers and corner cutters, also they smell pretty awful. Please Turn10 segregate the French into special French Lobbies, or at least separate online play with language barriers in concern. The English speakers are either really clean British dudes or little kids, who I can deal with as long as they aren’t French, the Germans yell a lot but they are okay and at least I can speak Spanish enough to curse out South Americans who choose to wreck me, but the French are a whole other beast, please Turn10. Save the community and separate the Francophone speakers from us. If it need be I will just be put in pools with English speakers. Anything to avoid being placed with the Napoleonic short little angry Frenchmen!
Offensive post aside I would prefer language separated lobbies solely for the fact that when i’m in a non English speaking lobby I end up removing my headset and I might as well not have a mic. Either that or give me a horn so I can communicate via morse-code
Good point. The language barrier can be an issue at times.
However, I heard this exact same topic the other day and it wasn’t pretty. Flip the coin and I’m sure Americans aren’t always receiving positive vibes for race craft. I distinctly remember being taken out for being American after stumbling into an all Brazilian lobby, so I guess I got punished for my fellow countryman’s actions.
I get what you are trying to say but I dont think it was write with that much humor. I have been in a couple of French lobbies when i should have been sleeping and I did not have a issue except I had no clue what they there saying but it was a very clean lobby. I can not say that about the lobbies i plan in at normal hours they have there ups and downs on crashers but they are all little kids and most of them are America and some Canadian.
got stuck in a lobby last night with a load of frenchies 10 french and 2 english they were all shouting and laughing with each other and one of them had a big pick up that was bouncing up and down at first which caused them to have hysterics he then proceeded to ram everyone at turn one then wait for everyone each lap and try and wipe everyone out
low and behold he quit just before the end and waited in the lobby and the same happened in the next race
Yea… can’t say I disagree, though it was just one lobby that I remember being in with some Frenchmen… they weren’t really reckless/aggressive drivers but definitely verbally abusive. Most of the rammers/crash teams I’ve encountered run no mics though so I couldn’t say.
Hate to agree…but the nation does appear to just want to cheat to win. I have many unhappy memories of battlefield 2 and 2142 where you would enter a French hosted server and if you were a good player and doing better than their clan then you were kicked from the server or team killed till you left whilst they sat there stat padding and spawn killing. Same with race hoppers…I see the tri colour, take the name and watch that player like a hawk.
Never met anyone from the US who has been a bad racer. Germans are well behaved, Italians/Spanish are daring but prone to loss of control and Brits are either the cleanest bunch…but have short fuses
Many years ago, probably in FM2, we had a lobby of a Kiwi, a fellow from the Deep South in the USA, five Brits and me (Pacific Northwest, USA). The Southerner had a “twang” shall we say, y’all, and one of the Brits wondered what it would be like trying to talk “Southern.”
He tried saying few sentences, then one of the Brits said, “You sound like you’ve had too many pints!”
We laughed until everyone had tears and could hardly get a breath, would just get ahold of ourselves again to decide what track to race next when someone would start laughing again. And we’d be off on the uncontrollable laughter for another five minutes.
The game and Xbox LIVE is international for enjoyment.
Most of the rammers/crash teams I’ve encountered run no mics though so I couldn’t say.