Unfortunately an ugly bug prevents me from appreciating TMUF fully. I downloaded and upgraded United. First surprise, the dvd check is gone. I don't know if the copy protection is still there, to be honest I don't care too much about StarForce.
Second new thing, the Force Feedback (makes me want to try with my wheel, but I disabled it on the joypad. Not very good). Third thing, anaglyph 3D. Fourth thing, an ugly bug. If you have too many tracks (more than 30, it seems) in a particular category you risk being unable to display them all. After the second or third page they simply disappear. Clicking back and forth doesn't help.
I really enjoy TrackMania, it's a good arcade racer. I do mostly platform and online racing in the Island environment. Although the online racing is unaffected, that particular bug prevents me from fully appreciating TMU Forever since I downloaded tons of tracks and I'm unable to display them or download new tracks without going through some major hassle. I'm not the one experiencing that bug and I learned that Nadeo knew it since it was submitted during the Beta test.
This really sucks. I don't even know if there will ever be an update, an acceptable workaround or a bug fix. The forums have become messy in the last days, it seems they are doing maintenance and some links are down.
To be honest, I expected a little better from Nadeo since they have been excellent in lots of things, including the cost of the update (that is zero). But I hope (and think) Nadeo will come out with an acceptable solution soon. Still, TrackMania remains one of the software products I appreciate most.