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Project CARS (crowdsourcing) racing sim by Slightly Mad Studios (fully funded 3.75M)
- Thread starter markao
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That's a good point. I'll have a look tonight what kind of settings are available.
People should be able to use whatever controls/assists they want, if you ask me. I don't use assists, but I don't see why I should have anything against somebody doing so if it helps them be competitive or alive in the race. There's not some massive sim racing community here either, so it should be as inclusionary as possible.
This is the official statement
As they are talking about percentages, I guess this will be handled through steam vouchers and you have to buy the game through steam. It's not really clear though...
Kazdane
Member
Try GSCE or AC for open wheelers. GSCE probably has the best open wheelers in a sim but unfortunately it looks like arse.
It's track selection is some what eclectic as well.
AC? You mean Asetto Corsa? Last time I played it it didn't feel like anything special (another game in the "drives like cars over ice" department), did they change anything there substantially? I'll definitely check GSCE
AC? You mean Asetto Corsa? Last time I played it it didn't feel like anything special (another game in the "drives like cars over ice" department), did they change anything there substantially? I'll definitely check GSCE
Yeah Assetto Corsa, their one open wheelers are great when you get the tyres warm. You do have to keep the pedal down though and the downforce will get you through the corners. If you lose your bottle and let off you'll often spin. It's no where as bad as say that shall not be mentioned which subscribes to the harder it is to drive the more realistic it must be.
GSCE though have the greatest representation of open wheelers with Formula Ford (well the Brazilian version), F3, F2, F1 and retro 70's and 90's. Shame they don't have the same selection of European, American and Asian tracks that other sims have.
Maastricht
Member
AC? You mean Asetto Corsa? Last time I played it it didn't feel like anything special (another game in the "drives like cars over ice" department), did they change anything there substantially? I'll definitely check GSCE
The slower cars I'm still a bit iffy about, but for the rest AC is a pretty good drive, and I'm hopeful but not confident that PC will at least be better or even equal.
Kazdane
Member
Ah right. I need to come back to AC and check that then, I don't remember using the open wheel at any time.
And if by that which shall not be mentioned you mean the same game I'm thinking, yeah, it's terrible. Retro 70's and 90's are great, especially if there are historic tracks as well to go along with them.
That's the thing, I'm thinking about it now and I think I only really played around with the slower cars, and my feeling was that the handling was just nothing special.
pCars is quite nice even with slower cars, you know those cars have less grip, but it's also reasonably easy to catch slides and also to predict where you will lose it if you're not careful, I haven't seen that in other games.
I remember one instance with an open wheel in a particular game (probably the one that shall not be mentioned) where even just turning slightly would cause the car to spin wildly unless you released the throttle (which doesn't make any sense).
Yeah there are a few historic tracks. They aren't my cup of tea but I understand their place in the genre.
I've heard that PCars has trouble with REALLY shitty setups out the box for most of the cars. Now while this might not effect the Clio or the Formula Ford it's probably going to have a huge impact on the prototypes. The FFB is also somewhat muted in comparison to AC, Raceroom or GSCE. Though I didn't exactly tweak the FFB settings out of the box.
If the game can fill my GSCE/Raceroom slot while I wait for AC to improve it's AI I'd be happy. I just want a decent looking, well supported offline racer with a large selection of open wheel, prototypes and touring cars.
Unless you've got yourself a PC, I'm pretty sure I'm safe from you.
Kazdane
Member
The default setups in PCars change pretty much every time there's a new build, as both the devs and the community are working on it. So, there was a time where some setups were fantastic and others were absolutely horrendous.
for instance, for whatever reason, I love the Pagani Zonda R there, as well as all the open wheelers, and there was a time when the Pagani went from a really nice car to drive around to undrivable just because they were messing around with plenty of stuff that affected the car one way or another. Some time later, the car went back to feeling much better again.
So, what I mean is that, there'll probably be some setups that may be too tricky to drive out of the box, but the vast majority should work fine out of the box once you adapt to the particularities of each vehicle.
ADRIANF1esp
Neo Member
Hi, new race, two laps at Monaco circuit with the Formula A.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaVFqVUMJqI
Regards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaVFqVUMJqI
Regards.
The Stealth Fox
Junior Member
How has the optimization progressed since last year? Does the gold build run better on PC? Deciding on whether to get this or not.
Will I get 1080p @ 60 fps on Ultra with a GTX 970, i5 4690, and 8 GB DDR3 ram?
Will I get 1080p @ 60 fps on Ultra with a GTX 970, i5 4690, and 8 GB DDR3 ram?
Nothing new really, just a lot of data
They changed something in their "build" machine and with that file timestamps changed and Steam read that as new data. Hence the amount and not easy for them to roll back to older build (lot of data again).
Prob not, my vids above are everything on high and it sits at 60fps for the most part but does dip.
Going to Ultra requires a pretty decent system.
(Specs: Xeon 1231 - GTX970 - 12GB RAM)
Project CARS |OT| I didn't get paid to market this, I swear!
Heh. Fairly apt considering some of the shilling on race sim forums.
Scaramanger
Member
Speaking as a member (therefore a shill) myself I feel that's a little harsh, I think we are just biased excited!
Sintoid
Member
I died
cyen
Member
Perfect!
Scaramanger
Member
Love it!
Speaking as a member (therefore a shill) myself I feel that's a little harsh, I think we are just biased excited!
I'm sure some people are but there are some who are deliberately mis-leading people because they will get a better ROI. :/
Bravo.
Well, we have a winner. Not long now!
I'll be double dipping on this. As a full member I'll be upgraded to the retail version on PC but I'll mainly be playing on XB1 with the limited edition because my PC is having a few issues of late. When Windows 10 hits I'll upgrade my PC and start fresh so I may find time to get back in my simrig and hit the track in pCARS, AC and iRacing!
Scaramanger
Member
In which case that's a poor show and a bit sad to see.
At the end of the day the game is not perfect, there will still be unfound bugs, there will still be bits that may not be to everyone's tastes, there will still be bits that were planned and had to be cut for later and its probably not going to be absolutely locked 60fps on the consoles. By pretending it is perfect these shills will cut off their noses to spite their faces as it will sour impressions of the game.
All I will say is that if you are a fan of motorsport you really should try it (note not necessarily buy it!) because IHMO its an epic game with much more to love than hate.
I agree here. It's been a long time since a racing game has had so much to offer in terms of the sheer amount of disciplines you can race in. It's one of those rare games that actually make you feel like a legit racing driver as well.
Damn, I miss ToCA Race Driver
Scaramanger
Member
Great memories of the first TOCA Touring car game on the PS1.
Whoooah there..! Things to hate?
That's what I love about SMS. They know how to capture that authentic motorsport/race-day feel.
In saying that, I would love to see their next game offer up one of their features from SHIFT...Works Conversions. To take a stock production car and turn it into a purpose built race car is just so satisfying.
Could that be something they could do later on or will they stick to just race cars?
I would love for it to be possible but I can't see it happening in Project CARS, it's mostly all race-spec stuff apart from the odd manufacturer's licence here and there with a handful of road-spec models. The last time a game really did that right was Gran Turismo 2 IMO. I loved how you could buy a Ford Mondeo from the used car section and turn it into a BTCC-spec racing machine, livery and all.
Scaramanger
Member
Well i'm talking in internet overreaction terms here!
But everyone has different wants right, so for me i'd scrap the road cars and have more race cars. Does that make me hate it no of course not but the internet is the internet and if I was so inclined I would make a big deal of this!
Ironically I can see the game getting marked down for a lack of road cars. I don't mind track day cars (Atom, Caterham etc) but honestly who gives a toss about your 2013 Ford Focus RS? It handles like a bus full of drunk school children.
The game needs more 90's BTCC cars.
Scaramanger
Member
Ironically I can see the game getting marked down for a lack of road cars. I don't mind track day cars (Atom, Caterham etc) but honestly who gives a toss about your 2013 Ford Focus RS? It handles like a bus full of drunk school children.
The game needs more 90's BTCC cars.
Exactly!
I would love that as well (I really like road cars too, they might not be best for racing, but they are great for driving around and having some fun), but I guess it might not really be that close to the core design of the game and it also required quite a bit of development resources (they do have similar feature in World of Speed, though).
Works conversions? Gotta be a Day 1 patch.
Saw some video of PCars the other day and it's looking fine.
Can I justify the outlay of a wheel to my wife when the decking needs doing?!?!?!?!?
A lot of grass roots motorsport use cars that handle way, way more like a bus than an RS Focus does!.
Just because it's a race car, doesn't mean it's an all singing, all dancing custom suspension tuned to the n'th degree piece of engineering.
Many brscc series use pretty much standard (apart from safety equipment) cars, and provide top notch racing, I personally would like to see this type of motorsport simulated as well as the big bucks stuff.
Ironically I can see the game getting marked down for a lack of road cars. I don't mind track day cars (Atom, Caterham etc) but honestly who gives a toss about your 2013 Ford Focus RS? It handles like a bus full of drunk school children.
The game needs more 90's BTCC cars.
Give me 80's Group C and Group A touring cars and I'll be in heaven!
We can only hope! This is what I was referring to in GT2, it was fantastic.
Of course you can. The decking can wait
These aren't represented enough. We see all the time group 5, 70's and 80's formula cars. But what about the cars we grew up watching?
If they could make a TOCA expansion I'd cream my pants.
You know I have more fun racing the Clios, Formula Rookie and Ginettas than I do racing the GT3's and F1 cars in racing sims. They provide much more exciting races. So I'm all slower, affordable cars. I just really don't care for pure road cars, Forza and GT already have that covered.
Agreed, but a few more road going models (heck many brscc cars are road legal and driven to events!), MX5, Fiesta, Mini, VW Golf etc etc, with racing liveries surely wouldn't go amiss?
Scaramanger
Member
80's hot hatch racing?! I'm in!
Game delayed..?