If I were you Mascot, I'd join pCARS as a junior member and enjoy reading the WMD forum for the next 12 months. Size up what MS and Sony offer with their new consoles by which time SMS will have finished development of CARS (Assetto Corsa, rFactor 2 and GTR 3 will most likely be available too) and Nvidia and ATI will have new videocards and decide what platform suits you most.
I know quite a few people in the same situation as yourself and they've all bought junior memberships to read the forum and support SMS.I might just do that. I've got two laptops and a PC, none of which probably capable of running CARS as anything more than a slideshow, but following the forums could be worth the fee alone.
Finally bit the bullet. Became junior or full member ($25) weekly builds, $25 off price of full game.
Pics look fantastic and as much as I love Forza the visuals are starting to get to me, hell if it were native 1080p I'd be cool, but eh being a bit of a pc fan I dig me some visuals.
i5 750 @ 3.2 (usually @ 3.8-4.0ghz need to replace fans)
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670GTX
Should be able to rock it with fairly high visuals on a 1080p monitor I would hope.
First impressions aren't good with the file only downloading @ 110-140KBps
Who knows, some of your current PC gear may run less resource hungry racing sims (i.e Race 07, rFactor, RBR, GTR 2) and make use of your steering wheel and pedal set used when playing Forza 4.
Cheers.
The only machine worth a damn is my works laptop (Dell Studio XPS) but that's locked down tighter than a nun's chuff and can't be fiddled with. I can't even change the screensaver settings without buying our IT administrator a new house.
If CARS fulfills the promise it's showing, and if it's not released on nextgen consoles, then I'll be wholeheartedly moving over to the dark side with the best hardware money can buy.
Nice video even with the small size...if they pull off everything they are trying to do with clouds, it seems to me it will be one of the most ambitious cloud system projects like...ever.Here's the video.
Unfortunately I recorded it at half size and youtube ate the rest of the quality so it looks a bit poor. You can see a few bugs in the tech too, but otherwise I think it looks pretty damn good.
God rays are probably coming and cloud shadows didn't work in that video so that's only a taste of what's to come. Here's what Andy had to say:Was just about to ask which video that last gif is from, thanks!
Goddamn this game... rolling clouds in the reflections. Are they planning to add in God Rays as well?
The effort is much appreciated, but the added bits contain a few too many of the known issues (especially lighting), fixes for which are coming very soon. If we must go front page (and to be honest I'd prefer to wait a little longer anyway), then I'd much prefer the original short clip (i.e. the first section of the new video).
Mind blowing.
Here's an absolutely stunning timelapse(s) courtesy of Ben Buja:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qmYsvRef964#!
I think I could spend hours just watching that and listening to that soothing music.
If you join does the discount apply only to the PC version? I'll probably be getting the Wii U version, assuming it's decent enough (...damn thing needs analog triggers for this and GC games).
So, this game is going to support mods? graphically looks awesome but without the cars it doesnt really matters to me.
A lot of people with manager levels and above don't want CARS to have mods - Assetto Corsa and rFactor 2 are being built with mods as a selling point.So, this game is going to support mods? graphically looks awesome but without the cars it doesnt really matters to me.
There should be some sort API/SDK coming at least, but actual mod support isn't still decided. It might be a bit of a problem with the time and money constraints, but it might still unofficially support some extra content like Shit and S2U did.A lot of people with manager levels and above don't want CARS to have mods - Assetto Corsa and rFactor 2 are being built with mods as a selling point.
Wow.Here's an absolutely stunning timelapse(s) courtesy of Ben Buja:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qmYsvRef964#!
I think I could spend hours just watching that and listening to that soothing music.
Not crazy, I'd say GT5 still looks more natural at times.Also am I crazy in finding GT5 a bit more visually impressive in certain areas still?
Well I still think that GT5 Photo Mode is still above anything else even though CARS is edging closer and closer, but still the lighting, the materials, the colors and especially tracks need work, but I've no doubt that GT5 will be history once they've finished and properly polished all the content.Also am I crazy in finding GT5 a bit more visually impressive in certain areas still? I think it's just the lighting and tracks that let it down a bit.
I guess I shouldn't look at the game too much from a visual standpoint yet, especially since we're still quite a way off.
I might be wrong, but I remember someone mentioning it and it should be coming at some point, but not anytime soon.Talking about effects, theres one effect missing in day time:
Road Mirages, when you see a non existent pools of water in the distance giving of reflections and air swirling.
Yeah, I think I've posted a couple of times on the forum for mods and against super ultra DRM, but there seem to be lots of people with 2-3 manager or senior manager packs, so I'm a super minority with the single manager account. And that's how voting works anyway, my opinions presumably just aren't as popular as alternative opinions. It's not like it's unfair.A lot of people with manager levels and above don't want CARS to have mods - Assetto Corsa and rFactor 2 are being built with mods as a selling point.
So, this game is going to support mods? graphically looks awesome but without the cars it doesnt really matters to me.
What's the current list? I'm well behind the times here.It seems very unlikely that it will. And what kinds of cars would you be interested in? I think pCARS currently has the best lineup I've ever seen.
What's the current list?
What racing disciplines are SMS including or at least thinking of?
I'm not really into drifting but no rally is disappointing. Why were those two forms dropped?
Wow.
Once the bugs are ironed out that'll look absolutely phenomenal.
Also am I crazy in finding GT5 a bit more visually impressive in certain areas still? I think it's just the lighting and tracks that let it down a bit.
I guess I shouldn't look at the game too much from a visual standpoint yet, especially since we're still quite a way off.
I want GT cars.
I feel I should share something with you guys: I've never not been a pCARS member
Andy Garton already knows about it and we seem to have an understanding if I screw up again, I'll be fully IP-banned.
He got refunded the first time he was banned.So you paid twice?
He got refunded the first time he was banned.
Anyway, Andy mentioned it sometime ago and welcome back(ish)