Played it a bit yesterday after a while, game is very smooth indeed. But what the hell is going on with the car damage models?
There is something weird going on, the cars hardly deform anymore. I never liked the damage models from the start [pretty big step down in comparison to GTA4], but now it seems even worse.
I watched an NPC having a pathfinding issue where it couldn't quite make a turn so it kept running into a wall, reversing, running into the wall. Nothing happened to the exterior of the car. At some point the hood fell off, some other stuff fell off, but no deformation. Finally the engine caught fire so I thought to at least get a nice explosion. NOPE - fire died out and nothing happened.
I did some high-speed crashes to test it out, hardly any visual damage.
I don't know, it looked so weird to me.