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Project CARS (crowdsourcing) racing sim by Slightly Mad Studios (fully funded 3.75M)
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Right, Amazon preorder cancelled.
As danowat pointed out, CDKeys discounts brings the £45 digital preorder in line with the physical copy price, with the added benefit of the five LE cars/career events and getting the game more than a day early. I'm normally against digital purchases as I generally like to p/x old games for new, but I think pCARS is likely to be a keeper.
I'm guessing the game will preload sometime next week and be available to play midnight on Wednesday? It definitely says available to play on 7th May.
As danowat pointed out, CDKeys discounts brings the £45 digital preorder in line with the physical copy price, with the added benefit of the five LE cars/career events and getting the game more than a day early. I'm normally against digital purchases as I generally like to p/x old games for new, but I think pCARS is likely to be a keeper.
I'm guessing the game will preload sometime next week and be available to play midnight on Wednesday? It definitely says available to play on 7th May.
You know it makes sense Sir!
My pre order status/countdown timer runs out at midnight on Wednesday. I don't know if that is just for the preload though.
When I preordered it said "available to play 7th May". The official EU release date is 7th May due to public holidays or something (UK is 8th May) so Sony probably cannot filter the UK out of the EU PSN store. Ergo, UK gets it digitally on the same day as the rest of Europe. That's my take on it, anyway.
soundscream
Member
Street dates for physical copies make sense, but digital should have a world wide release date.
Yes, that's my assumption, I would imagine the date being pushed back on the UK version is simply a one day push on the CPA due to impact of an extra days holiday has on the logistics of getting product to store.
Yeah you could be correct about that actually. I didn't notice when it said it would be available to play when I pre ordered but my countdown timer says 6 days 10 hours to go
I love the people trusting argumentum ad verecundiam even when the opposite is in front of their eyes. Oh boy.
Dictator93
Member
Thx for posting again.Sorry but the render team are currently far too busy sipping champagne on a beach in the Bahamas to contemplate making any further improvements ...
Just kidding
So ... Anisotropic Filtering.
Everyone loves a good AF debate, right?!
I think the key piece of knowledge that is missing in the various analysis about the track anisotropy is that they all consider the track to be a single textured piece of geometry.
This is not the case - the track is rendered in three passes:
1. The base track layer e.g. The Tarmac!
2. The road markings e.g. White lines
3. Dirt layer / tyre marks
And since they are separate passes it's possible for each layer to have different Anisotropy settings - 4x, 4x, 2x respectively, with white lines being up'd to 8x subsequently.
That is a crazy amount of manual tuning just to get performance in place for AF. Obviously your team find the performance gains generated by this to be worth the time, effort, and IQ loss on individual pieces.
What exactly is making AF so expensive that you cannot just leave it at 8x (all texture surfaces) for the consoles?
Interesting, I wonder if there will be a difference in NA when the digital version goes up on the PS Store.
On the XB1, it is $5 cheaper here for the digital version than it is at retail ($65 vs $70).
Both?
I'm really glad I don't care about much about graphics. Jeez, it's a couple of shadows you won't notice.
I agree, assuming there's no technical reason. I guess it's to stagger the load on the download servers, but preloading can do that anyway.
It's about time digital versions offered real incentives over physical releases. Early access could be one of them, cheaper pricing another. It's inexplicable how they often cost a lot more when packaging, middlemen and physical logistics are removed from the equation.
SMSRenderTeam
Neo Member
As a general rule our car models have four LODs that are the same on both console and PC:
LODA 60k triangles
LODB 25/26k
LODC 4k
LODD 0.8k
on PC there is an extra LOD that we call "LODX" - this is enabled for the player car only when using the Ultra Setting for Vehicle Detail. LODX models are 200-300,000 triangles!
LOD switching is mostly driven by distance of the car from the camera, and is not dependent on the # of cars in a race.
You don't trust what SMSRenderTeam is saying..?
I think what SMSRenderTeam says in fact is not invalidating my screenshots. Real screenshots, by the way. They talk about real numbers but omitting another real numbers too in a kind of smoke screen that leaves all parties happy. Take a look a how he explains car LODs differences in his last message.
And ey, I agree that the game is awesome in consoles, is awesome in PC (that's why I put my money day zero funding it and shared every problem I had in wmd forums) and they deserve a lot of success. But I don't like interpretable truths (neither being called myopic, indeed).
Karts said:
Ha! Definitely going for that US market
Great list overall when you look at it compiled like this. Also nice to see them recognising the community-made videos from YouTube!
soundscream
Member
Definitely early access should be a part of digital.
Sweepstake on the ? "coming soon" cars?
You can make educated guesses on them due to the fact that the list is alphabetical.........
Checked my preorder email confirmation:
Project CARS - Pre Order Edition (Game Pack)
Please make sure to top up your wallet before the pre-order expected release date: 06/05/2015 @ 11:00 PM £44.99
The plot thickens...
I'm guessing that's when preloads start
Taking a first guess at the first 'coming soon' car. Audi S3?
Either that or the S1
Edit : I thought the preload was already live...........
Haha yeah I literally just changed my post! Looks like it could be the S1 Quattro much more than the S3.
soundscream
Member
You can download the XB1 now. Once its up for preorder you can download it all.
soundscream
Member
Also they need to add at least 1 corvette.
Automotive design, perfected.
Just fucking look at it.
Drrroooollllll
A corvette would be nice for sure.
I personally I really like that they focused on tracks over cars and for the cars that they did put in game, they focused ot motor racing instead of having 40 different Civics.
Edit: Ferrari would also be nice indeed but it's a licensing nightmare.
I personally I really like that they focused on tracks over cars and for the cars that they did put in game, they focused ot motor racing instead of having 40 different Civics.
Edit: Ferrari would also be nice indeed but it's a licensing nightmare.
soundscream
Member
This is what I was referring to
Yeah me too lol. Like I said, it would be nice to have one.
I reckon that's a decent shout, looks like another Merc as well.
I am interested in the 3 between BAC and BMW...........
This is what I was referring to
Road America just isn't Road America without a pack of those beasts in full flow. The track is made for them.
Bentley perhaps? I can't think of anything else that could fit in that gap.
TheAdmiester
Member
The hidden hatchback is the A1 Quattro. It's one of the few cars that's conpletely done but not in the final build. It was also revealed along with the IMSA 90 GTO in the Audi licensing announcement, and that's also modelled but not revealed.
I'd say 650S or 570S. SMS will be wanting to maximise the McLaren licence, and McLaren will definitely welcome the exposure.
ive asked in a few different places, but what on Earth is the US pre-order situation like?
- I know we dont have a physical Limited Edition, but does the digital pre-order on PSN include the limited edition car pack like in Europe?
id like to go physical, but if i can get the limited car pack by buying digital then i will...
- I know we dont have a physical Limited Edition, but does the digital pre-order on PSN include the limited edition car pack like in Europe?
id like to go physical, but if i can get the limited car pack by buying digital then i will...
Well, there we have it. Shows how much attention I've been paying to the builds recently haha!
Quite possibly yeah, the reason it makes me think P1 GTR is the position of the '?' if it does happen to be in alphabetical order, as you would expect it to be above the other McLarens if it began with a number
I'm guessing all of the hidden 'coming soon' cars will soon be exposed by backers who have seen them during development. Any more you can share?
soundscream
Member
Yeah I would have traded out one of the Mustangs (Boss) for one :'(