somme Posted December 21, 2014 Posted December 21, 2014 Is... is that all the game is? It's a racing game. What more did you expect?
EEVILMURRAY Posted December 21, 2014 Posted December 21, 2014 It's a racing game. What more did you expect? I'm not sure, for everyone to be fisting it, I was expecting something. Something that would stop it looking boring beyond belief... But s'just me
Fierce_LiNk Posted December 21, 2014 Posted December 21, 2014 I'm not sure, for everyone to be fisting it, I was expecting something. Something that would stop it looking boring beyond belief... But s'just me u wot m4x2? It's a racing game but a very dynamic one at that. Try a race in Norway, starting at 3pm with the time setting on 60x and with the weather set to dynamic and call it boring. The race will go from daylight to night with the weather alternating between dry, light snow, medium snow and heavy snow. If you set enough laps or if the race is particularly long enough (setting it to 10 laps is awesome) it'll even go back to daylight/morning time/dawn. It's fucking awesome. All the while, you'll have drift challenges and speed challenges where you try to best either your friend's scores or that of randomers. It's probably the best racing game out there, imo.
EEVILMURRAY Posted December 21, 2014 Posted December 21, 2014 Try a race in Norway, starting at 3pm with the time setting on 60x and with the weather set to dynamic and call it boring. The race will go from daylight to night with the weather alternating between dry, light snow, medium snow and heavy snow. It does seem everyone is loving the rapid change in weather. How is it without the weather set to dynamic?
James Posted December 21, 2014 Posted December 21, 2014 I have loved the racing itself without the weather. It's got excellent handling and just great fun to play. The world doesn't need open world racers.
somme Posted December 21, 2014 Posted December 21, 2014 Sometimes I have to have a few rounds with the weather set to clear - otherwise I start to feel a bit damp.
Cookyman Posted December 21, 2014 Posted December 21, 2014 (edited) Is... is that all the game is? No. I'm not sure, for everyone to be fisting it, I was expecting something. Something that would stop it looking boring beyond belief... But s'just me It's just you. I'm up to my wrist in KY Jelly and arse : peace: It does seem everyone is loving the rapid change in weather. How is it without the weather set to dynamic? It's a brilliant arcadey/sim hybrid with beautiful graphics regardless of the weather which encourages you to push each vehicle to its absolute limit. It's fast with top notch handling fantastic sound and in depth social connectivity. It's on my personal shortlist for GOTY but what do I know eh? Edited December 21, 2014 by Cookyman
EEVILMURRAY Posted December 21, 2014 Posted December 21, 2014 Love that pic. Will be using it in the future
Fierce_LiNk Posted December 21, 2014 Posted December 21, 2014 It does seem everyone is loving the rapid change in weather. How is it without the weather set to dynamic? I have loved the racing itself without the weather. It's got excellent handling and just great fun to play. The world doesn't need open world racers. Pretty much what Sexual said, it's still a good game without all of the weather and time stuff. There's a great sense of speed to the game and each car handles differently to the next. I love the sense of achievement you feel where you find a new car and then persevere with it until you fully understand how it drives. Then, you're pushing it to its limits and can get the most out of it. There's a sense of achievement to the game. When you get a great time or you beat one of somebody's challenges, you know that you earned it. It's a hard game, mind. Unforgiving at times, but I think the balance between its difficulty, its playability and its sense of fun is just spot on.
Fierce_LiNk Posted December 30, 2014 Posted December 30, 2014 Good races tonight, @Cookyman. I really enjoyed it. However, I am absolutely terrible. I'll try to get on this a bit more so we can have some more races. Would be nice to get a few more of us online from here.
Ganepark32 Posted December 31, 2014 Posted December 31, 2014 Picked this up a couple of days ago as I saw it for £20 and thought why not as I've been wanting a racing game to just sit down and play in my free time (and Need for Speed: Rivals seems to be going for more than this for some reason whenever I look) and while it's obviously a little more sim, as opposed to arcade-y, I've still really enjoyed what I've played so far. Still trying to get used to the handling of the cars as they do feel like they've got some real weight to them when cornering so while I've managed to get through quite a few events in the single player, there are some where I've not managed to get the starts for the top lap time as I'm still trying to get used to the cornering and when best to lift off/brake and accelerate on. Still, game looks great and plays well. Driver AI is a bit crappy and I seem to be getting penalised for them driving into the back of me quite a lot in the breaking zones (I thought this got patched out) but hopefully the intermittent patch for this will improve this aspect. Should be around at some point in the new year for some online-ings. My free time is rather sparse but yeah if people are wanting/doing online races then I'll see when I have time free for things going forward and let people know.
Jimbob Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 Had an hour on this yesterday, discovered how much i suck at drifting. It's just this that is preventing me from progressing through the DLC tour modes. Needs more practice i think.
somme Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 I still only manage to drift properly one out of five times I attempt it. Very tricky!
Cookyman Posted January 12, 2015 Posted January 12, 2015 Hmm I wonder where driveclub is going with next DLC?
Jimbob Posted January 13, 2015 Posted January 13, 2015 Spring drives, maybe more America tracks (maybe). Hopefully one day, they'll add the Nurbergring.
RedShell Posted January 13, 2015 Posted January 13, 2015 Been messing with photo mode tonight: Ridiculous... absolutely ridiculous. Visuals in this game are something else, I can't get my head around just how real it can look at times. :awesome:
Jimbob Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 Very nice. Them pictures @RedShell, wow. Sparks ftw!!!
Daft Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 Can someone point me to the updated season pass content and what we're getting for free? Wasn't Japan part of the season pass? Anyone else think Sony are going to make this a F2P game?
James Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 Can someone point me to the updated season pass content and what we're getting for free? Wasn't Japan part of the season pass? Anyone else think Sony are going to make this a F2P game? All tracks are free. Its more the cars you get in the season pass.
lostmario Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 @RedShell, do you want to take over as owner of the club? I'm sure you can design a much better club car than I have.
RedShell Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 @RedShell, do you want to take over as owner of the club? I'm sure you can design a much better club car than I have. I don't mind. You can do that then?
Cookyman Posted January 19, 2015 Posted January 19, 2015 (edited) Just a wee update then! You can download the new game update and play all 5 of the new Japan tracks (1.10) now!It's a big one: 3.33GB of stunning new tracks, a new online game mode, improved AI, better weather visuals and many, many more improvements based on your feedback. Here's the full details of Game Update 1.10: The update will happen automatically when you fire up the game. The update size is 3.33GB. The total size of all updates so far is 5.87GB. New Features: Adds a new online game mode: Multiplayer Time Trial Adds five new tracks in Japan, offering 11 variants in total: Nakasendo, Japan (2 variants) Lake Shoji, Japan (2 variants) Asagiri Hills Racetrack (3 variants) Takahagi Hills (2 variants) Goshodaira (2 variants) Gameplay Improvements: Improvements to the weather visuals, including rainbows and heat haze! Makes changes to Drift Mode, to prevent backing up to score more points. Makes changes to AI drafting behaviour. Makes changes to the impact of world collisions whilst driving on a straight, to reduce the amount of drag and speed lost from impact. Adds a new option to Event Settings to race without crowd, track infrastructure and corner flags. Adds the option to browse and register for Multiplayer events via the Social Hub. Windscreen wiper speeds have been changed. A bug causing AI car wing mirrors to show a flase reflection has now been fixed. Disables overscan compensation when playing via Remote Play. Adds a link to the PlayStation®Store to the DRIVECLUB Home menu. Also includes a number of minor bug fixes, performance improvements and usability tweaks. Photomode Improvements: Adds the option to reset damage and remove dirt when taking a photo. Adds the option to permanently hide camera movement controls when accessing Photo Mode. Players can now access Photo Mode while using a steering wheel via R3. Players can now move the camera while OSD is disabled in photo mode. Add-ons (coming January 27-29): Adds support for the Icona Vulcano, coming to PlayStation®Store as a free download later in January. Adds support for the Apex Expansion Pack, coming to PlayStation®Store as a premium download later in January. This Expansion Pack includes the Apex Car Pack and Apex Tour Pack. The Apex Car Pack includes 5 new cars: Enzo Ferrari, Caterham R500 Superlight, Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Centennial Edition, McLaren 650S Coupe, and Jaguar C-X75 Prototype Edition. The Apex Tour Pack includes 11 new Events and 5 new Trophies. Adds support for the Sakura Tour Pack, coming to PlayStation®Store as a premium download later in January. The Sakura Tour Pack includes 11 new Events and 5 new Trophies. Adds support for 2 new livery packs, coming to PlayStation®Store as a premium download later in January. Each Livery Pack contains 5 new livery patterns to customise your cars with. There's more to come in the next game update, so please keep sharing your feedback about DRIVECLUB with us to help the game continue to evolve around you. *UPDATE* Tried a few tracks, set a few challenges and it's absolutely gobsmacking, beautiful stuff. Edited January 19, 2015 by Cookyman Automerged Doublepost
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