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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:

 

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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?

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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.

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I have to agree. There is plenty of reason to come back weith the updates etc. but it also has plenty of depth. Isnt a push over etc.

 

There are more major updates coming. Definately changed my opinion of the game.

 

edit: I still think the game is much more mediocre than what it should have been. The club system is broken and dull. Yet its a major part of the game. Creating one and staying in an active club is difficult.

 

The whole dynamic events stuff is terrible. Its lazy and unexciting.

 

Worse still I cant get my head around the handling. I am stuck on the pro trophy near the end but cant find any car or anything to progress. I dont feel the game is good enough to warrant any special effort.

 

I am pretty sure Sony decided to release this just to put it out of its misery. Awful. But it has great stuff (mostly based on taking advantage of the hardware) which is what seems to interest people.

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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.

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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.

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Been messing with photo mode tonight:

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Ridiculous... absolutely ridiculous. :o

Visuals in this game are something else, I can't get my head around just how real it can look at times. :awesome:

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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?

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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?

 

DRIVECLUB

 

All tracks are free. Its more the cars you get in the season pass.

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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.

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The new tracks are fantastic and seriously beautiful. I tried a few races last night with the weather off and forgot just how good this game looked in the daytime and dry.

 

Seriously tempted to get the season pass now. What other updates will be coming and are any more tracks planned for the future?


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