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DRIVECLUB |OT| Cloudy with a Chance of Jaw Drops
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Just a guess, but I'm thinking since they've said the Platinum trophy can be earned with the PS+ version, those DLC trophies are for the rest of the game.
NullPointer
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Just did that ten seconds ago.
I am in fucking love with these courses. The hot hatch India championship felt like rally craziness - just pure top speed juking and weaving, picking up positions one by one until you speed past that checkered strip.
Good shit. Play this game and play it LOUD.
off duty ninja
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It is really amazing to me. All of the different times and environments have very realistic lighting. It is what i am most excited for in this game.
Evolution is like the Willy Wonka of lighting.
Coolbgdog12
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I got background music to work. I simply created a new PSN account and signed up for a 30 day music unlimited trial and then I switched users on the PS4 and the music kept playing.
I just hit level 6 when you get a sports car...OMG AT 140mph shit gets CRAZY...i think my hands are shaking...
Its stunning as well...5 out of 10 from Gamespot should he considered slander...
I need to drop my heart rate so i can sleep lol...this is motorstorm as a road racer.
Bravo...hang in there ps+ holdouts, it'll be worth it
Its stunning as well...5 out of 10 from Gamespot should he considered slander...
I need to drop my heart rate so i can sleep lol...this is motorstorm as a road racer.
Bravo...hang in there ps+ holdouts, it'll be worth it
nycgamer4ever
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Its a good challenge for me, its definitely the most fun. But still, If I'm having trouble with a race it seems I kick more ass in 3rd person, I will keep practising but I feel like I may be more valuable to the club in 3rd person, we shall see. Looks like I will have lots of time to get used to it before servers are back up anyway
Yeah cockpit view is TOO real. Hard as fuck! The more I play the more I wish I could use my wheel...
Truth! Track design in India is my favorite so far! Just so... white knuckle!
I got up at 5:30am to play it this morning to give it a shot, was able to download three tracks, Nilgiri Hills, Bandipur and the track circuit (forgot the name) and played about an hour.
Quick impressions (will do a blog post with further impressions later) - handling is really arcadey and fun, very forgiving in the Mercedes AMG (the first car), you can adjust your line without losing that much speed. Feels pretty grippy just like Forza, you can tell when you're about to lose the car. The faceoff challenges within the race are fun, the fame points are pure PGR, the menus are functional, game is very pretty but nothing mindblowing yet like the screenshots in this thread. Funny there's no talk of 30fps/60fps, because this game FEELS great. Feels smoother than GT5 (that's the last GT I played).
This game is the best of PGR and Motorstorm. Its basically Motorstorm track scenery (so far) switched out with real cars, with PGR globe trotting in rural areas and kudos/fame points. If you like those games you'll like this. Besides its not like you have much of a choice in racers on the PS4. I'm so glad to have a racer finally on my current gen system.
Quick impressions (will do a blog post with further impressions later) - handling is really arcadey and fun, very forgiving in the Mercedes AMG (the first car), you can adjust your line without losing that much speed. Feels pretty grippy just like Forza, you can tell when you're about to lose the car. The faceoff challenges within the race are fun, the fame points are pure PGR, the menus are functional, game is very pretty but nothing mindblowing yet like the screenshots in this thread. Funny there's no talk of 30fps/60fps, because this game FEELS great. Feels smoother than GT5 (that's the last GT I played).
This game is the best of PGR and Motorstorm. Its basically Motorstorm track scenery (so far) switched out with real cars, with PGR globe trotting in rural areas and kudos/fame points. If you like those games you'll like this. Besides its not like you have much of a choice in racers on the PS4. I'm so glad to have a racer finally on my current gen system.
eyeball_kid
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I just really disagree with all of that, and that's fine. I mean, I see where you're coming from, but you see the AI's chaotic and violent behavior as "alive" and competitive, and I see it as a real detriment. Cheap and sloppy. I think an AI that slams into you from behind on purpose is not an AI that is racing competitively and realistically. Hitting a car is basically you giving up because you're not driving better than your opponent. Drivers who race these cars in real life do not ram into each other like it's Speed Racer. At least the Mach 5 has defensive and offensive capabilities, and it's a fantasy.
And that's the real oddity of this game -- they've put so much obvious passion into representing the cars and scenes realistically, and yet the AI drivers do not behave in a real way at all. They drive like they were coded to emulate bad online drivers.
nycgamer4ever
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Alright, in case anyone missed my photos here's the links to the full albums for each locale
Scotland (Dawn) - http://minus.com/mDTFIVCDlUqfb
Canada (Midday) Part 1 - http://minus.com/mqHmNlpPHbr2a
Canada (Midday) Part 2 - http://minus.com/mtq2bvIu7kEWH
Norway (Dusk) - http://minus.com/mtRkI67aQhGLR
India (Late day) - http://minus.com/mbmVd0brdpHkXy
Chile (Dusk) - http://minus.com/mMLfO9DgsbK8n
My favourite of the bunch I think
I'm done with the photos for now. Enjoy
Great job Banana.
It is really amazing to me. All of the different times and environments have very realistic lighting. It is what i am most excited for in this game.
Evolution is like the Willy Wonka of lighting.
Yep I love this feature, can't believe it took till 2014.
I'm having a lot of fun just in single race and playing around with all the time of day settings and weather settings. This feature fucking amazing (and I've only played India). Apologies to any PC master race people who have had real lighting for years and years.
hypostatic
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Absolutely loving this game! Quick question, where are my digital preorder bonuses?
Vroadstar
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Are you sure? because this is one feature I would like EVO to add the most.
I love watching how I did after a race and of course because of the graphics being top notch enjoying every little detail you might have missed while racing.
Convinced my wife to let me get the game today (yeah, I know)
I was a little hesitant reading some of the "professional" reviews but decided to trust the mostly positive impressions in this thread instead.
Really liking the game so far. Handling is nice. Not too sim but enough to be challenging especially with the faster cars.
Graphics are amazing. Initially I was a little disappointed by the jaggies but realized I was a little too close to my tv (5 ft from my 55"). Once I moved back a few feet, the image looked pretty much like I've been seeing on gag these past weeks...perfect.
Sense of speed is spot on.
Have only played a few tracks and tried like 3 cars but been having fun. My wife even asked me to let her have a go.
Can't wait to try some MP races.
It's not perfect but it's the kind of racing game I've been waiting for.
Negatives would be:
car selection
Sometimes it's hard to tell where track is going
Bumper cars with AI but could be from driving too aggressive.
I would say 8.5-9/10 right now
Will drive some more to make a better assessment
I was a little hesitant reading some of the "professional" reviews but decided to trust the mostly positive impressions in this thread instead.
Really liking the game so far. Handling is nice. Not too sim but enough to be challenging especially with the faster cars.
Graphics are amazing. Initially I was a little disappointed by the jaggies but realized I was a little too close to my tv (5 ft from my 55"). Once I moved back a few feet, the image looked pretty much like I've been seeing on gag these past weeks...perfect.
Sense of speed is spot on.
Have only played a few tracks and tried like 3 cars but been having fun. My wife even asked me to let her have a go.
Can't wait to try some MP races.
It's not perfect but it's the kind of racing game I've been waiting for.
Negatives would be:
car selection
Sometimes it's hard to tell where track is going
Bumper cars with AI but could be from driving too aggressive.
I would say 8.5-9/10 right now
Will drive some more to make a better assessment
I would rather AI be a little bit aggressive than that passive nonsense in Gran Turismo where they just follow the racing line around the track.
But... opinions..
BMO = GOAT
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Waiting on the PS+ to try it out, but another side of me just wants to buy it at any moment o.o
Mechanized
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I like that the AI can be aggressive, but I dislike when I lose points for a collision that was completely their fault. lol
Pretty much what I was thinking. The AI behaves similarly too. The pushing and shoving is just like Motorstorm. Just missing the crazy slow mo crashes.
Cayoosh trials is where this blew my mind. That freaking P2P track loaded in about 8 seconds (including the intro skip)!
Time lapse while pressing x and no edits:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1495231500725318&l=624656852979679016
eyeball_kid
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Yeah, I think 'opinions' are unavoidable when this game is riding a fine line between an arcade racer and a sim. I imagine people who want a more arcade-y experience are fine with the AI's dirty tactics, and people who enjoy Gran Turismo like me, not so much.
Regardless of my disappointment with the AI, I definitely plan on picking this up when I get a PS4.
These make me really look forward to seeing what can be done in photo-mode. The vanilla captures are really rough to look at when I go full size. Looks great quoted though.
Edit** Went through the ton of shots in the post just above.
It all looks very blurry (I'm talking textures, not IQ). Norway looks great in motion...stills...back to looking muddy and rough. It seems every still shot in the albums is not so hot at full screen.
There is no photo-mode yet. Also, FH2 doesn't really add/change much...at default. You can change a lot if you alter the camera settings, but what you get in a vanilla photo-mode shot is darn near what you get in gameplay.
It's not photo mode. It's a live gameplay screenshot. Photo mode isn't even out
bananafactory
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There's no photo mode yet - these screens are all raw gameplay stills
Also the India ones are probably the worst of the bunch, I'm quite happy with how the Norway and Chile screens look
XJF
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It was the last race of a championship and the other challenge was to finish in Top 2 that race. Didn't feel like repeating the whole championship just to redo a clean lap.
jellies_two
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there are a lot of hidden assists, all the way up to and past the RUF cars, no way can you put two wheels into the gravel going around a hard corner and not stack it into the wall in real life.
there is also much bias built into the car going in the right direction, and you can use the poor AI cars as bumpers if you hit them sideways you dont even get a penalty but even if you do, there isnt a time / engine penalty, as there is for cutting corners.
so they would have us believe many people are connected ok and the server issue affects only a portion? i call b.s on that..
to win at drifting its best to use manual gearbox and the more acute the angle the larger the drift points. Its harder than the other challenges though, i think because the precision needed to enter and exit the drift is essily upset by the assists designed to make it easy.
if you get bored with time trials and races try going for the trophy you get by coming 1st in a race with 12 cars and no points deducted for hitting any of them that was quite hard and a change of driving style.
there is also much bias built into the car going in the right direction, and you can use the poor AI cars as bumpers if you hit them sideways you dont even get a penalty but even if you do, there isnt a time / engine penalty, as there is for cutting corners.
so they would have us believe many people are connected ok and the server issue affects only a portion? i call b.s on that..
to win at drifting its best to use manual gearbox and the more acute the angle the larger the drift points. Its harder than the other challenges though, i think because the precision needed to enter and exit the drift is essily upset by the assists designed to make it easy.
if you get bored with time trials and races try going for the trophy you get by coming 1st in a race with 12 cars and no points deducted for hitting any of them
that was quite hard and a change of driving style.
Keihart
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The game is really addicting, this is the most close to a initial D i have felt in a racing game, it's no as arcadey as the initial D games but yet not as sim as GT making drifts unpractical most of the time, i can't wait to play online, but in the meantime the AI seems to get better and better as the difficulty rises, they don't simply give you the spots , they fight for them triying to block you and stuff.
Day night cycle with this lighting it's amazing, can't wait for storms and maybe some tighter tracks on the DLC, i really hope the secret location it's japan.
The OST is kinda really good, but not that much variety :C
I'm so giddy to play this game against friends, hurry with the servers EVO/SONY ! ...pls.
Day night cycle with this lighting it's amazing, can't wait for storms and maybe some tighter tracks on the DLC, i really hope the secret location it's japan.
The OST is kinda really good, but not that much variety :C
I'm so giddy to play this game against friends, hurry with the servers EVO/SONY ! ...pls.
My brother is at home playing the game and texting me... says he isn't all that impressed by the visuals? He's pretty casual, but what's the final verdict on the graphics from those who have played? I've seen all the pre-release .gifs and they look unreal but it's hard to tell what the final quality is without having played it.
Genuinely curious as to what people think of the final visuals.
Genuinely curious as to what people think of the final visuals.
Vroadstar
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The screenshots doesn't give the game justice.
I had so many WTF moments while racing I kept crashing my car. I think one of those is a track in India where the the sun is shining while I was racing and it's really a jaw drop moment for me.
Also there is no photo mode as of this time....
Maybe Evolution can do a Sim/Arcade toggle for AI aggressiveness in an update. There's four difficulty settings, but I assume that will adjust finishing times too.
Its aiight.
Honest answer: I don't have first hand impressions, but you can see in the many many videos that have been out how impressive the reflection shit is. The cockpit view it probably the best modeled cockpit view I've ever seen. The attention to detail on the cars themselves is pretty amazing.
Coolbgdog12
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The visuals grow on you. they don't look as good as the gifs at first but then it depends on where you're playing and what time of day it is. It looks good when you really look at it. The color pallete is realistic. The game looks kind of.. idk.. blurry at times?? It's hard to explain as it does look incredible at times though.
Anyway I prefer playing with no OSD.
Anyway I prefer playing with no OSD.
Not for me :/
I'm guessing as someone whose favorite racing game is Burnout Paradise, I probably won't like this game much? I enjoyed Need For Speed Most Wanted 2012 and loved Need for Speed Rivals as well. I just generally don't play many racing games. Seems like in the past (PS2-ish era) any racing game I'd play, I'd spend the entire race spun out or stuck up against a railing. I tried the demo for Forza Horizon 1 a couple years ago and hated it. I also utterly despise rubber-banding AI (which is why I hated NFS Hot Pursuit 2010 and sadly Mario Kart as well).
Sure wish that PS+ Edition would post so I could actually try it out.
Sure wish that PS+ Edition would post so I could actually try it out.
SolidChamp
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I don't get it. I have the Canadian PSN but for some reason the PS+ free version still isn't showing up for me. The store has been updated with the new + games of the month and everything.
What gives??
What gives??
Vroadstar
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I'm ready Drive-GAF
Nice! got the same one Asia edition
bananafactory
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Funny seeing people think like a day of broken servers is unprecedented for aaa release.
Bitch please, I was THERE for the Sim City launch. Those scars never heal
Bitch please, I was THERE for the Sim City launch. Those scars never heal
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