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DRIVECLUB |OT| Cloudy with a Chance of Jaw Drops
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bananafactory
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The servers are still unavailable for most people, I haven't been able to get online once since the game launched. The PS+ version won't open up for people until they stabilize the servers (and I suspect they'll simply crash again when the million people or whatever download the freebie). I know people want it sooner but I'd be surprised if you see the PS+ edition before the weekend.
The aggressive AI can be a nuisance, but I've found it simply forcing me to be smart about my moves than simply try and just gun for the lead. When going into a corner I kind of hold back a few feet and see what the AI does, sometimes they bump into each other or cause havoc. I wait for an opening and try and make my passes when opportunity presents itself, haven't had too many issues thus far.
I've barely even noticed the penalties for going off track, but they don't seem particularly harsh and haven't impacted my ability to win races. At worst you lose a tiny amount of fame points.
travisbickle
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That's my point is that reviewers had expectations that weren't met. There were REAL cars but no way tune them suddenly became a flaw when the developers were after a racing game that was more about driving ability than tuning ability. Amirox mentioned it earlier in his post. There's a consensus that players shouldn't have to fail, and that failing eliminates the fun. I guess its just a difference of philosophies. Gamers love RPGs these days, because even when you fail, you can level up your character, level up your weapons and stats and go back and get it done, regardless of your actual playing ability. But in Driveclub you can't tune your car to get better or add stats to your driver so he goes faster, its about player ability. When players continually fail and they aren't even interested in the game anyway there's probably a feeling of not having any fun.
bananafactory
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And there's other people in the online race too :O the servers are alive...somewhere
BloodMoney
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DC deserves better than that 72 on meta. It's not that I think that is the wrong score on a truly 0 to 100 scale, it's that so many shite games have scored higher than 72 over the last few years.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
You can't in good conscious say that visuals in this game seem outdated or an uprezzed last gen gen. I'm sorry, but that's just straight up BS of the highest order. The game not only looks gorgeous, but objectively it's doing thing technically that I've never seen another racing game do.
Vroadstar
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After 264 pages of fairly good discussion about DC, we finally got a winner. I hope this doesn't turn into like any previous DC threads because it's been a great read so far.
viveks86
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LOL. Keep dreamin
Thanks, it sounds like the tried and true driving game strategy of cutting inside on a corner and using the AI cars as a bumper is not viable. Not really a huge issue for me as I have never figured out how to "drift" properly in these games so I tend to brake early...
Hopefully they release the game sooner rather than later.
Yeah I really like the coloured flags, its like in rally games where the guy calls out pace notes. It eliminates a lot of looking at the mini map.
-Deadpool-
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Dat P1.
Finished off the Rookie series last night, so about 45 stars I think.
Looks great, but we already knew that.
Menu UI, load times, cars etc, are all fantastic, everything is really polished.
AI is woeful, I agree with the sentiments in here; I've had the inside line sooo many times and they'll just drive right through you. Same goes for being on the outside line (seems like the only way you can pass cleanly sometimes), but it doesn't stop them just driving you off the road - even more annoying when you get a corner cutting penalty as a result of the collision.
There's definitely a "sort of" rubber-banding in there too, despite them saying to the contrary. I actually tried it out last night; Parked up on a corner, did a couple donuts and I was able to catch and pass the entire pack in half a lap (and they had all bunched up conveniently). Despite me easily getting back to first they were able to hang on within 1.5sec for the rest of the race.
I'm sure DriveClub will be a bit of fun for a while though, just hasn't really "blown my skirt up" yet.
bananafactory
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This stream is just Rushy secretly broadcasting under a fake japanese alias. He's racing against the rest of the Evo team while they sip back drinks and bask in their bags of money, laughing at the poor schmucks who got suckered into buying the game.
sadly someone out there on GAF actually believes this
NullPointer
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In case anybody was wondering you can paint your car a solid color. It'd be one of your options for designs when starting a race, Just go to the garage (touchpad gets you to the home screen quick), and go into modify one of your design slots, and select no design at the far right - then you can select a solid base color (matter, metallic or gloss).
That seems to be the only screen where you can check out your rides too, spinning the camera around and the like.
That seems to be the only screen where you can check out your rides too, spinning the camera around and the like.
Stratosphere
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Checking back in, how dem servers doin? Has anybody put up a aredriveclubserversup.com site yet?
-Deadpool-
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I haven't been able to connect once.
bananafactory
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HAH. Streamer got booted from the servers.
Tough break bro
Tough break bro
SalientChief
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I second this. I just got the game a few hours ago and so far I'm loving it. The lighting, shadows etc. are stellar. I'm playing on a 60" plasma sitting back about 8ft.and the graphics are awesome! The sound is also spot on. I have Forza 5 and Horizon 2, and those games are lookers in there own way too , but I have to admit this is on another level. I'm very impressed and it handles like a dream too, in my opinion. Just my 2 cents worth.
I think the worst server blow-up I can remember is COD 4 over Christmas week the year it released. It was a shit-show and everybody was off work/school and ready to play. Anybody remember that? This is nowhere near that yet, but hopefully they get it together by this weekend.
The lack of an open world is precisely why many of us are enjoying it. It makes for a much more focused experience.
bananafactory
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Was it really worse than Sim City? People bought the game and some of them legitimately could not play it at all for over a week.
I'm not a PC guy so maybe it was worse. COD 4 was an issue for ME...lol.
I don't normally care about review scores because I buy games I like, but a 72 is pretty harsh on DC all things considered and could ultimately cost people's jobs.
The gaming industry is a pretty dirty industry when you think about it. We've already seen the closure of Bizarre Creations when Blur flopped, the Wipeout team (Studio Liverpool?), the Pure/Split/Second team, and obviously numerous other mid tier developers too. Sure a lot of them closed down because their games were terrible or sold poorly, but there's been a lot of collateral damage too.
What we have here are full degree IT and graphic arts professionals doing a professional job and having their work judged on and scored by people who are not. I'm not saying people need a degree to review games, but I do think the lack of some standards in the review process and because its a purely subjective opinion of a game can do a lot of damage. And I understand, you can't really have a set of standards or a checklist when reviewing games, but my point is when an engineer in a different field is doing his work, he's judged on the quality of the work where he follows a set of standards, a doctor too, a lawyer, an accountant etc. In the entertainment industry no such thing exists and its just based on sales. The fact that we have a really inflammatory medium such as the internet that is always ripe for complaints of any kind doesn't help either. It's a messy situation which I don't have an answer for.
bananafactory
Banned
Haha fair enough. The problem with Sim City was that the entire game, including the core single player, relied on the servers to do computations associated with simulating things like economy and traffic. This meant that the server capacity being reach immediately resulted in people being unable to so much as launch the game.
It was probably the most bungled launch I can recall.
And Diablo 3 was pretty bad too if I recall. This coming from people who created WOW (which also had problems) but they should have been aware of it.
Honestly it just comes down to budget. Driveclub doesn't have it.
I've started to go full on no HUD and the flags help a lot. I'm still bad but I'm happy my screen is just showing the environment and the cars.
bananafactory
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Yup, this is why I think people need to cut them a little more slack. Evolution is not as large as some of these huge developers and they don't really have a ton of experience with strong online networks, Motorstorm was never really seeing big amounts of traffic even though it did have a following.
I fully expect they'll learn from these mistakes and be better prepared next time.
This so much. I couldn't stand the open world approach of Burnout Paradise, TDU2, Forza Horizon, and NFS Most Wanted (2012), but I loved NFS Hot Pursuit, Gran Turismo, FM4, Burnout 3, etc. for their tight focus and well realized gameplay. Driveclub take out the fluff and gives it to you straight and uncut.
bananafactory
Banned
The tracks also feel so well designed, especially the point to point ones. Perfect mix of sharp turns and big straightaways. Keeps me on edge all the time.
Yeah, I mean Horizon 2 had a ton of issues for the first several days too. I think part of it is the lower budget for racers and part of it is Microsoft and Sony not appreciating how many racing game fans there are and not allocating properly.
bananafactory
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Uploading a time trial vid, Chile at sunrise. Will post it in a bit.
Here's a tease
Here's a tease
LookAtMeGo
Member
Welp. At least I got a few points for the club today. It was exciting to play online for those 3 minutes. I really hope the servers are in better shape tomorrow.
Off to bed.
Off to bed.
yeah the first couple of point to point races were amazing. both visually and track design wise.
just couple hours in but
really had a strong first impression with the game..
(might had to do with the racing game drought on ps4)
josecitoxnyo
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OMG I'm online! It's alive!! :O
Edit: nvm, it's dead again. -.-
Edit: nvm, it's dead again. -.-
Coolbgdog12
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This game=sooooo good. I don't know why I'm really liking this so much. I'm having fun playing the same events over and over trying to perfect them.
The graphics are simply amazing when you turn off all hud elements and play with the dash cam. Oh and streaming your own music in the background through music unlimted makes the experience even funner imo. I have GTA V's popfm playing and it's just a joy.
The graphics are simply amazing when you turn off all hud elements and play with the dash cam. Oh and streaming your own music in the background through music unlimted makes the experience even funner imo. I have GTA V's popfm playing and it's just a joy.
So you guys have all played fh2 and prefer driveclub? I want the Ps plus version to arrive as I need to play it. The Ai sounds downright terrible tho
Yep, this game does seem barebones to me. I wonder how much the extra year of development added since it still feels like a launch game to me. At least I feel the core driving is pretty fun.
SRTtoZ
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Is this real life?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx1rDq6kKqM
Hope you don't mind the driving, I was too distracted with the graphics and only planned to use the footage for gifs.
Amazing.
So.. It allowed me online last night BUT i couldnt find any multiplayer? I was only able to drive vs friends which in my case they dont play DC. Is there no matchmaking of some kind?! Or I'm just blind..?
Also for 39,99 i think its a great buy. Advanced into the german racing cars and i loved the audi. Having trouble to see where I'm going when im using the beautifull cockpit view tho.
Also for 39,99 i think its a great buy. Advanced into the german racing cars and i loved the audi. Having trouble to see where I'm going when im using the beautifull cockpit view tho.
This game inspired me to play around with sharefactory for the first time. RUF in Norway, no HUD, first person, day to night transition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnb-gfGgdZY&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnb-gfGgdZY&feature=youtu.be
I'm no expert at IT, but there's gotta be a huge difference of players on day 1 when compared to say day 60 (2 months into the games life). Of course everybody is going to try and connect but I can't see Sony buying new server equipment, extra bandwidth to cater for the enormous intial influx of players that will probably outweigh its actual population by a significant margin during most of Driveclub's online life.
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