DRIVECLUB Season Pass (U.S.) just dropped to $13! PS+ Upgrade Bundle $20!!!
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Baron Von Beans
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Aaaaaand bought. Now, to only find the time to play the dam game.
Kralamoonard
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Haha, oh man, that's pretty much my only gripe with the game; it's the image quality which is sometimes ruined by the AA implementation, particularly on power lines and trees highlighted on the day time maps like India.
It's something minor, but nevertheless, if there was an improvement in AA quality that would just be mindblown.gif
But I'd doubt they're going to change the AA implementation; it's probably some post-processing effects or just a guess, improved particle physics from sparks generated by collisions
What gave you the impression I was only talking about GAF? If I was to talk about only a section of the community, I would've mentioned it.
My statement was done in context of what I've encountered in the Driveclub OT (and other DC/driving game-related threads) here, various console and driving game forums/subreddits (including the dedicated DC subreddit) elsewhere on the internet and IRL interactions with people.
You mean, among those who have played it in the OT on NeoGAF.
Anyway, you've since parted this thread. Maybe you'll pick it up and become one of
Khalifa Jayy
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What? How... seriously, how?
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
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What the hell?
autoduelist
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are we sure this is a permanent price drop? I thought it was just a sale for this week?
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
What if they locked Driveclub to 30fps because it fluctuated too much when they tried to run it at 60fps? What if they've found a solution?
Pretty sure they said it on tiwtter and the ps blog if I am not mistaken.
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I really can't wait to see what this is. Evo have been non stop delivering.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Do we know how high they got the framerate before they decided to lock it at 30fps? Or has that never been discussed? If it was 45 - 55 sort of a range, perhaps they HAVE found a way around the problem.
bruh cmon now, we need to keep expectations in check here. i'd love to see it though.
OccamsLightsaber
Regularly boosts GAF member count to cry about 'right wing gaf' - Voter #3923781
Maybe they'll take on FM6's 3D puddles?
They could also improve the clouds. I've always felt they they were too flat.
i was gonna mention fm6 puddle, but thats more of a gameplay thing. those feel so great. snow piling up would be awesome to see and ice sheets with physics on parts of the courses
Can't say I've ever felt the clouds are anything close to flat. They are volumetric after all.
On a side note, Forza 6's puddles aren't actually 3D. If you mean deeper puddles (2D textures covering a larger surface area) with greater penalties upon contact, sure.
Personally, I'd love for them to improve the anti aliasing.
brianmcdoogle
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Ok, I'm kind of angry right now. Someone tell me I'm doing something wrong.
A while ago I rented Driveclub, played it for a weekend, and returned it. Then I downloaded the free PS+ version when it was released just to try it out. Now, I bought the game and season pass digitally as this thread indicated.
I'm supposedly level 25, but in the tour, I only have 2 stars, the 2 stars I got when I downloaded the free version.
What happened to all of my progress when I rented the physical version? I never deleted the saved date. Where is it? Why am I started over completely on the tour with stars, but i'm still level 25.
What the heck?
A while ago I rented Driveclub, played it for a weekend, and returned it. Then I downloaded the free PS+ version when it was released just to try it out. Now, I bought the game and season pass digitally as this thread indicated.
I'm supposedly level 25, but in the tour, I only have 2 stars, the 2 stars I got when I downloaded the free version.
What happened to all of my progress when I rented the physical version? I never deleted the saved date. Where is it? Why am I started over completely on the tour with stars, but i'm still level 25.
What the heck?
Japanmanx3
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Can someone explain to me how I bought the PS+ upgrade and season pass bundle for $19.99 Via the web store and yet the store on the console later on still wanted me to pay another $14.99 afterwards to get the full game?
Did I get duped out of $15?
I've now paid $35 to upgrade my PS+ edition. What gives?
Did I get duped out of $15?
I've now paid $35 to upgrade my PS+ edition. What gives?
OccamsLightsaber
Regularly boosts GAF member count to cry about 'right wing gaf' - Voter #3923781
Did you really buy on the store, then bought it again on the PS4 without a second thought.
Did you make sure it was the same account as the webstore? THis game has way to many SKUs
DarkLegion
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Wanna sell my physical copy in the morning and pick this up, but will my save data carry over?
OccamsLightsaber
Regularly boosts GAF member count to cry about 'right wing gaf' - Voter #3923781
I believe the tour you get in the PS+ version is the Startline tour and it does not count against your "Tour" completion in the full game. It's sort of a throw away tour for the PS+ version since it contains races from the many tour packs. It shows that you completed them but the aren't really part of the game.
I thought maybe the thing I bought for $20 was the season pass and that I had made a mistake. I clicked to buy On the console because now I thought I had accidentally bought just a season pass for a game I didn't even own. Why the FUCK would the store even ask me to buy the game I already owned?
Sony can get fucked for that. As soon as you upgrade the game, any option to pay money in the game store for the fucking game should disappear. I was trying to download the PS+ upgrade but the game store provided absolutely no way for me to do that without me accepting another $15 purchase.
brianmcdoogle
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Ok, so I remember doing the first event in the Starline Tour, and I got 3 stars. That's showing up when I enter the Starline Tour in the Tour menu.
But, I remember getting well into the Driveclub Tour in the Tour menu, finishing the Semi-Pro section when I rented the physical version. I know this because I have my trophies for completing these races and sections. However, here I have NOTHING UNLOCKED. I'm at 0/225 stars. "Semi-Pro trophy 4.5% rare completed 10/21/2014"
That's the problem I'm having all of the Driveclub Tour progress seems to have been erased or is not registering from the physical release because I happened to download the PS+ version or something. So, if I want to finish that tour, I have to start over from scratch.
What if they found a way to lock it to 60FPS? Can you imagine?
M.W.
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I can't, but I can dream it.
Driveclub is a freaking phenomenal game. One of the best for the PS4. It had online connectivity problems at the start for a good month or so for multiplayer, and they didn't get most of the network features in for a good six months after. But the core game (for single player anyway) was amazing. The tracks look SO good. The lighting system is still the best in any racing game (at least on console).Those gifs in the rain weren't bullshots. I don't get people that want to be negative about the game. There's tons of other less worthy games to be negative about. People saying its generic. Ok whatever, its generic in structure. It has a world tour mode with a bunch of events. It has closed circuits and its not open world. Reason: It wanted to make people get better at the game by beating the AI and times on the track. That's no different to GT and Forza. It's not open world, so players could focus on driving and track memorization.
#1 defender
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Is your digital version from the same region as the disc version you rented? We've just had a case like that the other day. A forum poster had played the disc version from his region previously, sold it and now bought the US digital version because it was the cheapest to get, but his progress didn't carry over, since save file aren't cross region compatible.
$35 is definitely too much. The full game + season pass is $20, the $15 version is the game without the season pass. Did you buy both on the same region store and with the same console account? Too bad you didn't ask here before paying a second time, you should try to get that refunded.
It did for me and several other guys in the OT, but make sure they're from the same region.
brianmcdoogle
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It should be. I bought from the NA store and I rented the disc in NA. And, even if it was cross region, would the driver level carry over differently?
Honestly, and I don't even know if it is possible, but I'm going to try and ask Sony for a refund because I don't want to play another 8 hours to unlock my previous progress.
It's an awesome game, but it does have some issues.
The big ones:
AI - While they're fun to race against they just crash into you from behind all the damn time. If your braking point isn't exactly where theirs will be they say 'fuck it' and plough right up your ass. No reaction to the unexpected. The race becomes bumper cars.
The tour - The events become samey after a while and something more substantial than 3-race championships should have also been on offer
The in-race objectives - I have one where I have to keep my speed above 80mph 85% through a point to point race. 2 races into an event. So I can either keep restarting, playing for 3 minutes to get the chance to do better, or do the whole championship again, which takes 10 minutes or more. Very frustrating, and most of these challenges aren't that fun. Especially drifting, which feels like it should be confined to its own mode.
Also, beating your friends at challenges during a race is all right. Like 'eh' all right. If that's the kind of thing that caused the network problems then my goodness it WAS NOT worth it.
The big ones:
AI - While they're fun to race against they just crash into you from behind all the damn time. If your braking point isn't exactly where theirs will be they say 'fuck it' and plough right up your ass. No reaction to the unexpected. The race becomes bumper cars.
The tour - The events become samey after a while and something more substantial than 3-race championships should have also been on offer
The in-race objectives - I have one where I have to keep my speed above 80mph 85% through a point to point race. 2 races into an event. So I can either keep restarting, playing for 3 minutes to get the chance to do better, or do the whole championship again, which takes 10 minutes or more. Very frustrating, and most of these challenges aren't that fun. Especially drifting, which feels like it should be confined to its own mode.
Also, beating your friends at challenges during a race is all right. Like 'eh' all right. If that's the kind of thing that caused the network problems then my goodness it WAS NOT worth it.
so I bought this, and I'm honestly confused. How the hell do I just do a race? every single car is locked. I don't want to do a tour. I just want to do a race, in an environment that I pick, and that doesn't seem to be possible and I'm kind of frustrated.
edit: even looking at the garage, it seems like almost every single car is paywalled. what am I missing?
edit: even looking at the garage, it seems like almost every single car is paywalled. what am I missing?
Sounds like the game is still downloading.
I've had it on my console for over a month and started it a few times... there's no way this is it
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60 fps
OR
Better AA
I would be fine with either, but both would be ideal :3
That had nothing to do with the scores Driveclub got from journalists, their copies worked. Servers went to hell once it officially released.
I started with the tour and it unlocked the cars at decent rate. May have to bite the bullet and play it.
Otherwise have you tried Single Event?
#1 defender
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Yeah, i forgot about the driver level part, that's definitely odd, i'm not sure what would have caused that. Maybe the driver level is stored server side and the rest on your console and there has been a disconnect between the two. You could try to take it up with support and see if it can be sorted out, if you're otherwise enjoying the game.
Personally, i'd still keep it, since your driver level is intact and you didn't lose any unlocked cars. There is so much more tour content in the season pass bundle, that you'll be busy for a long time, without replaying the original tour. Of course any kind of loss of progress is frustrating and you're certainly right to be upset about that.
Do you have the season pass? There have been a lot of cars added with the season pass, which would show up as locked in your garage if you don't have it. Also, many of the cars from the base game are unlockable through level progression, which felt fairly breezy to me. I unlocked most of them just by setting up single races for a couple of weeks, before i even properly dove into the tour content.
yeah, single event is what I want to play, but every single thing I pick requires cars I need to buy or unlock later
gotta bite the bullet I guess. I really wish I could just pick a track and go
edit: oh FML I just saw the 'sort by class' when doing a single event. I have like 3 shit mini's I can use, better than nothin. I see now the ones I can unlock per level and there's definitely some under driver level 20 XD. was looking in the wrong spot. thanks dudes!
edit 2: also.. some cars are apparently free, but without opening the store there's no way to know. I really wish it was a separate icon or that they were downloaded it automatically
T_Exige
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You need to gain levels (fame) to unlock most cars. At the start you only get 1 car for each class.
The season pass adds around 35% of the cars. The free ones can be downloaded from the store. (there is a store icon on the main menu)
The locations should be open from start.
Arondight
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yeah, single event is what I want to play, but every single thing I pick requires cars I need to buy or unlock later
gotta bite the bullet I guess. I really wish I could just pick a track and go
edit: oh FML I just saw the 'sort by class' when doing a single event. I have like 3 shit mini's I can use, better than nothin. I see now the ones I can unlock per level and there's definitely some under driver level 20 XD. was looking in the wrong spot. thanks dudes!
edit 2: also.. some cars are apparently free, but without opening the store there's no way to know. I really wish it was a separate icon or that they were downloaded it automatically
Yeah, you really shouldn't worry about cars as you'll unlock them easily in no time. I've barely touched tours and managed to get heaps of cars. Probably the easiest racing game I've played to unlock.
autoduelist
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Normally Sony does lock down purchases you 'shoudn't' buy. I'd say almost always, since the only time I ever saw an issue was recently -- I own the MGS HD collection for vita and it would have let me buy MGS3 HD for vita during the recent sale. But in my years of buying, everything else I remember correctly became unavailable in the store.
Sounds like you found another rare exception. I'm not exactly sure why you were so quick to throw down $15 before asking, but now that you have the only recourse would be to call Sony. They should fix it for you. A hassle, sure, but it would be the same thing if you bought both by accident at the store and had to drive back to return it.
Prepare to be dissapointed with bolded.
AF and AA would be absolutely amazing. Really great if that was the case.
blastprocessor
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I wonder what visual improvements would make me love them. Surprising to see the engine being improved as normally saved for a sequel. City tracks could show off those new visuals
I wonder what visual improvements would make me love them. Surprising to see the engine being improved as normally saved for a sequel. City tracks could show off those new visuals
I'd mentioned Fog and Mist ages ago as something that would add hugely to the visuals, especially around Scotland and Canada, and something that when you think is the only thing missing really in terms of environmental conditions. A few peeps have said they're hoping for 60fps but that just ain't happening. They could have an improved AA method but I wouldn't class that as something we'd "LOVE". So I'll go with Mist/Fog.
#1 defender
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Personally, i would LOVE improved AA (and AF), but i agree that it's probably another weather effect.
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They really need to put a link to the livery editor on the car select screen.
MDSLKTR
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This game just keeps on giving huh? I wish I was more into it like I was with motorstorm
valkillmore
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Any chance the big graphics upgrade is dirt effects for Rally style races? Or perhaps even...
Playstation VR support?
If they can get it to 60fps by refining things, theoretically it could offer Morpheus 120fps timewarped support. I think.
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