eso76 said:
Mount panorama and hockenheim were hinted at.
After playing this track in Shift 2 I personally think there are much better racing circuits to choose from, but I'd be flabbergasted if Hockenheim didn't make it in to FM4 after its showing in the leaked video. Why go to the trouble of modelling part of the track, even a grandstand, if those assets are not for the final game?
Speaking of the leaked video, everybody on the planet has seen it now so why don't Turn 10 just release it in HD, even clearly labelled as 'WIP' or whatever? Or, better yet, stick it on the LCE disk as bonus content?
eso76 said:
And i thought that twisty mountain road used as background in some of the pics was an actual environment but it might still be part of the alps environment, which might work as Camino Viejo or even as Fujimi Kaido; maybe we just saw a small part of it and it's actually a 18km long track ?
I've had similar thoughts ever since this environment was announced. Pure speculation, but back in May I posted on FM.net:
I'd hazard a guess that the track shown here is part of an Alpine complex, similar to the Camino Viejo's Extreme Circuit, consisting of several tracks (one of which being a reworked Alpine Ring) which can either be raced individually or linked together as one. Camino worked well in FM3 and can work equally well as another location in FM4.
The Alps span through Austria and Slovenia in the east and traverse through Italy, Switzerland and Lichtenstein, all the way to Germany and France in the west, so I guess it is plausable that an Alpine complex (if it exists in FM4) could actually span the borders between two or more countries.
In at least one video interview with a T10 bod (I'll try to track it down) I've heard the Alps referred to as French Alps, not Swiss, so unless this was an unlikely verbal error then maybe at least one border
is crossed during a monster version of an Alpine complex.
I dare not even dream.
EDIT:
The mention of French Alps was in the excellently revealing
Inside Sim Racing interview with T10 studio manager Alan Hartman.
The actual interview starts around 9 mins in but the (potential) bombshell is dropped at 23:14 where Hartman is asked about one of the new environments, and replies "...the Alps. It's the Swiss and French Alps".
The three ribbons we have seen at E3 have always been identified in the menus by a Swiss flag, and as far as official announcements go have always been referred to as
Bernese Alps: a Swiss (and ONLY) Swiss region. For the studio manager to throw "French" into the conversation seems odd to me, and not the sort of mistake that someone who knows the game intimately should make. If the Alpine track in FM4 is purely Swiss then surely France wouldn't even enter his mind?
The plot thickens....