The Crew closed beta NDA lifted
- Thread starter JehutyRunner
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andreyblade
Neo Member
downloading it as well but it's a whopping 15GB and the Uplay servers (gaps) are swamped
Trigonometrize.
Member
Why have an NDA in the first place if it's going to be canceled for the same beta? Did they improve it to the point where it's not detrimental for people to be talking about it or something?
DarkJedi24
Member
Hopefully there will be controller support.
Because people were breaking it anyway, and it would have been bad PR to go after beta testers for breaking NDA?
ANuclearError
Member
Perhaps that's why they've dropped it?
Katze mit Hut
Member
Interested in your xperiences!
I hope they are xtream!
JehutyRunner
Banned
There's controller support. I've been playing with an Xbox 360 controller.
lifesanrpg
Neo Member
A few clips driving through a few of the major cities in the game:
Also, from another article on the site:
"My final time from Midtown New York to Downtown Los Angeles took me a whopping 39 minutes."
Also, from another article on the site:
"My final time from Midtown New York to Downtown Los Angeles took me a whopping 39 minutes."
Hmm. Not quite the "it will take you over an hour to get coast to coast". Still. That's big.
lifesanrpg
Neo Member
Yea I was disappointed with that too at first, but then some people pointed out to me that he was driving around 150mph on long stretches so I guess that's why it seems smaller.
thesuperfunk
Member
Bring on the webm's!
Anti nearly everything
Banned
im sure it took around 40 mins to drive around oahu in tdu 1 in a fast car, im guessing they would be many more straights in the crews route too.....
just hope this game gives me the same buzz as tdu1 did.
anyone have a spare code?
PMed
neotokyo360
Member
How i get in close beta?
I want.
I want.
I'm really curious how this game will turn out. The stuff they've put out so far looked potentially interesting if not as impressive as other racing games currently in the pipeline but then again it has a different focus. Of course if anyone doesn't know what to do with all the beta keys I'd be happy to try this out.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
NDA lifted? Finally I can say how mediocre the game is.
The challenges and activities in the game are mind-numbing. The UI is pretty boiler-plate. And the graphics looks like some last gen stuff.
None of the "Crew" multiplayer stuff is fun either.
The overall map is huge, but now in a good way. Bland cloned road leading into bland cloned road and all that, cities looking the same, etc.
The game wants to be Burnout Paradise x10, but in reality it's x10 worse.
The challenges and activities in the game are mind-numbing. The UI is pretty boiler-plate. And the graphics looks like some last gen stuff.
None of the "Crew" multiplayer stuff is fun either.
The overall map is huge, but now in a good way. Bland cloned road leading into bland cloned road and all that, cities looking the same, etc.
The game wants to be Burnout Paradise x10, but in reality it's x10 worse.
Maintenance
Member
Hopefully I'll get one code to try it again this time.
MrPressStart
Member
Anybody havea code they would like to part with? Pretty please!!!
Can someone chime in on this? Is this accurate?
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Im coming from the angle I was expecting a massive, open world racing game, with solid social modes. Essentially Burnout Paradise on steroids. I am a massive fan of BP. Played it it to death and I had high expectations for this.
I also didn't like how the cars handled, but that may have been a deliberate restriction - there was plenty of tuning options and whatnot to modify things but they were buried behind unlocks that were closed off and the default car is really trashy.
Also, if you aren't playing with a Crew and you want to go play some multiplayer with randoms, you need to hope you have enough people for whatever game mode you want to play, other you'll be waiting, a few modes in particular take you to a lobby and out of your vehicle whilst you wait and sitting around not driving for periods of time is one of the game's lowest points.
The Cowboy
Member
The challenges are pretty much general open world racing game stuff (general races, evading cops, takedowns, point A to B on a timer etc) along with smaller challenges around the map (jumps, slaloms, speed settings etc), they are what you would expect from an open world racing game.
The UI isn't actually that bad, its a basic open world racing game UI (though i do want the ability to turn off the floating blue waypoint line and just have that on the map).
The MP is once again general open world racing game stuff, you can do almost every story race in MP as well as everything else.
The map is huge and in a good way, its completely open go anywhere (if you can see it, you can pretty much drive to it).
It doesn't want to be Burnout Paradise at all, its wants to be like Test Drive Unlimited (it is made by the same team after all) but loads bigger and better - and it is.
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As for looking last gen (some people keep saying this), i have no idea how people keep saying this. Due to the scale of the game and the zero loading once your in game - you aren't going to get Drive Club/Project Cars level of graphics, it does not look last gen at all when you factor in the scale.
Keyser Soze
Member
It really is. Its easy to overlook how long 39 minutes actually is.
The Cowboy
Member
LOL, yea the physics when in the air need a bit of work - they are a tad (well a lot) over the top.
Haha, whaaat?
The Cowboy
Member
He/She is in a Back to the Future hover converted car.
ANuclearError
Member
Daffy Duck
Member
The videos are doing nothing for me.
The way the cars handle when they turn looks well off.
The way the cars handle when they turn looks well off.
Hmm this actually gives me hope. I didn't like Burnout Paradise at all, being nothing like that is good news to me. I wonder how close it is to the game FUEL, I love that game and would still go for random drives now and again in its huge world. (well I did in the 360 copy I used to have, hoping the PC version loses GFWL soon )
Visualante2
Member
car vault
John Caboose
Member
I played 2-3 hours taking a road trip through the major cities. Game seems nice and having heard it's from the TDU guys makes me even more interested. Wouldn't want to play alone, racing with friends is probably more fun.
GB unfinished is out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLyJpJR1utw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLyJpJR1utw
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Man, FUEL was awesome. And nothing like this. There's too much "stuff" beging forced unto the player. If they include a pure open world mode with no "go here, do that" then maybe. This game feels far too urban, with very little verticality - unlike FUEL with it's awesome mountains and proper non-urban terrains.
Vanilla Crew feels NOTHING like FUEL though.
John Caboose
Member
No it is not IIRC. From memory:
New York
Detroit
Chicago
Las Vegas
Seattle
San Francisco
Los Angeles
New Orleans
Miami
Washington DC
There are several more "minor" cities.