****Official Project CARS thread****

[barmyllama]

When SMS started WMD to fund pCARS there were different tiers to invest at. Which basically determined how often you got new builds, but also a discount on the game on release.

Off the top of my head it was something like.

Junior Members cost €10 and this gave you monthly builds to test and €10 discount.

Team Members cost €25 and this gave you weekly builds to test and €25 discount.

Full Member cost €50 and this gave you weekly builds to test and a full copy of the game.

Senior Members cost €100 and this gave you weekly builds to test and a full copy of the game. Plus you can watch meetings.

Managers cost €1000 and this gave you twice weekly builds to test and a full copy of the game. Plus you can attend meetings.

Senior Manager €25,000 and this gave you weekly builds to test and a full copy of the game. Plus you can attend meetings.

Plus everyone above junior had an opponent named after them, also the two manager tiers also had in game ad boards and livery ads. As well as invites to track days.

Everyone with a toolpack will receive fees as a percentage of their investment once the game makes a profit.

SMS estimate that the game will break even at a total of 250,000 copies.

Ball park figures suggested a four fold return on 1 million total sales.

That's total sales across all platforms, not per platform.

 

[peahead]

Project Cars PS4 - Ruf GT3 Race 100% AI

 

[Greboth]

The AI in this look fantastic, it will be nice to have a racing game where the AI actually challenge.

 

[anything-but]

Played this in Game earlier after getting some PSN credit, lets just say you`ll need precision and patience with the throttle and brake compared with Driveclub! Still pre-ordered tho.

 

[DAIR]

Drive Club is An arcade game... So that is to be expected.

 

[smr]

Played this in Game earlier after getting some PSN credit, lets just say you`ll need precision and patience with the throttle and brake compared with Driveclub! Still pre-ordered tho.

I like that. Makes it more like driving a real car then. Aside from that what were your other impressions?

 

[Quinnaay]

are people using wheels for this on PS4 and if so which ?

 

[DAIR]

T500 RS

 

[smr]

are people using wheels for this on PS4 and if so which ?

Funnily enough I've just started looking into this myself... but I ould only get a decent steering wheel now with a good seat and not some pole between my legs.... learnt that after I sold my G27 and wheelstand pro, hated having the metal pole between my knees so I'd need a decent seat as well this time.

 

[roddypoddy]

T500 RS

Ditto,and ordered a PS4,and a pc copy

 

[Jase]

I'll be using a T300 RS with this on the PS4, should be good

 

[DAIR]

Had mine since GT5 iirc. Have tried to sell it a number of times since then. And not one of you tight so and sos wanted it lol.

Bet you want it now... Don't ya! Lol

 

[DAIR]

I'll be using a T300 RS with this on the PS4, should be good

Good thing about that wheel is that I believe it is actually a ps4 controller. By that I mean it has the share and option buttons

 

[CapitalOne]

Preloaded. Will be getting the wheel out this weekend!

 

[smr]

I think the t300 rs would suit me well.

 

[beachBOYken]

Does anyone know when psn preload goes live?

 

[Greboth]

I didn't realise this many people had or are getting a wheel for this. Maybe I should get my order in quick as using a controller against all your wheels is going to suck

 

[beachBOYken]

Don't worry your not the only one, I'm using a pad

 

[ZG002]

I will be using a pad, used to have a wheel and wheel stand pro, cost vs time used was pathetic and I didn't like the stand. It's a lot of money for a decent wheel set up.

 

[iv-tecman]

What a busy few days i've been having, only just catching up on a lot of the news and views surrounding project cars.

I read about pit crew from a member on here suggesting that the pit crew animations would be included into the day 1 patch.

Over on WMD confirmed - missing even after release and not included into any patch. classed as WIP, bit of a poor showing but its apparently visual issues only, core pits work fine. You just sit there hearing wheels being changed, no one there actually changing the wheels.

I also noticed in that lovely trailer they released the Mclaren sporting a lovely red bull playstation livery - again this won;t be in the game you get, as that was removed some months ago due to license issues.

i've also had a quick go with the career tonight, and during qualifying - on the Pc version however, if you time it like the pros do and cross the finish line with .30 seconds time remaining, you do not get to finish your lap, instead you're abruptly quit to a rather useless menu telling you your time.

But this is all mostly cosmetic and hopefully over time gets fixed by patches and licensing agreements etc..

For now, due to family issues which have really come about much quicker then I expected I doubt I'll even have time to play the PC version much at the moment, yet alone the PS4 version if I ever do pick it up.

Oh and game works fine with a gamepad guys, don't rush out buying thrustmaster 300 RS wheels, and when I tried a wheel with a wheel stand pro, the metal bar really got on my nerves, as said unless you can rig up a wheel correctly, if you're a sofa gamer maybe stick to a gamepad.

Game seems fine on PC with a gamepad..

Leaderboards show gamepad and wheel users anyhow.