*******C.A.R.S - Community Assisted Race Sim*********

Rexton said:
Is it going to be possible to order it on Steam? And is it even coming to Steam at all?

I know it's coming to SteamOS.
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I believe all the pre orders are going through online retailers other than Steam. However keep your eye out for announcements via the Project Cars and WMD web sites.

Blackvault
 
Gonna be an awful lot of shocked people when they get game, play it and quickly realise the game doesn't look anywhere near as good as the screenshots or video footage. Never seen a game get so much undeserved hype for graphics, except maybe GT5.
 
It's still a year away from being a finished product in my opinion, it crashes nearly every time and I can't use half the graphics settings as it then crashes all the time.

Last time I tried last week I could only run 2-3 AI without crashing.

I'm surprised nobody talks about popup it can be seen in every video.
 
I don't get many crashes, but the game needs optimising a lot more. I run triple screens and my frame rates aren't playable if I max the game out on a GTX 690, even with AA completely off and the grass turned off. That's playing solo, without AI.
 
Jaynos said:
Gonna be an awful lot of shocked people when they get game, play it and quickly realise the game doesn't look anywhere near as good as the screenshots or video footage. Never seen a game get so much undeserved hype for graphics, except maybe GT5.
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Obvious troll is obvious.

I think its one of the nicest looking graphical games around. I think that a lot of the footage and screenshots coming out of the game are a good representation of the game. Do you have any examples where you feel the promotional graphics don't match the actual gameplay at this stage?

Blackvault
 
A lot of mixed views of late. This game first came onto my radar about a year ago. I've been excited ever since.... Until now lol. Now I'm concerned. Concerned that the console version of this game will fail to live up to the hype or fall way behind (in terms of quality) the PC version.

I have some questions :

What is the real current state of the console version? All I've seen is marketing interviews and previews.

As a racing game fan. Should I still be excited by this game?

What is the engine audio like? How authentic is it?

How much time, effort, money and space would one require to play this on a PC?
 
the rain effect on the sides of car windows looks crap though like it's not effected by the wind, same as the rest of the rain spots on the cars

BTW saw some shots of a most awesome car livery on another forum
I think one of the people with a manager package made it and it's only available to download from the managers section of the forum though but I'm guessing it will be in the game at release for everyone.
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well yeah if you want to be super critical, but this is the nicest looking weather engine I've seen in a racer. And that last section of gameplay from the helmet, love the immersion
 
DAIR said:
A lot of mixed views of late. This game first came onto my radar about a year ago. I've been excited ever since.... Until now lol. Now I'm concerned. Concerned that the console version of this game will fail to live up to the hype or fall way behind (in terms of quality) the PC version.

I have some questions :

What is the real current state of the console version? All I've seen is marketing interviews and previews.

As a racing game fan. Should I still be excited by this game?

What is the engine audio like? How authentic is it?

How much time, effort, money and space would one require to play this on a PC?
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Check out Inside Sim Racing. The guy that runs the website has played the PS4 version and did a first impressions video.
 
Blackvault said:
Obvious troll is obvious.

I think its one of the nicest looking graphical games around. I think that a lot of the footage and screenshots coming out of the game are a good representation of the game. Do you have any examples where you feel the promotional graphics don't match the actual gameplay at this stage?

Blackvault
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where to start with this post.. ok here goes.

1. There is nothing more tedious than people who spend far too much time on the internet labelling opinions they don't agree with as trolling. Is this what you do in real life when someone expresses an opinion you don't agree with ? Are you socially broken ?

2. The screenshots are not a good representation in any way shape or form for a variety of reasons. Most of them have had post processing applied to them and extreme levels of AA which are not available in the game and if they were would leave you with about 1fps if you're lucky. They soup up the screenshots the same way Gran Turismo and Forza do.

3. The other major thing with them not being an accurate representation is that the game looks considerably worse in motion than it does in still form. Anyone who is honest and has an eye for detail will back me up on this. When the game is in motion all the visual artefacts and inconsistencies and poor AA become all the more apparent. The track and scenery textures are especially poor, shadows flicker and pop in and out, lots of object pop in as well. The game is not clean looking, it's messy with snazzy effects chucked on top.

The lighting is brilliant though as are in the car graphics, but overall the game is very messy looking in motion. If you judge it based on the souped up post processed screenshots with extreme levels of AA applied then its the best looking racing game ever, if you actually play the game in motion with the monitor 15 or so inches from your face it looks MILES away from the screenshots.

If you don't agree with this thats fine, I'm not gonna call you a troll just because you don't share the same opinions as me, I'm not 12 years old...

Putting the graphics aside for a moment, this game ships in a couple months yes ? Well i've been trying the new builds every couple of weeks since signups were originally opened a couple or so years ago and whilst its improved it's still so far off being a finished product in terms of physics, visual polish, ffb, gui etc.

They have an awful lot of work to do in not much time, I'm sure the game will be popular but based on the most recent build it's not going to be anything special to anyone who craves an actual simulation of motorsport. I hope I'm wrong, but i'll bet my house I'm not.
 
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I'd definitely agree with that on the visuals side.

I haven't played it for a month or so, but the UI as it stands is poor and there's a lot of stuff that need cleaning up and as I've said before, it needs optimising a lot to get it running well on a midrange gaming PC.

As for the physics and tire model. It's another race sim which feels diffenrent to all the other race sims out there. To me pCARS, Assetto Corsa, iRacing, Race 07 and Gran Turismo all feel diffenrent so who's to say which one is the most accurate or the best.

I think pCARS will end up being similar to the NFS Shift games but with more accurate physics and better support for FFB steering wheels.

I also think that despite being developed with the PC as the lead platform and masses of input from PC sim racers the game will find it's biggest audience on consoles. More so on the PS4 by virtue of a lack of competition as much as anything else.
 
i think with joypads and on consoles it will probably work okay.

on pc i dont think it will unless they allow modding and such.


graphics are nothing like and other the outside view angles you see posted everywhere. thats why they show you these screen shots as it makes the game look better than what it is.

look for actual race view on videos then youll see its just same as assetto and other racers in that view.

if they can pull the handling off before the launch ill be the first to congratulate them but i cant see it happening myself.
 
I've been saying all long that the graphics are nothing special. It's all jaggy, shimmery, stuttery with plenty of pop in to boot. I gave up on this back in April and I doubt it's improved much since then either.
 
Project Cars is let down badly by the 'feel', the physics just kill the game completely for me, I know it is a highly subjective thing as what I don't like someone else will, but for me it is so bad that I just can't get on with the game at all, it was pretty good before they started messing with the tyre models so they definitely can do it, I just feel they have lost direction and Assetto Corsa has come in blown them completely out of the water, it just 'feels' so much better to play, I'm really not fussed on the graphics (IMHO Gameplay[Feel]>Pretty) so they both look pretty good to me.
 
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