SvennoJ said:
That's like having a platformer where you simply float over pits, to you know, actually just get on with platforming. If there are no consequences for going off the road, what's the point of having roads at all. Just for avoiding trees? |
The penalty in Horizon for going off road is speed and handling. In other words going off road is not advisable for a lot of areas of the game. hitting the gravel will affect your ability to not over or unsteer thus causing you to slow down.
In DC when you hit the gravel or hit that imaginary boundary, the game engine docs you 3 sec. Instead of letting normal physics to affect your driving, you have this artificial design in the game that does it. For most people that gave DC a bad score, this was definitely one of the things that irked them the most. I know personally the way Horizon handles such situations is more natural than the game engine counting down 3 secs or you cannot accelerate for 3 secs penalty. That’s not real world and its not close to what any of the best arcade racers have done either.