| aLkaLiNE said: Agreed. The only racing series Ive been playing for the past few yn frears has been DiRT but driveclub actually looks like a fun game to play. Someone on gaf described racing around in a blizzard barely seeing 10 ft iont of you having to rely on lights from objects passing by, full adrenaline because of ow immersive the experience is. It sounds like there's been a lot of tweaking to the mechanics I'm updates as well |
Yep that is intense. You're glad when you can still see the tail lights of the car in front of you to follow. Driving through heavy rain at night, while stuck behind a bunch a cars is not much different with the spray obscuring most of the view. Knowing the track is essential, and hoping for a lightning strike to light up the full scene to briefly get oriented again.
They tweaked the penalties a bit. Collision and corner cutting penalties are less strict now. If the AI screws up and unintentionally blocks your path you can pretty much crash them out of the way without getting penalized. (Apart from the 100 points deduction) The collision penalty systems works by checking who has the right of way based on the driving line and speed at the point of the collision. The one that's most off the intended path gets the penalty, and after the updates the margins have gotten bigger. The penalty time also depends on how hard you hit them, flying right into the pack at the first corner will net you a 5 second penalty, while braking a bit too late might let you get away with a bump or only give you 1 second or less of no acceleration.
Same for corner cutting, there seem to be a lot more corners where you can get away with a bit of cheating. It also depends on your speed. If I you screw up before the corner and go slow it won't penalize me for cutting through the grass, while at the same point I'll get a penalty when I do it at speed. Seems it knows when you benefit from corner cutting, as the actual time penalty you get is also variable.
The penalty system is actually quite clever. So is the AI. It's challenging, tries to out brake you, cut you off and block you, and punishes you immediately for screwing up a corner. They make mistakes too and fight eachother as well. All the more satisfying when you manage a clean win. Plus great adrenaline shot when the AI screws up in the rain in front of you, sparks flying everywhere, cars turned around or sideways and you manage to thread the needle unscathed through a 5 car pile up :)
