0.17 Discussion thread

All the scenario AI in races are way slower than it used to be, making racing extremely easy.

 

I know this has been addressed before, but can someone explain why the older engines in the Bluebuck are better than the newer engines in the Barstow? I was wondering about it because surely the Barstow should be better with the newest engines.

 

gas crunch/ leaded fuel ?

 

That wouldn't make sense, considering the Barstow's production run (At least in Beam) ends in '71.The big gas crunch started happening in '73, and cars in the US used leaded gasoline until the following year. It's possible that the Barstow's engines have a lower compression ratio than those same engines in the Bluebuck.

 

I mentioned this before but it's still broken in 0.17.2. The Tasty Cola delivery scenario in Italy has the player vehicle set to be the trailer, which can't be driven or switched out of.

 

I noticed that since the 0.17 update, the bus routes have been slightly broken. For example, on the "1 - Star Diner" route in West Coast, just after leaving the race track stop, it told me to cross the highway and then immediately U-turn. I am familiar with that route and ignored the U-turn instruction, and several hundred feet later the route calculated and fixed itself. Then when I was approaching the film studio stop, it had me turn too early and I ended up approaching the stop from the wrong side of the road.

Also, unrelated, I noticed the bus chassis is WAY louder recently than it used to be. Going over a tiny bump sounds like the entire chassis is being crushed to bits.

 

Since there is no Italy discussion. The Service station near Castelletto by the farm fields in the valley is a bit unfinished for lack of a better term.

 

Engine in ETK I-series Track keep blowing up due "Overtorque: Engine permanently damaged". Looks like this engine was designed only to last for one race. Engine blowing up when fuel gauge reaching 7 on the Tacho. Also that message shows up only for second so I had to do this few times to read it.

This happen without any tunning or mods. Clean cashes.

Speaking of your art team. I think there is one mad lad that like to see cars burn.

There are two places on Hirochi Raceway where should be rumblestrip but there isn't any.
For example wonderful, beautiful, fast and exiting chicane but at the exit there is grass so if you miss you are pretty much dead. Someone noticed this... putting on the road dirt texture.

Also on this exit road isn't straight (and of course without rumblestrip) so it easy to end up on grass or spin out.


And on the WCA Gavril Track there is this spot (as above, no strip at the exit after very fast and brake demanding straight).


Finally - drag strip timers are a little bit off.

 

It's kinda weird that it's in the middle of nowhere and then there's just a crop field right next door

 

Anyone else's Game crashing now on trying to load a Map? mine just randomly started doing it today :/

 

It's normal from what I remember (it's been some time) to hear buses IRL rattle as they go over uneven streets. It also could be that the engine got quieter. I know it's a rear-engine bus, but I'm not sure it should be this quiet.
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I'll check again when I get home. Thanks.

 

I love the update and I can't get enough of going around Italy with ai.
However, there are some problems with pathfinding.
1. On the highway the ai seams to change lanes way too often than they should



2. At the start of the video, you can see the ai has some trouble with making u-turns
3 At 1:16 You can see that the ai is glitching
4.At 3:37 you can see trouble going off-ramp at the highway. If one car meets another going opposite way they will try to make a u-turn which ends up in complete chaos.
5. At the exit from the roundabout at 4:06 ai sometimes crash into each other
6. At 4:48 you can see strange behavior on the motorway
7. 6:40 Ai sometimes crashes into traffic going the opposite way

As I said, I really love the update and can't get enough crashing and driving fast with traffic. I strongly believe that this update was one of the biggest and the best. Love you guys.

 

By the way, did anyone notice that the new bus stop models still have the old collision box in some places?

 

Yup, it was a mod conflict. I had another truck delivery scenario and disabling it fixed the problem. Sorry about that. I should have checked.

Now if the T-series had better mirrors with a higher-res reflection, that would make these scenarios more realistic and enjoyable. Mirrors are very important when driving a semi or bus.

 

That's very possible; I did notice that the engine is VERY quiet from inside the bus. I was also driving my hybrid mod, so the engine is completely silent at times, but it still seemed like the chassis was louder than before. Maybe I just had my volume turned up too far to compensate for the overly quiet engine and the rest of the sounds were exaggerated because of it.

 

IMO sitting in a bus tends to have a significant sound difference from front to aft. I do think it's too muffled considering bus doors aren't as sealed as car doors, but either way the devs are working on having dynamic sound in that aspect