Devs, I love you but... please don't do this.

Its completely fair of them to add them, the Ps5 is a much more professional place for a game then steam. I agree with just adding a toggle, but come on guys, it makes complete sense to add them.

 

ill try my best to write this message in a constructive criticism manner. that being said, beamng is the single game i am the most passionate about in my entire life, so you best believe me when i say that comes with strong emotions.

i bought beamng on fastspring, before it was even on steam, and the biggest selling point for me with beamng is that, its an unlimited freedom sandbox simulation software that you can do whatever you damn wish with.

beamng, is the single software i cannot get enough of because of how liberating and how much freedom you have to do whatever you want in this game.

now, they announced the console release of the game? okay, thats fine. more people can enjoy beamng no problem with that.
0.39 dropped, and my personal reply to "looking more professional" comment regarding the invisible walls, is that, if you want to look more professional, maybe dont ruin everything thats been functional for the past decade?
but what am i saying, we are in 2026 after all, this is literally what most corporations does nowdays, ruin everything that made it good, upcharge for a former shell of what it used to be.
beamng better not become that bc istg the amount of pure unadulterated hatred i will have for the devs that caused this will be immeasurable. DONT YOU FUCKING DARE RUIN BEAMNG!!!!

i cannot stress enough my sentiment, fuck sony execs. if these guys are to blame for forcing you to dumb down the game, istg dumb it down for console peasants ONLY.
i have a pc for a lot of reasons, one of them is bc i hate being limited by BS console peasant reasons. its my game ill mod it to my hearts content.

i use beamng to stress test my pc, i literally spawn 100 traffic for fun. beamng 0.39 added a vehicle spawn limit. are you serious guys?
(it was posted in another thread, and nadeox said it was getting removed in the next hotfix, thanks for the common sense guys)

but the core issue is still the same, this update added a scary amount of dumbing down, first update after console announcement. what should we expect in the future? no more plane mods bc sony said so? like cmon guys dont let sony execs bully you into submission. you have the best fucking simulator on the market, DO NOT RUIN IT ISTG I WILL NEVER LIVE DOWN THE RAGE


so to look more professional, yall made the ui worse in every way to appease to console peasants? yeah. GOOOOD fuckin job guys.
im a pc player, why tf cant i click a simple arrow that used to exist to fine tune numbers? why is everything in this update to appeal to console peasants?!?!

DONT RUIN THE GAME FOR CONSOLES!!! JUST DONT OKAY!?!?! ITS THAT SIMPLE!!! KEEP THE PC VERSION FULLY LIBERATED FROM THE CLAWS OF CONSOLE REQUIREMENTS!!!


i love beamng with all my heart. do not do this to the single best physics sandbox game. just dont. its that simple. just do not do this.

 

Most of what you aid is valid as fuck, Ui was perfectly organized before, now its a mess BUT it runs way better and looks better.

The invisible walls are not that deep, one toggle and its fixed, or just fucking F7 yourself past them, or just remove them yourself, theres nothing stopping you. Also no one said anything about planes being removed, and the walls are like 10 meters high.

BUT I CANT GET OVER THE STUPID NEW SYSTEM FOR MAKING FUCKING CONFIGS, THEY ADD RANDOM FUCKING NUMBERS AFTER THEM TOO AND I CAN'T OVERWRITE THEM,. I FUCKING LOVE MODDING, AND HAVE ALREADY MADE 2 VEHICLE MODS ON THE REPO, AND NOW ITS 1oX HARDER TO MAKE CONFIGS BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO UNDO ALL THE FUCKING RANDOM BULLSHIT THE GAME FORCES NOW. BRING BACK THE OLD WAY CONFIGS WERE MADE GOD DAMN IT

 

Then you proceed to post an emotional rant that completely ignores statements made in stenyak's comments.

If you and others genuinely want to have an impact on the development of the game, then this is not the way to communicate your ideas. Read your message out loud, then imagine standing in front of the devs saying all that.

This is not that big of a deal and doesn't impact the vast majority of users, but stenyak was kind enough to say they will revisit this and find a better solution. That should be the end of the discussion until further changes are implemented.

 

im honestly lowkey glad im not the only one thats actually furious about the config ui changes.
legit i was fuming the first time i tried to save my config.
like yeah they added a way for you to add a description... a single nice thing added. and they completely ruined the rest of the functionality... GG...

why do they make everything worse "to look more professional"
is looking professional just a scam? whats the point when ultimately you make everything worse just to "look" better.
never in my life did i think beamng doesnt look professional.
forum and repo needs an update bc its outdated asf, but other than that. theres no valid reason to make beamng worse just to "look" as if its better.
this legit pisses me off so much. gooood for you, you can look better and professional, you must be so happy that you can LOOK good, meanwhile, function is dogshit. GG
is this our stupid society? who gives af about the function as long as it "looks professional"

yeah i think i made my message clear.
can you have something actually useful to say other than complain about my emotions regarding my upmost favorite game being dumbed down?
might not be a big deal to you, but it quite obviously is a big deal to others.
ill re read my message and id read it out loud in front of a podium idgaf, the devs will hear my feedback regarding this latest update.
am i perfect in my wording? fuck no. im not perfect. deal with it.

devs cant know whats wrong with the game if everyone stays quiet about it.

 

What a childish response.

No one is suggesting to stay quiet about changes you want to see in the game. You have a right to express your opinions, but you should also be aware you're talking to other humans who are adults and won't take a second look at your "constructive criticism" due to the way you choose to express yourself online in a public setting.

If you can't have a calm discussion about invisible walls in a video game, maybe you should step away from the keyboard for a bit and go outside where there are no invisible walls.

 

lmfao again nothing useful to say other than disagreeing with my way of wording.
go pound sand buddy. idgaf about any of this.

FYI, i have anger issues, i am telling you this is the calmest way i am able to express my feelings, you better believe me.

 

I apologize if you feel singled out by my messages. My point goes to everyone in this community that throws a tantrum each time a change is implemented they don't agree with. There are others in this thread acting the same way as you and I hope they also read my messages and reflect on their behavior.

It's unfortunate that so much of this community can't speak like an adult about this incredibly complex driving simulator we all love.

Edit: If you have known anger management issues, then I hope you get help to calm down. In the meantime, think about how your words might affect other people.

 

it really is unfortunate that people are so stupid they think everyone will communicate the exact same respectful way.

nah bruh. welcome to real life. where a variety of people exists and not one of them will speak their minds the same way.

btw nice way to derail a thread about shit that has nothing to do with it.

 

I don't expect everyone to communicate the same way. I expect adults to understand that how they communicate affects whether anyone takes their feedback seriously.

You clearly care about the game. That's not the issue. The issue is that your post spends more time insulting console players, Sony, and the developers than it does explaining the actual problem you're trying to solve.

You say you want the devs to hear your feedback. I agree. I just think they'd be far more likely to listen if it wasn't wrapped in threats, profanity, and "ISTG I WILL NEVER LIVE DOWN THE RAGE."

You don't have to agree with me. If the goal is to improve the game, you're much more likely to accomplish that by making your point clearly than by making it louder.

Mods are welcome to delete all my messages if they'd like to

 

my style of writing is rage writing.
are we seriously going to derail a thread bc i dared to write passionately?
get a fuckin grip bro it aint that deep.
fuckin move on already. legit starting to piss me off. idgaf about writing professionally. ill write it exactly how i fucking feel. and it not you thatll teach me otherwise i can guarantee you that.

 

You both have points in certain ways, but I'm inclined to say that the anger is valid. I love BeamNG with all of my heart, but some of these changes that have been added recently are just really not great when it comes to functionality. The config system is frusturating, and it really just doesn't work as well as it used to. I'm not a fan of the shrinking of the outer maps. Sometimes, just absurd things that couldn't happen in real life just added to the charm of the game, and were quite enjoyable. I can't blame the devs TOO much, but i'm angry if it's the people at Sony that are making them dumb down the game for console. I don't want that for the PC version. Also, telling someone with anger issues to "just calm down" is a VERY poor idea, you're quite literally stating the obvious there.

 

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You are absolutely right and that was not my intention. I worded that poorly; I meant I hope he can get help to identify the cause of his anger issues and work on the underlying reasons and come out a happier person.

 

ill be happier once beamng stops dumbing down their game for console peasants

 

Stenyak said "I understand some people don't care about that kind of polish. They can mistake it for "dumbing down for console users". We're not trying to dumb things down, we're only trying to remove buggy behaviours that aren't accepted in most games out there. Some people are used to our bugs, and some even excuse them behind the "it's ok because it's early access", but we don't think that's a valid excuse, so we're genuinely trying to improve here, step by step, no matter how small."

 

and my personal reply to this comment regarding the invisible walls, is that, if you want to improve the game, maybe dont ruin everything thats been functional for the past decade just to appeal to consoles?
maybe try actually adding features people have been begging for a decade?
maybe work on unloading stuff with maps and optimization instead of adding invisible walls and limiting the game to appeal to console players?

the direction of 0.39 just doesnt feel right. a lot of things just got worse just to appeal to the console release.
they say they arent dumbing things down for consoles, and yet, this update doesnt feel that way at all.
actions speaks louder than words. and this update showed something else

 

I'll take it from someone who's been here from the start. This is pretty much the only game I play nowadays because it's not just a pure racing sim, which bores me to be honest, and represents everything I'd want from an open world game without dumbed down physics to appeal to those exact annoying console people who praise games like forza. A lot of this dumbing down reminds me of the ready or not fiasco.

 

this is primarily what genuinely concerns me.
at first i was happy to see the game get a console release. but the reality of it, console peeps wants something different from us hardcore pc simulation players.

i literally cannot enjoy any other games. beamng is the ultimate driving game. i would legit never be the same if beamng changed for the worse.
i tried FH6, after a few hours i was bored and back into beamng. recently im looking into if its possible to even port forza maps into beamng. i could not care less about the other driving games as they are all inferior to beamng.

but i beg you devs, please do not make the game worse just to appeal to consoles... it would be the biggest mistake you could ever do to what is quite literally the best car simulator on the market.

yes i struggle with my emotions and couldve worded it better. but i cannot express hard enough how much it would destroy my mental health having beamng be ruined.
beamng is literally my therapy. there is nothing else like it.

 

You wouldn’t believe how much I’m with you there. I’ve only been playing beam since 2022, and it’s truly therapeutic to me. Already it has helped me through some of the darkest, most difficult times of my life. I love it dearly. I have so many hours in this single game. The two things I love the most are the openness of the devs, and the fact that it feels more like a simulation than a “game”. That’s something there’s always been pride about as well, it’s truly a marvel of work. I would be utterly destroyed if Sony makes them “gameify” beam more. It really kills the whole purpose of the program, to make the most realistic vehicle physics simulation out there. Unfortunately, I do see how that could be possible. As you mentioned, console players are likely looking for more of a set structure game, and are less interested in the physics sim. It’s scary, since with all the mods, scenarios, and multiplayer you can create your own games within it without the limitations of a storyline. That’s my two cents on this topic

 

I have to ask one thing, did they block off the outer map of Johnson valley? If they did that bullshit.