My Gripes with this Game

Well thanks, I do appreciate an acknowledgement and I look forward to your reply.

 

My only gripe is the community at times and the frame rate. But the community can just act mature and I can buy a better PC, and then I'll have no gripes whatsoever.

 

Go for that R5, really good value for money.

But also I have seen many posting about low framerates with hardware I know should run at solid 60fps, but instead lowering details many tend to keep settings on high I guess, even when dropping to normal and keeping textures and AF high would give nearly same quality level, game can run smoothly with Intel HD 530, which is really amazing.

 

The best thing I heard all month was "made physics core 30% faster". That made my day.

 

But the entire purpose of having a system like that in any other game is to unlock new cars you can then use in free roam. They would have to lock off all the cars until you buy them, drastically reducing the free-roam. there's also the things like the van, RV, and big 18 wheeler that really don't fit into that scenario. Beam currently has a list of just 24 cars (but I might also have a mod or two installed) whereas any of the other games have a very large amount. GT has cars spanning back to the PS2 era, drastically inflating its number of quality models to well over 1000. Forza typically has somewhere near the 4-500 range, Burnout Paradise has 76...
The other big-ticket issue is, most car fans like real cars. In a game like GTA or Burnout where licensing would clearly be an issue (and in GTA's case they couldn't POSSIBLY miss a chance to make every single car a dick joke) having false cars is fine, and they aren't very serious games. Beam touts off being an incredibly realistic physics based racing game, with no real cars. There's just confrontations there.
The main point being that they would seem to have two options:
1. Block all content (possibly even maps for the free roam) until you unlock them via campaign.
2. Make the campaign completely separate and leave free-roam as it is.
These both have major flaws being:
1. Blocking all content would probably seriously annoy long time players, and there frankly just isn't enough content to make the campaign long or compelling enough. They would have to drag it out.
2. Making a separate campaign would still make it short and uncompelling, except now it's completely optional and most people will just ignore it.


At this point, Beam may as well be something like AC. They can add new content, and it'll be great (Or better than AC) but until they make some serious fundamental changes, alongside adding that new content, there just isn't a campaign worth a grain of salt.

 

I think the career mode will be amazing, mostly because the devs have failed to disappoint. I have no clue about the unlocking though...

 

Look I appreciate contributions to the post, but this is ridiculous. Specifying and outlining the campaign mode and their "only" options is dumb. We don't know what the devs' plans are.This post was made in order to get a response from the devs to answer questions, not for speculation. I'd much rather hear it from the devs themselves what the options are and what the plans are instead of speculating. That's why I made this post, I'm tired of speculating.

 

Fair enough. But the Utah release already has a small snippet of campaign, so I'd expect more of the same. Guess I'll just wait to so what tdev has to say.

 

More of the same but without the missing features(having a use for money mainly) in the current one

 

They probably have to write reports anyway, as it's the only way to track development of various modules and code changes.

overall, Beam is better than Next Car Game, which basically goes dark for six to 12 months and then maybe an update.

 

I don't think beam having a separate campaign would ruin the campaign experience.

Look at Gran Turismo for example, they have Arcade and Simulation modes. The arcade has almost everything unlocked and ready to race, yet people still play sim mode just for the challenge.

 

I still hope that tdev will respond to this post, I was looking forward to his response.

 

not even mentioning the "Free Run" mode which is basically free roam.

 

I'm not saying it would ruin it, I'm saying it makes it uncompelling. The only Forza campaign (aside from the Horizon series) that I've come somewhat close to finishing was the original. I've since spent quite a bit of time in 2, 3, 4, 5, and a bit in 6.Barely ever touched the campaign. I don't play GT, but I'm assuming it's much the same. I doubt that many people ever come close to finishing it, or even get past the first few hours.

 

@estama, thanks for your response. It did provide some answers to some of my questions/concerns.