BeamNG Pre-Race Update - Reviews Center

pros

- new ui is awesome
- driving at medium speeds feels a lot more stable and grippy now
- drifting / sliding feels a lot better, a lot more controlled
- map changes look beautiful
- car tires don't screech on dirt anymore - makes it feel way better
- braking is way better
- handbrake seems to work well

cons

- FPS seems a bit lower and has more stutters on vegetation heavy maps
- mouse is always visible, needs to autohide
- driving at high speeds (70mph+) is still floaty/slidey - only really prevalent on a map like corkscrew mountain that combines high speeds and sweeping turns
- it's a lot easier to understeer... it used to be too easy to oversteer
- the menu background looks *really bad* for whatever reason. stutters, low quality, etc
- same old map select / vehicle select menu?

shift+u turns it off

edit: wow it too me a long time to make that list if tdev beat me to the hotkey by 23 minutes

 

PROS

• Custom Vehicle Colours
• Wireframe and different lighting rendering effects makes the game look like a 3D Simulation Programme
• Different gravity settings
• Updated UI
• Only a small decrease in performance
• Updated Maps

CONS

• Loss of controller respawn hotkey
• Difficult to switch between different gravity settings quickly

BUGS

• Crashes often when loading maps. My installation is clean and I have even tried moving the installation to a different directory. It seems to crash less when I am alt-tabbed during loading. I am using borderless mode.

 

So far so good.

PROS:
-ermahgerd pretty
-water looks nicer
-maps are far more detailed
-collisions seem better?
-color select!
-cars are much more grippy
-"hotwheels track"
-gravity
-new GUI is cool

EDIT3: Car colors are more vibrant

CONS
-pigeon glass/headlights don't break?
-black water on small island
-small island is loud
-crash sounds duplicate a lot during an accident
-view skeleton doesn't work

EDIT: Can't "tab out" of built-in IRC. I'd like to be able to play and chat at the same time.

EDIT2: Engine sounds "wibbly" in first person

 

Pro: - performance while driving and crashes is really great improved, less laggs now
- maps & graphic is prettier now
- lights and indicator added, that's cool
- new ui
- all cars drive better now
- didnt tested all/enough, so will be added later in another post

Neg: - when i select manual transmission i have to select still "D" and cant see my gear in the UI
- performance overall on maps with much objects and so on is really hungry (on the same settings 20 fps less then before; tested on toshiba notebook)
- loading screen senseless, because its laggy and in my opinion using too much power for itself (like mentioned already above )
- on xbox gamepad no possibility to respawn car
- the h series v seems to be too soft, its jumping even on mini elevation changes

bug: - after playing on a map, you cant change settings of the graphic ---> crashing
- sound usage of open al is bugged, sounds really weird (like mono for a second)

 

I guess the OSD ( current vehicle, run time, etc.. ) for that track isn't working correctly ?

 

i remember having to replace a lua file to get your timer to work on the old beamng, that file is probably overwritten by the update and i haven't tried to reinstall your version. if you hack it up a bit it might still work, but you should try to write a new version in the new ui system

 

I got better FPS on dry rock island before the update .....

Very confused

 

ok thanks Gabe

 

Pros:

• UI
• FPS boost on a few maps
• gravity settings
• break all parts off is so fing funny
• hand brake
• can see the mouse all the time so I don't have to hit the escape or windows key. sure it could use hiding after 5-10 seconds of it not moving but I can just stick it on my second screen for now.
• non flickering head lights
• Color chooser

Cons:

• funkiness trying to select manual gears (Edit, Seems to revert to automatic sometimes when resetting the car)
• random buttons stopped working on my G27. Ran the updater again and was working again. I hope it stays that way. I have made no mods to my custom input map, so not sure if it needs a poke or if its a bug.
• Small Island has really poor fps.(27-31) If I switch to a different window and back again it goes up (58) but soon drops back down. while Dry rock Island is about 10-15 fps higher than before.
• some variant of the covet (I forgot what one) has an issue with the in-game steering wheel reaching full lock before my G27 hits the end stop with what should be the correct degree of rotation set.
• some times random models were completely in shadow (black) until you were right up next to them. opening the editor and closing it again fixes it. (Edit, Seems to be working properly after rerunning the updater)
• Cant view terrain debug settings without enabling the vehicle debug settings first. (Edit, Seems to be working properly after rerunning the updater)
• FOV slider does nothing
• DOF seems broken/funky or just intentionally different. what ever the case I'm not liking it now.
• Dashboard dials are lit up even when lights are off.

I think there was some other funkiness but I cant remember what they were now. nothing massive though.

Great work none the less, Its epic fun, Thank you

 

PROS:
Somewhat better traction code, feels more responsive and realistic in lower speed situations.
Much better collisions, not getting stuck in things nearly as much, car is stiffer.
Maps look much nicer, love the extra detail.
PRND21 automatics with separate manual transmissions.
Vastly improved brake code.
New variants of the vehicles.
The UI is beautiful, great work on that, would change the level selection window to something more integrated with the current UI style,
maybe a list displayed over the background that you can scroll, sorta fades out the background a bit.

CONS:
Audio bugs, really really annoying.
Under steering at low speeds, absolutely horrible, they all just wanna push straight now.
High speed handling is exactly the same as before, floaty and disconnected. Have to counter steer in a bizarre way to stay on the road.
Some odd drivetrain shenanigans with a manual transmission when you let off the throttle.
Bolide 380 GTR's rear wheels vibrate all over the place as if the spindles are attached to the control arms with dried up chewing gum, didnt try the other variants.
Game freezing when going into slowest slo-mo setting.
Moonhawk is like a giant rubber band, very bouncy and springy in the chassis and front suspension, the wheels flop around really odd when on the brakes or turning, worse than before.
Dashboard lights being lit up without headlights being on, very brightly during the day.
The pigeon looks slightly under detailed in some areas, the interior panels look odd, and the rear bumper and brake lights look too rounded and odd. Otherwise its neat.

Deffinetly feels like it coulda used another month or so in the oven, but I understand the community was putting a buttload of pressure on you guys for a release. If the cons are fixed it would be perfect IMO. Moving in the right direction.

 

Make sure to check this "Enabled" checkbox.

At least this was my problem

 

Pros:
Ibishu Pigeon
The new tire models
The various tweaks to everything
Normal lighting is now playable for me (yay XD)
SLEDNODS FINALLY YUS YUS YUS YUS YUS YUS YUS

Cons:
Took too long to download

Bug:
The Pigeon's shock absorbers are missing

 

PROS:
Much better tire model in general. Better grip, stationary movement fixed and much more realistic grip
Transmissions much more realistic and improved
Inter-vehicle collisions are much improved
New user interface is easy to use, detailed and better than almost all racing/driving games out there. The only thing that comes close to it is Assetto Corsa.
New graphical improvements are very well carried out and very noticeable.
Multi-vehicle performance is hugely improved being one of my favourite aspects of this update
Maps are much more detailed with better vegetation colours.

CONS:
Pigeon is pretty much un-drivable on keyboard (haven't tried with my wheel yet)
High speed driving is still quite floaty at times but alot better than previously.
Keyboard driving is really difficult in all of the cars with controllability being only a small improvement to what it was before hand.
Not directly game related, however the torrent based updater was extremely slow only peaking out at about 100kb/s for me as well as causing massive slow downs on my network. A direct download link would be a better way to give out update in the future in my opinion.

Performance:
I put this here as alot of people have mentioned performance drops since the update. I have found that single vehicle performance wise I have not noticed much of a difference before and after updating. When using one vehicle in any of the maps my fps is about the same as it was pre-update or about 10 fps lower at worse on the more detailed maps. The performance using multiple vehicles however is amazing, with some maps still running at over 60fps with two cars.

Great work none the less guys, I honestly got alot more than I expected

 

pros: i dunno

cons:

 

Hmm. On DRI im getting between 50-60 fps with the D 15 and i get 70fps with physics off.
If i understand this right the physics is running on my CPU (3930K at 4,9Ghz), 20fps for simulating a hole car that sounds fair
what i don't get is, how can DRI kill my 780?

Pros:
I really like the new handling.
I like the color picker.
The new presets and parts for the cars.
Small island looks vibrant.
The new menu is awesome.
A lot more i dont remember.

Cons:
Color picker dosent remember last choice in color.
Menu looks extremly pixelated.
I miss the reload button on the controller(i know i can just edit the input map).
Camera still inverted.

overall
Badass update. keep up the awesome job devs.

 

I've only been on for 5 minutes. I'll update this post as I'll go on. Consider it a -reserve- post for now.

Pros:
Awesome new rims on the Moonhawk. I don't know if I'm just noticing them with my new resolution but they look fantastic!
Nicely organized new stuff in the maps!
Cons:
Water is black on small island
Loading screens insanely blurry/low res. :\
What happened to the view controls?
Thoughts: