BeamNG Pre-Race Update - Reviews Center

Cool, i saw that Banana thing and had no idea what it was.

Edit* Just checked it out, here are the results for a Q6600 @3.2GHz. If im interpreting it right, it says i can cope with 3 D-Series' no problem?

 

Pros:

• Slidenodes
• Pigeon 4WD
• Nicer handling etc
• I'm in the credits("The Team")
• Sam made all the maps nicer
• Apps are great
• New Menu is fabulous
• Loving the html/css integration
• Hydro controller
• Nice speedos and stuff
• Everything else

Cons:

• The main menu webm's are terrible quality
• Loading screen is a stuttery mess

 

Pros:
-Al the nice new UI stuff
-Pigeon!
-Updated maps look really nice
-Slidenodes (I think)
-Many other things!
Cons:
-Sound is broken when in interior view.
-Loading screens are rather laggy
-Drop in FPS on every map

 

PROS:
FPS gains on my craptop = more than welcome (about 15-30%, seriously)
pigeon is great
the ui is fantastic, still trying to figure it all out
brakes...aahhhhhh!
handbrake. whew!!
the covet's race edition = epic.
graphics are noticeably better
(I run all high settings, mesh, shader, AA max, Aniso 16x, texture, vsync is on, with low lighting and no post FX...same exact as before)
I can see the difference in the normals, looks great
more accurate debug info.
camera doens't go all the way around and flip/flop when holding either direction up/down, now it smoothly stops at the highest/lowest point. that bugged me a lot
colors of the car paint are much better, more saturated, and the color picker on selection menu is awesome, especially the alpha setting being in there too.
MPM by nadeox works fine, which was important to me.
I can even put on LOW lighting and it still is playable, but def FPS drop at that point.
Gridmap textures are much better, more visible, and doesn't fade out like crap at a distance.
The test map/gridmap has improved structures and just has an updated feel to it, very nice.

CONS
Loading screen fail
still slightly floaty at higher than 60mph, mostly every car (still MUCH better than before)
mentioned before, moonhawk wheels are jiggly and erratic
the view controls. WHYYY?? its like learning to write with your other hand (lefties/rightys)

really not too many cons, im sure if I had a hot-rod PC that with post FX and all that, would look effing amazing, but with my lowly laptop, the update (for me at least) provided a DRASTIC improvement in the quality of gameplay. I was just about to settle for the way it was before, but now its like a whole new game. happy I got the apha access. def one of my fav game/builds. thanks devs!! much appreciated.

Oh, and yesterday, IRC was a hoot!! loved "hanging" with all y'all. CHEERS THE UPDATE!!!! (now I want the race update NAUU!!! jk

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^^^and this too

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wait, slidenodes ARE or ARE NOT a part of this pre-race update??

 

PROS

• love the new UI, however the circles in the wheel weight app don't scale with the window
• I got a massive performance gain with one and multiple vehicles, love that
• torque converter simulation, the only thing I noticed is that there is a strange bog down when shifting from n to d with the brakes applied
• LOOKS
• Pigeon, quite undrivable with a keyboard though, works good with a steering wheel
• driving behavior and physics in general seem more realistic
• new Small Island with tunnel
• new Gridmap
• new braking code, works awesome

CONS

• water in Small Island seems pretty dark
• camera controls are stangly inverted, I simply suggest a check box for the x,y,z axis to be inverted
• the resolution of the pictures in the loading screens is horrible and they stutter alot, I like the idea though
• dash illumination is now always on, liked the switchable one better
• no indicator in which gear mode you are in (automatic, manual, manual with clutch) like in RoR
• all the tickboxes in the effects menu of the UI are empty, even if you have PostFx switched on
• game sometimes crashes when setting the lowest replay setting

Are they implemented yet ?????

 

look above...ninjad by mr perfect

 

i don't want to start putting off-topic posts in this topic, but i have to ask:

is there any 'in-between' with these coefficients? for example, silding friction vs static friction: how do you determine when a tire is sliding? if i have a car with a few degrees of camber and the inside edge of the wheel has more forces being put on it in a corner, will the middle of the contact patch have sliding friction while the outer edges of the contact patch maybe still use static friction coefficient? or does the entire wheel just turn into a sliding wheel?

also, could it be that the cars are incorrectly switching to the sliding coefficient at higher speeds which is causing the floatiness? or is the floatiness a side effect of the fact that we are driving on very polygonal wheels made up of only 12 or so sides? while the massive vibrations and other issues with jagged tires have been mostly tuned out, i still can't imagine that they work right, but have never seen you comment on it.

 

I found several bugs.
1. When you hit break all breakgroups with the Pigeon, there seems to be a large line through the screen.
2. When you hit break all breakgroups with the Bolide, the doors don't seem to want to fall off.
3. When you remove the engine of the Pigeon, it goes insanely fast.

 

PROS

• looking great
• love the selection for car colour
• like the new hud

CONS

• cars still too light, not enough grip specially under power into corners. no where near stable enough for racing
• water sounds are way too loud and not varied enough. nothing big though
• new island looks nice but not enough to do to make me use it a lot
• also cant seem to capture footage by any means to do a review, might be intentional not sure
• grid map some of the stuff is too close together and hard to get a run up on some of the ramps

Possible BUGS

• random crash to desktop
• the g meter on the hud wont keep its size after logging out, always have to reset when i log in again

 

I tried that wind thing, at 150 it does nothing, 151 makes the car fly away...

inb4 I will create a wind tunnel or someone else will xDDD

 

Pros: The update looks amazing (from pictures I've seen) and the new features sound awesome.

Cons: My crappy dirt cheap internet is not handling the download very well, so I've not been able to actually play it yet. Oh well only 68 hours and 24 minutes to go! Can't wait!

lol, I'll make a serious review once it finishes downloading.

 

well there is to many pros for me to post but i have some cons

My major thing is that the auto transmission is still better in ror 0.4.0.7 i still can't start on a hill in D with the d15, also putting it in the 2 position makes the trans start in 2nd gear when it should start in 1 and then only shift into second not any higher. And if your going like 50mph and go to neutral then back to drive it goes through each gear individually instead of just jumping to 4th gear which is yet another thing ror can do. these bug me because ror does all of them right and beamng still hasn't got it down.

 

Pros :
- New menu and Apps
- Covet roll cage and faster Civetta
- Improved maps (especially Cliff and Grid map)
- Better performances

Cons :
- The loading screens are freezing
- The wind is too loud
- It's hard to drive on top of the Cliff map in vehicles such as the Pigeon

 

False, false, and false.

A real auto trans goes from PRND21.

Park, Reverse, Neutral, Drive, second gear, first gear. Therefor: Going to the second position SHOULD make it go into second gear, so it is correct. The THIRD position would be first gear, which again is what happens in BeamNG, so BeamNg is correct.

As for the 50mph Neutral switching: I'm almost sure that in real life you cannot switch an auto trans to neutral and back to Drive while driving? Seems like that could wreck the transmission? This just needs to be added into BeamNG, but it seems like something that should be very low on the priority list.


As for my review:
Pros:
-OMFGGGG SLIDENODESSSSSSSS NERDGASM! *jumps around Estamas neck for many hugs*
-Omfg cars drive so much better.
-Omfg Break all breakgroups is THE best shiz evar.
-Hud is absolutely ace
-Basically everything except for the cons...

Cons(you can tell I'm nitpicking):
-As far as I can tell, the biggest con is the torrent update system. I have no clue how it'll cope later on, and you could expect it to do bad in the first days (it's just what happens when a new game releases, even AAA titles have MASSIVE download-speed-crappage in the first day because everyone wants to play). It's just a darn shame the trackers couldn't cope at all...
-Still not sure if I find the new debugs faster to use than the new ones. I know the functions are way *easier* to use, but faster? idk... Might just need some getting used to.
-I don't know when this happened, but it seemed like some cars had shaky driven wheels due to tireside v-beams or something. Bit weird.

-Eh.. I think that's it...?

 

Well i will gladly make a video of my 97 dodge i can be doing 70 mph and go from netural back to drive it does no damage and goes right to the best gear suited for my speed and i will also show you if i'm stopped and put it in the 2 position it DOES NOT start out in second gear it starts in first then goes to second but not third or forth.

 

pros: so far none

Cons: updater is broken for me
Can't even play the new update.

 

Pros: the update.

Cons: a few crashes so far.

I will make a much better list later, but I just got back from a mad coaster riding day and I am whipped.