Micro Blog(s) - May 2015 to July 2015

I wish I could have a cup of coffee while coding at five o'clock in the morning. Great to see the promised racing system, too.

 

You guys are crazy. This game has made more (publicly visible) progress in the last 3 months I think since launch. I honestly wasn't expecting a full racing system and window reflections anytime soon.

 

I like the message it gave during countdown.
"...9, You drive like crap, 4, 3, 2..."

 

Looks nice, I'm pleasantly surprised to see how quickly the race system came to fruition.

About my only concern is that perhaps the effects and overlays may be a bit too much. The goal-waypoints seem a bit flashy, as do the large checkpoint counters (doubly so if this is a non-scalable effect being demonstrated in fullscreen). I'm a bit of a minimalist, so the former may just be me, but I'd advise making the checkpoint counts transparent, smaller, and/or moved off into one of the corners.

Also, has the game data hashing system made any advancements? Just wondering when we might see a leaderboard.


Edit, below:

I don't know how the actual selection process will go, but if you're worried about the barriers, those are just prefabs. Hutch made a blog post on it quite some time ago:Race-system-overview

 

So how will this work? Will we have to choose between freeroam and for example "race 1"/"race 2" in the map selector? Or somehow via F11? Eitherway I am really excited for this!

 

Of course ! The devs mentioned that they will implement races and demo derbies and stuff while you can just roam around .

 

My 3rd attempt at this, crashed the first two.

Video - Click to Play - Direct Link

 

And this is where I'd make a comment about the video.

If it was on YouTube and not the player that half the time won't even play for me!

Not having seen the race system blog post, I'd previously had the idea of using separate maps based on the freeroam map, with temporary startlines/grandstands/pit garages where possible/barriers added in to hold the route. To keep it organized, they'd be named after the base map. So you'd have Dry Rock Island, and then you'd have "Dry Rock Island: Central Circuit", "Dry Rock Island: Periphery Circuit", "Dry Rock Island: Station/Pass Circuit" (i.e. the generic DRI loop sometimes seen on YT, where you go SE from the starting point, follow that road around, through the middle of the residential section, until the junction, go left, and continue back to the station), "Dry Rock Island: Warehouse Circuit" etc. Not a pretty solution, but would hold until a time trial/race update comes into play.

 

Please say you're gonna keep the rude UI as a (hidden) feature!

 

Please please please tell me that with the sound system overhaul you have been talking about. the vehicles will have supported separate engine sounds. I play the game nosound all the time because the basic sounds get quite unpleasant after time.

Awesome rading system too. Is the races gonna be separately selected from the menu, or is there gonna be a option to turn the race on a selected track on after you load the map?

 

Also, how deep will the sound setup go? Will it be possible to set up different sounds for different engine/exhaust mod setups (i.e. a different sound for a sportier exhaust, still another for combining actual engine tuning with that exhaust, etc.)

Also, will it be possible to add our own checkpoints, prefabs, and routes?

 

I see you have a temp gauge in the tach, are you going to make engine damage with overheating and if you crash and damage the radiator, will the temps go up?
Also, are you planning a system that when a turbo cars intercooler gets damaged, the torque curve changes?

 

Any news on the tire model? The more video I see of the new tire model at work the more I want to ask regarding wear, heat/cold,
environmental damage, inner liners etc. Race features lookin' good.

 

might i ask, but why are the trees in the background so high res?

 

Because we do love high-res stuff! And it will make it possible to make shots from above look good (video rec etc.). They'll probably turn pretty low-res if you tweak the grapics settings a little.

 

My main request is because I see how the grapics settings are written, and that countdown. Please keep the game informal. Too many simulators take everything seriously and it would be nice to have a lighthearted emotionally abusive GUI to just give this game some character.

 

Amen Brother!