Side-by-side comparison of BeamNG Drive and GTA IV Crash test

immolation · Aug 30, 2013

i just wona add Carmageddon 2 had a nice damage model, and in that time was unique... I think that nobody still have done something similar. But for now nothing is better than Beaming!

thevidmaster · Sep 1, 2013

Mythbuster said: ↑

It's not so much the amount of damage that makes it so hilarious when people claim damage in GTA is realistic(cause I can totally understand that cars are stronger than in real life in a game like that, otherwise it would get annoying fast). It's the shape the cars turn into once damaged that's so completely and obviously wrong. You can still bash into a wall with the realistic damage mod all day long, but you'll still end up with a hood that's perfectly straight, but just 50cm shorter... The metal in GTA just shrinks. It doesn't bend/crumple like it does in real life... If you drive a car into a wall in real life, the middle of the hood buckles upwards. It does not magically shrink into a smaller version of it's former self...
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and if you crash into a wall in GTA IV, the damage does something to where the front of the car gets "horns" on where the headlights were

VeyronEB · Sep 1, 2013

Demache said: ↑

I definitely agree. The Burnout series (in crash scenarios), Flatout and GTA IV are probably the only car oriented games off the top of my head that do vehicle damage in "real-time" rather than being pre-rendered. Though, neither of them are particularly realistic due to technological and gameplay reasons. But they were pretty advanced for the time (I remember playing Burnout 2 and thinking the cars getting bent out of the shape was the coolest thing ever because in 2002, that was almost unheard of in a racing game). I'm sure with the added power of the next gen consoles and multicore PCs I'm sure these will become more common.
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Yeah burnout was the best modern game I've played with realtime damage. Viper racing was a 90's game yet had some great realtime damage, almost on par to early RoR, minus the driving physics. The interesting thing about Flatout 1-2 was that it actually didn't have real-time physics it was actually all premodeled, it seems like more of a pain than realtime would have been.

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