Something is on the horizon ...

Why write a blog post about an upcoming blog post and then 2 weeks later there is no blog post? Just sayin'....

 

Why not be happy that devs share this kind of stuff with us and patiently wait?

 

out of curiosity, in the future are there currently any plans for general wear and tear to be added? like tire tread depth loss, brake pad disintegration and radiator overheats? maybe it could be a hard mode option but i just like the idea of extra detail like that for some reason.

 

In the short ammount of time you actually use cars in this game for, it wouldn't really matter.

 

I think he's thinking about the campaign, where you will actually have to manage your cars because you will use them for many missions/races

 

Exactly, there's a lot more to beam than just crash,repeat; its Turing itself into a quite respectable .drive sim. Tire wear would be good, as most other racing sim games incorporate the effects of heat, wear, brake fade etc; Although wear may not be a massive factor on average road tires for short sprints, it makes all the difference on race compound tires. For the future campaign's sake, Personally I think at least some aspects of brake/tire fade, wear and heat is necessary, as it could realistically add the dynamic of buying better brakes to reduce fade, as well as increasing stopping power, or to decide if you want slicks that grip well, but wear out quicker than other slicks or tire types.
I don't know about tread depth however, although i think it could be somewhat simulated non visually, I dont believe it would work visually/physically in game, I could be wrong however

 

I think you are right about the wheel wear not being possible in the visible sense, but I don't think it would be terribly hard to code something like "When friction = X to X amount, reduce tire friction to Y amount" and so on until your tire is a piece of trash.

My guess is, when the campaign comes out, we'll all use the off road D-15, cause lets face it, it's a tank.
(And then there'll be that derpy guy who tries to use the Pigeon for all the levels...)

 

Exactly friction based wear, or traction gain from heat should be easy enough to code, with the the only possible Pitfall I can imagine being too much wear by just going strait, as an old problem with the tire system (pretty much fixed now) was lowered top speeds caused by the tire system "trying to grip" 24/7. (Though my coding knowledge is basically limited to tutorial videos, so i really don't know how easy/hard it may be). Furthermore I think (or hope) he campaign will be more varied in its "missions"/things to do, so owning more than one vehicle will be necessary to gain any money to progress.
**(assuming the campaign is at the very least a derivation of the "open world career mode" in the steam green-light vid where you have to make money from events,races,tournaments etc. As a side note I think Gabester mentioned a long time ago that they/he would like to do a campaign with some similar elements to an old streetracing game, forgive me I forget the name.)

Maybe the new blog post that is being written will at the very least shed some light on the campaign direction, or at least test the waters for some ideas.

 

The tread doesn't have depth yet as far as I know, so if they wanted to do a visible effect for tire wear they could just have a "tread" texture that fades with the condition of the tire. If they wanted to get really fancy they might even be able to have it in separate "chunks" to have only part of the texture fade based on wear (a toed in tire will mostly fade on the outside edge, locking up tires will only wear one side of the tire etc.). It would be a small thing, but it might be cool. I don't see them ever being able to accurately show tire failures visually however.

With the amount of time and effort going into this next blog post they might as well just go ahead and publish it for some extra income . That was a joke... Take your time guys. When you stop and think of how much this game has changed since the first release, and how much potential it has in the future, it's no wonder that it's a lot to cover in one post. I think some of the speculation here is a bit far fetched... but I'd love to see a new "in development" vehicle list thrown in at the end of what will inevitably be a very interesting read. I doubt they will, but with only 5 cars left to add it won't be too long before we get some new new vehicles. Thanks Lisa for that picture by the way, it's making for an excellent desktop background.

 

Thing is, while writing a simple "traction=traction-(0.1*time)" deal, so much more would go into implementing the feature that it's really rather mind boggling.

 

Are you guys really taking 2 weeks to write a blogpost? Come on now... I was refreshing the tab every hour on the day this post came up lol. It should probably be broken up into parts or something.

 

Chill man. They might have feature they're debating putting in there because they know as soon as something is even whispered by a dev, people (not pointing fingers at any certain krazee users) will jump down their throats and demand it sooner. You get to choose: you voicing every concern and doubt you have, or devs that enjoy working with the community.

 

Every single part of your comment is presumptuous and wrong. My comment was not even remotely aggravated, I've never jumped down the devs throats for any reason, nor will I ever do so. And finally that's a false dichotomy, user bases in general for all games can and do voice every concern and doubt there is to have, and many developers do enjoy working with their community in spite of this. Users voicing their concern is an important part of the development process, especially for a smaller team that doesn't have the resources to thoroughly test and debug their game, and even more so if the game is a beta. Even my comment is important, as it informs them that this blog post may have been misleading. It was probably my fault though, as I wasn't aware it could take 2 weeks to write a blog post, so my bad. Your comment was also unnecessary though.
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Thanks for the update, development of the game is more important than writing about said development lol. I can only imagine what it's like to develop a game with such a complex physics system. I'm hitting my head on my desk right now just trying to make animations work in Unity xD

 

My dream is Vulcan support to be added this year... Will my dream come true? :>
I was also thinking about more detailed metal bending, more removable elements in cars, a lot more scrap and... better optimization.

 

The horizon is a new utah map. There will be more cars as well. Look in the wiki on this page. Then look at "official content"