Update Speculation thread

Tbh, I really like how JRI is now because it's a remote paradise for rallying/hillclimbing enthusiasts, off-road explorers, crawling experts, baddies being chased by the police to hide/push the contraband and drivers roaming around just for the fun of it. In that sense, the dealerships we proposed a few minutes ago detract from the overall remote paradise theme. Only the gas station and garage make some sense since cars roaming around on the island need to refuel sometime and they also need a protected place to be parked.
So I don't really feel that JRI may need some dealerships to be included in the career mode (whatever that is or however important it may prove to be). It's great on its own.

 

From what I can tell is the quarry and port are still active.

 

What if... hear me out... the dealership in JRI is actually a hidden warehouse full of illegally imported cars


Ok i think we're getting a bit out of hand with the """speculation"""

 

Wow. Then it makes sense because JRI is in a general state of disrepair and not many people could think of it as the ideal hiding spot. And this dealership doesn't even need to have its own special building but rather use one of the main 3 existing ones (the old Hotel, the warehouses in the Port and the old hangar at the Airport)! Great idea!
I agree, we got out of hand with the "speculation". This is too far away in the future.

Back to 0.25 speculation: assuming the crazy Covet sketch we saw last Tuesday is that of the mid-engined Group B Covet (of which a road-going version must certainly be produced for the car to be homologated), what chances does the existing Rally Covet have to remain as it is? Could it stay as is and represent the succeeding Group A (1987 - 1996, IIRC)?
Also, could the crazy aero package of the mid-engined Covet make the car suitable for hillclimbing as well? I believe it most certainly could, but the car is also gonna need one equally important ingredient: Race AWD with the accompanying Race LSDs.
And since we talked about tires a few posts back, what are the chances of snow and studded tires appearing sometime in the future?

 

Alternately it could be a south Pacific locale, like Tuvalu or the Cook Islands.

My read on JRI is that it has been abandoned for some time, but, much like how Japan's Hashima Island has been rediscovered in the internet era and is famous in the urbex community, JRI is a failed attempt at a military post, shipping hub, research station, and tropical resort that has suddenly struck gold as an offroader's Mecca.

The ramifications of that could be that any useful infrastructure in-game, such as fuel stations or garages, are the result of enthusiasts and entrepreneurs bringing or building it themselves. This could have interesting effects on the map's atmosphere, with established but decaying infrastructure layered over with clean, modern replacements, albeit bodged ones.

 

Yes, I could see the career mode being something like you're sent there by a logistics company to clear the roads of debris, repair bridges, and get the infrastructure back up and running (somewhat like snowrunner's general gameplay), then once that's done, it unlocks things like film stunt driving, and rally events, as well as the usual delivery, bus, etc. missions.

 

I assume fairly low, since there's no use for them. The only places where you see snow/ice are Gridmap and a bit of icy road over Automation Test Track.

But who knows, maybe the devs will make a snowy map in the future

 

I'd say the chances are pretty high, it seems like it is a Group A car already, so it wouldn't make much sense to just scrap it.

Hillclimbing doesn't necessarily mean crazy aero, there are/have been several Group B cars competing in European hillclimbs with no aero upgrades. Their high power-to-weight ratios and AWD transmissions (in most cases) make them good hillclimb cars.
If you're thinking about Pikes Peak kind of stuff, the aero we've seen isn't going to make a big difference. The Audi quattros and Peugeot 205s that ran there had massive appendages.

 

they will just add a group b covet nothing else. they should also start charging money for cars ingame

 

Charging money for in-game cars would be an effective way to drive away most of the playerbase.

 

Isn't he talking about in-game money ? If that's the case it should be reserved to career mode imo.

 

on the off chance that the remaster will blah blah blah,

we can excpect some more blah blah for the covet, such as new blah options more blah blahs. Maybe even a CRX blah idk.

 

Wow, SPECULATION? In the UPDATE SPECULATION THREAD? Nooooio… can’t be.

 

so, covet remaster is the only confirmed thing here
i really do feel like the moonhawk is getting remastered, we just havent gotten any pictures yet

 

This is purely speculation with no proof whatsoever :
I think it is resonable to think the Pessima Gen 1 could be remastered in parallel.

-They are both of the same era and from the same brand,
they could share even more parts OEM / After-Market, remaking both of them in this next update would save time right ?

-The Covet has the 2.0 I4 from the Pessima, remastering the Covet but keeping the old Pessima engine in it would be strange ?
(a new engine model in a none remastered Pessima is equally as weird)
Or they get rid of this config with the remaster, but I simply can't tell

 

Has anyone checked if steamdb has updated recently?

 

You're right, snow/studded tires could be a part of a Snowy/Icy major update and this upcoming major update most certainly won't be dedicated to such a content. Didn't think of that.

You're right, the existing Rally Covet already feels like a Group A rally car and it's only missing AWD for the package to be complete.
You're also right about the Group B cars, they were very fast without using extreme aero aids in European hillclimbs but yeah, I was thinking of the Group B rally cars doubling as Pikes Peak hillclimbing machines. So you say that the aero bits could be even larger for a hillclimbing event like Pikes Peak. They seemed large enough tbh, but ok, it remains to be seen.
This Covet will certainly have a good power-to-weight ratio, so we'll wait and see the aerokit and if it's gonna have AWD or not (which I very much want it to have AWD because the short wheelbase is no joke).

 

Pretty sure that user meant an in game economy, not DLC. Maybe not, it is certainly vauge wording.

An in game economy is something rarely mentioned when talking about things we still need for full release, but it's certainly important and IMO far overdue.

 

I agree, since it lines up perfectly with the covet imo, especially if we are going to see lots of bodywork changes on the covet (hopefully a sedan or wagon) then we would also expect the pessima to receive a good amount of changes too since they have a good amount in common