Update Speculation thread

At this point I would rather have split update Like part one and part two

 

Nah, more like Gallardo/Huracan 5.2! I can hear the unevenness of the firing pulses right from the idle and I love it!

You mean 8200rpm? 'Cause I saw the tachometer.
That's a great sound! I hope it gets a new starter sound to fit instead of the Bolide's. I also hope the Performance Exhausts (Performance, Performance Race, Performance Tuned) get a slight F1 hue just for variety!

 

i think there's either not enough stuff to make split updates, or those things are dependent from eachother

 

Without counting some concept-cars plus the freshly new DS N°8 which just came out.

 

In more recent times French automakers did make larger, and more luxurious cars (Renault Safrane, Citroen C6, Peugeot 605/607), but they are E segment/mid size cars, comparable in size to cars like Audi A6, Lexus ES and BMW 5 series. They are bigger than your average D segment/compact sedan like 407 but they are smaller than D segment/full size cars such as A8, S class and Lexus LS. (Note that European and American car classifications don't always match. For example, both VW Passat and Audi A6 belong to the mid size category in US, but in Europe they belong to D and E segment respectively).
However, it should be noted that back in the day, larger sedans/wagons weren't only exclusive to luxury automakers like BMW, Mercedes and later on, Audi. Other, more "ordinary" automakers like Opel and Ford also offered larger cars at the time. Ford Scorpio, Opel Omega/Senator, Peugeot 605/607, Citroen C6 and Renault Safrane were all part of now extinct market segment of larger sedans offered by brands which weren't strictly focused on making luxury cars. Safrane and Omega were somewhat indirectly replaced by much more unconventional Vel Satis and Signum, while rest were simply discontinued. Falling sales, rising popularity of minivans (and SUVs) and other factors simply killed off this market segment.
French manufacturers in particular focused on large, luxurious minivans after discontinuation of large sedans. Later on, PSA spun off DS as a separate brand, and introduced DS 9 sedan. But like @DriftinCovet1987 says, its not really on the same level as older cars.
As for full size luxury flagship sedan, I think that niche is better suited to either Japanese or British luxury brand or maybe another German brand that would contrast performance oriented ETK. But French executive car would still be somewhat unique; 2000s sedan with hydropneumatic suspension and transverse mounted turbo diesel V6 is quite different to sedans we have in the game right now.

 

now I'm actually getting worried
if both the summer and spring update times will be missed you would think they would do a part one and 2
I think something bad happened during the development process like data corruption or drive faliures
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what has been essentially radio silence from the devs does not help either

 

could be bad but i don't think they've lost data permanently, they probably have competent enough I.T to have atleast one local and one cloud server

 

i´ve seen somewhere in this thread someone saying that thay are having issues with game-breaking bugs

 

That's literally what I was going to reply with lmao. I have one!

 

While I have no idea how close they are to career mode being ready to be called 1.0 I've been low-key worried they're taking this time to get it done and release the game out of early access. I really don't believe this is enough time to properly polish rest of the game up so I'm hoping I'm worrying about nothing.

Edit: It could also be just career mode coming out of experimental without 1.0 for the whole game. In any case I think this update will be something that they can do a bigger marketing push on.

 

Just for funsies if you hold the "Alt" key on your keyboard any type "0153" using the num pad (if your keyboard has it) you can get the trademark symbol.

"When its ready"™

 

Glad stenyak came through and calmed some of y’all down. A lot of people’s first thoughts jump to negatives and worst case scenarios. Y’all need to breathe.
That said, it almost sounds like communication isn’t fully in the devs hands so maybe that implies some sort of partnership or joint collaboration. I’m still leaning to official multiplayer (maybe just wishful thinking), or maybe they partner with that Ange guy and are implementing his sound engine. We know that’s been cookin for a while

 

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The samples only go up to 7200, but I used the Scintilla as it is the only vehicle in-game that uses a V10 and is the closest thing what would have a V10 like that