I’m really disappointed in Turn 10. This is a racing simulator, intended to capture and recreate what its like to actually drive on a track. Coming from actual track experience, I can say that this feels like a wet noodle with no actual feedback to speak of. (but it looks great!?) This game feels more like a Alpha test on PC than a actual release…
Complaints:
-Tire modeling feels like hot garbage. No sense of what the tires are doing.
-Micro studders and frame rate dips on a overclocked ryzen 5 1600@3.9ghz. with a Vega 64 Liquid cooled. present in all menus and loading screens and some in game.
-Rivals is basically gone. that was one of the more fun parts of the game.
-Tuning menu doesn’t allow you to test drive and tune at the same time. you have to race and tune and rinse and repeat the loading screens every time you want to do anything.
-AI is still meh with very stupid arcade like issues. I want to turn aggression ON while on Unbeatable or pro but i really dont want to get sideswiped mid way down the straight because someone at Turn10 thinks that is actually what happens on a real race track. Blocking YES. childish sideswiping causing race ending crashes when you try to treat this game like a simulator and have all assists off and damage on SIM.
-FFB is weak, i would like to adjust this on the fly as well in testing, but you cant do that at all because you have no test bed now…
-Simulation Steering is a hot pile of S%^t on a actual steering wheel.
-This game looks a bit too much like horizon, which is supposed to be a open world arcade game. leave all the bright ADHD menu icons, the arcade feeling controls, and the SUV’s in that game. I thought that’s why you made horizon… to appease all the arcade heroes that frequent mall parking lots at night, vape in hand and flannel shirt on point. don’t forget to set air ride to ultra low for that hella stance, fuq boi swagger. Its like you have compromised what could have been a real racing sim to fit in to the mid market instead of going after the hardcore enthusiasts that actually do this on the weekends. ESPECIALLY releasing this on PC, you had to have known you would be torn apart if this wasn’t the launch it should have been… With Microsoft throwing money at you and your cash on hand from the last titles, you could have made something special, but instead you overlayed some new textures to promote 4k and never looked at whats under the skin.
Should have been released with no issues on PC.
should have been released with improvements to physics.
should have been released with less garbage to make it appealing to little Johnny with a heavy prescription to Ritalin.
should have been released with issues from forza 6 AI fixed.
should have been released with more REAL tracks instead of fantasy tracks that no one can actually drive on.
More 3rd party testing could have told you this, but i bet you knew and released it anyways. that’s why the embargo was held for so long. Mass Effect Andromeda of racing sims.
3.5/10