I just tried out the showcase remix and it was actually a lot of fun. Given that the showcases were pretty much one-offs that never got played again, this is one case where the devs are actually doing a good job with recycling content.
This has also given me lots of ideas on how showcases could be further improved going forwards. Add a PI target for each showcase, put up a rivals board, and let players build and tune their own cars to enter into the event. Also make sure to have seasonal variants of all the showcases for each season, each with their own Rivals leaderboard.
Interesting, do you have a link? If that’s the case, then the scripting must be pretty rigid if the devs went through the trouble of reskinning instead of actually changing the vehicle.
Well i can say it’s not Nomad even tho game show that way, it show that would be totally stock Nomad PI 732 but that anglia have more power and torque than Nomad have (and it dont sound same as Nomad) Instead it sound that it have rally engine (and Nomad with rally engine PI is something like 770) But telemetry dont match with rally engine either as anglia have 5kw more power also rally engine turbo boost is mutch bigger than anglia and anglia have camshaft upgrade. So i think that anglia is something we cant replicate.
Seems like there’s a problem with it. I was just flying through the first part, on close to the ideal pace, but there’s a section where the train and the route cross and it looks like the train is supposed to be ahead and then you cross the tracks behind it …
… I literally had to stop. There was no way to pass in front of it there as it was doing triple digits and accelerating, and being on the right side of the train completely shields you from getting to the checkpoint. So I had to stop and let the train pass. Sat there for a couple seconds and still won easily.
In the live stream [the one from Seattle with Mechberg] they talked about how much effort and time was put into the re-make variants of the showcases, and while the event is totally acceptable, I just wonder why so much resources went in to this bearing in mind it is probably an event that you will only do once [maybe more if there is a RIVALS mode attached to it] I got the impression is was a project that the Devs were emotionally attached to and they did it mostly for their own gratification. With so many outstanding issue, perhaps the resources could have better deployed? I’m not knocking the events, just the rational behind them.
It took 3 minutes and reminded me that showcases exist. Hope it didn’t take them too much time to implement as I can’t remember seeing anyone desperate for this addition.
I did enjoy it, completed on the first go on Pro difficulty. It was a little difficult to slide it around the corners in the first half of the race but I figured it out towards the end