"Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief" (flynorcal)
10/02/2017 at 01:40 • Filed to: None
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"Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief" (flynorcal)
10/02/2017 at 01:40 • Filed to: None | 1
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Release it to the die hard car nerds in October. Come holiday season, it’ll be suitable for a great Xbox bundle that will actually work correctly on Christmas morning. (That’s been a sore spot for the last few years with xmas releases, if you weren’t aware.)
It’s gotta sting a bit knowing you can’t confidently launch something where players aren’t gonna be fighting in second place behind an invisible cart being driven by a 4 bit sprite. However, it’s still a good business strategy to let me race the spectral midnight racer rather than get the bad press two months from now when the masses see this and go WTF?
And on that note, I need to go unpause the game and give a hip check to my phantom friend here. I’m winning this shit. I ain’t afraid of no ghosts.
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief
10/02/2017 at 01:47 |
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This is a completely logical theory for what they’re doing. I mean it does follow larger trends in gaming: release now, and patch later.
As of yet I still haven’t played it. I was really hoping my disk would come in this weekend. Oh well, so much for ordering the Ultimate edition. Glad I got to use that play 4 days early feature.
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Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief
> Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
10/02/2017 at 02:01 |
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Wow. That’s super bullshit too. That’s Walmart dropping the ball if I remember correctly?
The game has some other minor bugs too. Like, simulation steering is unplayable as the amount of input equals 4-5x the amount of output. You simply can’t avoid understeer unless you move the wheel a fraction of an inch and then it’s so sensitive that you snap into oversteer. There’s no calibration for the wheel either other than programming buttons like the regular controller. It doesn’t resemble driving any car at all.
I’d say the most eager customers are going to be part of the effort to fix such things, which is ethically dubious. However, the bugs are quite minor, the amount of code to be reviewed is heroic and trying to get the experience sorted can’t be automated. So I give it a pass.
The game is largely great. Bugs and all, it’s well worth it. I’m sorry you didn’t get the disk early. Hopefully you can complain about that in a way that recoups a few dollars. Surely you’re not alone.
SVTyler
> Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief
10/02/2017 at 02:36 |
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Honestly I blame all the people who preordered FM7 as well, as crappy as it sounds Turn10 have absolutely no business incentive to make a game work properly at launch when they’ve already sold hundreds of thousands of units at full price weeks and months in advance anyways. People can complain all they want but T10 already has their money anyways, why should they care?
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Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief
10/02/2017 at 08:28 |
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It apparently shipped 6 business days ago so it must be beyond snail mail. 100 gb of code and files is a lot to sift through so its to be expected
Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever
> Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief
10/10/2017 at 15:40 |
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Yeah, but MS be like...who you gonna call?