Beam NG Drive

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35 hours in and I am having a blast. I have not touched career mode at all. Freeroam is where i spend 90% of my time.

The challenges are good fun as well. They are challenging and its not easy to obtain all the stars.

Rock crawling is the business. This is zen-mode gameplay.

I love drifting, but I cant seem to get it right in BeamNg. I am trying to wrap my head around using L1 on the Dualsense as the clutch. My muscle memory is fighting me on this because of old habits. I end up forgetting about the clutch and just ruin the gearbox or stall the car.

Oh and EVs can be used as submarines. You can drive around in them under water :lol:
 


Pretty helpful video for beginners.

Loads of stuff I had no clue could be done. Currently having fun by sending huge lorries up in the sky with negative gravity and watching them crash back down into a million bits :D
 
In the quick intro scenarios or whatever the are called in English there is a police chase where you chase a faster car with a top speed long lefthand corner to begin with. I can't even take the first corner without losing control and crashing. :crazy:
 
Picking this up tonight, and I'm really looking forward to experiencing the career mode again. I only tried it the once on PC as I saw little point in progression, knowing it would be reset with the next update.

Thats not going to happen with the PS5 version, right? Is career still West Coast only, also? Italy would be my dream location for it.
 
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Got it yesterday . Great fun.

Going fast in high powered cars is insanely difficult for me. I'm on controller and tried doing the short course racetrack challenge. You need 1:05 for 5 stars. So far it seems absolutely impossible. I have tried a 700+ supercar, but I'm miles off the pace if I even get a lap together. It doesn't seem to have any grip whatsoever. I also tried what looks like a race car BMW (much more reasonable horsepower) but it also seemed extremely difficult to not lose it all the time.

Does anyone have any tips? Like maybe there are settings I'm missing like increased traction control? Or maybe I need to add parts for that first? I'm so overwhelmed by the possibilities of this game.

I am also a bit irritated by stalling the car. Do I seriously need to look around the car to find the ignition, point to it and then press it every time I stall the car? Is it possible to do this via a menu or some customizable action on this quick dial thing?

And has anyone found a good YouTuber that is focused on challenges and how to beat them? Abusing the physics is fun but unfortunately YouTube is completely overpowered by crash videos.
 
Wilsonson
Got it yesterday . Great fun.

Going fast in high powered cars is insanely difficult for me. I'm on controller and tried doing the short course racetrack challenge. You need 1:05 for 5 stars. So far it seems absolutely impossible. I have tried a 700+ supercar, but I'm miles off the pace if I even get a lap together. It doesn't seem to have any grip whatsoever. I also tried what looks like a race car BMW (much more reasonable horsepower) but it also seemed extremely difficult to not lose it all the time.

Does anyone have any tips? Like maybe there are settings I'm missing like increased traction control? Or maybe I need to add parts for that first? I'm so overwhelmed by the possibilities of this game.

I am also a bit irritated by stalling the car. Do I seriously need to look around the car to find the ignition, point to it and then press it every time I stall the car? Is it possible to do this via a menu or some customizable action on this quick dial thing?

And has anyone found a good YouTuber that is focused on challenges and how to beat them? Abusing the physics is fun but unfortunately YouTube is completely overpowered by crash videos.
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I havent changed any aids and found you just get used to the physics over time and it becomes second nature.

For the ignition, you can hold R1 and down (could be up, can't remember) on the D pad to active it, in fact if you hold R1 it should give you all the possible options that vehicle has on the top right hand corner of the screen, you can also map a bunch of stuff to whatever combination of buttons you wish.
 
How is the rally part compared to RBR and EA WRC? ( physics, FFB )
 
The rally time control feature is great. I’d like to see Beam NG expand this. Longer rallies, weather, time of day, etc.

And as I expected, damage effects are second to none. It’s quickly ranking upon the best I’ve ever played compared to the Dirt series, WRC. I have not played Richard Burns.

Gameplay has been with controller thus far. Haven’t used my wheel yet.
 
I could so live in this version of Italy.

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A shocking indictment of how bad my PC is, but I've never had it run this smooth and look as nice as this (in gameplay; I max out the settings for photomode, of course).

Just having the lore friendly cars and no mods also feels really neat.
 
Wilsonson
Got it yesterday . Great fun.

Going fast in high powered cars is insanely difficult for me. I'm on controller and tried doing the short course racetrack challenge. You need 1:05 for 5 stars. So far it seems absolutely impossible. I have tried a 700+ supercar, but I'm miles off the pace if I even get a lap together. It doesn't seem to have any grip whatsoever. I also tried what looks like a race car BMW (much more reasonable horsepower) but it also seemed extremely difficult to not lose it all the time.

Does anyone have any tips? Like maybe there are settings I'm missing like increased traction control? Or maybe I need to add parts for that first? I'm so overwhelmed by the possibilities of this game.

I am also a bit irritated by stalling the car. Do I seriously need to look around the car to find the ignition, point to it and then press it every time I stall the car? Is it possible to do this via a menu or some customizable action on this quick dial thing?

And has anyone found a good YouTuber that is focused on challenges and how to beat them? Abusing the physics is fun but unfortunately YouTube is completely overpowered by crash videos.
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Hello, you can change in the gameplay settings that the cars initiate already with engine on, so you don't have to manually start them all the time, but if you want, indeed R1 and Down arrow will go through the ignition process to start the engine.

For the control in faster cars, open the circle of quick actions, and go to vehicle options, there is usually ESC, you can set for comfort, or sport, to make it easier to manage high power newer cars in the game with controller.

I totally agree with the lack of videos guiding us through the challenges, it's mostly trial and error until I somewhat succeed with most of them.
 
I was struggling to get into this game as there's not really an obvious path to take. I tried career mode but had several issues with it (couldn't choose my starter car and in another attempt it wouldn't save my progress).

So instead I was using the quick play option and selecting things from there. And from there I've come across the holy grail... The randomiser mode where it drops you into a random map with a random car.

What a brilliant idea that is. I've been doing all sorts of random things (even commandeering a cannon. Not that's not a typo). The great thing is that the actual driving physics are so damn good. I remember playing it years ago and the cars were undrivable. Crashes were inevitable it was just how long you could hold on. Now I really enjoy the driving especially the slower cars.

I don't think I've had this much fun driving slow cars since GTA 4. The weight and consequences of pushing the cars is impeccable. You really have to concentrate but driving like a maniac dodging traffic and threading the needle in a 90s 'Suzuki Swift' on some random Asian island is thrilling!
 
One of the many details I love is the real time clock. Didn't configure my headlight switch.
Tried one of the flatbed trucks in the Small Town. Cars were beeping me because I couldn't see the street I was spawned on. :lol:
 
This game is great but so so hard on a controller.

Took me about two hours to get all 3 stars here.

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Then tried the time trial of the same course I had just done 2 hours at and this was my only valid lap before calling it quits. Not even close. Getting the 5 star time with Amy car in the game looks absolutely impossible.

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This was the SBR asphalt rally car. I tried the track version before and it becomes uncontrollably way too quickly. I guess that that's realistic because driving a road like this at over 200 kph seems mental with anything but then how are you supposed to beat the 5 star time.

To be honest I have struggled with every time trial in the game so far. I barely managed all stars in the first two time trials in career mode but everything else so far seems absolutely impossible for me to ever beat the max stars time.

Anyone here who is easily beating these and has any tips, especially on controller? Are there any settings to make the steering less twitchy maybe?
 
Funny. I jumped in the unmarked version just then. Launched into in to the bay. Drove underwater for a few yards.
 
Wilsonson
To be honest I have struggled with every time trial in the game so far. I barely managed all stars in the first two time trials in career mode but everything else so far seems absolutely impossible for me to ever beat the max stars time.

Anyone here who is easily beating these and has any tips, especially on controller? Are there any settings to make the steering less twitchy maybe?
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I actually prefer the controller over the wheel. Under the controller settings I have changed Linearity from the preset 2.5 to 1. I found this to make the steering less twitchy.

I am nowhere near achieving 5 stars in 99% of any of the challenges. Some of them are difficult. It took me a good few tries to progress through the drift challenges in the BMRA section of career mode, where you have to unlock a certain amount of stars to move forward. I assume that the time trial section in career follows the same rule of unlocking stars to progress and if so, I know its going to be a grind as well.

Getting all 5 stars in everything would scratch that completionist itch in me, but I'm not going to sweat it. I am still having a blast in this game.
 
After not finding linearity settings I did some more research and everywhere it says the same as yours. However I just can't find the linearity settings. Neither for throttle, brake or steering. Could you show me a screenshot please?
 
Wilsonson
After not finding linearity settings I did some more research and everywhere it says the same as yours. However I just can't find the linearity settings. Neither for throttle, brake or steering. Could you show me a screenshot please?
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I am away from home at the moment. I will take a screen shot and post it tomorrow.

I know that UI is a pain. The settings you are looking for are under options > controllers. You can find it by pressing options button on dualsense while you are in game on a map. Then use L1/R1 to scroll through the ribbon at the top (environment/ vehicle etc) The settings tab for controllers is somewhere in the extreme left of that ribbon. Apologies for the hap hazzard navigation, I am going off memory and cant remember the exact wording.
 
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I am away from home at the moment. I will take a screen shot and post it tomorrow.

I know that UI is a pain. The settings you are looking for are under options > controllers. You can find it by pressing options button on dualsense while you are in game on a map. Then use L1/R1 to scroll through the ribbon at the top (environment/ vehicle etc) The settings tab for controllers is somewhere in the extreme left of that ribbon. Apologies for the hap hazzard navigation, I am going off memory and cant remember the exact wording.
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I'm away from my playstation but I think if you click on whatever device you are using in the force feedback settings it comes up with a hidden menu, in this menu I could change various settings on my T598 wheel settings, it may be similar on the controller. Hope this helps anyone using either controller or wheels.
 
Well Ive picked this up out of curiosity, any suggestions what to actually do? Im not enjoying the wandering about in free roam, races are one mistake and its over with massive understeer. Is there a particular mode or vehicle combo i should try? I wont be doing my own custom builds, but are there good presets and track combo's?

Ive had a dabble with rallying this morning its not too clever, Im gonna keep trying things out. I would warn anyone considering this game to consider whether they enjoy perfect run or start over type gameplay for me its a deeply irritating gameplay dynamic. Classic sim in every way... over eggs the factors its trying to simulate and trashes the gameplay in the process. Going all in on the crash physics and damage model is commendable, but not modelling tyre grip to same degree ruins the game. The gameplay is not compelling in general, the challenges are dull due to design... graphics are quite poor & sound is exceptionally poor so much so ive turned it off completely. The maps are small and leave a lot to be desired, Utah was probably the best looking (I assume this will get loads better over time) Granted this a work in progress, but its disappointing. Waste of money for me at this stage (however im sure it will grow and refine over time) , thankfully it was cheap. The whole five star reviews thing is just not accurate at all at this point. Each to their own im sure this will be satisfying for people who like tinkering and trial and error type play styles.
 
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