So you can't limit a rabbit car in a field? Or you can? (Not the same as limiting every car, which would defeat the purpose)Not quite
If the session in question is an online multiplayer one (it was not specified) and every driver is setting his restrictor, you can indeed do it, just not as part of creating the session. In the offline Quick Race you can't (but as mentioned the idea has ben bandied around on WMD).
Could be sorted out by a career mode that actually gave you money based on how tough your competition was. Harder AI, more cash. Getting 5th on ultra could earn you as much as getting 1st on normal, assuming everything else was the same.After watching this entire video from start to finish something hit me towards the end. Throughout I was thinking to myself that this is the type of racing I enjoy the most. Wheel to wheel battles, trying to outfox my opponent, waiting for a mistake or trying to force one. Not caring about my finishing position, just enjoying the challenge of competing fairly with a competitor of equal skill. And then this happened 💡💡💡💡
This is how racing games get ruined by having a game economy. What incentive is there to engage in terrific battles with gaggles of cars in the middle of the field, with a truly challenging and competent level of AI, when you are penalized for doing so by winning less money and thus having less access to content in the future, by doing the very thing that's the most enjoyable?? The GT series actually discourages this type of racing for that very reason, and now it makes sense why they don't work on the AI and they aren't challenging at all in the career mode for even players of average skill. Why would someone want AI that's so good, it's literally taking money out of their virtual pocket?
Anyone wanting to know what kind of racing against the AI is possible in PCars should watch that video by the way.
Yes, you can (or rather the driver of the car in question can) if the rabbit car has restrictor plates available in the setup.
I'm afraid not. This is a much requested feature though. I'm lobbying for expanding the tuning system with stuff like that..
Perhaps I wasn't clear. The problem with GT and other games with an economy is that unless you win all the time, your path to gaining credits is longer and longer. When the only incentive is to win and win all the time just to gain credits, the incentive to race just for the joy of racing goes missing. So as a dev, what incentive is there to make the AI competitive and challenging when the vast majority of players just want to play lip service to racing and are really only grinding for credits. Sure a handful actually want to race but why put all the effort and resources into AI development when the vast majority of players will never take advantage of it?
Interesting. Will be looking forward to his blog post then. Might be something important, I guess?
No, please. No more delays.
I don't think that a delay would be the reason that he is not putting up any PCars footage.Interesting. Will be looking forward to his blog post then. Might be something important, I guess?
No, please. No more delays.
I don't see it this way. The biggest part of the gameplay in any car game is the driving, to have to pay for the cars obstructs this.
It was Johnnypenso's premise, not mine, but the answer is simple: because they're interested in cars. Probably the majority of people who play popular racing games do so because they like cars, not because they're motorsports enthusiasts. Accessible racing games with pretty graphics are car porn for the sort of people who don't know what "threshold braking" means. Naturally, not everyone who plays those games is "casual", in spite of what shameless elitists choose to believe, but many of them are.
True, but on that note you could give all the best guns in the first level of a shooter. See where i'm getting at?
I wouldn't mind that either, provided everyone's got access to them.
Yes but this is supposed to be like (take this lightly)...like a sim. Based on settings changes it can go from Arcade to Sim in terms of difficulty. So everything is there (thankfully). I've had Gran Turismo for years...and I'm so sick and tired of needing to buy cars in the game.
Would numb down your incentive to progress though. Like @Wolfe says it's gaming psychology 101
I'm sure PCARS will do just fine with motorsport fans like us here at GTP and we will enjoy the realism of the racing as it's main attraction, but many average gamers will complain about the car count as they will compare it to collecting type racers like GT or FM, and if your game is focused on huge car counts then you need to create that incentive to buy them for the sake of longevity. PCARS doesn't need that as it's a different game, but in return it will never be as popular as GT or FM.
Look I'm glad we don't need to buy the cars...it's a racing game. I want to hold endurance races and try and be like AJ Foyt or Dan Gurney, driving different disciplines and such...not to collect a bunch of cars. I'm a driver looking for darn contracts from people who can afford to buy and run the cars.Would numb down your incentive to progress though. Like @Wolfe says it's gaming psychology 101
Which brings me back to my previous point about the incentive of driving being the main factor in the game.Would numb down your incentive to progress though. Like @Wolfe says it's gaming psychology 101
Yup and shooting is the main incentive in a shooter, but if your game doesn't offer a story of some sorts it's always better to create other incentives to progress gradually. I'm not saying PCARS needs a credit system though, it's not that type of game unlike GT or FM, take out credits and car buying from those games and it will feel a lot duller as the thrills of racing and the depth of their career modes aren't great enough to keep people interested.
Oh...well then I agree.
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