Let me ask the PCars masses a question.
I have played GT1, GT2, GT5 and now GT6. I have a reliable (and cheap) DFGT wheel and to be honest have never really had any major beefs about how the GT series plays.
I got a PS4 for the family for Xmas and now have all our major titles duplicated on the PS4 from the PS3. The only reason I even turn the PS3 on anymore is to run our online series once a week in GT6.
I am contemplating selling the PS3 and all games/accy to fund a new wheel and PCars purchase.
But I am mainly interested in online play with our league and every time I research Pcars I see a lot of posts regarding bugs with this or that. I want to make the switch but I don't want to play a broken game (especially in comparison to a fairly unbroken game like GT6). I plan to play PCars and get GT7 when it comes out just to have some variety and revisit the game that started it all for me.
So is this game broken or will I be a happy camper?
Thanks in advance gang.
JoeW,
I would like to answer your question with some
honest to goodness truth.
I have been very excited about PCARS because I love racing, I am not a pro, I just love racing and get lots of pleasure from it, with that being said
I have to be totally truthful when it comes to PCARS.
This is a game that has lots of potential because when you get things working the racing can feel really good, and of course the graphics are really nice and on high end PC’s it’s actually difficult to tell PCARS from a real race on a Hi Def TV and that can only add to the good times.
Now for the not so good and downright BAD.
Project CARS In My Opinion Is Very Broken and can make playing it a very frustrating undertaking, Just when you are really starting to have fun and things seem good….BAM, you run into one the Many Bugs.
I am not just saying this to give PCARS a bad name because
I have praised SMS when they had done great things, Like the Ghosting/Blurring issues (Even though a lot of people claimed it didn’t exist) that were on PS4 but not XBONE. SMS put out a fix very quickly and for that they deserve lots of credit which I immediately gave. When they put out the Icons Car Pack, I again praised them.
Now to the issues.
From day one I have run into all kinds of strange bugs and I mean things that I would not expect to see even in Beta Software (Yes, Some are that Bad)
jittery/jerky replays have been there since day one and continue to exist, I really expected that to be high on the list of things to fix (It wasn’t in the 1.4 patch and it’s not mentioned in the
2.0 patch).
Wheel setup can be a pain, they have improved the defaults but if you didn’t do research you could easily mistake this game for feeling really bad.
Day one, I made the mistake of going into the
button assignment screen, after attempting to assign some familiar buttons, I tried to exit the menu and received the following message:
"Not all required controls are assigned” and
this game would not let me out, lucky for me someone had a workaround on the internet.
Release week with PCARS, Ran into this bug:
Free Practice at SPA
Tonight (6/29/15) Ran into this bug:
Laguna Seca
PCARS Running, Goes into Rest mode and all Force Feedback lost, couldn’t recover without doing a reset, powering off and on didn’t work.
Went into Race Weekend,
Got placed first on the Grid, and again No Force Feedback, talk about frustration.
I use
Surround Sound Headphones and noticed that there were voices coming from the speaker in the DS4, I could just barely here it due to having on sealed headphones. No In Game setting to fix this. There is a funky kind of workaround but damn this is annoying.
Sadly, I have run into other things too numerous to mention, so
there is lots of work to be done and I really hope SMS does get to some of the ones that kill the enjoyment of PCARS.
I know there are those who claim there is not a single bug in the game, to them, I just don’t know what to say, I hope this helps you as I am in deeper than I should be a the moment.
