Right, Amazon preorder cancelled.
As danowat pointed out, CDKeys discounts brings the £45 digital preorder in line with the physical copy price, with the added benefit of the five LE cars/career events and getting the game more than a day early. I'm normally against digital purchases as I generally like to p/x old games for new, but I think pCARS is likely to be a keeper.
I'm guessing the game will preload sometime next week and be available to play midnight on Wednesday? It definitely says available to play on 7th May.
Right, Amazon preorder cancelled.
As danowat pointed out, CDKeys discounts brings the £45 digital preorder in line with the physical copy price, with the added benefit of the five LE cars/career events and getting the game more than a day early. I'm normally against digital purchases as I generally like to p/x old games for new, but I think pCARS is likely to be a keeper.
I'm guessing the game will preload sometime next week and be available to play midnight on Wednesday? It definitely says available to play on 7th May.
My pre order status/countdown timer runs out at midnight on Wednesday. I don't know if that is just for the preload though.
When I preordered it said "available to play 7th May". The official EU release date is 7th May due to public holidays or something (UK is 8th May) so Sony probably cannot filter the UK out of the EU PSN store. Ergo, UK gets it digitally on the same day as the rest of Europe. That's my take on it, anyway.
When I preordered it said "available to play 7th May". The official EU release date is 7th May due to public holidays or something (UK is 8th May) so Sony probably cannot filter the UK out of the EU PSN store. Ergo, UK gets it digitally on the same day as the rest of Europe. That's my take on it, anyway.
I love the people disputing the actual developers of the game with pointy arrow screenshots. Oh man.
Thx for posting again.Sorry but the render team are currently far too busy sipping champagne on a beach in the Bahamas to contemplate making any further improvements ...
Just kidding
So ... Anisotropic Filtering.
Everyone loves a good AF debate, right?!
I think the key piece of knowledge that is missing in the various analysis about the track anisotropy is that they all consider the track to be a single textured piece of geometry.
This is not the case - the track is rendered in three passes:
1. The base track layer e.g. The Tarmac!
2. The road markings e.g. White lines
3. Dirt layer / tyre marks
And since they are separate passes it's possible for each layer to have different Anisotropy settings - 4x, 4x, 2x respectively, with white lines being up'd to 8x subsequently.
Interesting, I wonder if there will be a difference in NA when the digital version goes up on the PS Store.As a complete aside, I've just noticed, the digital version, is £5 cheaper on the PS4 than the XBO, bizarre.
Sometimes I don't know whether to laugh or cry in GAF.
I love the people trusting argumentum ad verecundiam even when the opposite is in front of their eyes. Oh boy.
Street dates for physical copies make sense, but digital should have a world wide release date.
Myself I would be interested in learning more about car models themselves.
How Pc and consoles compare in that regard, what's the polycount, how different lods are used.
Whether or not the PC version has options to enable full LOD for every car on the track, whether or not the LOD depends on the # of cars in a race etc.
I love the people trusting argumentum ad verecundiam even when the opposite is in front of their eyes. Oh boy.
You don't trust what SMSRenderTeam is saying..?
Karts said:As one of the most accessible motorsports on the planet participated in recreationally by millions each year, karting has been the starting point for many professional racing drivers such as Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton, Juan Pablo Montoya, Danica Patrick, and Jeff Gordon.
I agree, assuming there's no technical reason. I guess it's to stagger the load on the download servers, but preloading can do that anyway.
It's about time digital versions offered real incentives over physical releases. Early access could be one of them, cheaper pricing another. It's inexplicable how they often cost a lot more when packaging, middlemen and physical logistics are removed from the equation.
Definitely early access should be a part of digital.
Sweepstake on the ? "coming soon" cars?
You can make educated guesses on them due to the fact that the list is alphabetical.........
Taking a first guess at the first 'coming soon' car. Audi S3?
Either that or the S1
Edit : I thought the preload was already live...........
Might be of XB1, not on PS4 yet. PS4 pre-loads are usually two days beforehand.
Automotive design, perfected.
Just fucking look at it.
A corvette would be nice for sure.
I personally I really like that they focused on tracks over cars and for the cars that they did put in game, they focused ot motor racing instead of having 40 different Civics.
Edit: Ferrari would also be nice indeed but it's a licensing nightmare.
This is what I was referring to
Could it be worth guessing that one of the 'coming soon' cars might be a McLaren P1 GTR?
This is what I was referring to
I am interested in the 3 between BAC and BMW...........
Could it be worth guessing that one of the 'coming soon' cars might be a McLaren P1 GTR?
Well, there we have it. Shows how much attention I've been paying to the builds recently haha!The hidden hatchback is the A1 Quattro. It's one of the few cars that's conpletely done but not in the final build. It was also revealed along with the IMSA 90 GTO in the Audi licensing announcement, and that's also modelled but not revealed.
Quite possibly yeah, the reason it makes me think P1 GTR is the position of the '?' if it does happen to be in alphabetical order, as you would expect it to be above the other McLarens if it began with a numberI'd say 650S or 570S. SMS will be wanting to maximise the McLaren licence, and McLaren will definitely welcome the exposure.
The hidden hatchback is the A1 Quattro. It's one of the few cars that's conpletely done but not in the final build. It was also revealed along with the IMSA 90 GTO in the Audi licensing announcement, and that's also modelled but not revealed.
Road America just isn't Road America without a pack of those beasts in full flow. The track is made for them.