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Project CARS 2 discussion thread (provisional release date: Septemberish 2017)
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You probably need some adapter to make it work, unless the shifter is connected directly to your PC, which I doubt (usually it plugs into the wheel base). You will need to configure the keys too.
I play with a T300RS and G27 pedals and shifter.
TJP
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Watch the video and ignore the comments of 12 year olds...
Why would you...?
Some good news from the GTP Q&A thread re timed races:
Q:
A:
Q:
A:
Timed Race duration is a clock now HH:MM in increments of 5 minutes up to 24:00
(Can still do laps up to 999 laps also)
Time acceleration choices: "x2, x5, x10, x15, x20, x25, x30, x40, x50, x60"
GT3 class we are already in double-digit for vehicle count including all the major brands. You'll be fine
User-created offline championships are unlikely to make release, may come in a later patch.
From the GTP Q&A:
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/q-a-with-ianbell-read-op-updated-2-15.353715/page-27#post-11740202
Disappointing to hear this. Here's hoping for a patch sometime soon after release.
Edit from Ian Bell:
Wooooo-HOOOOOO!
Great news.
From the GTP Q&A:
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/q-a-with-ianbell-read-op-updated-2-15.353715/page-27#post-11740202
Disappointing to hear this. Here's hoping for a patch sometime soon after release.
Edit from Ian Bell:
We want to show off that our chosen championships are better
Wooooo-HOOOOOO!
Great news.
I've no idea why they release overexposed washed-out watercolour promo shots like that one. They make the game look awful, especially with all the uber-realistic GTS shots doing the rounds.
pCARS NEVER looks like that image on my TV. A bit of contrast and a bit of saturation would work wonders.
In fact, one of the latest, more significant, updates on the graphical side has made strides in that direction by lowering the "blue mist" in the distance and by making the image look more vibrant. Why would you present an oudated screenshot is beyond my understanding.
Yeah, this looks more like a forza promo shot than pcars
TJP
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I got the imagee from bsimracing from generate some posts in this thread! There's​ been a lot of reveals but no one appeared bothered to comment or post.
Seems people are upset with the screenshot...Story is here: http://www.bsimracing.com/project-cars-2-introducing-the-long-beach-street-circuit/#disqus_thread
Jaguar XJR-9 at Long Beach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJT3iOlyLbc
The encoding looks really bad or is it me?
The encoding looks really bad or is it me?
Yeah, something looks definitely off with the framepacing in that video. It should be pulled and reuploaded.
It's hard to look better with this encoding quality.
I'm not a fan of the content itself, either. It's very dry. In fact, only thing that looks interesting to me is dry vs. wet tarmac driving.
endlessflood
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The content looks really bad. The lighting looks so flat and dull, and the track seems completely lifeless. The fact that this is an official video is a real worry.
Audio is still better than GTS though.
drotahorror
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For me it's the quality of the video. It's grainy and looks bad.
...and judders like fuck. The frame pacing is borked.
Hopefully it'll be remastered, encoded properly and uploaded again, because at the moment it's not really promoting anything in a positive way.
I know how you feel. We are not allowed to upload videos because some marketing strategy, then you watch this and think: Doesn't make any sense, I could upload content so much better than this, both technically and content wise.
And SMS must know that pCARS 2 will be scrutinised far more closely than the first game ever was because of this perception that consumers were somehow 'burned' by pCARS and need to be 'won back'.
I see the 'but.. but.. WORK IN PROGRESS' excuse is already being rolled out for this video. I'm sorry, but I know damn well that far more polished and finished and better-quality efforts than this one already exist, so there really is no excuse for content of this quality. SMS are doing themselves a disservice here, just like with that washed-out Long Beach promo shot that TJP posted above.
SMS? SMH. Come on, chaps.
Yeah, it is hard to understand. I'm not going to cut them any slack. This is a fuck up and there's no other way to look at it.
AbandonedTrolley
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It's doing a good job of making me thankful for how GT:S is looking right now.
Hoping that this game comes good though and runs fluid on the Pro.
Only you can answer that.
It runs fine. This video is not indicative of how good the game looks. It's just a bad video and bad marketing.
So it looks better than PC1?, not that PC1 looked bad (although I recently revisited it on PS4, and was shocked at how bad the track texture was), but does it look like much of an evolution from PC1?
AbandonedTrolley
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Good to hear, I'm looking forward to it and hope that they have learnt from their mistakes with the first, from what I'm hearing so far they have, but still a little pessimistic.
TJP
Member
SMS do have an established track record of releasing games that require quite a number of patches to work as intended so in they eyes of those people, SMS do need to win people back.
That said, if people aren't excited for the live track feature, new cars and tracks, new online modes with improved dedicated server options, fully realised pitstops and hopefully fleshed out career mode, they don't need to be worried about pCARS or another other sim racing title.
Bsimracing have a load more screens of the Lancer Evo for people to look over and Race Department have a few recent titbits for those who are interested and have a decent amount of other articles up. The PRC blog are on board the pCARS 2 hype train too
Are you talking about [VR + motion rig], or the actual build of the game used and car/track combo?
There's still pretty big lag between the real and virtual steering wheel.
(This is where someone jumps in and says it's a product of the video capture).
VR+motion rig, of course.
I don't know about wheel being out of sync. I play with a very low fov and tend to disable wheel/arms.
Yeah, me too. Anyone with a wheel and not playing in VR should do the same. GTS will be a problem in this regard.
Project Cars 2 demonstration at the PC Gamer Weekender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw9ezoqLuqA
TJP
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With all the excitment over Scorpio running FM6 at 'ultra' PC settings (whatever ultra actually means) at a true 4K and 60fps with some extra performance to spare, SMS would have to seriously balls up pcars 2 not to get similar or equal performance.
At 1080P, MS prmoised supersampling would be applied to the image.
TJP
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endlessflood
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Obviously first party would have been in the loop, but have third party devs known about the Scorpio specs for very long? A lot of the Pro launch titles struggled to get Pro mode stuff working properly, despite it being a fairly dev-friendly architecture (as I understand it). With PCARS2 SMS are effectively having to support 5 architectures, and one of them on very short notice. At the moment they're struggling to get YouTube videos right; let's not get ahead of ourselves here.