The Long Drive

The Long Drive

stouf Apr 12, 2023 @ 9:36pm
too scary for buying
i saw a friend play, every 8 minutes max, he hit suddently a invisible wall... this problem seem exist since 2019 and as you know we are in 2023....

so i dont understand the positiv review even if the concept is original, it's in a game where you drive a major failure no ?
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PrestonLK Apr 12, 2023 @ 11:11pm 
There are no invisible walls in this game, it’s completely open world. Are you perhaps thinking of the issue where things inside the car can clip into the car itself causing collision issues? If so, that can mitigated by turning on vehicle interior physics lock in the settings.
le_dede Apr 13, 2023 @ 12:09am 
it's the kind of game, either we are repelled from the start, or we are caught up in it and we don't let go. The game is not bug free, the dev is aware of it and is working on it but no game bracking.
Anyway you have 2 hours to retract if you don't like it. A good cpu is required because everything in the game is subject to physics, the slightest object interacts with the environment, the character and the npc.
The community is there to help overcome the imperfections and mechanics of the game...let yourself be tempted, you might not regret it 😉.
G33P Apr 13, 2023 @ 6:41am 
there are no invisible walls and other games are full of bugs too
madpainter Apr 13, 2023 @ 12:05pm 
Driving along, the car will crash suddenly for no discernible reason.
To me the bugs are either annoying or funny,
if you find them annoying you will never like this game because the fans love the janky stuff and you are not the target audience!

personally i'm holding out for a major update that will never come,
I got some fun, now I'm done.
HeOfManyGames Apr 13, 2023 @ 2:09pm 
As others said, I'm guessing OP is confusing invisible walls with the car's physics bugging out. All I can say is since the last 2 updates, I've been having 90% less issues like that compared to when I bought the game years ago.

Also you can mitigate/help to avoid the issues by packing things intelligently, not overloading storage areas and making sure items aren't clipping through the car's bodywork or into each other.

The game has so many positive reviews because its quirkiness , freedom and highly interactive fully physics based gameplay is fantastically entertaining and novel for such a low priced game.

OP if you've not played it yet, try it out; definitely worth the shot to at least see how you find it. Also Le-dede said, a good CPU as well as other main specs will make a difference; if your or your mate's rig is on the older or more budget side, that does increase the likelihood of physics issues.
Shun Apr 13, 2023 @ 2:12pm 
There's rocks carefully put in the middle of the way to make sure you hit them and totally wreck your car at 180 km/h whenever you don't pay attention to the road. But i don't remember invisible walls.
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stouf Apr 13, 2023 @ 2:22pm 
Originally posted by ShunnedRaven:
There's rocks carefully put in the middle of the way to make sure you hit them and totally wreck your car at 180 km/h whenever you don't pay attention to the road. But i don't remember invisible walls.

when i say "invisible wall" i mean, nothing on the road, car running at 120 and suddently... BAM, and ofc wasnt one of the big or small rocks, so maybe was a "invisible rock", i ll tell to my friend to try the tips of preston, maybe the issue was from this.
Partydonut214 Apr 13, 2023 @ 4:25pm 
Originally posted by stouf:
Originally posted by ShunnedRaven:
There's rocks carefully put in the middle of the way to make sure you hit them and totally wreck your car at 180 km/h whenever you don't pay attention to the road. But i don't remember invisible walls.

when i say "invisible wall" i mean, nothing on the road, car running at 120 and suddently... BAM, and ofc wasnt one of the big or small rocks, so maybe was a "invisible rock", i ll tell to my friend to try the tips of preston, maybe the issue was from this.
Yeah, it is probably your PC not rendering the placement of the rock fast enough, I have had some times where I was speeding [140 km?] next to the road and a Boulder Popped up right in front of my car and I rammed it full speed.
The only World Based issue I have come across is Landscape Tearing, where sometimes a great void opens up, I was circling a Mini-Gas Station trying to escape a zombie, when I hit something and the zombie vanished, I got out of my car to find that the front wheels were hanging into the void, and the bumper was holding onto the other side of the terrain. With the Parking Break Off, I pushed the car back up to land and accidentally sending it straight down the hill at a speed I wasn't able to catch.
Other than the strange Terrain Bugs sometimes caused by Loading a Save (Wells are Buried) the extremely weird physics are funny.
Just yesterday, I learned that you can balance a Barrel on the new Leather Basket w/ Lid, and put it in your inventory.
Sighman Apr 13, 2023 @ 6:03pm 
Originally posted by stouf:
Originally posted by ShunnedRaven:
There's rocks carefully put in the middle of the way to make sure you hit them and totally wreck your car at 180 km/h whenever you don't pay attention to the road. But i don't remember invisible walls.

when i say "invisible wall" i mean, nothing on the road, car running at 120 and suddently... BAM, and ofc wasnt one of the big or small rocks, so maybe was a "invisible rock", i ll tell to my friend to try the tips of preston, maybe the issue was from this.

There are joins in the road. When I'm dragging a small trailer behind a large truck, the back of the trailer drags along the ground and every time there's an invisible join it flies into the air.

Could be something similar?
Vodka Apr 13, 2023 @ 10:54pm 
is your friend hitting every rock possible lmao
mahashma Apr 14, 2023 @ 1:19am 
Originally posted by stouf:
when i say "invisible wall" i mean, nothing on the road, car running at 120 and suddently... BAM

Are you driving a Dacia by any chance? They're notorious for having an... interesting hitbox that interacts badly with the edge of the road. I'm guessing everything is fine, he drifts off the road a bit then nek minnit you're in the Bulgarian Space Program, am I right?

Always make sure your tires are in the best condition: take them off the rims and use the spray bottle on them - every 4 squirts will recover 1 level of condition. Use the cleanest rims you can - you can scrub them with a wire brush then use a spray bottle or sponge to shine them. Switch to whitewall tires for a little extra ground clearance. Try to stay fully on the road. And try different cars, some handle a lot differently to others.
Caturix Apr 14, 2023 @ 5:53am 
Ive never seen an invisible wall in this game. (pun intendet) The god of videogame physics sometimes gets mad at you in this game, but mostly it is working as it should. You will gain some experience on how to load the cars and avoid items collide. And since you can physic-lock the interior of a car things are much more relaxed. So if you are interested in this game, go ahead and get it!
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