Nitro? Yes? No?

[Angelica]

Ok I was just going old school, I already own Flatout 2 but I recently bought the remaster Flatout 2 Ultimate Carnage since it was on sale. Even though it's only single player it's still fun and brought back some good memories. So playing it I forgot the cars had nitro (too much Wreckfest lol) and that makes it a totally different experience than Wreckfest 1 & 2. I like it because it added excitement and adrenaline to the races.
So what do yall think, would you like to see that in WF2, now of course the server owner would have the option to toggle it on or off so it wouldn't be forced on people. I think it would bring a new level of fun and excitement to the races. I think Wreckfest could use a bit of that, along with some more crazy tracks with bigger jumps and stuff, because the few tracks that do have cool jumps are fun as hell, but that's a whole other discussion. Anyhows so what do yall think, would you be down with nitro or no?

[Purple44]

From Wreckfest discord: https://discord.gg/ed8F57Wz

selo — 08/02/2024 1:17 PM
add nitro for the love of god

jannesBB — 08/02/2024 1:18 PM - Bugbear Dev
No.

[Angelica]

Well that's disappointing.

[Golden Grandpah]

EH, ERM, I say Please no nitro

[Angelica]

Originally posted by Golden Grandpah:

EH, ERM, I say Please no nitro:zedrawr:

Why? Like I said it's optional so if you don't want to race with nitro then don't.

[Freffo]

No nitro in this game please.

[Бабушка]

I think that nitro is the worst thing that happened to arcade racing games. It was cool as a pick-up bonus for top-down racing games (like Excessive Speed) and it was pretty cool for street-racing games... at first. But later it has become so overused that I find every game with it extremely boring and shallow.

I definitely had fun playing Flatout 2 and Ultimate Carnage back in the days but today I feel nothing about them and can't force myself to play them. On the other hand Wreckfest is such a fresh experience when you feel that you need to be 100 % concentrated from start to finish and show good, calculated driving.

I played Wreckfest on other account for a long time and after completing the campaign I just played one map Boulder Bank over and over again cause the driving itself is so satisfying. I had such experience only with pre-nitro NFS games like NFS 3 and Hometown map. As I said earlier first street-racing games with nitro like NFS Underground were fun and fresh but today I will choose something like NFS 3, 4, 5 without a dought and will never want to play Underground.

Today there is not enough good arcade racing games without nitro. There are Wreckest, Forza Horizon and Gravel (which aged not very well despite being pretty new). For me nitro in racing games is like cancer and I desperately want Wreckfest to stay away from it in order to give me pure and immersive racing experience and not become stale due to shallow gameplay.

[DavidWG]

Absolutely not! Being the most realistic arcade racer is the core of this series. Great physics, no cheap gimmicks = Wreckfest.

[Bobby Allison]

No

[Angelica]

I guess people don't understand what optional means. *sigh*

[Бабушка]

Originally posted by ANGEL HEART:

I guess people don't understand what optional means. *sigh*

I don’t think that it is possible to balance a racing game around optional nitro unless it it is realistic, very limited nitro which can’t be replenished.

[Kuula]

Originally posted by Purple44:

From Wreckfest discord: https://discord.gg/ed8F57Wz

selo — 08/02/2024 1:17 PM
add nitro for the love of god

jannesBB — 08/02/2024 1:18 PM - Bugbear Dev
No.

Sounds good.

[[SOS] KrisTrixX]

Nitro should have been in the games from day 0.
I can respect devs wanting top stay true to the sport, but not having it even as an option? It's a pretty absurd decision. As a high-risk high-reward mechanic, could be amazing.

For a game called Wreckfest, the game actually does a lot more things to promote normal racing than to promote wrecks.

IMHO, cutting this much on more optional arcade features are limiting this game potencial audience.

[Vin Petrol]

Definitely not Nitro in my opinion.
I would love for it to stay focused on old beat up cars racing and wrecking.
Only typical cars and nothing fictional this time is my desire.
I have no problem with having any crazy extra as an option, but it was hard in WF1 to get a realistic grid of cars without using mods, trucks with minis etc..

Realistic racing series mode and an anything goes carnage mode would please all.
Thanks

[Purple44]

One other issue having nitro in WF 2, what about leaderboards?

If race with nitro enabled, then any lap time would not count??

[Бабушка]

Originally posted by SOS KrisTrixX:

As a high-risk high-reward mechanic, could be amazing.

Nitro has never been a high-risk high-reward mechanic in racing games. It has always been obligatory: either you use nitro or you lose by a wide margin.