how newcomer friendly is this?

[Exie]

I tried FO2 with 0 nostalgia and I wasn’t enjoying the first cup, kept coming 4th-6th every time I played each race and didn’t even unlock anything in the Grand Prix after repeatedly trying…so I just assumed it was grind based rng mixed with level your car stats until ♥♥♥♥ makes a noticeable difference.

also ngl the bias towards nostalgia really just makes this series sound unwelcoming to people who’ve never played the previous ones, look idgaf about the soundtrack problem I just want a decent racing arcade game aside from Mario kart but I swear the community seems to be leaning one sided to previous game 🫠

[dem max]

If you've always played racing games badly it doesn't mean the game is bad, fo2 and fo:uc are pretty easy games if you've ever played any other racing games

[Shiro♌]

That's a difficult question to answer, especially without any knowledge about your previous experiences with racing simulators.
To me, and as someone who's been playing Need for Speeds, RC Cars, and other racing videogames during my childhood, later on including this FlatOut, I have found the game to be really very straightforward and simple, mainly due to the option of being capable of taking the AI player out and ensuring myself the victory of the cup if being a few points ahead.

I do play with the mod to increase the difficulty of AI, and I'm still having the time to joke around and try to get as many points for crashes and other interactions with the opponents' cars, just so I can get some extra credits.

The moment you start focusing on proper handling, so to actually slow down before taking turns, proper boost management to get most out of it, you will find yourself winning cups in no time, even without any prior experiences to the racing simulators, and that's especially gonna be the case with the vanilla version of the game, so with the default difficulty of AI opponents.
Generally speaking, figuring out who's typically the best and making sure to stop their cars for a while (not necessarily outright crashing their car, but just making them slide and lose attitude) and focusing to win the race becomes an easy method to win the cups.

To me, the game is very newbie friendly. It becomes all the easier once you buy your prefered cars and upgrade them to the max, i.e. with Venom, Grinder, Lentus, Insetta, and Road King.
Those cars are so fast with the proper upgrades that the opponents won't be able to keep up in most cases, since the nitro upgrades do push the car past the limits of its class, or so I'd say.

[Exie]

maybe i mistreated the 2nd game

[Exie]

already smashed a few cars and caused a couple KOs in the first two cups, not even struggling coming top 3 (focused on speed upgrades) ♥♥♥♥ yeah this is fun

[Exie]

loving derby i just rear ended the scene hair girl and came second

[IIIDemian]

This game is cool man

[Exie]

i uninstalled after trying to place 1st on water canal derby racing and coming 5th every time i attempted to beat the cup, there goes 6hrs of my life i wont get back.

[dem max]

Originally posted by Exie:

i uninstalled after trying to place 1st on water canal derby racing and coming 5th every time i attempted to beat the cup, there goes 6hrs of my life i wont get back.

u can install it again and download this mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3411715749&searchtext=