How's the driving?

[sintri]

Missed the demo, shame it's no longer still up, which actually reminded me of the biggest concern with driving games. What would you say the driving feels most similar to, cause now I'm recalling TDU2 which wasn't great iirc.

[Gaunter Vapes]

Think cross between Grid Legends and Project Cars 3. It's nice, it's Simcade. You have to know how to drive in RL to get the best times. Like braking before a corner, not during and accelerating at the apex point. You have to think about the race line and using handbrake for drifting on tight turns and mastering the throttle control during. With assists off, it's more sim than Grid legends, but more arcade than Projects Cars 3. I'm assuming assists off with both those games. They have found a nice balance, I liked it.

One more thing, don't listen to peeps who say the physics sucks. You just have to know a bit more about driving than the average arcade racer. Cars flipping, not getting around corners = not knowing how to drive/making mistakes. Like in RL, you can't just enter a corner at high speed then slam on the brakes and expect to power slide around it. With no ABS you lock up, slide and sometimes spin. Basically lose control and potentially flip. The same in Solar Crown.

For reference point, I have played The Crew and The Crew 2, Project Cars 3, Forza Horizon 4, Wreckfest, Dirt 2, Grid Legends, Iracing, Race Room, Automobilista 2 and others. Even with my G27 not really working like it should in the demo, I had a blast. You're punished for hitting things. It's less forgiving than other open world competitors. It's a true street/off road racer that requires your driving skill. You can see KT's rally experience influence in track design. With super tight corners, and race lines with difficult to master street circuits, some are like urban point to point rally tracks. It was great, I loved it.

If you want to career through guardrails you can, but you lose time. Hitting lampposts and bus stops, no problem, but you lose more time. In general, you will lose control more easily, slide out more easily, flip your car more easily than other arcade racers, but when you nail it! Ah, the satisfaction. True Simcade. I liked it.

[sintri]

Guess I missed out on a large block of Codemasters outside of Dirt.
I'm generally fine with most things apparently, Forza Motorsport/Horizon, Grand Turismo, Project Gotham, Dirt, hell even GTA was workable.
The main ones I've found really unnatural was Crew series, and F1 series.

Penalized for walls and objects isn't bad, Horizon's taken bit too much liberties with just demolishing things with very little penalty (though the lighter your car the worse off it is to the point where cars under 1000LBs actually get screwed if you hit any obstacles). Mainly just checking if cars'll least behave like an actual car as opposed to a character running around the map modeled as a car, bit extreme example but ghost recon in arcade mode ended up feeling like it, and some other games to a certain extent.

[nigeldoyle3dkiwi]

Some of the cars very floaty and bouncy whereas the Audi RS AWD was very Forza Horizon like, hence the reason it was the car of choice for one the time trial challenge tasks.

[Occasional Gamer]

Terrible in my opinion, think of the worst floating uncontrollable cars in TDU2 and then some more. There seems to be no connection between the cars and the road. That's of course my opinion, but for me the terrible handling alone is more than enough reason not to buy this game. Like TDU2, there might be some cars that drive okay, but in 2024 I don't want to be limited to just a few good driving cars. On top of it the cars don't sound great either, making me feel very disconnected when driving. Immersion in this game was totally non existant for me. This game reminds me of Ridge Racer Unbounded, which sounded so cool, had so much promise, but was let down by terrible handling and physics.

[Maskerader]

Originally posted by Occasional Gamer:

Terrible in my opinion, think of the worst floating uncontrollable cars in TDU2

Which cars in TDU2 are so bad for you?

If there's something I don't have issues with in TDUSC it's car handling. The cars I drove the most were Alpine, Audi Q7 and Aston Martin DB11.

[chungdr8gon]

Originally posted by sintri:

Missed the demo, shame it's no longer still up, which actually reminded me of the biggest concern with driving games. What would you say the driving feels most similar to, cause now I'm recalling TDU2 which wasn't great iirc.

Its a mess,some cars tend to oversteer, especially at 1st gear, some can't even turn properly around corners, the controls regardless whether on a control pad or a steering wheel both feel just weird. The Nissan 370Z is supposed to be a 4WD vehicle IRL, but in this game, it doesn't reflect that in this game. The Fiat 500 Arbath is ridiculous at cornering, it tends to flip over quite often like as if its made out of card board. Hitting curbs, or any obstacles in fact, have a stupid effect of flipping cars aover especially the curbs, hitting obstacles because the poor car physics during corners, mean hitting a lot of walls, obstacles which just slows you down way too much, if it's AI controlled vehicles driving through them, they don't get penalised for driving through curbs around corners, or driving through obstacles such as sign boards, environmental destructible objects etc.

[Maskerader]

Originally posted by chungdr8gon:

The Nissan 370Z is supposed to be a 4WD vehicle IRL

No, it's RWD. You probably mistake it for Nissan GT-R which is AWD.

[4speed318]

driving physics are not good, just weird
force feedback on a wheel is terrible
no where near sim level, better then the crew 1&2
in some ways they tried to be more realistic then most arcade games
in the end they created something worse then NFS or Forza Horizon
have to wait and see if they get it dialed in before launch, it does have some potential

[sintri]

Well hopefully they bring back another demo, opinions seem all over the place, think alot of the opinion is it's quite a bit like TD2, so might try finding it again and see if it's as bad as I remembered.

[zargo_zore]

Everyone has their own opinions when it comes to driving games but personally I think it felt fantastic. It's that middle ground between sim racing and arcade where you get just the right amount of both imo. I'm different than most it seems though cause so many people love Horizon but I don't like the driving at all in the Horizon games. The cars feel nearly weightless and feel like they are floating on ice all the time while you are driving. I much prefer my cars to have gravity and weight like they do in The crew 2 for example. Solar crown is perfect for me cause its that special blend of both. It hits the sweet spot. IMO

[Maskerader]

Did people ever agree on physics in an arcade racing game? I even see people dislike Forza Horizon physics when the most seem to like it. So if it's anything less... refined, then you probably will hear all sorts of opinions, from "it's the best" to "it's the worst" and it's impossible to know if you, personally, will like it.

[leviofan]

better than nfs, worse than horizon 4, but fine overall

[4speed318]

Originally posted by Maskerader:

Did people ever agreed on physics in an arcade racing game? I even see people dislike Forza Horizon physics when the most seem to like it. So if it's anything less... refined, then you probably will hear all sorts of opinions, from "it's the best" to "it's the worst" and it's impossible to know if you, personally, will like it.

arcade physics can be both great and terrible at the same time
forza horizon is a perfect example,
it has GREAT physics for an open world game
and it has TERRIBLE physics for a racing game

opinions on arcade game driving should be limited to people with bipolar disorder

[MassholeDrummer]

It's simcade and pretty similar to TDU. Where it lacks though is the individuality of the cars. They feel too similar to eachother which ruins the fun of testing and buying new cars. Just like Forza Horizon and The Crew did