Is this game even worth buying on sale?

[Twink Rambo]

I loved TDU and TDU2. But seeing the poor reviews makes me run away.

[kf543]

It's certainly not a TDU 1 or 2. It's not a Forza Horizon.
Both maps (Hong Kong Island and the small Ibiza town map) look good, the driving physics is fine, but the game is not optimized, races are not good, the AI is not good, the multiplayer is broken, the game is not an MMO it can only handle up to 8 players in one session while at most you will see two or three and up to one player in a race. For an MMO only up to 280 players are concurrently online, but you won't see them anyway. The game economics is broken, one would have to grind for days to buy more than a few cars. You cannot sell cars. Compared to the current status of Asseto Corsa Evo, Solar Crown is much better, but Solar Crown fails to live up it's brand name, and is in an unfinished state. And who knows if the mentioned features like player houses and casino will come, (if so, and when).
Solar Crown is always online, (no offline-mode, no single player), the save game stored on Nacon server, and recently the introduced a AntiCheat from a questionable country: Armenian.

[REMi]

No, full of problems, actually we can't even play it

[fwyflyer]

Originally posted by ~MOTG~ Im•That•Guy:

no it's not worth buying because now it even has an AI Powered Kernel Level Anti-Cheat called SARD (which they do not disclose on their store page)

there is alot of misleading information about this game so i'd advise you to trust the reviews because they're there for a reason

since this game's release this game has been going downhill (and the speed of that decline is increasing with every patch they put out)

so yeah stay away from this game and play other games like Car X Street or FH5 or Motorfest

So, how does the Anti-Cheat affect a gaming computer? I am assuming it is used to see what processes are running during a race. How do you forsee it being used against your average gamer?

I reviewed the faq for SARD Anti-cheat at https://www.sard.ac/faq. I didn't see anything in there to give grave cause for concern. Am I missing something because you seem really put off by it.

I guess what I am saying is if it stops the cheating or significantly slows the cheating, I am all for it.

[SirHawk]

Because he's just doing blatant fearmongering, that's all. Unless there's an exploit of Remote Code Execution without any user input, having a kernel level anti cheat is a complete whatever.

[SirHawk]

A video of a random clickbait enjoyer, that only follows the noise, what a video. Go find somebody, that actually does homework, instead of catering to a thesis.

[SirHawk]

I still steer people away from the game, but based on FACTS and not imagination and straight out lies. Calling a kernel level AC a spyware is strictly hilarious, given how just the system you run provide absolutely everything you do to the MS and USA agencies.

You call out to emotions and try ignite a fear towards the kernel level AC by never even trying to analyze what actually is it doing. It's just "boohoo, AC runs at system privileges, install it and you're doooooomed" - that's literally fearmongering and your only source is a random dumbass. Idk wtf you try to claim here.

Data miner, my god, this claim is so ridiculous, given how just the Steam itself collect unimaginable amount of data about you. You're free to run a traffic scanning on the AV, we'll all thank you dearly. If you even manage to catch anything out of ordinary, that is.

At the end of the day, it's people's responsibility to not spread misinforming BS, because those line up with one's world view and world view alone.

[Maskerader]

Originally posted by kf543:

recently the introduced a AntiCheat from a questionable country: Armenian.

If Nacon/KT use it, shouldn't it satisfy EU laws regardless of where anti-cheat developer is located?

[SirHawk]

Training an AV using an AI model is the staple for solid years already. It does not run AI actively and you must be dumb to trully believe that. Do you have the slightest idea how horribly heavy any background AI is when active? Not even NPU would save performance, if the AV ran with AI.

But then again, you only do fearmongering, so I'm not expecting much.

[fwyflyer]

I think somebody "...Doth protesteth too much."

[Jon the VGNerd]

Originally posted by Twink Rambo:

I loved TDU and TDU2. But seeing the poor reviews makes me run away.

If it makes you happy, you should give TXR a try on Steam. Does not require constant internet connection and you don't have to wait for players to join up for races. And local multiplayer is available as well.

[Occasional Gamer]

Originally posted by Twink Rambo:

I loved TDU and TDU2. But seeing the poor reviews makes me run away.

I think you know the answer... unless you want to pay for a massive disappointment and like some questionable anti-cheat software on your pc, go ahead and buy it. Otherwise, listen to your own words and run.

[kf543]

Originally posted by Maskerader:

Originally posted by kf543:

recently the introduced a AntiCheat from a questionable country: Armenian.

If Nacon/KT use it, shouldn't it satisfy EU laws regardless of where anti-cheat developer is located?

KT Racing added the anti-cheat months after the release, added a new software from a small startup from an asian russian influenced country.
Maybe I don't want to run such a software installed automatically months after I bought the game?

[JonBBYG]

Originally posted by Twink Rambo:

I loved TDU and TDU2. But seeing the poor reviews makes me run away.

If you have the rig to enjoy it (my pc meets the recommended requirements and still I cannot get a fluid 60fps at 1080p on the lowest settings), then yes, you will get a solid 50-60 hours of single player campaign/progression. Hong Kong island is nice and the driving is really fun. If your pc is anything around or below the recommended (not minimum), then avoid.

[Gzen]

I love the game, but then again, I only play casually, and I'm old lol. If you're running a good PC it's okay, you want a nice CPU (ryzen 5600 has occasional stutter) and GPU (RTX 4060 only gets 50 FPS at 1080p medium).

The strength of this game is the size of the map. You can drive for a looong time.

[Crystal Pink 🦋🦄]

I haven't been able to play for 4 days because the game won't let me in, go and grab another game, this one is falling apart and the worst thing is that they have no idea how to fix it.