Should I buy this OR BeamNG.drive ?

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So I can either buy this game for 40 bucks or I could buy BeamNG.drive for half the price and with better physics but less content. I just don't see how this game is worth 20 bucks more than BeamNG.drive.

Has anyone played both and can say which one they prefer and why?

[Sam223]

BeamNG is single player only. Buy it for realistic crashes,mod capabilities.
Wreckfest shines in multiplayer (single player is crappy imo). Crashes are still decent,racing against real drivers is also great.

Buy both as they are not really competing yet. If beamNG gets big server mutiplayer buy that.

P.s Wreckfest is cheaper here http://nextcargame.com/pre-order/

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Originally posted by UK}Sam223:

BeamNG is single player only. Buy it for realistic crashes,mod capabilities.
Wreckfest shines in multiplayer (single player is crappy imo). Crashes are still decent,racing against real drivers is also great.

Buy both as they are not really competing yet. If beamNG gets big server mutiplayer buy that.

P.s Wreckfest is cheaper here http://nextcargame.com/pre-order/

Oh, it really is cheaper there. I thought you could only buy it over Steam now. Thanks!

So about the multiplayer: Wreckfest has multiplayer but there are barely any players for it. So can you even play multiplayer properly with that many people?

[Technopath]

To be entirely fair, there are times where you won't find a server you'd want/could join that has a reasonable amount of players (4<). There are community events made by the core-fans, though. Not sure if that's up to your liking.

[sponska]

Originally posted by Technopath:

To be entirely fair, there are times where you won't find a server you'd want/could join that has a reasonable amount of players (4<). There are community events made by the core-fans, though. Not sure if that's up to your liking.

I just want to have something to play in this game and not just a crappy singleplayer

[NachoBroRyan]

Wreckfest has little singleplayer to speak of right now besides random pickup races with the AI.

[Sam223]

Originally posted by Sponska:

I just want to have something to play in this game and not just a crappy singleplayer

Youll find varying amounts of players online throughout the day depending on the age of the current build.
Always busy after an update which happens every 3-5 ish months.

[TrainswithNick]

I can't compare the two directly as I don't own Beam, but I do not regret my decision to purchase Wreckfest at all. Looking at videos though, (I watched both a lot before choosing,) they offer vastly differing game styles. Wreckfest offers simulated multiplayer banger racing, the chance to compete in car gladiators against people all over the globe. I find that from 8pm GMT there is always at least one busy server here in Europe and if everyone who complained about dead servers actually headed online to compete, you'd struggle to find a server with a free slot lol. Kind of a self fulfilling prophesy that one.
BeamNG may have more realistic physics, but it doesn't offer the banger racing carnage I wanted ultimately, preferring to go for the terrain challenge type play of spintyres and more crucially for me, it's a solo experience, rather than a scoial one.
To have a better chance of answering which game would suit you best, we'd need to know what features are important to you.

[Technopath]

Originally posted by Sponska:

Originally posted by Technopath:

To be entirely fair, there are times where you won't find a server you'd want/could join that has a reasonable amount of players (4<). There are community events made by the core-fans, though. Not sure if that's up to your liking.

I just want to have something to play in this game and not just a crappy singleplayer

BeamNG is purely singleplayer focused. If you're only into multiplayer, NCG is the game for you.

[Der_Scanner]

My last words to this:

I own both.

Wreckefst is a very destructional racing game with hard environment influence.
You have to race to get more money to buy better cars to gete better parts.
Ok, in this state, you have to race 5-6 times and have the best parts on American 1.
The KI isn´t the best but it´s in development. Way better than any KI on NGI.
Graphical and technically WF has the better recommends.
Sounds are egual, both are not really eargasmic, but you can help you out with mods.
The funniest part is the Wreckfest 2.0-Demo.
This is most fun for my 6 years son. Driving through until your car is a wrecked ball.


NGI has a really more realistic damage system but not the same physic system.
NGI is actual more Demo and more "Look what it can be" than "Look what it be!".
NGI has mods to play in multiplayer in classic bowl-system or you can race well.
This won´t be work in vanilla but the mod-scene can help you there.

NGI is more a crash-simulator, you can do a lot of hard bangs again obstacle and other cars.
You choose what obstacle or car you want, place it and race (again) it.

All in all:

WF is more fun and multiplayer, no high end machine needed

NGI is more realistic and less MP, needed a good machine for nice graphic.

I drive with both but you have to decide what you are prefering.

[Technopath]

Why are you calling it "NGI", though? It's BeamN(ext)G(eneration).

[Vin Petrol]

I bought BeamNG drive last week but had to refund
I have spent a lot of money getting my console to play wreckfest smoothly, BeamNG drive requires a better console again, I'm back to watching other people vids on youtube haha, I love the game!

Wreckfest is very fun and action packed with multiplayer
BeamNG is currently an impressive more advanced damage simulator.

[SpaceFace]

For one, there is no comparing the two games in terms of gameplay. I own both games and have had far more fun playing Wreckfest due to the multiplayer aspect. In terms of Physics, BeamNG is cool and your not likely to see this level of damage phyics and envirmental phyics in any other automotive game. There is NO racing in BeamNG really, a few scenariosyou can drive various vehicles through and try to beat your own time but thats about it. You can add AI vehicles, and set the AI to flee or follow some random path, but at this point the AI is horrible. Also, adding more than 2 cars causes my system to slow down severely, but I only have gtx 670 and a 3570k for a cpu. I would actually recommend buying both at half price if your strapped for cash, Wreckfest should be on sale again soon.

I have put about 1200 hours into Wreckfest and under 10 into BeamNG if that tells you anything.

[Genuinely stupid]

BeamNG, all the way. Wreckfest has gone to hell. The game hasn't been really updated in years, and they just recently added modding support which basically means they're ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ done with the game. BeamNG is receiving updates very frequently and has thousands of maps/scenarios released for it. True, it isn't multiplayer, but IMO it's a hell of a lot better than Wreckfest which will only get more decrepit as time goes on.

[Purple44]

Originally posted by ✩Arc:

BeamNG, all the way. Wreckfest has gone to hell. The game hasn't been really updated in years, and they just recently added modding support which basically means they're ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ done with the game. BeamNG is receiving updates very frequently and has thousands of maps/scenarios released for it. True, it isn't multiplayer, but IMO it's a hell of a lot better than Wreckfest which will only get more decrepit as time goes on.

OH, does that mean the BeamNG Devs are done with developing BeamNG too, since BeamNG has mod support??

http://www.beamng-mods.com/

Mod support for Next Car Game\Wreckfest was promise back in Oct 2013. And has been talk about by the Devs in Bugbear forum over the last couple years. Bugbear has now deliver on their promise and now I can make custom tracks again. :)

Next Car Game Interview: Destruction Engine, Next Gen Development And Modding[gamingbolt.com]

"We have decided to support modding as we recognize it’s a large part of why FlatOut is still known and played today. How exactly that’s going to work we don’t know yet, but the goal is to have user-created tracks and cars available, though Steam Workshop or otherwise."

You can go to Steam Workshop and tryout my new GoKart track >> http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=690281205&searchtext=

[Gerty]

"Hasn't been updated in years" except every month since november 2015