Oh no. So disappointed with Dangerous Driving.

[(ADORA)ble 🌈👊]

So I got it on epic and refunded after 50 minutes (they have the same refund policy as Steam). It's just so... barebones! For all practical purposes there are two modes: Drive faster than the other guy/guys/timer and Road Rage. Now that's not a bad thing at all. The masterpiece known as Burnout 3: Takedown is basically the same thing but with one more brilliant mode.

So... the driving is fine. It's basically identical to Takedown. It's blindingly fast, rewards risky driving and has super fun crashes. They've added one small wrinkle to crashing in that if you press RB while crashed it looks behind you so you can line up aftertouch crashes. Very welcome addition.

I LOVE that they went with the classic BO3 UI!! Makes me feel right at home.

Graphics are... okay. They're not bad and they don't detract from the experience but there's no doubt they could be MUCH better in this day and age. Honestly at full speed they're not that much better than the GORGEOUS for it's time BO3 as everything is just a massive blur. But the medicore graphics aren't why I refunded.

The game has... no... soul. At all.

There's literally no music at all. There's no replay feature at all. Did you see an AI driver just get erased by a mac truck in a fraction of a second out of the corner of your eye? Wanna take a better look later? NOPE!! You missed it forever and ever. There's no Striker or anything similar. I LOVED that guy! He helped give the tracks a bit more life by pointing out features you might otherwise miss. Also, while I certainly didn't get to play all the tracks in 50 minutes, the 6 or 7 I did play all felt the same with no personality. Just a bunch of trees and highway.

Also the same bug that was present in Danger Zone 2 is present in this one. The user interface is a scrambled, overlapping mess making it very difficult to see what you have selected.

So sad. I don't understand why the quality standards have dropped SO far from Burnout 3/Revenge. Heck, even Burnout 2 had WAY more life than this game (never played BO1).

[StarBound]

Well, this leaves them with the exclusivity time to fix the things that are wrong and bring it to steam when the game is well and proper. I watched the ACG review and a few things stood out. With that fortnite money maybe they can make the game we wanted or the game they wanted to make?

[(ADORA)ble 🌈👊]

I'd like to hope they can add some things to this game but besides the promised MP, I think this is it. I don't think we'll see replays and due to the inclusion of Spotify I don't think they'll add native music.

[nTc (Ger)]

You're absolutely right. Like all other games from this studio, the game has no soul. No soul, almost no updates and very quickly dead again. You can integrate music via Spotify Premium :). Nevertheless there is also something good. The GFX is ok and the speed feeling is great. With a lot of updates there is also something to do. But as written above not much will happen.

[limelight1210]

Something just seems odd about the game, like your car is just stationary and on a swivel turning left and right while the background scrolls through. It doesnt look like the car makes contact with the pavement either. Either way i'll hold out for a steam release, if there is ever one. If not oh well nbd.

[dinkster]

i've got it, i know whats wrong, i know what its missing

its not a burnout game!

don't turn off just yet....

burnout was always in tight closed circuits, in cities, a few highways, but it had intersections and realistic city type road layouts.

this doesn't, it has long windy country and coastal highways and mountain passes.

i stuck on burnout 1 on an emulator, and the first race starts on a motorway, then into a city, couple of intersections, then onto a costal section then back on the highway.

this is actually closer to need for speed hot pursuit 2010,

basically its not a burnout game, its hot pursuit with some extra burnout modes.....

but... hot pursuit had one big thing going for it, aside form the official licences.... it had F**king wheel support!!

so pissed off especially when you check their Instagram account and they have a post from last summer thanking Logitech for a free g29 and a g920 so they would support the wheel in their upcoming game.

they have turned off comments on their blog, bit cowardly if you ask me....

and the game maxes out my 2080ti, seriously..., very poorly optimised, and it only took them 7 months to make it.... it definitely shows!

[(ADORA)ble 🌈👊]

Damn man, my 1080ti ran the game fine at 60 fps 4k.

[Mno]

Yeah it's pretty bad, lots of loading times, no custom key bindings, and overall it feels more like Burnout 0.1 than any spiritual successor. I can definitely see the Criterion influence though, only they would think to use Shift for braking drifting and Space for boosting.

Can't blame them for taking Epic's guaranteed revenue offer, if they hadn't this would've flopped hard. I'm surprised Epic made the offer in the first place though, kind of scraping the bottom of the barrel.

[(ADORA)ble 🌈👊]

Who knows how much they paid. Probably not much at all. I think this game will put Three Fields Ent under though which is sad. They said not enough people were buying it on Steam, well even fewer will buy it on Epic regardless of the split.

[Mno]

Originally posted by Usmovers_02:

Who knows how much they paid. Probably not much at all. I think this game will put Three Fields Ent under though which is sad. They said not enough people were buying it on Steam, well even fewer will buy it on Epic regardless of the split.

Well that's not really anyone's fault but their own. Their business model of "make 5 crappy games to fund one good one" is pretty bad and frankly, both Epic and Steam could do with less shovelware.

Though you're forgetting that Dangerous Driving is out on the consoles too.

[d0x360]

i wish the game had a camera height option. It becomes absurdly difficult to see quite often. It just needs to be slightly higher on the exterior view. I tried to find a way to change it but couldnt and since there is no forum on epic i have to post about it here on a different game!

Oh and because of the epic store they had to remove leaderboards and god knows what else. I bought it to support them...its the ONLY guy ill ever buy on Epics store but at the same time im thinking i should have just waited, especially with my camera issue

[(ADORA)ble 🌈👊]

Originally posted by d0x360:

i wish the game had a camera height option. It becomes absurdly difficult to see quite often. It just needs to be slightly higher on the exterior view. I tried to find a way to change it but couldnt and since there is no forum on epic i have to post about it here on a different game!

Oh and because of the epic store they had to remove leaderboards and god knows what else. I bought it to support them...its the ONLY guy ill ever buy on Epics store but at the same time im thinking i should have just waited, especially with my camera issue

Regrettably I did the same thing with their previous game. I bought it to support the developer. I instantly realized the game was severely lacking but didn't refund because I wanted them to succeed. Unfortunately just about all game breaking issues I had with this game is present in Dangerous Driving.

[d0x360]

Originally posted by Usmovers_02:

Originally posted by d0x360:

i wish the game had a camera height option. It becomes absurdly difficult to see quite often. It just needs to be slightly higher on the exterior view. I tried to find a way to change it but couldnt and since there is no forum on epic i have to post about it here on a different game!

Oh and because of the epic store they had to remove leaderboards and god knows what else. I bought it to support them...its the ONLY guy ill ever buy on Epics store but at the same time im thinking i should have just waited, especially with my camera issue

Regrettably I did the same thing with their previous game. I bought it to support the developer. I instantly realized the game was severely lacking but didn't refund because I wanted them to succeed. Unfortunately just about all game breaking issues I had with this game is present in Dangerous Driving.

I never had any issues with the previous games or the new one, at least not yet. My only real issue so far is (as ive said) the camera height being too low which makes it really hard to see especially as you get faster cars. Its ever so slightly lower than the camera height in Burnout 3 and i thought even that was too low but still very much playable...now its low enough that it impacts gameplay significantly and since they dont seem to check these forums, reply to tweets or anything and there is no place to contact them on epic there is really no good way to give them feedback.

It would be such a simple change...hell it could be a 3rd camera view and it only needs to be a bit higher. Personally if given the ability to move it i would set it to the default height of the 1st exterior follow camera in Forza Horizon 4 and FM7

[Topitoomay]

Yeah! Sadly... I hope Dangerous Driving could coming to Steam in next year.

[Don Vincenzoo 57]

it never come to steam ?
nothing else like burnout crash around the corner ?