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pCARS

Daveroo said:
is Pcars as simulation/game for offline? or is it a online thing?....looks nice
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What is pCARS?
Project CARS is the first title in the WMD (World of Mass Development) Portal. It's a game in development with daily updates, improvements, bug fixes, enhancements and new content additions by the SMS developers. When you have signed up to WMD and bought a Tool Pack, you can participate in this development by downloading game builds, testing the game and reporting bugs, proposing changes or additions and voting for content, development direction and other things. You get to interact with the SMS developers in the WMD forums directly, which means better and faster bug finding and fixing in the game and better implementation of what you want in the game.

What is expected from you?
First of all, you'll be testing the game and providing feedback to the devs in the pCARS forums. Since the game is in development and there will always be things that will be missing or not working correctly, feedback needs to be constructive and explicit. Stating that something doesn't work or that you don't like it will not help the development of the game unless you state why you don't like it or in what way it doesn't work.
A second part of your 'job' is to make sure that the game is shown properly and promoted to the 'outside world', i.e. on the internet outside the forums. That means that you can tell everyone about the project and encourage them to join, and when promoting the game through videos or screenshots you should make sure that you stress the good sides and not what needs fixing or what is absent. When making pictures or videos of problems with the game, post them only on the WMD forums or use links that are 'private'.

Installation/removal
The game comes with an installer that will automatically remove any previous builds, and it will ask to reset your profile in case of important updates. The game should make two desktop shortcuts, one for the DX9 version of the game and one for the DX11 version. If this does not happen, you can make the shortcuts yourself from the pcars.exe file in the main pCARS installation folder. The DX11 version is simply a shortcut to the same file with ' -dx11' added to the Target Path of the shortcut.

http://forum.wmdportal.com/showthread.php?2759-Project-CARS-QuickStart-ReadMe


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I thought you would skip early releases of race sims..? :icon_lol:

How does it compare to GTR2/Evo or the NFS:Shift series?
 
How about if I plead insanity Ferry?
It seemed like a good idea at the time and to be honest, I like the concept, the developers actually implement genuine suggestions from the paid up members.
Light years ahead of GTR/Evo and similar to NFS2 [without the dumb voiceovers] in appearance, but with far more options [similar to rFactor] for chassis, suspension, brakes etc tuning.
I like the handling of most cars, they are very progressive and almost as real as a full size vehicle, within reason of course.
The fact that I can actually feel the car becoming twitchy and being able to catch it does it for me.
At present it does become a frame hog with a decent grid, but it is early days and I believe that is not an ongoing problem.
I like good scenery and this is better than anything I've come across so far, and most of it is still under construction.
And yes stitz, AI is there, not very friendly and rather feral at times [AI Rage?] but again, early days.

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***Ah! Of course, that was DiRT3!
Well, considering it was purchased through a retail outlet in supposedly finished form I rest my case.
At least pCARS is an unashamed 'pre Alpha beta' [or near enough] and I get weekly 'new builds' and daily [if available] 'patches'.
 
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