Let's play Game Designer

I'm already pretty satisfied with the driving side of things in AC, so I voted for false starts as I think race features are whats missing the most as of now. So many great things to come though! And nice initiative btw

 

sorry, I was hoping you read my edit in time.. it looks like you didn't.
It was my mistake.. sorry again.

 

Brake temps, no doubts it's something needed in a simulator.

 

The "sim" features in the list are interesting but for the next update, I would go for one of the "game" features (starts, custom champs, pitstop strategy, timed race). I've chosen pitstop strategy.

 

The fact that VR leads over most of the other things in this list gives me cancer.

 

VR support for me. I'm waiting with ordering a Rift (or Vive) until AC supports it (and if my wallet allows it at that point)! It was just too good in the DK2.

Also: online lap time stats / world records. Like RSR LiveTiming, but then implemented for everyone in the game.

 

kunos would probably end up adding brake temps (a bit delicate but if implemented properly is a homerun) and engine stall/false start

Someone forgot about Punctures i would add if possible, i think i read it in the first 2 pages or so, some kind of more "advanced" damage but it can waits until next year's "lets play game designer" poll

 

You could have made the poll like a us voting machine. Just set vr votes to brake fade it has worked great in their elections and you always get the results you intended.

 

RSR implemented DK2 support some months ago

 

deer god
after eleven pages of pure game design discussion at its best, I came to two conclusions:

one, most of you don't know the difference between a racing game and a racing simulator and never stepped out of your comfort zone of racing against the AI and joined a multiplayer racing league of any simulator to know what's really important and what's just a gimmick. or you want what's just best for you and not for the sim.

two, stephano can try to go full Ian Bell with the ban hammer but he's way more open and a good community listener if you know how to communicate properly with a dev. so good try, lord kunos, but you'll never be that dev. this thread is the proof.

I voted time based races because it's an important feature for multiplayer leagues. next I would vote false starts/engine stall for the same reason.

next we have brake temp simulation and steer ratio/brake pressure setup adjustments. these two are important to increase the simulation and realism level of AC... as a simulator.

not sure what exactly would be a pit strategy. but we need a good interface to make pit changes before and when entering the pits without taking our hands out of the wheel and quick menu is already a thing for the future update, right?

VR support... Oculus just delivered the first batch of the Rift last week. Vive is still coming and maybe we'll get Sony VR on PC, who knows. can we just give Kunos some time to focus on other more urgent areas of the game while the dust of VR still settles? come on. a lot of sim racers has triple screens setups anyway, some still need to upgrade their VGAs to run a VR and some can't even run the game in its current state with full graphics.

I won't even comment about sparks/flashing lights... and as for custom championships, join a multiplayer league! there're aliens out there, but you'll find people with the same pace as you on the track. and you'll race against your worst adversary: yourself. learn to manage pressure, to be consistent, to physically endure a 45 min race while committing less and less mistakes. it's another level of racing. it's what simulation is supposed to be.

my message to Kunos is, you guys are doing an amazing job. the console release might be asking to tailor the game to appeal to a broader audience. but don't. but don't try to please everyone because it's just not possible, especially with limited resources and time. find your own tune. talk and listen more to racing communities, see what they need and what AC is missing for them to embrace the sim as the main platform and not a just for fun choice.

sorry for the wall of text. hope it help to shed some light to everyone.

 

I know, but I meant the RSR stuff separately. Currently the DK2 doesn't work in AC for me anymore as I'm on Windows 10 and the new SDK's aren't supported. It doesn't matter, because I'm waiting for the consumer version now anyway.

 

Nah nevermind ...

 

I picked VR for purely selfish reasons. Got one on order and would absolutely love the extra immersion in AC.

 

I read that this happened because pcars uses steamworks stuff for MP, and therefore the oculus store version can't play with that. Really bad situation to end up in, but yeah.

Either way oculus have been making a lot of dumb moves causing my uber hype to deflate to the point I'm willing to pay an extra £200 for a vive and let the hand controllers sit in their plastic wrap (assuming ac supports vive of course)

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My firts : position adjustment, orientation, FOV on all views by car with save

Thx ;-)

 

wow I am so out of the loop with this.. so much political bull**** going on.
I really hope Oculus doesn't have any anti-Steam policy in general or they can forget to see their stuff supported in AC.

 

Its because pcars uses the VAC system from steam, because oculus cant use valve anti-cheat it messes everything up.

That whole open vr thing was likely a better route to go for them . You wouldnt have an issue but sucks for them.

 

Besides engine stall/false starts (which is mostly about immersion), another maybe more important thing are rolling starts. Also pit strategy I guess. Its not really my thing, but it would really boost the game's popularity for organised league racing, especially since AC has alot of endurance/gt3 content. Rolling starts might also help abit with pub racing t1 chaos...

It sounds like quite hard thing to do tho - pace car, rules, order keeping...

 

I think it's not oculus policy it's the way pcars handles multiplayer. Elite Dangerous seems to be working OK.

 

But the steam version works with the CV1 / SDK1.3 since today (don't know anything about the oculus home pcars version regarding MP though)