1.2 released !!

I wrote one for my android tab, you press a button and it writes italian bad words in a label.. it's genius! You should buy it... too bad I won't sell it.

 

yeah, too bad stingy cat.

 

If you press the buttons it unlocks night racing and rain, night racing is the podium/calendar

Placebo effect confirmed

 

1.2.4 seems to be an update which leaves AC in a good state till 1.3 comes along.

 

Not to criticize, but.. i think 1.2.4 it's a build for a complete official game. In few words, it was not a complete, stable game before at 1.0 state.
Just now they should release it officially. It was right if the game was released now as 1.0, and this is my personal point of view.
If you tell me they have to release because of cost and money it's another problem, but don't tell me it's a complete product to be relased, it was not good as now, which is made it early access game yet at 1.0 build.

It's good to have constant support after a game buy, but, this is wrong approach overall, and to me, it's changing entire videogames world. It is bad, because at this time there is no more totally stable/complete release of games as before. In the past you got just hotfix, but game was overall complete.
I'm enjoying the game pretty well now, so no matter about the quality or future quality. But it was sold an "incomplete" game (with features stated but not implemented or working well) and it was not correct for the customers. I have ac from TP and i know what expect, but it was not a good behavior for who buy a game and find it not really complete as a sim; same story with project cars.

 

There is? I only know "button mashing" from fighting-games, meaning wildly pushing the buttons, instead of using specific moves/attacks and that thoughful, of course.
Its a sign of quality for a BEU if it doesn't lead to success against a skilled player. A prominent example is Eddie from the Tekken-series.

BTW: They could implement a fighting-game in racing games, so you can beat up wreckers online. In the NHL games you could beat up people, too afterall.

 

we're don't get hotfixes though, we get substantial improvements. i'd much rather have a sim evolve over time (growing pains included) than released in a feature complete, polished state with only the occasional 'fixes'.

i separate sims from traditonal video games in that sense; i like the model of releasing a platform & supporting it for years over the forza/GT approach of "this is what you get (content excluded) for the next 2-3 years." imo AC, pCARS, rf2 all 'released' months before they shouldve. all 3 are in a different place now & eg i would say pCARS is only just now release-ready. but i didnt mind having access to these sims before they got to that point (i voluntarily chose it in all 3 cases, as there was plenty of warning pCARS wasn't release-ready at launch) & im looking forward to their continued development over the next year/years.

 

Can one of the Kunos guys please explain to me why I can join a server when the cars are on the grid, wait 30 seconds for the race to start, and yet not be allowed to race? I can't change gear when the lights go green, and I can't even escape to the pits!! I have to leave the server!

 

I have done a very good load of AI races now, set at around 90-94% AI, and with most car classes I once again feel that I want to voice how good the overall experience with the new AI is. It is not perfect, but I indeed would say it is solid enough, with further room for tuning it even more.

This and the fixed-again braking/ABS thing makes 1.2.4 a very very good update experience, and has put AC to the next level.

I know I have said that before, twice or three times, but since I made quite some angry comments months ago about the AI, I feel I want to reiterate once again how of that anger nothing has remained.

Its just the very fast cars, exotic cars, formula mod cars, that often struggle with their reaction times and thus say hello to my rear bumpers, but these are cars that I mostly avoid to drive anyway, since I suck with them, so I do not see those deficits as decisive for me personally.

Thanks once again, and keep up the good work!

 

I have to agree, I was only thinking the other day how AC is now what I would call 1.0 since 1.2.x (aside from the huge change in how we set up our FFB, I think that was handled very badly, I know the placebo thing is supposed to be a joke but it is a little bit of an insult to me too). There are still some things that need polishing up that you need to really run an community app for, like chat for example, but I would find that acceptable for a 1.0 release, with more patches promised. Things like proper car physics in MP (wheels off the ground), being able to finish qaul, were very small things that actually made the game look unfinished. I really appreciate these fixes. Plus the useful things like ability to limit tyres and server side weather, lock a session etc, all relativity minor but really add to the feeling of a 1.0 sim/game.