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Discussion in 'Off Topic - All other stuff here' started by Archie, Mar 15, 2015.

  1. Archie

    Archie Eternal tinkerer

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    @Archie : Thanks for sharing this: I vomited... gerbe.gif
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    If stuff like that makes it into the Final release it will be the Biggest Fail of 2015 :roll

    All the Glitches and bugs you can find on youtube are pretty disturbing.
    Nick Moxley, Mar 16, 2015
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    value1 Nerd SimAxe Beta Tester SimTools Developer Gold Contributor

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    The continuous deferral of the release date of pCARS is pretty disturbing too. Why have they started to develop World of Speed in parallel. Now they are late with both…
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  5. Archie

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    It's a worry yes.

    It's interesting to read the views of both camps, AC and pCars fans. I play both but I do find I get the most "fun" from pCars. I'm a casual racer really, I enjoy the motion more than the specific physics of what a car "feels" like.

    I have never driven a Pagani R, or a Formula 1 car in real life, so in my brain, fanging around California, Azure or Nords in a car that my Sim replicates well is what does it for me.

    I have no idea if the Pagani R or F1 cars can go around that last corner at 200kmh the "way it did", and to be honest I don't care. If you get too hung up on Physics I fear it would take the fun out of it for me.

    I still smile like a little child when, screaming down the straight at Nords, I get the "bounce" in my front suspension as you go under the bridge. That just amazes me that something so mechanical and stiff can feel so springy.

    I really like AC, and for the purist, I can certainly see the attraction, but I do find myself going back to pCars for the sheer fun factor.
    Even older games are a joy with the motion sim now.
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    I skipped pCars and was looking forward to trying it, but that just keeps getting pushed further away.

    I can't compare them so @Archie do you not get realistic motion from the laser scanned AC Nords compared to Nords with pCars?
    noorbeast, Mar 16, 2015
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    @noorbeast - Yes, I love the nords on AC, don't get me wrong at all.

    But I simply don't like the cars they have in AC. It goes back to the fun vs simulation argument I guess.
    AC is by far the more "technically correct" Sim, but pCars has some awesome 'off-the-wall" cars that are just fantastic to fang around tracks with lots of bumps and dips. One of my fave cars is the Zakspeed Group 5 Capri, and to bang this monster of a car (think a GT3 car that can drift) and you get the general idea. It's just more "fun"

    pCars has Bathurst and other world tracks that are also excellent, and with such a choice of cars, I find I fire up pCars way more than AC now.

    Zakspeed Group 5 Capri.
    d-and-w-zakspeed-capri-flames.jpg
    Archie, Mar 17, 2015
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    Thanks @Archie, I am genuinely interested in how the motion compares, as I have not tried pCars yet.

    I tried 2 different AC Bathurst mod tracks, one is a bit wide, one is a bit bumpy, but both are fun, so get where you are coming from there, it is a classic track.

    I have had lots of interesting cars in my time, everything from a Mustang to a Purvis Eureka, the one I do regret selling was a V6 Capri. It was pale blue with the black stripe, lowered, rolled guards to fit the mags and a bluprinted motor with some head work, solid lifters, lightened flywheel and external mods like carby and extractors. It revved like nothing else in those good old days and went like a bat outa hell. So I too have a soft spot for the Capri.
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    It has to be UK version though... The Australian Capri was awful.

    Capri was my second car. First being a Vauxhall Chevette (Holden Gemini)
    The fact that the bonnet on a capri arrived at your destination 40 seconds before you was the thing I liked!! :p
    I had the 2.0S "twin stripe"
    This and the Opel Manta were the "Holden vs Ford" of my day.

    Here is the Capri I had (not mine, but same model)
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    And this was the Opel Manta (GT/E)

    [​IMG]
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    This is the Manta of my days:
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    What's missing is the fox tail on the antenna :p
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