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Drive Club running on a PS5.
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Would you elaborate more? It's confusing specially since the game is 1st party.
The game used real car licenses via agreements with actual auto manufacturers. These licenses eventually expire and Sony no longer has the right to sell a game or profit off of them. In theory, they could work with the license holders to extend them, but at some point (especially with what is for all intents and purposes a dead game) it just doesn't make financial sense to do it.
I believe the car manufacturers set limits on how long the game could be sold Under a certain contract. Once they hit that limit Sony could have renogotiated but the game could have conceivably lost money depending on how many copies they were selling and how much the licensing cost.
Those are screen space reflections which have been around in games for a very long time. An example of their limitation can be seen in this screenshot:
With proper ray tracing, the car on the right would have it's undercarriage reflected in the road as it's driving over, but because these are screen space reflections, the reflection ends at the body of the car just past the decal on its side as the game's reflections are not "aware' of the underside of the car model, they can only reflect what is visible to the player. SSR is very good for what it needs to do in Driveclub though as you spend most of your time flying through scenes at very high speeds and can't spot the inaccuracy of the reflections.
If I bought a physical copy of this game, would it download the later updates during install or would I only be able to play it 1.0?
Or EA could have the studio make an arcade racer with unjustifiable microtransactions.
SSR tends to work pretty well in driving games because of the lack of mid-height view obstruction and the minimal ability to rapidly change the camera tilt. If you break those assumptions, all kinds of really obvious artifacts crop up:Those are screen space reflections which have been around in games for a very long time. An example of their limitation can be seen in this screenshot:
With proper ray tracing, the car on the right would have it's undercarriage reflected in the road as it's driving over, but because these are screen space reflections, the reflection ends at the body of the car just past the decal on its side as the game's reflections are not "aware' of the underside of the car model, they can only reflect what is visible to the player. SSR is very good for what it needs to do in Driveclub though as you spend most of your time flying through scenes at very high speeds and can't spot the inaccuracy of the reflections.
Plenty of first-person shooters started using SSR around last gen, but I was never entirely on-board with that: it always introduces a lot of visual jank. Like here in Destiny, you can see a weird outline of the lamp in the water, because the lamp is occluding the stuff that the water should be reflecting.
Or having the reflection of the sky in the water wipe in and out as you look up and down:
Isn't this exactly the same as it looks on a launch PS4? It's locked 30 fps without even ps4pro support.
This unfortunately means that if you are really interested in a racing game that uses real car licenses, be looking for sales around 4-5 years in, because that appears to be the industry standard for car licenses.
Yeah licensing sucks (music industry says hi)
I just remembered that recently there was a Forza game that was pulled iirc
Absolutely incredible game.
Replayed it after the servers went down. I really should have gone back and purchased all the DLC while I still had the chance.
I managed to grab a digital season pass code from gamestop.it a while ago so I got to play a few more series but some events are locked behind certain cars that you can't download anymore. For example you unlock the Lamborghini events but can't download the cars anymore (although they appear in the car select sceen as locked...). I'm guessing you'd just have to download a license to the car and not the actual model files.
Replayed it after the servers went down. I really should have gone back and purchased all the DLC while I still had the chance.
I managed to grab a digital season pass code from gamestop.it a while ago so I got to play a few more series but some events are locked behind certain cars that you can't download anymore. For example you unlock the Lamborghini events but can't download the cars anymore (although they appear in the car select sceen as locked...). I'm guessing you'd just have to download a license to the car and not the actual model files.
Does it have HDR?
I'm thinking about reinstalling it again. Already have the platinum but I'd love to try it out with my new TV
I'm thinking about reinstalling it again. Already have the platinum but I'd love to try it out with my new TV
This is still the only game that has caused my wife to make a comment about how good it looked.
And don't remind me of how much I liked this game. The team is dissolved, there will be no patch. Awesome handling, huge track variety, stellar visuals. It was marred by bad/buggy/non-working multiplayer for a long time around launch though.
I thought Forza Horizon might fill the void... nah, I don't like the handling and I don't think it looks as good, or at least it doesn't look nearly as good as Driveclubs visual peaks.
I guess the handling model is revived in Dirt 5, somewhat? But being multi-platform drags the potential for the visuals down. I'll pick it up eventually.
And don't remind me of how much I liked this game. The team is dissolved, there will be no patch. Awesome handling, huge track variety, stellar visuals. It was marred by bad/buggy/non-working multiplayer for a long time around launch though.
I thought Forza Horizon might fill the void... nah, I don't like the handling and I don't think it looks as good, or at least it doesn't look nearly as good as Driveclubs visual peaks.
I guess the handling model is revived in Dirt 5, somewhat? But being multi-platform drags the potential for the visuals down. I'll pick it up eventually.
If only Evolution was alive... An eventual Driveclub 2 would look straight out of a PS6 or something
Well now that EA Owns the old staff.. maybe they get them to remaster Need For Speed 1 and 2. DriveClub reminded of those two games. Especially part 1.
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BB or Amazon had Driveclub for like $8 in the last month. I picked it up. But I can't access any of the dlc, which appears to be most of the content including the motorcycles. So I guess I bought a mostly inaccessible game, at low frame rate and 1080p
EA own the staff??? Did the Codemasters deal get finalised???????
I absolutely compare real life to DriveClub rain sometimes. When it rains heavy and I'm driving, I honestly just wonder "Doesn't it look like this in DriveClub?"
Well shit.. with how much money they offered, figured it was a done deal. 🤷🏾♂️
Some of the events of the game without DLC were so hard, and I only stopped after I got them all. I remember a hotlap with one specific car, that almost made me go hollow. Holy shit. But when I finally made it, it was all worth it.
Phenomenal game without bullshit tacked onto it, pure driving fun. It sucks so much that 1) the studio is gone and 2) we will never see a better running version of the game in the future :(
