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9 hours ago, Gotters said:

I loved the original Flatout games

 

Does this have a finish line and numbered places based on where you cross it  ? If so I'll be in on console on launch I suspect.

 

Yeah.

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this looks wonderful - its what I imagined in my head Destruction Derby looked like when I was playing it on PS1 all those years ago, and you can tell from the vid that the handling looks nice  and loose, not all tight and digital feeling that I think games like Driveclub & Onrush favour (personal pref I know, just never bond with that tighter feel in handling, I like the Forza Horizon, Flat-out style)

 

 

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Also loved Flatout so this is a pleasant surprise, love the way it handles, nothing else quite feels like this - that includes Horizon, which for my money doesn't really handle like Bugbears games. 

 

There hasn't been a decent new arcade racer in years then, with Onrush, two come out within a few weeks of each other. 

 

 

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On 05/07/2018 at 10:32, amc said:

Where's the cheapest place for this. I'm willing to pay a decent price but I think it's close to £40 on Steam. Anywhere cheaper? I'm not up to speed on the PC sales places yet.

 

It's back in stock over at CD Keys for £26.99. Cheapest I've seen it.

 

Anyone else playing this regularly? I'm trying my best to wait until it gets a little bit cheaper but I'm not sure how much longer I can hold off. 

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Can’t wait for this to come out on console. Flatout 1 was one my favourite Xbox games and I’ve still got it in the loft. There’s been nothing else like it since, not even Flatout 2. 

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Very mediocre to bad unfortunately (ymmv). Not a patch on flatout 1 and 2, and the less said about 3 the better. This looks like a true return to form though. I’m waiting impatiently for it to show up on consoles.

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It should be noted that Bugbear didn't do any Flatouts after 2/Ultimate Carnage so the latest Flatouts have nothing to do with them.  The last game they did before Wreckfest was the, IMO, criminally underrated Ridge Racer Unbounded (which is a terrible Ridge Racer game but a fantastic Bugbear game).

 

Definitely want to pick up Wreckfest sometime soon, looks fantastic.

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Flatout: Ultimate Carnage was the best of the bunch for me. I always wanted to like Flatout 1 and 2 more than I did - there was something about the car handling in those games that wasn't quite right to me and made sliding around corners without losing all your speed next to impossible. Ultimate Carnage fixed that though and was an absolute riot.

 

Back to Wreckfest. The price over at CD Keys has crept up by a quid since I posted it was back in stock. Now 27.99 so I grabbed the game before it went up any higher.

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Not been online with it yet. Plenty of servers though, both official and unofficial.

 

As for the game, I'm having a fantastic time. I've been pleasantly surprised with the variety of race types the game has thrown at me so early on. It's also got some neat little features such as dynamic AI rivals (during a race, if an AI opponent wrecks your shit or you wreck theirs, you become rivals and can score extra points smashing into them) so I've been playing with realistic damage on to up the ante. In one particular race, a pretty nasty crash resulted on the front of my car collapsing and the right wheel popping off but somehow my engine survived. So I limped on as far as I could while my broken and twisted front axle scraped along the dirt...

 

oCXiI2A.jpg

 

...yeah, I didn't survive the race.

 

The game runs super smooth but the audio levels were mixed by a monkey (or they're currently bugged perhaps). So if you want anything resembling a balanced audio mix, set the music to 100% and everything else to about 35/45%. I mean sure, the music is pretty terrible anyway but it does make the racing feel more exciting than no music at all imo.

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I discovered this by accident the other day and my word it looks absolutely amazing. I'm only on console and desperately hoping base systems will be able to hit 60fps. It just feels so fresh and exciting rather than the somewhat pedestrian racing games of the current generation.

 

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38 minutes ago, marsh said:

Couple of things from that vid, cars appear to be made from confetti, I need to get a copy on PS4 to vent all my online shit over from playing GT sport.

Those pile ups in the figure of eight crossover are brilliant. 

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it gives me such strong flashbacks to the original Destruction Derby on PS1 - which I'm sure if I played it now is a piece of shit but felt amazing at the time. 

 

the figure 8s look great fun - I'm expecting good things of the PS4 Pro version, hope its Bugbear doing the port and not being farmed out as a cash in. 

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Destruction Derby is still very good. Amazing physics that hold up really well. 20 cars in a race with minimal slowdown. Tracks aren't amazing in the first game but it's incredibly good even today. 

 

Really looking forward to the console version and desperately hope it's 60fps.

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15 hours ago, VN1X said:

Perhaps one for the Embarrassing things you don't know thread but after all these years I still don't get this thread subtitle "IBM compatibles". :unsure:

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible

 

Basicslly all PCs these days with the only other machine type really being Mac. But back in the day (80s) there were a range of competing architectures. IBM was the VHS of that war.

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DD1 is still the business. I played it again not too long ago and thought it held up admirably. Sure, it looks a bit rough these days but the soundtrack is still bangin'. It's a damn shame they replaced all that techno with shitty grunge metal for the sequel.

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