Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-28176349-20161129002259/@comment-2.121.99.173-20161207111607

Hi everyone-

something occured to me a while back (early on in the steering assist/physics controversy)- about the "working on something big which we can't talk about yet" comment in FM's announcement video, which was this- could that big development be the introduction of reverse tracks?

It just happened that I had weaned myself off traction control about a month before and had been experimenting with low and no steering assist- I also happened to try a bit of that experimentation on one of the WTTT legs with a fast car- I think it might have been the MPX4 and Nurburgring- and since it's all over once you cross the finish line, I turned around and went backwards in order to go forwards again, but had so much fun blasting around drifting that I spent about ten minutes going round.

Here's the thing- going backwards felt pretty much the same as going forwards- previously when going backwards the steering became very heavy and difficult to aim- like playing with no steering assist. So, if Monkeys were considering reverse tracks, then that would be one of the first things that would need to change- the "feel" of driving has to be identical in either direction, surely?

From a man-hours point of view, this would make a lot of sense- they always bleat about that and the limitations of the mobile platform when anyone asks for GreenHell/Nordschleiff- and reversing would effectively double the available un-learned track in the game.

I think it could be fantastic and have my fingers crossed !

Slack Ratchet

iphone 4, level 230ish