Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-44522744-20191218203823/@comment-30967537-20191219190045

I had a quick play with Assoluto Racing.

First impressions were not favourable!

I have quite a few gripes about RR3 (TT ghost, throttle/brake bugs, no idea what the car is doing, poor throttle control, inconsistent and poorly defined track limits, etc) so don't assume that I'm being pro-RR3 and anti- every other race game.

It starts off by forcing you to agree to T&Cs, which is standard, but no link, you have to manually enter the address in your browser! The browser pops up a “subscribe” box which covers a substantial part of the screen, which I couldn’t get rid of, making the first couple paragraphs unreadable! Pages and pages of T&Cs later, yes I did scan through them, the usual OTT stuff, I promise to give my first-born to them, etc etc!

Rather un-polished interface, definitely needs improving, which I'm sure they will over time. The daily/entry reward grid was meaningless, no idea what I clicked on. The track selection is confusing, implies you can select when there’s only one, when there is more than one they sit half on top of each other making them awkward to select! The after-race rewards looks like it’s been knocked up by a child, and is frustratingly slow to react to my repeated taps to bypass.

Worst of all is the actual racing! The on-screen map doesn’t indicate which parts are usable track, so is rather pointless. You’re forced to play in chase mode, which I’ve never liked as I always feel I’m battling a tail-happy car. The car handles awfully, virtually no steering input in the Peugeot at 50+mph, my old Vauxhall Vivaro van (which I used to hustle along twisty roads) handled infinitely better at higher speeds! Touch the brakes and it literally stops on a dime, so I couldn’t find a way to slow down, and a bit of steering sends it into a tank-slapper.

Not impressed.

And why does everybody keep banging on about the Nordschleife? It’s a horrible, narrow track. Le Mans is bad enough for TTs and that's mostly straights. Can you imagine doing 8+ minutes around the Nordschleife and then making a tiny mistake and sliding off the track.