August DLC? where is it?
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Maybe System 3 have had a rethink? Hopefully, the first download pack will come free with Patch V2. 💡
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why are you "haha!"?!! What you said makes sense!! They are in depth with us and they know it!! the Monza leaderboard is screwed up!!! white flags, sooo many bugs and the price for dlc will make many people run away from FC!!!!
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- UKOG-jonboy
- jonboy1066
Yep I'd rather they just got the game right first before they try to sell me extras, who's to say that a DLC pack wont be full of problems too. And offering the first DLC for free is what I (a disappointed customer) actually expect from system 3.
This game could be soooooooooo good but it just isn't right now, Please fix it System 3 before you try and sell us more additions to it and as a good will gesture I really think you owe us customers who've been let down so far the first DLC for free.
This game could be soooooooooo good but it just isn't right now, Please fix it System 3 before you try and sell us more additions to it and as a good will gesture I really think you owe us customers who've been let down so far the first DLC for free.
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- J-PaP
If the game was that disappointing that you feel you deserve compensation would you not have returned it or sold it off?
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Hi,
Unfortunately the release of DLC is a publisher issue and therefore I cannot comment on the subject.
Unfortunately the release of DLC is a publisher issue and therefore I cannot comment on the subject.
hi ferrari pro,
is it possible for you to contact them , and see if THEY can feed us some info on this issue, thanks for your efforts.
hi Ferraripro! here https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=110371 you can see that most of the guys won't be paying this kinda of money every month! I hope the publisher gets that and really change their marketing (selling) system!!
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- jonboy1066
Ordinarily yes, but as disappopinting as FC is, IMO it's the only racing game worth having on the PS3. It's the best of a bad bunch. It's got great handling, Force Feedback, and beautiful tracks so it's nice to play it every now and then to have a break from Forza2 which is still the best racer on any console by a long way.
As racing games are the sort of games I play most, I would have a PS3 sitting there doing nothing if I returned it.
I fear that unless System3 sort out the patch and free DLC (by way of compensation) soon then they are going to lose a hell of a lot of customers when RACE Pro appears on the 360 in November.
I already have a few friends who are talking about trading in their PS3's for 360's if RACE Pro is as good as promised which FC turned out not to be. So S3 need to do something now to sweeten up the racers amongst us and keep us interested.
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I don't think Forza 2 is better than GT5P by any mean!
Unless all you play is racing games there are so many outstanding games for the PS3 SOCOM is one of them coming out very soon!!
Race Pro looks good but what game doesn't look good until we play it!?!?! Grid...do ya remember how everyone was waiting this game!!!?!!!
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Forza is great untill you reach the S class - when it turns out into Wipeout, something like GT4 after LM class.
And Race Pro COULD be good - BUT...
No X360 racer will be simulation untill they give us propper FF wheel. PERIOD. 140 euros I've gave for Microsoft Force Feedback Wheel is probably the worst money ever spent on gaming accessories.
No serious simulation there - you can't drive with triggers on controller and talk about simulation after 2004, sorry.
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- jonboy1066
That's a matter of opinion which depends on your gaming and racing priorities and probably off topic for this thread.
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Yeah pretty much all I play on XBox and PS3 is racing games (If only there was a decent racing game to play on the PS3 that is) which is why -for me- the 360 is the only way to go. SOCOM has never been much of a draw for me, I only bought SOCOM 2 for the USB headset and most other shooting type games are available for both consoles so I'm not bothered about that.
I agree there to a point but I was lucky enough to be invited by Codemasters to their HQ back in May and had played GRiD weeks before it's 360 release and months before it came out on PS3 so I'd already made my descision that GRiD was nothing to get excited about before most people had even seen the demo.
I only play Forza with no assists and it's nothing like Wipeout under those conditions
I do agree with you on that one. I had the Microsoft wheel and (wrongly) assumed that for the price it would be reasurringly expensive, until I got it home and found that it was no where near as good as my DFP. I took the wheel back, got a refund and bought a Logitech Drive FX wheel for the XBox instead, it's not much better than the M$ wheel but considering it was less than half the price of the M$ wheel I feel that it's adequate. Microshaft have definately let down their customers with the Force feedback issue and that's the reason I occaisionally return to my PS3 for a blast on Ferrari Challenge and a fix of decent FFB. BUT on every other count Forza still wipes the floor with GT & Ferrari Challenge.
No racer will be simulation until they open up the pit lanes, have decent damage modelling, have an online play facility that works, insert qualifying for online races, include standing starts etc etc etc the list goes on.
Forza 2 has all of those things (of a fasion) and more and it looks like RACE Pro will have even more (although I'm not holding my breath). For me, foregoing the brilliant Force Feedback is a small price to pay compared to all that is missing from Ferrari Challenge and GT5P.
Back on topic though, I think System 3 really need to pull their fingers out and get this game fixed pronto before we start hassling them for DLC. I want it to work, I want to play the game that I payed so much for and I want ferrari Challenge to succeed but just can't find the enthusiasm for it all the while Forza2 is sitting there and RACE Pro is looking so good.
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What you wanna mean is that you gonna have a shot on Race Pro months in hand before us!!! If not it's pointless to let everybody knows that we have someone here that actually can visit CM's "Headquarters"!!!
you've being mentioning Race Pro all over but as ya said... "(although I'm not holding my breath)"!
Wow for the 3rd consecutive time in the same post you are sooo coool about Race Pro and you Are not "(although I'm not holding my breath)!
Well I get it!!
But that, too, is a matter of opinion. A racing game (racer) and a simulator, are in no way mutually exclusive. A racing game for the purpose of immersion and gameplay, does work better if it has the components you've listed. A driving simulation on the other hand, doesn't necessarily need those things. If it provides a closest possible physics to how the vehicle behave when driven, it would then meet the criteria. Of course, if it has the other things, it would be like cherry on a cake but if it doesn't, it is still a simulation.
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True but I'm talking in racing simulator terms which is what Ferrari Challenge and Forza 2 are supposed to be. To me Force feedback is a very imortant factor to the driving side of things but compared to the whole package it's not the be all and end all for racing. Which is why I've said elsewhere that I still go back to Ferrari Challenge for a play every now and then for a fix of the brilliant Force feedback and handling, but when I want a racing fix, (which is more often) I'l play Forza2.
Nope I don't mean that at all, I am mearly illustrating the flip side to your statement that not everyone was eagerly awaiting GRiD, some of us knew that it was not going to live up to expectations way before it was released, and it would be pointless to visit Codemasters HQ to play RACE Pro early as the game is being made by SimBin.
I've been mentioning RACE Pro a lot because I believe that that game is Ferrari Challenge's main competition. I say "I'm not holding my breath" because I did get excited about the realese of Ferrari Challenge and did (metaphorically) "Hold My Breath" only to be let down by a game that didn't work as it was intended or live up to my expectations.
Now with SimBin's history in mind of them making great racing simulators for the PC, the news of RACE Pro's exclusive XBox 360 release has got me a bit hot under the collar as the news came at a time where I was beginning to lose faith in any game developer releasing any more decent racing simulators.
I've been playing Forza2 since June last year and when GT5P & Ferrari Challenge disappointed me as much as they did, there didn't seem to be any light at the end of the tunnel for any online racing sims on either console. Now with RACE Pro on the horizon I feel that System 3 need to make sure that Ferrari Challenge is fixed properly and quickly, otherwise IMO they are in danger of losing a lot of potential customers who may go over to the XBox and play SimBin's game instead.
So I'm just mearly pointing out the importance of System 3 getting the patch sorted for Ferrari Challenge before they go rushing into selling us DLC for a game that's not working properly. Which brings us back to the title of the thread:
All I'm saying in my posts in this thread is that I think it's more important for System 3 to fix all of the problems with the original version of this game and get it up to it's potential. If Patch V2 works then I'll be among the first to congratulate them on it (Their feedback on this forum has been very commendable) and I may buy DLC for the game once I'm sure it works (even if I feel it should be free by way of compensation) but I don't see the point in rushing them for DLC when we need their time spent on the patch.
Even you Zedux must appreciate the importance and need for this patch as while I was writing this post, you were starting a new thread wanting to know where PatchV2 is.
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Have you tried F1:CE? That has all of those things you have mentioned....(damage, pit lanes, decent damage modelling, online play "that works", qualifying online, standings starts, etc).
I don't think you can honestly say
"(If only there was a decent racing game to play on the PS3 that is)"
till you have played it (even if you don't want to race F1 cars, its still a "decent racing game on the PS3").
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No I haven't, I heard from every one of my friends when they bought F1:CE on release that the online didn't work well (not well enough for a league to be run anyway) and as online racing and online leagues are a personal priority for me I avoided it and to be honest as I've only had my PS3 for a few months I'd completely forgotten about F1 as I'd written it off months before I'd even dabbled with a 360.
Have the Online problems been fixed then?
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- Ardius_
Online problems? I don't have any problems with it. The only major issue we ever came across was that it randomly crashes the PS3 in the lobby area, but that happens very rarely.
And online league? Already been done (well, championship):
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=108195
They did release a patch that fixed things, but I only recently bought it, so I have no idea what the online used to be like.
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Ah right, thanks mate. The problems I heard of were early on when the game was first released and to do with the lack of Comms and random freezing in inline lobbies. I guess they are fixed then
I might see if I can pick up a cheap copy from somewhere.
I might see if I can pick up a cheap copy from somewhere.
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- Ardius_
Ah right, thanks mate. The problems I heard of were early on when the game was first released and to do with the lack of Comms and random freezing in inline lobbies. I guess they are fixed then
I might see if I can pick up a cheap copy from somewhere.
There is a lack of communication still, its all text chat, which isnt too bad and the freezing is still there, though not as much.
Works fine once you've got a private room with drivers you can trust, hence my championship there 👍
Besides, the offline is excellent.
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Oh................Perhaps I won't bother then. An online game without the ability to communicate with voice is not worth having IMO
Good work on the championship though. :]
Good work on the championship though. :]
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He's talking about F1:CE mate
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