Eiger Nordwand - new course location
- Thread starter MasterGT
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If gt5 does (and had better!) include damage and physics allowing a car to flip and such, it will very interesting to see how the rally courses especially the new eiger nordwand are dealt with. Where the edges of the road have no railing or anything what will keep the cars from just shooting over an edge and riding through the grass? What if the drop is a far? pd would have to figure out what happens when a car hits the ground from such a fall .
I really hope the cars don't just bounce off an invisible wall again..that would just make the damage modeling seem silly.
I really hope the cars don't just bounce off an invisible wall again..that would just make the damage modeling seem silly.
- 828
- Midwest, USA
- Turismo-Z
I watched a small film of a car driving this stage over at IGN, I believe. I'll assume whoever was driving was just trying to give us a good look at the circuit, because s/he hit nearly every invisible wall possible. Hopefully they do implement some sort of damage model at a later date. This [invisible walls] was one thing that made me not enjoy the Cathedral Rocks stages. :/
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Duċk;2429969
Long time to wait for Spring in Australia and other Southern Hemisphere countries, which is October to November. It is Autumn down here when all you Northern Hemisphere people have spring.
- 1,574
No chance, the invisible walls are going to be here for a while, I warrant you. However, you also realise the problems with damage...
Yeah the IGN demo is AWFUL! Who in god's name did they give the controls, a two year old?
Yeah the IGN demo is AWFUL! Who in god's name did they give the controls, a two year old?
- 33,155
- Hammerhead Garage
As pretty as the landscape is, I have to say the circuit looks a little bland ... but I won't be buying a PS3 (and therefore I won't be getting GT:HD), so i guess my opinion is null and void.
- 1,574
I quite like that track actually, I'm looking forward to racing around it...
- 26,911
- Houston, Texas, USA
- JMarine25
Maybe the racer in the IGNore video was doing dope before doing the race course. You know how crash-happy most people are. The driver was probably like "damn! Why won't this piece of f:censored:ing s:censored: have crash damage!? Damn you, PD! This is just going to be another boring-ass GT!"
But for the rest of us who aren't going to throw a hissy fit, then I hope you got a nice view of the track.
But for the rest of us who aren't going to throw a hissy fit, then I hope you got a nice view of the track.
- 33,155
- Hammerhead Garage
The fact that the layout looks bland is probably not a bad thing. The learning curve between Ice Arena and Chamonix is what really killed the ice racing for me; Ice Area was gentle but Chamonix just punished you for every little mistake. It's a great course now that I know my way around it, but the learning curve between the two was straggering.
I felt it happened - to a lesser extent - with Costa di Amalfi and Citta di Aria. While they were both road circuits and thus the cars handled no differently to the rest of the game, neither was exactly a cakewalk and to begin with I found myself wanting a narrow road circuit that one could test the cars on to get a feel for driving without aids as opposed to being dropped on the roller-coaster of Amalfi (especially those switchbacks, I still can't take them in the best way possible, most notably on the reverse course) or the gauntlet of Citta di Aria. The inclusion of that blasted five-second penalty didn't make things any easier, but it looks like Eiger Nordwand will do it.
Also, has anyone noticed the new shots at IGN with the Impreza? There's a small event placard like the ones the WRC use that says something, but with my eyes - I have colour-blindness - I can't make it out. It apparently says "Cho (Something)". Now correct me if I'm wrong, but "Cho" doesn't sound like a French, German or Italian word, so is this hinting at another rally course or am I just imagining things again?
I felt it happened - to a lesser extent - with Costa di Amalfi and Citta di Aria. While they were both road circuits and thus the cars handled no differently to the rest of the game, neither was exactly a cakewalk and to begin with I found myself wanting a narrow road circuit that one could test the cars on to get a feel for driving without aids as opposed to being dropped on the roller-coaster of Amalfi (especially those switchbacks, I still can't take them in the best way possible, most notably on the reverse course) or the gauntlet of Citta di Aria. The inclusion of that blasted five-second penalty didn't make things any easier, but it looks like Eiger Nordwand will do it.
Also, has anyone noticed the new shots at IGN with the Impreza? There's a small event placard like the ones the WRC use that says something, but with my eyes - I have colour-blindness - I can't make it out. It apparently says "Cho (Something)". Now correct me if I'm wrong, but "Cho" doesn't sound like a French, German or Italian word, so is this hinting at another rally course or am I just imagining things again?
- 1,574
The video with the high powered car going round (didn't see what it was) was a smooth couple of laps. I forget where I downloaded it, I think it was Gametrailers.
I'll take a look at those shots... I liked Amalfi and Citta Di Aria very much (particularly the latter) and although they were challenging, I felt I could set some respectable lap times without too much incident.
Hmmm, could be "Cho" but could also be "The" ?
I'll take a look at those shots... I liked Amalfi and Citta Di Aria very much (particularly the latter) and although they were challenging, I felt I could set some respectable lap times without too much incident.
Hmmm, could be "Cho" but could also be "The" ?
Oh my god, that guy driving on the Grindelwald track SUCKS!!! Unbelieveable. Anyway, the track looks pretty cool. I was there in 2004 and went up to Jungfraujoch aswell. The area is gorgeous and a perfect setting for a track, even if it's a fantasy one. I'd almost want to say that PD should have taken some of the roads leading through the Grindelwald area and made them into a rally race. Point to point, no looping. I stayed in a tiny village called Iseltwald on the Brienz-see and the road leading from it to Grindelwald was amazing. If any of you have seen any of the Manx rallys, you'd know what I'm talking about. I hope PD continues building onto GT5...continually adding new tracks and vehicles as best they can so we never get bored from racing the same tracks. Interlagos would be sweet, as would Road Atlanta, Ebisu and Maze circuits. Another fun little point to point could be the BEST MOTORing Touge run. The possibilities are endless, now lets just hope PD see it the same way.
- 26,911
- Houston, Texas, USA
- JMarine25
Two reasons for the dopey driver... either (A) he wants to show that you aren't able to damage your car or fly off the track, or (B) the guy just sucks. If anything, the whole world can show that we can drive a lot better than some complete newbie trying to throw his/her weight around a race track. Argue all you want that this would be better as a point-to-point deal. This is still a great challenge for any class of rally car driver. I'd surely love to see what this track will be like when GTHD (and perhaps even GT5) has this deal with a certain collection of cars.
