Permanent damage!

[Johnnypenso]

Play motor storm apocalypse and come back to me.. full 16 player grid, and people strive to drive clean, yet iIcome on crap turmoil 5 online to have ass holes ramming me. Like why don't people race dirty on motor storm?!?!? Oh wait wrecking your car means losing any chance at winning that in turn have PERMANENT affect on your chip earnings. This Translates into five as a permanent loss off A :money you could have won from winning the race and B: time and money spent fixing your car. Sure some jerks will still ram you but it will get old quick after having to fix their cars. Another issue with clean racing is the abysmal lag this game has that makes cars zig zag..

Never played Motor Storm online so I'll take your word for it. The way GT has their damage set up, the person getting hit is likely to take as much or more damage than the one doing the hitting, which while it might be "realistic", isn't much fun for the one being hit on lap 1 of a 10 lap race. That's what occurred to me last night, someone lag spiked backwards into me on lap 1 and even though the damage fixed itself, I lost 9 seconds and was out of the race.

In order for a damage model to be discouraging, PD would have to find an algorithm that's accurate in terms of assigning fault and penalties, and I just don't trust them to put more than a half-assed effort into it and it'll be nothing but a fustercluck. Really, if they can't make an algorithm for AI after 15 years, how much effort will they put into it for damage?

 

[ICEYOU]

Well I call for Grand Theft Auto 5 type damage then. That shouldn't scare the car manufactures too much then...and GTA damage is no where on the lines of Burnout damage.