Well so far my initial impression is that the career is just a badly structured mess with utterly absurd difficulty spikes.
Looks great however.
That's pretty much how I fell about it right now as well.I may have another go later, but to be quite honest, I don't think I can be bothered.
I only have Twitter, not Facebook. I checked and they are almost completely absent on Twitter. Just one or two announcements a year and that's it. So not much luck letting my voice be heard.I just checked out the Ride 4 facebook page and a lot of people are saying the same thing about the license tests, as well as the crap AI, and a few people saying they have just given up. Quite a few with gushing praise though. The moderators only seem to respond to the gushing praisers.
It is. Honestly, without it I might have given up too already.The rewind is a bloody lifesaver... Or controller saver to be more accurate.
Same here. I'd love to see a dev mastering a race on the hardest difficulty.Having problems so reduced the difficulty level down to very easy (20%) just to get through the damn thing. The resulting race could under no circumstances be described as "very easy".
I agree on both.The braking line is completely useless in this game. [...] I honestly think Ride 4 is worse than Ride 3.
I don't know who tests their games but they should be fired.
To be fair there wasn't even real night races. I had no issues doing them. Same in Ride 4. What's meant to be "night" is more like sunset, dark blue sky. Now with the dynamic day/night cycle it looks like the progression stops at around 9pm and continues at 4am. There aren't many games with a decent "night" feeling.I mean like the night races in Ride 3. Who thought racing in almost complete darkness was cool? The headlights didn't work. How do you miss that?
Yeah I don't see anything about that fancy neural "A.N.N.A." system. Maybe the AI learns how to bang me off the bike more efficient.I've given up hope on any type of AI advancement.
Awesome. I sent a mail to Milestone on Saturday about the PS4 preload issue. No reply at all.The moderators only seem to respond to the gushing praisers.
My Initial thoughts
So, this is clearly one of those cases where the devs/testers get so used to playing the game, that they forget people with no experience will be buying it as well. The licenses are nuts in some cases.
I just checked out the Ride 4 facebook page and a lot of people are saying the same thing about the license tests, as well as the crap AI, and a few people saying they have just given up. Quite a few with gushing praise though. The moderators only seem to respond to the gushing praisers.
I can't remember the race series since it was a long time ago(it was some of the lower levels since I didn't play much) but I upgraded one bike to the top of the class and it wasn't close to the ai. I them chose a stock bike with a lot less PP and it cruised to the front of the pack with little effort.If you were struggling in Ride 3 with your chosen bike, just be sure to buy the engine upgrades etc that boost performance without going over the limit. Apologies if you have already tried this, but I did find it much easier to ride my chosen machine once I dialled in the upgrades etc.
The PP system was broken in Ride 3, I did it the old fashioned way, with the power and weight figures. Unfortunately each bike had a seemingly random cornering ability according to the maximum lean angle the devs decided it could achieve, and this was not always consistent between types of bike or really made much sense at times.I can't remember the race series since it was a long time ago(it was some of the lower levels since I didn't play much) but I upgraded one bike to the top of the class and it wasn't close to the ai. I them chose a stock bike with a lot less PP and it cruised to the front of the pack with little effort.
To be fair there wasn't even real night races. I had no issues doing them. Same in Ride 4. What's meant to be "night" is more like sunset, dark blue sky. Now with the dynamic day/night cycle it looks like the progression stops at around 9pm and continues at 4am. There aren't many games with a decent "night" feeling
I was thinking the exact same thing yesterday, as I re-did the original GT licences recently, and even they are not as bad as the ones in Ride 4.managed to unlock the second tier of career mode events but the idea of having to do more license tests is already killing my motivation to continue. I don't remember them being this bad in Gran Turismo
Good chance many of them are playing it with a copy that already has the content unlocked, so may not have had to deal with the absurdly stupid licence tests.I just had a quick look through the "professional" reviews on Metacritic. None of them seem to have noticed this big problem about the absurd difficulty of license tests, nor have they commented much on the other problem of the hyper aggressive AI. "Screenrant" referred to previous problems with the chaotic AI but concluded "This problem is largely fixed in RIDE 4, and results in very few race-ending accidents fully at the fault of the impressive AI."
It makes you wonder.
How good is the quick race options. Can you just make your own races and not do the career. That's what I do for most of my games anyway. Are some bikes locked up like in R3?.. I see many bikes are expensive.
Career in Ride 3 was locked to, get so many stars, next tier open. Been watching some stuff on you tube, Scaff and their games are locked.