Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown Free to Play on PlayStation this Weekend

[Famine]

This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:

Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown Free to Play on PlayStation this Weekend​

If you’ve been contemplating picking up Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown but, after its early life issues, haven’t pulled the trigger yet, there’s a good chance to try before you buy this weekend — at least on PlayStation...

 

[evldave333]

Gonna at least have a mooch around the map, im guessing I will delete it the same day though lol

 

[Obelisk]

Actual comment: It's tempting, but I've been soured on this game by what I've seen and heard of the botched launch. Shame, really - I quite enjoyed the older TDU games.

 

[evldave333]

Don't even waste your time on a free demo... just wow looks like a PS3 game & drives terrible. When a games that bad a free trial is not going to bring in any customers whatsoever.

 

[Cosbuster]

Started with a long queue and after I did manage to get in I kept getting timeout errors during avatar creation. If your servers are crap, don't do always online games for the love of god. At least they saved me money with the demo, respect.

 

[Famine]

As I note in the article, I've been dipping into the game on and off for a while and never had a time I've logged in without seeing this:

It hasn't majorly affected anything, as far as I can tell, although again I've never actually had a race against humans at all, from the one day I could review the game before launch (and I'm glad I didn't put that off, because it was offline the next day) until today.

The physics are still :| though, offroad especially. You'll occasionally get a daily challenge to jump [so far] and it just highlights how utterly ridiculous the jump physics are (incidentally, go to the golf course on the south of the island; there's two humpback bridges on the path around the course and you can hit every jump target on them).

I still don't get why you can't get road exploration/discovery from doing races on those roads though.

 

[karaokequeen3]

Waiting to login in. Stuck in a queue.

Great job guys. Great job. This is why you implement an offline mode.

EDIT: after about 2 hours of the game, uninstalled it.

• Handling bleh on the 370z that I tried as the first car
• A lot of popups and slowdowns as assets were being streamed in, which was more evident on a drive down to Shek-O
• Absence of basis options such as invert look and switching-off adaptive triggers on the Dualsense controller
• Why can't I drive the red taxi eh?
• Radio/music mix distinctly un-local. Could it have hurt to have a Cantopop station?

I'm glad Nacon decided us to give people the chance to demo it. As it stands, it's dying. Dead in about 18 months.

 

[ScottPuss20]

I still won't play it.