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.

 

[PletdeKoe]

Glad I didn’t buy it. I think it just dull. The graphics are dull ( frame drops and pop-up is huge), the driving is dull (does suspension even exist in the game?), races are dull, story is dull (drive to impress rich people to let you race in a city… what is this, a new version of running man?)

I might have loved it when I was 9 years old, not knowing how good games could be. I remember being you and playing a PS2 game Immersion Racing. I loved it, but is waa actually pretty bad. I gues it is the same here.

4/10

 

[leggy2fast]

Tried the game again for the 2nd time (first time was after launch, on the PC).

I'm still amazed that they consider this game as officially released. This is not a finished product.

I can't get even into commenting about physics or driving because everything else before and after the race feel like a mid-dev demo from a ps3 game - except it runs miserably bad, they managed to make a city like Hong Kong feel empty, and the cutscenes are cringe cliché juice from the 2000s (and I'm the kind of person who plays Sonic and likes Shadow).

I remember when Cyberpunk 2077 ran so badly in the PS4 that they delisted and refunded the game, and I'm surprised that they're not doing the same to Solar Crown.

Just uninstalled the game - again.

 

[Watzlaw]

From fools for fools, i feel realy sad for everyone who paid for this programming garbage.

 

[kartman21]

I do agree, the game is not finished, lack content, and most of all it doesn't have TDU DNA
No mention to the always online non sense, solar pass is garbage

I could be great, but there is so much wrong decisions at core that it seems complicated to repair

I don't get the point of releasing a demo of the game at this state, or maybe this is the final try to save the game...

 

[Carpocalypse]

Just got around to it. Couldn't get past the character creation screen because the servers went down. Again. And there is still no offline mode.

 

[GundamEmpire]

Never got into the game after downloading it. It required me to sign up for a special account. Ain't nobody got time for that. The last thing I want to do is type in my email address, create a password, check my email, and then sign in...all while using a controller. No thanks.

Uninstalled before I even got to try it out

 

[Famine]

It required me to sign up for a special account.

Another issue we brought up in our review.


I remember the blasting we got for our comparatively low review score at the time, with all the "GT shill" accusations flying about. Funny how it ended up being the closest to the player Metascore (once the zeroes and tens are removed) and all the things we mentioned are all things players have subsequently complained about. Haven't seen our detractors walk it back yet...

And I actually like the game, in general terms, too.

 

[Ryan81]

I have been very pleasantly surprised since the major patch. Haven't had any connection issues and I find the game to be fun and addictive, albeit flawed.