Recent reviews by Takashimatta

Thank you so much Genki and GRP for the love letter to racing game fans all around the world. Even in early access state, this game is absolutely amazing. I feel like reliving my childhood days playing TXR and TXRD games on the PS2, except this game is a huge improvement, experience wise. Would honestly love to have engine swaps and engine temperature back in the game, and not to mention Osaka and Nagoya too!

I am eagerly looking forward to the improvements of this game, and possibly a DRIFT series reboot. Love you guys!

No matter what i do, it's crashes. Update to latest graphics driver, crash. Downgrade, crash. Delete certain files as per instructed by a web article, almost finishes initial loading, still crash. What a waste of game. Frostbite engine is just not for racing games at all.

A very good game for the price (when it's discounted at least). But, i've discovered lots of things that need refining/polishing/fixing. Sorry if some of it sounded rude. I'm aiming for a constructive criticism that will help the game become better in the future.

(Will periodically update this review as the devs updates and fixes the game).

1. "Characters" only appear at the menu, before you jump into free roam/tracks. They serve no purpose at all, other than thinking you have a digital waifu now.

2. NO DETAILED CONTROL BINDINGS OPTIONS. In fact, controls are not told to us (no tutorials whatsoever).

3. Traffic car changes lanes way too aggressively for a slow speed. It's good that they try to avoid us if they're not changing lanes at least.

4. Traffic cars aren't synced with other drivers, so they can go through traffic on our screen. (Update 1.0.4 fixes traffic spawn, idk if this has to do with the syncing, but probably not. Have to confirm by playing the game again.)

5. Car sounds are basically ripped from other games. Not much of a problem, but could at least look for ones that sound great. The B16B sounds like an NFSU2 civic, which imo doesn't sound that good.

6. Sense of speed is there, but could do a bit more better with a soft motion blur at the edges of the screen.

7. When a car reaches the redline (the starting civic, at least), they did not bang on the redline, instead the rpm slows down to a crawl. An upgraded car was able to bang the redline, but if it's on the last gear, it slows to a crawl again. (Update 1.0.4 has the rev limiter fixed for manual transmission!)

8. Street light flickering is a nightmare to look at. (1.0.3 update introduces street light bugfix at 25% texture size)

9. No antialiasing options. At least include TAA or SMAA.

10. Colors for car body and wheels are pre-determined, even if they have customizations. Would be better to implement a colour wheel or an RGB slider.

11. The UI could use a makeover, especially the speedometer. The gear indicator is way too small, and is the same color as the rpm numbers. Could get confusing for some.

12. SOME TURNS THAT ARE DEAD ENDS/HAVE INVISIBLE WALLS, DO NOT HAVE BARRIERS! Me and another player ended up diving headfirst into the invisible wall, DURING A COP CHASE. Almost got myself busted because of that.

13. Implementation of car classes would be amazing.

14. Story/Progression would be a good appeal to the game, other than the current features provided.

15. Music selection could be better. Like dedicated music for menus, and for races. Instead of having the same music play through the menu or during a race.

16. A proper garage model would be better, rather than being in the middle of a deserted road on the menus.

17. Unable to rotate the camera MANUALLY around our cars in the menu. Only if we're customizing our cars. (Free camera is added in update 1.0.4!)

18. No character customizations? No males at all?

19. Character shader could use a makeover. HEAVY MAKEOVER. They look downright frightening. (Or maybe switch to a realistic character model instead of an anime character model, if you guys still want to retain that kind of graphics. Another option is to work on a dedicated shader for the characters).

20. Instead of selling the same car, just with a different drivetrain (AWD), just provide an option for us to swap drivetrains. The game has an engine swap option, so why not drivetrain swap too?

21. Settings are way too simple. Even for graphics.

22. No flashing headlights to challenge other players? No 1v1 with other players? (Or i might've not found the button for it. Hah, get it? Lack of tutorials).
(Update 1.0.4 added PvP race mode, which is 1v1!)

23. Additional buttons to turn on fog lamps on some cars.

24. #BringNeonsBack (They did it bois. 1.0.3 update brought neons!)

25. Head lights and Brake lights customizations? Turns out they're already there from the start. My bad.

26. A livery editor, and a way to share and use other people's liveries.

27. Mod support? Not a priority though.

28. Would be great if refraction shader is implemented to make car lights look more realistic. (This is coming from an assetto player that uses CSP. Don't get me wrong though, the current lights shader looks okay).

28. No "world map"? Not even an option to teleport?

29. No parking space for a car meet.

30. No chat system? (They added chat system in 1.0.3!)

31. Countdown to an online race timer is broken. It is VERY SLOW, even for 1 seconds to pass. Sometimes it even went back a second. (Update 1.0.4 fixes online races. Need to confirm ingame).

32. No look back button?

33. Instead of camera orbiting around the car endlessly, use the same orbit system like forza horizon/newer need for speed series.

34. Car aggresively stops during cop chases if you finish a race. Autopilot system would be a good help.

35. No option for handling upgrade? Tyres/Tires? Brakes? Transmission? Clutch? Sequential Shifter?

36. Lack of shadow for traffic cars.

37. Some uv mapping for barrier textures are flipped.

38. Pressing a button on a controller to apply handbrake, whilst there is an ongoing race invitation/pvp invitation, will accept the pvp/race.

39. Lack of party/convoy feature.

40. Cannot join friend's session (must manually go in and out from streets).

41. No option to reset car if flipped (e.g: crashed by a traffic while idling, then traffic proceeds to push you).

42. There is a visible gap around the Civic EF's brake lights (can be seen from free camera).

Lots of problems, but not too game breaking. Game is very good, and i fully support and respect the developers on making this. Let's make racing games great again!

This game's a lot of fun if you play together with friends. Especially if you're playing Prop Hunt or Hide and Seek. But Sandbox feels a lot more fun and funny too. Must buy this game, especially when it's on sale (Even the base price is cheap!).
If you're unsure if Garry's Mod is fun or not, go give some videos a watch about people doing funny gameplay of the game. You're not gonna regret it!