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Actually, they have improved massively since then. This game is 5x the game Apocalypse was. Not only that their AI is a shitload better with absolutely NO rubberbanding where the AI goes past its actual speed limit. The only AI banding is really to help the drivers that fall behind to have a decent race.

This comment is a little rude but to each their own. And the graphics lol..... um yeah they improved just a TEENSY bit there bud. Programmers at the studio as well as the artists are wizards. This coming from a full bred PC whore lol.

@spraynardtatum: Anyone that bought the game I mean.... not just the free version. You bought the game, with a PS Plus sub, and it was 50 dollars for all those people. The game also just had a heavy retail physical sale for 35 on Amazon that put it well over a million sold total. No one knows how many were digital but educated guesses say around 30-60 percent were digital. Big gap but it's hard to tell.

As for the guy above you nothing is locked in clubs as long as you join one and unlock them. They are yours to keep after that. You should join a club or start your own though even if it is just you. You'll unlock the Bac Mono in no time and it's not really a concern anymore imo.

Also, It's more that they didn't have the foresight to see that their extensive online component would buckle under the massive pressure they were about to put it into. The game really is very online centric in that way. Redoing all the code is just a matter of the code simply not being useful for what they found to be their problem, not that the code itself was poor. The management and foresight was poor. Again though, these guys have imo went above and beyond. Anyone who buys the full game gets a bunch of cars, three tracks and 90 extra stars to earn for that fuckup. It was only us first day guys really that were affected much. Of course PS Plus people have been dangling on the wire for a year but what can you do? PS Plus is an excellent service. Releasing this game half-baked would have been terrible.

India really benefits with the weather so quite honestly it's a win win for eventual PS Plus owners. They will try this game at the peak of its level and can decide for themselves if it is worth it. All I know is this game has the best sense of speed in any racer I have played. Add in that lighting engine, and maybe some future improvements to AA or filtering, and this game is a starstruck beauty. Photomode shows you what it can look like on a high-end PC for sure, but the actual game is not that far off anymore. I am sure a PC game will surpass it but for now I cannot say any game does weather this realistic, for better or worse.

I always say hey if you don't want to race all the time try the friggin' amazing drift mode, my personal favorite mode in the game. I have spent hours trying to get top 50 times. It's like an addiction you cannot put down until you at least have a top couple hundred time. Anyone is game for it too. No special skills needed. Just keep at it and it becomes a thing of beauty to watch your car do the perfect slide into the next corner.

@lukeweizer: Oh you snarky guy you. What is good though is that India has been improved and that is what people will get with PS Plus. India + Rain is godly imo. Most realistic rep of India I have ever seen.

Well let me just say bud you WILL get your chance, and by that time, the game will be better than it ever would have been at launch. So you can make up your mind then. It will come just be patient. They had to redo over half their server code. Game was always 50 bones if you upgraded from plus though like most people did. It does have a very healthy community at least. I have no idea how far they are along. For all I know they could be done at the end of January.

It was not playable online for two to three weeks. Sporadically it was mediocre to good for the next two weeks. From then it was mostly okay but without challenges. It deserved some criticism and harsh at that. The problem: no one reviewer actually mentioned the server problems.

At this point in time the game is fantastic. NEW DLC today for US folks. Season pass holders finally get a vintage vet and two more 45? star events! One at least with all the new weather.

I think it was just the way it came up on one of the podcasts and his absolute disdain that shocked me. I just couldn't believe I was listening to a professional without an agenda. I'm over it. I hope maybe someday Jeff comes around to not hate the game.

Well that is a good summary of how you feel instead of the last paragraph. I would disagree. I do think the weather has added a lot to the game and so has the extra DLC for sure. Evo's plan, or Sony IDK, was definitely messed up and deserved a lot of criticism.

But I cannot hate Evo for that. I'm having too much fun with the game, especially with the most overlooked part that is drifting, which is the best part of the game for me in many ways. I can see how people tired of games in general don't really have much affinity. But then again that would mean the same for other games like FH2, which does in fact get pretty boring at some point, and also Project Cars, Forza, GT, etc. I was pretty burned out myself on racing games before the PS4.

The new lighting engine I would say really does the game a lot of favors alongside its sense of speed. Usually I play 60FPS racers and DC has held up much better than I ever thought it would. The long straights thing IDK. Some of the course but that to me brings out the fun in online racers when the pack is dancing on a long line. There are plenty of curvy courses though too imo. I expect Japan DLC to have a lot more as well.