Enjoying PC2 enough that it deserves its own thread instead of me polluting the Games Deal thread…
Managed a second place finish in my first race. I think the AI is balanced to be competitive and approachable (perhaps as you improve?). This was a point to point race, so I don’t know why it says 10 laps.
On the starting grid…I’m the last car in a field of sixteen. I found that it isn’t really worth trying to gobble up positions in the first few turns (or even the first dozen) because it is a bit of a cluster of braking and bumping.
One interesting thing - my fingers are getting strained from using the X-Box controller even though I’ve only been playing for a few hours. I only occasionally use my X-Box controller to play some Steam games with my son like soccer or 2D racers, and usually only short sessions. Having to use the triggers with so much modulating is a bit of a finger strain at the moment…LOL…
Here you go. Quick and dirty lap in a car I don’t know much about, on a track I know nothing about…so don’t shame me about how poor my driving was. Using auto-shift but no other aids. I used Oculus Mirror and OBS to record it with a 60FPS setting. There is absolutely no judder or lag or anything in VR…but there must be something going on between OBS and Mirror that doesn’t quite show the performance in game. Might want to wait until You Tube gets done rendering it…looks like it is low res at the moment. 1280 x 720 should be the final uploaded resolution I think…
Those screenshots of Long Beach are pretty cool. Hopefully you get a chance to try out the rallycross tracks and cars and posts some screenshots or vids. I’ve been into watching rallycross for the past couple of years. I’m tempted to get PC2, but I have PC1 and haven’t used it too much. Maybe when the price gets low enough I’ll bite.
Dirt Rally is terrifying in VR. Nearly all of the content is about Rally’s, i.e. driving down roads that are too small one at a time on a timed course while a terrified co-driver yells ‘Left 90, Slight Right over Hump, FOR GODS SAKE DON’T HIT TH…’.
There is a bit of Rallycross in it (racing all at the same time on a dirt track) but PCARS2 apparently has much more, and is meant to be better, i.e. snow, gravel racing rather than Rally stages.
Aha…so there is Rally and Rally-Cross. I didn’t know there were two disciplines and I see what you are talking about. I’m uploading a short video to You Tube showing my feeble attempt at Rally-Cross in PC2…should be ready in a bit…
I’ve not really thought about it, but I guess it’s called ‘Rally Cross’ because it’s always mixed surfaces, i.e. a bit of road, a bit of gravel etc, hence the mixed ‘Cross’ bit?
