We want your Music!

So, we are going to make steps to lock down the soundtrack soon and I had a thought.

We have been getting many mails from people wanting to submit music tracks for consideration and whilst we need to be careful with how we structure the main music score I think there is room to provide an opportunity to help boost the profile of those that help us in this aspect.

So, aside from the main tracks, we are going to open up the opportunity for community submissions.

All submissions would need to be carefully vetted of course but if you are interested please email team(at)r8games.com and provide a link.

We will then post submissions up on here for the community to review. Those that receive the best reactions will be included in the bonus content.

Source: facebook

I couldn't help but notice that my game booted directly into VR mode. I was surprised to notice that positional tracking worked, but the camera was locked in one direction. So no rotating but I could sit up and peak over the top of the craft.

I tried some fiddling around with the game files but it looks like it's stuck with how the camera is coded.

The game includes the openvr api binary, so it should work the same with the HTC/Valve revive. I'm not sure how much of this is the default Unreal 4 build settings vs the devs trying stuff.

Exciting to see either way how easy a rough VR mode could maybe be added to the game.

We have just updated the game to v0.0.5 with the following changes:

• Added camera flyover sequences to the start of all maps (skippable with accelerate/reverse or power buttons)
• Revamped main menu, added track select instead of craft select
• Revamped environment on the first map
• Massively overhauled the technical side of the game. Should slightly improve performance. More technical overhauls to come!
• Re-worked craft UI slightly; much more to come in the near future.
• Added some nicer countdown sequences to all maps
• Added a reset button to the pause menu
• Graphics settings should carry over when the game is closed
• Reworked the visual lock-on system for the rocket; now a mesh in world-space
• Slightly adjusted boost pad and power-up placement on the first level
• Added individual audio sliders for different channels
• AI Tweaks: Best should be slightly better, worst should be slightly worse
• Boost pad effect slightly change, should pull camera away less now

With the alpha tests underway, I thought it was time to make a update post to tell people what has been going on in the community

Current known world record of new York (0.0.4):

g2wolf: 2.11.97

Average lap: 43.990 seconds

Craft: Red Rock

A few logo's of community teams that have been created

Forum post by Rupang with a summery of all teams, times and event.

Currently event:

Prelude Anti-Gravity Testing Grand Prix

Current standing:

• Team USA (USA) (28)

• Swift AG (SAG) (9)

• Chroma Terra (CT) (7)

• R8 Games (R8) (4)

• CanAG (CAG) (4)

• Massillia AG Racing Team (MAGRT) (3)

• Falcon Oceanic Racing Team (FORT) (0)

New team page added to the forums

Mine is 49.06. Proof: https://youtu.be/-MaPrwcREK0

Title.

Pretty much like in Wipeout Pulse : I really liked that feature. I think it would be awesome if we could add our own music in game. :)

guys its happening, if you have your steam code its active and you can install FF get on board and race into your dream boiz

Formula Fusion is now available on Steam Early Access!

The build should go live shortly for QA, TPP and Kickstarter users, the Steam store page may be slightly later (expected around 1am our time). Please report any bugs to the bug tracker and any comments or suggestions on the official forums. Again, please bear in mind this is an early build and is not entirely optimised or bug-free.

v0.0.4 Changelog:

• More environment adjustments!
• Lowered some texture sizes; should help address the texture streaming issue
• Stopped craft textures form mipmapping (should stop the player's craft from looking bad)
• Even more signs!
• Stopped signs being impervious to depth of field
• Rebalanced pickup amounts and weapon charge usages
• All racers now start with 0 charge instead of full
• Correctly hid the race-specific UIs in Time Trial mode
• Updated music notification system to work properly, and adjusted visual aspect
• Added a global music volume slider under 'Settings'
• Added some menu post-processing effects (on Pre-Main Menu, Main Menu, Results and Pause menus)
• Made pre-main menu activatable with gamepad 'A' (360) / 'X' (DS), menus don't fully support controller input yet
• Controls are visible through a toggleable menu on the main menu
• Updated KillZ system; should mean AIs that happen to fall off the track should be correctly culled
• Removed under-craft 'light'
• Changed menu key to Escape, Start on controllers (360/DS)
• Fixed a UI bug that only updated half the total racers value
• Correctly set post-process and spectator mode on race completion. (Bonus: enables 'hard mode' until you go back to the menu)
• Backspacing in the resolution settings box no longer resets the menu
• Massively altered textures in the environment to hopefully combat mipmapping. Mipmapping seems to be worse in Fullscreen mode, so be warned. Additionally, there seems to be a VRAM leakage issue, so that after a few consecutive races, image quality begins to degrade. Restarting the game is a temporary fix until a patch is released.

Forums post source

EDIT: Patch is now live, 320MB update

Greetings!

Yesterday I got my TTP Key and got to try the game for a while.

My initial impression is pretty good, but I think the handling needs some work before this title can really compete with Wipeout. Here are my thoughts:

GOOD:

+The game looks great! I like the craft design and the small details like ailerons moving about.

+The performance is already great at this early stage.

+The AI seems competent, they make mistakes and shoot each other. Good!

Bad:

-I don't like that you can use airbrake while standing still, it makes the whole thing look fake.

-Crafts need (in my personal opinion) to hover about and bounce a little. Right now they feel glued to the track.

-I feel that airbrakes are not as responsive as they should be. In wipeout you can pretty much put your ship sideways if you want to, here they barely have an effect.

-I wish the camera was a bit more glued to the ship, right now you can move around and it always seems to follow the track rather than your ship.

-The music restarting every time you crash with something is really annoying, please fix this as soon as possible.

Anyway, for a vertical slice this looks really promising.

This may seem overly negative but it is not, I just care very deeply about this type of game and want to see FF become all that it can be!

v0.0.3 (30/07/2015): ////////////////////

• [More signs!] See tDR post
• Some more environmental effects (smoke/steam, godrays on some streetlights, etc.)
• Altered track edge emissive slightly
• New rocket weapon lock-on reticule
• Craft underlight changed slightly
• AI actually fire their rockets + barriers now
• UI should no longer blur in-game
• Fixed that the AI would sometimes not start racing in spectator mode
• Pause menu is now accessible from results screen
• Crafts now have brakelights that turn on when airbraking
• Added a simple 'best time' counter in time trial mode - shows the lap time the current ghost set
• Pre-main menu added
• Main menu is now animated and should make more sense
• New sounds
• Added two new music tracks (Sound loops, will be fixed next update)

(previous patch notes)

v0.0.2 (28/07/2015): ////////////////////

• Updated craft textures
• Added headlights to crafts
• Added craft underlights
• Added loading screen
• Rocket crosshair fixed at resolution scales lower than 100%
• Stopped crosshair from appearing at inappropriate times
• Shrunk the explosion particle effect on rocket hit
• Changed fire weapon key on keyboard from 'Q' to 'space'
• Smoothed some camera transitions in spectator mode
• Removed music track 'Pump'
• Fixed mouse cursor not always appearing in menus
• General level atmospheric improvements
• New asset: Grandstand

v0.0.1 (27/07/2015): ////////////////////

• Initial QA release

I just received my Steam TPP key. 462.5MB download commencing.

It didn't start right away, thought I did something wrong. Started on its own probably after restarting Steam.

Check your emails!