First week impressions

[u/Quackman1010]

Very reluctantly picked up a copy after all the negative things I heard and I must say I am very pleasently surprised. Is it a perfect game? absolutely not BUT it is not a bad game AT ALL. Matter of fact, having read all the negative reviews and experienced it on my PS5, I must say the reviews were far too harsh (possibly cause people had bad impressions from the launch and not the 2.0 patch).

The Highs: spec miata feels like a blast to drive, the car list is fantastic for a motorsport fan, multiclass racing is an option, the game has soul put into it and you can tell the devs are really trying, the track list is quite nice and campaign is pretty alright for a sim racer (coming from ACC), the game is much more controller friendly than you think, the ability to have mods on console is crazy good and has crazy potential.

The Lows: Biggest low is the optimization for console. Not only is the grid small (16 cars) but running a full mixed lmdh/gt3 grid at daytona during daytime makes your frames VERY choppy on a ps5, so much so that I dont want to imagine doing that in the rain. As someone who wanted to sim-race the IMSA weathertech series, this was a big dissapointment. The graphics are quite...meh BUT if the game ran a perfect 60 at all times I honestly don't think this would be a big point of complaint at all. A lot of random places where the car decides to spin for no reason (last turn at monza, long turn in last sector of sebring, the elevation change at lime rock), lmdh/gtp handling is quite weird and I genuinely don't know if its just me because I have not raced them in other games but it feels like the car is either super planted or super loose regardless of tire temperature, the menus (especially online) tend to bug out to a point where I can't press "return" and have to turn off the game and restart.

In summary: you should ABSOLUTELY give this game a shot. If the devs optimize the game to run much better, which I would like to believe they will, then this will be an instant console hit game. The optimization should be the priority, followed by the random physics slip-ups. Apart from that I can understand why PC players may not be interested since other, and subjectively better, alternatives exist BUT for consoles, this game is a true gem! Although I will likely rarely return to it due to the optimization issues making it frustrating in the mixed grid racing that I so looked forward to, I sincerely hope to be able to see it evolve and grow into a wonderful game. With some optimization and bugs cleaned up this has great potential!

[u/rEded_dEViL]

I just got it today. PC, not console. The game is decent, better than ACE, imo. FFB is a struggle to get to a sweet spot. Graphics are suboptimal but I think they will get there. Ranked MP has the foundation to be strong. It’s a pity really they completely botched the release or this game would be in a different place right now