The Doctor @ E3

[Knutselmaaster]

Wo0o0o0ot, really great report with high journalistic value.
Thanks a lot for sharing that with us.

[The_K]

until Next time Doc!

[fastforza]

Cheers Doctor! Very much appreciated!

[mistertl]

Thanks! Really nice to read!

[isamu]

Hello The Doctor and thank you *VERY* much for your detailed impressions good sir! It's MUCH appreciated!!

Doc, I have two questions I'd like you to address please, regarding these two comments below:

I really missed my steering wheel.

Since you mentioned a wheel, I am assuming you use a wheel as your primary instrument for playing TMU/TMUF? If so, with that being the case, did you ask anyone at Ubisoft/Nadeo how the car in TM2C will handle with a steering wheel? And whether or not true force feedback effects will be delivered to FFB wheels? If so, what did they say? I have been trying to ask this question to anyone at Nadeo here on the forums, but no one seems to want to answer this question. My FFB wheel is the *ONLY* device I will be using to play TM2C, so I'm a bit concerned that the game will not drive properly without good force feedback support

Drifting is easy to master and long, looong drifts are possible. Longer than the Island environment even.

OK, you bring up drifting....my favorite aspect in racing games. I am going to post a video containing footage of a Ferrari drifting in the game OutRun 2. Watch the video and please tell me how the Canyon car's drifting physics compare to the long controlled drifts in OutRun 2: Please pay attention at time: 30 seconds into the video to see an example of a good drift....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhaRzKxeSxc

.....so....does it drift like that?

[TheDoctor]

Wheels have been tested and have the standard feedback that the game already provides. I can't say first hand that when the car breaks loose the steering tension is greatly reduced via the wheels's driver. That I don't know.

As to how the car handles during a drift:
1)On pavement, no the car does not handle like that. The car slows to a point eventually that a drift is no longer possible. Drifting around a turn is slower than driving around a turn. But if a turn is sharp and or you have a lot of speed drifting the turn can result in a higher exit speed of the turn than trying a Island style "no-slide" type of turn.
2)On dirt, yes the car behaves a bit like the video you refer to but there is still a greater loss of speed. When straightening out the car you "feel" the tires bite.

[elitechris]

Many thanks for giving us this intersting things. It was definetly entertaining and great to be there.

[w1lla]

nice read . Really vamped about it now.

[CraxX]

THX for the beautiful work TheDoctor. It was awesome to read your info's and to watch the videos

beta coming closer...

[www.e-gekko.net]

Great, Manialinks inside game are the same!!!