Pre-orders from R* seem to be live, but nothing in Steam yet. Interestingly it has been in the Steam database for over 6 months now, I hope they won't have a delay on the digital download version.

This...

...points to this AppID:
http://steamdb.info/app/271590/subs/

Can also find the game image with that ID from Steam:

View wise that doesn't look bad at all, atleast other than the artificial DOF blur. No overdone G-force shaking, FOV looks pretty good... better than the current GTA bonnet cameras with their binoc FOV and floaty movement for sure.

Too bad WD driving physics are pure trash, as is the rest of the game.

Here's what's known and confirmed from R* so far:

• Improved draw distances
  
• High quality textures across the board
  
• Increased traffic density
  
• New wildlife and animals (hammerhead sharks and cats visible on trailer)
  
• Improved weather
  
• Damage model has been enhanced
  
• PC exclusive video editor
  
• Option to cross-transfer GTAO progress to Xbone/PS4/PC
  
• "And an array of new details to discover"
  

Working dashboard gauges = cockpit camera?

Quote from chanoman315 :

Looks great

http://www.rockstargames.com/videos#/?video=11144

"Grand Theft Auto V -- Coming for PlayStation®4, Xbox One and PC this Fall"

Celebration!

They're also keeping the video editor exclusively for PC like they did with IV:
"Grand Theft Auto V for PC will also feature a video editor designed for advanced movie-making."

Can't wait to play it at 1600p60 after the headache inducing 720p30 rubbish on consoles.

Quote from luchian :

Here are my settings; recommended by the devs, as far as I remember.

They later said that you should turn spring and damper to 0%, same deal as LFS basically. Pure FFB from the game engine.

^ You two must be awesome at parties.

Anyway, went and got Flaming Cliffs 3 aswell since it had the biggest discount. Flight model is surprisingly good, even if not at DCS level!

There's a DCS sale also going on, up to -60% off, items redeem on Steam via DCS world.

http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/shop/

Picked up DCS A10 and P51 myself.

Mod tools release soon?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj3z_yzdwbs

The Last of Us PS4 version is actually making me tempted to buy the console. Resogun is apparently pretty good too.

Short Crust RPi case (moves the power connector to back, brilliant!)



D24V6ALV switching power regulator

Did a ring lap with the F40, really liking how the track looks with grass now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0eljKXwHxY

It was overhyped to hell. As a whole it's an average game, multiplayer can be pretty cool where you are hacking someone or someone is hacking you and you need to locate them from the crowd. Specht77's video speaks for the rest.

Wait for -50% sales, it'll happen soon like it always does with Ubisoft games.

Or The Division. I'm sure that tiny animation of closing the car door is still in when it launches, rather than just a scripted sequence made specifically for the hype trailer, right?

http://gfycat.com/WholeBestBlueshark#?speed=3

Car seems to be visually clipping through the track a lot with 0.8

Geforce 337.88 "magic" drivers have been released, supposed to have up to 75% system-wide performance increase with some DX11 games. Anyone tried them with AC yet?

http://www.geforce.com/whats-n ... 88-whql-watch-dog-drivers

Sorry for double posting, but this is just too funny!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZWz86oDVuI Flawless train physics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UCGS9pOsVo Pre-chopped powerlines

One of the ex-developers (verified) popped up on 4chan today and apparently most of the issues are purely thanks to Ubi Montreal.

Quote from PMD9409 :

The challenge of modern Le Mans comes from the event, not from the circuit itself (IMO).

Pretty much, you can have an awesome race at the ring with just a handful of cars or even 1 on 1 which is easy to organize with friends, but LM requires nearly 100 cars of different classes to be anything but a doze fest.

Modern Le Mans is one boring ass track in my opinion. The high speed first section before the straightaway is quite alright, but after that it's mainly just dull chicanes and 90 degree turns.

Dunno, I was bored out of my mind after just a few hours due to how repetetive the game is. Didn't help that the first hour was almost completely tutorial bullcrap that handheld you at every point and didn't even allow you to freeroam in an open world sandbox game.

Quote from Matrixi :

Somehow, I'm not sensing the soul in this game. I get the vibes from all the footage so far, that some guy came up with a great idea for a game mechanic but the publisher just saw dollar signs.

Not saying that it doesn't seem like a cool game, because it does, but something just doesn't feel right.

As it turns out, my predictions were correct. What a boring and shallow game this turned out to be...

Good summary:

Steam is fantastic, but I don't want to link my account for it to be broadcasted at any public forum either. Good thing registering without linking is enough to read and download stuff.

Witnessing the amount of general stupidity at the AC forums, there's nothing lost in not taking part in the conversations.

Quote from Hyperactive :

The nordschleife still has too many polygon bumps which do not really exist at all in lfs. In lfs there really aren't any parts where you drive over polygon edges and get launched in the air or lose control when going over them...

I guess I should have put /s at the end of my post.

Regardless, the ring has already been more fun to drive than all the LFS tracks combined in the last 5 years.

Because it's fun and the mesh is still higher quality than anything in LFS.

So now there's a "mental health" gauge online which is meant to separate PvP'ers from PvE'ers, but it also fills up by killing NPCs... yet another great idea, but a piss poor execution of it. How do rockstar come up with these?

Atleast it's now possible to own two properties, got my OCD garages set up.