DryvBy
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Carmageddon: Max Damage |OT| End Pedestrian Safe Zones
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Adding this to the OP.
letmetrythisname
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SlasherJPC
Banned
Going to stream a bit of this on ps4. Www.twitch.tv/slasherjpc
To be fair, the game comes out today on consoles and this thread has like 54 posts.
letmetrythisname
Member
The market "not being there" doesn't make the game bad, though. Many of the best games (in my dumbass opinion) are clearly not made to appeal to everyone.
DryvBy
Member
Right, but that's not a legitimate reason to trash a game.
letmetrythisname
Member
Oh, don't worry, he said the same thing about the SOCOM spiritual successor, too. I don't want to derail the thread, but that is such a laughably illegitimate complaint.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Load times are a tad long, otherwis enjoying it on the stream so far.
Codiox
Member
Yeah but this is the only flaw I can see right now. Gameplay looks really fun.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Handling can be whoaaa... so hoping the upgrades can make them control better. Otherwise yeah. Somem mindless fun here. Ha.
Stainless said the following about pedestrians in Reincarnation MP last year:
I'm guessing the idea was later shelved entirely. The issue was likely syncing pedestrian ragdoll physics across several clients, as theorised in the thread, but I think people would be happy with a simpler approach or even no pedestrian physics whatsoever if it meant the viable inclusion of pedestrians.
letmetrythisname
Member
The handling in Carmageddon has historically been nothing like other driving games to say the least. It takes a while to get used to.
SlasherJPC
Banned
I can tell, starting to get used to it. It's sort of wild. Works in creating the chaos though.
Heavy_D206
Member
Honestly I'm enjoying the controls a lot on PS4. It's loose enough to slide around, but you can still hold L2 and Circle to keep it tight around small corners.
Load times aside I'm loving the shit out of this game right now. It's the definition of mindless fun. Plus you can play the game pretty much any way you want.
Taking first place racing, destroying every opponents car, or killing the hundreds of pedestrians littered across the streets. You will get rewarded no matter how you choose to play.
The maps are really large with an encouragement on exploration. In the first level you will be directed to find the sports stadium where you can interrupt a nice game of football.
It feels like the old PC days when I would spend hours driving around the levels just causing insane havoc. Some of the powerups are damn hilarious. Making everyone on the street break into dance, or sending them flying into the air with a ridiculously large spring. It's all amazing.
Hopefully the MP is still fun even without the pedestrians.
Load times aside I'm loving the shit out of this game right now. It's the definition of mindless fun. Plus you can play the game pretty much any way you want.
Taking first place racing, destroying every opponents car, or killing the hundreds of pedestrians littered across the streets. You will get rewarded no matter how you choose to play.
The maps are really large with an encouragement on exploration. In the first level you will be directed to find the sports stadium where you can interrupt a nice game of football.
It feels like the old PC days when I would spend hours driving around the levels just causing insane havoc. Some of the powerups are damn hilarious. Making everyone on the street break into dance, or sending them flying into the air with a ridiculously large spring. It's all amazing.
Hopefully the MP is still fun even without the pedestrians.
Brian_FETO
Banned
I like Giant Bomb but yeah, it's the same thing as them (and others) saying "we've moved past games like Twisted Metal"
Yeah cars blowing things up, where's the fun
Thanks for the impressions HeavyD!
SlasherJPC
Banned
Seems impossible to finish the free roam levels by just kills peds. Lol
Valkyr1983
Banned
Don't see it on PS store
Joseph Merrick
Member
Yeah, it's sometimes really hard to find the last peds. There should be powerups to show peds on map and also useful ped seeking powerups. But you'll have to scout them out and find where they are in a level.
Joseph Merrick
Member
A lot of the game was rewritten. Just think of it as an expansion to reincarnation. PC owners of reincarnations will get this version for free at some point, there's a window of console exclusivity for it they somehow agreed to from the publisher. Tsc tsc.
Ah, interesting - thanks for clearing that up. I feel like if I don't pick it up sooner than later, the game will disappear / me being paranoid. I would like to wait for the PC update, but maybe I'll go in on PS4.
Joseph Merrick
Member
nice bear slicing, slasherjpc. lol
Kabuki Quantum Lover
Member
Long loading times and the graphics seems a little muddy on the PS4, but it's a solid Carmageddon title. It's fun as heck.
This is out already? I grabbed a digital copy for Xbone and it says it doesn't unlock until the 8th. Physical copies released first? :/
Is that car that permanently zaps peds with electricity still in? It's the only way I finished levels in that manner.
Joseph Merrick
Member
yep, it's in there.
Noisepurge
Member
yeah, where is that carmageddon hiding :E
fake edit: apparently US release date is on friday too
Honestly they could just track damage on peds and not bother to synchronize movement at all and it would be a hell of a lot better than what they've got now.
I can't really fathom why physics are even involved in the discussion - the only 'physics' are ragdolls and once a pedestrian is hit it doesn't make any difference what direction a corpse moves in. Tracking 'hundreds' of objects is not particularly difficult either, because they don't move erratically and don't need to be moving when at distance, you send the vector to clients (wow 12 bytes or something) and when their direction changes; but nope, it is unpossible.
Maybe for the next Carmageddon title eh..
This is good news. My bro and I have this on pre-order (UK).
Are the maps different from the original incarnation(!) or are they all new?
Looking forwards to playing something with mindless fun seeing as the whole country has lost its mind . . . .
Given the game is out, it seems more likely that just nobody really cares or the publisher got copies out late.
valentine71
Banned
Game has two seperate embargoes.
On the 6th- youtube and twitch streams and videos of gameplays are ok.
8th is the date that the reviews can go live.
I am gonna stream some gameplay if anyone is interested:
https://www.twitch.tv/abysswalker71
Joseph Merrick
Member
so much stupid with the release of this GREAT game. this publisher was a mistake
Noisepurge
Member
Neuromancer
Member
Wait, the embargo is still up even though the game is in stores?
Noisepurge
Member
it shouldn't be available in stores until friday
valentine71
Banned
Digital version releases on the 8th i believe, don' t know about the retail version though.
Later Alligator
Member
i have reincarnation on PC, and just want to chime in that it is great fun
it was in pretty bad shape earlier on, but it has been optimized a lot and runs great on my rig now
it was in pretty bad shape earlier on, but it has been optimized a lot and runs great on my rig now
DryvBy
Member
It's just weird because Carmageddon 1 & 2 both have peds running around.
It's out now on console.
Noisepurge
Member
but really only in some shops and only in physical format. It's real release date is friday, it's not out on consoles yet.
Sammo_1987
Member
Can't wait to get stuck into this, Carmageddon 2 games with my older brother are some of my fondest gaming memories.
Loved, LOVED all the cars in Carma 2 (especially the coach and the Truck from the Mother Trucker level).
Also, imagine my surprise years later when I 'discovered' Iron Maiden only to find most of the tracks triggered memories of Max Damage!!
Can.not.wait.
Loved, LOVED all the cars in Carma 2 (especially the coach and the Truck from the Mother Trucker level).
Also, imagine my surprise years later when I 'discovered' Iron Maiden only to find most of the tracks triggered memories of Max Damage!!
Can.not.wait.
HamsterPackage
Member
Just reserved the only copy in stock for ps4 at my local EB games. this will be my first ever carmageddon game. Quick question are the races go from point A to point B? or is it open worldish objectives?
DryvBy
Member
It's open world but definitely point A to B. There's a clear track but there's a point to having this open world. It's a mix of a racing game and a vehicular combat game. It's really unique. Most of the time, you're going to try to destruction derby the other cars before finishing a race. Or just blow them up to win lol.
Are you mistaking UK release with US release? Official US release was yesterday on consoles.