You’re absolutely spot on I been saying this for months the communication for them is piss poor and quite frankly they think there selling a dream like they need to wake the fuck up and acknowledge the terrible state TDUSC is in
Comparing CD project red & what they did with cyberpunk to Kylotonn & test drive issues is an absolute joke. Just because one game did it, doesn't mean every game that has a rough start will pull it off. Kylotonn has 148 employees CD project red has over 600, these situations as a whole are so different...
I also always wonder what the constant comparisons with cyberpunk are all about. 1. does CDPR have the budget, and 2. was Cyberpunk very buggy at launch, but the actual game was already on a very good level as far as the open world, story, etc. were concerned.
It shouldn't even happen in the first place, but these youtubers will push the idea because they make money off these franchises. They're all company men, selling out the industry under the facade of "community engagement".
also Destiny 2 did it, but TDU just doesn't have that kind of big and loyal fanbase. no one will wait a year for them to fix things when the base of the game isn't even good like D2 was.
With the state of things, and the fact the first two seasons are included with the initial purchase 70 weeks a piece, there's almost no way they'll have anyone left by the third season to purchase it.
Didn't the French devs went on a strike when the game launched? I think it affected the studio immensely, and I think they have a skeleton crew working on fixing the game. They're not telling much.
the fact that the game has no crossplay, is region locked and there is no ranked matchmaking means it will die out in the next 2-3 months. talking about it is just a waste of time. every single thing leaving the devs mouth is just PR damage control and unfathomable levels of gaslighting. one of the worst game launches i have ever seen and the game is fundamentally flawed so there is little hope this shit will get fixed within the next year.
The biggest issue with the game is the always online. It's the worst implementation of it in any racing game. If they made it a single player game with an online functionality even with all the bugs and missing features it would've been a completely different story. But now they have to fix all of the bugs, add content AND on top of that keep the servers running smooth. Again in a game with the worst implementation of always online.. This comment would be soo much longer if i had to list everything wrong with it. Not even close to NFS 2015's always online, The crew 2 and motorfest or Forza motorsport. Realistically there isn't an uno reverse card that could fix this, unless they go back deep into development and rework core game system. Which is just not happening.
not being able to tune the AI difficulty is also the biggest sin. it straight up cheats and achieves impossible acceleration and cornering in the cars that should have no business doing so like Alfa Mito. you're pigeonholed into using meta AWD cars if you want to even have a chance at competing with AI.
All I want is for them to add the offline mode and for the game to be $30, but I guess that's asking too much. I'm willing to pay for a bare-bones open world to drive in. The map looks stunning and I can even get past all the gameplay shortcomings if it were cheaper, but the fact that it could be taken away at any point right now is discouraging especially given the publisher issues they're having.
I feel like the minimizing of issues, the early talks of EoL, people not being able to play at all, the bugfixes not fixing anything, and the literal delayed maintenance (no, I'm not kidding on this part) says alot about how long the game will actually last. Not long enough to see the casino being added.
Most of the Features of the Series are missing from this game 1 No Hitchhiker or package Delivery Missions 2 No Purchasable Houses 3 No Casino 4 Can't Drive To Clothing Shops Plus The Map is Boring and Car List is disappointing with so many iconic Cars missing from this game Once CarX Street arrives on Console It's game Over for TDSC on Console
This message sums it all up. Those are staples of the franchise. They thought they knew better than an established franchise that had such a winning formula that they felt the need to utilize the name, but didn't know enough to stay true to the roots. They can say they wanted to do it better but as of launch, they haven't done any of it AT-ALL.
The biggest problem is that the game is simply not a TDU. 90% of what makes TDU TDU is missing. Of course, it doesn't help when the communication is so bad. Also, the developers didn't exactly come across as understanding the problems and the community in their diary. To me it comes across more like they want to do their own thing instead of listening to the community.
I miss the good old days when you were sold a true and tested product. Today you no longer know what you are getting. After 40 years of gaming I have been sadly disappointed with this game.
I feel you brother, I've literally in the just the last week, cancelled ps plus and moved on to PC, like you after 20-30+ years of gaming this current generation had been morning but incomplete projects and systems plaguing the market. I haven't played an actual "finished' game in years. I'll stick with emulation for the time being
This is exactly why I don't pre-order or buy within the first month of a games release anymore, almost any game that releases nowadays is either broken or lacking content massively, often on purpose so they can live-service that content in later, sometimes even for money and were talking stuff that used to be standard in any game on release day. But recently a lot of bad games have flopped hard which is a good thing because it will eventually force developers to actually release good games again in order for it to succeed.
Share the sentiment, 20+ years of gaming, and have seen them shift from the exploration of ideas, feelings, and stories in an art form to an industry manufactured product with features that chase market trends to try and capture the magic of great games but instead find themselves drifting away from it. Good games are still released, but most AAA games are not doing it anymore, that's why my library and recommendations are filling up with Indie and AA titles.
Thing I noticed after MAINTENANCE, you no longer need to downgrade the power of the car of your already downgraded it once when you restart a race, until the patch you needed to press the “autodowngrade” button each time you restarted the race, now you don’t need to press it anymore
This game is pure GARBAGE, I wasted over a hundred dollars on it and quit playing it. I literally feel ripped off and feel like I paid 100 dollars to be a beta tester 🤬
"HaHa" in Nelson's voice but in all honesty, if you were actually in one of the numerous playtests, you wouldve known to stay far away from this mess, let alone pre ordering it
The ai is brutal in this game you can be waaay out in first place and one mistake they are out in front in a split second and it’s super hard to catch back up and most of the time their performance rating is significantly less
Why can't games just launch without any problems? We are living in 2024, and we have all the newest technology as well as years of experience in game development. I know all games do not launch perfectly, but you would think that today they would.
The biggest issue is the ease of getting patches out spoiled developers along with shareholder profit expectations. The Higher Ups have the mentality of get the product out there so the revenue stream starts as soon as possible and we can just shoot out fixes later. It used to be a much more difficult process to get updates out there, so you didnt have the option of just being lazy and patching things whenever.
@@skyraiser9Exactly and they're always ready with excuses like 'game development is hard' and other such statements while totally forgetting how much money they are charging for their games...
I haven't noticed any improvements when it comes to the graphics on the PS5! The Crew Motorfest has beautiful 4K graphics on PS5 and that game is open world as well, with a complex world, a lot of cars etc. Sorry, but there are no excuses when others can do it and you see that it is possible! ✌️❤️
It is so sad that we are getting more and more games being launched in this state like TDUSC, now we lose time that could of been used to develop more content, now that time is being used to instead fix their own game. It is becoming like a business model where developers will release a game early to people who pay the most with the Gold Edition with not much content compared to previous games and then use those people to test and remove bugs...but in this case it is much worse as it still has so many issues that it has driven most people away from the game. To date since the launch of the Gold Edition on Xbox I still haven't had more than 3 people in a race including myself. What a mess of a game.
It seems like it's not a TDU Game. TDU isnt a racing game it's a driving game No garage limits, no houses, stores and the dealerships don't look anything like a dealership lol. Not to mention no quests or convoy missiona or uber ish missions.
Yeah they just stripped anything unique out of it. The smaller map and copy-paste buildings really don’t lend themselves well to exploring or just cruising. I had a much better time in tdu 2 or the crew 2
The failed and limited communication plus have to always be online tp play solar crown is holding me back and giving totally red flags from even wanting to play solar crown
Every problem this game has was expected as soon as they announced it was an Always online game. Every publisher/developer setting a game as always online have all these problems, they know the game is in beta state and force online to patch it up. These publishers deserve when the game fails, I feel sorry for TDU fans who got ripped off
what i honestly think that nacon should do, is either cut the shit and actually work on the game or get in contact with ivory tower and get a couple of their folks to help out nacon and get tdusc running to the best of its ability
As a racer of 33 years.. the only "fix" for this game is to look to the right and toss it in the trash. It's six miles out even from the arcade (literally) game Cruzin USA from the 90s The lead on this project should be fired and then start on a new game while refunding everyone who paid for this "game" It is a farcry (cough* Ubisoft) from their old games. If they lean into this one it will be a devastating blow to their bottom dollar.. it pains me to say all of the above This is a market grab pure and simple.. and they missed the rope
At first when you said about the main issue not being so much about the server issues, I would have respectfully disagreed with you. But when you said about the main issue being communication, you are ABSOLUTELY spot on Trigger. They've said that there were about 300+ bug fixes in TDUSC since it's first patch. So what are they? Nowhere does it tell you. And most people from what I've been reading are STILL having server issues which was SUPPOSED to be the main issue that they fixed in the first place. I've said it before and I'll say it again. NO driving game whatsoever should be online only. That's just fact and has been proven time and time again. I don't care or giving a flying fig about their supposed excuse being to prevent cheaters. At this point, that excuse is just that.
The game succeeded in multiple ways of letting everyone down. Not only they tarnished the "Test drive" franchise but their own studio reputation. The few players there are will leave and they will be forced to shut down. But this is what happens after so many years in development to literally be an unfinished mess.
There needs to be way more things to do, grinding the same race events over an over is dull, which is strange because that's loterally what we do in Forza Horizon, which isnt dull.
Sadly, I give it one month, tops, before Nacon cuts their Losses and Runs, Shuts the Servers, and throws the Playerbase to the Wolves, it will not be the first time they have done that, I do not see Nacon sticking with this Game for a full Year. Remember, we are talking about a Company so Vile in its Business Practices that they make EA look Pro Consumer by Comparison, do not put anything past them! Remember, that Dev Diary was nothing short of False Advertising, it, in Lying in an Advertisement for the Game, was the Literal Legal Definition of False Advertising! and False Advertising, at least in the Country where I live, is against the Law ! So put nothing past Nacon, not even Shutting the Servers before this Year is out. This Game is done, walk away people, it is a lost war! walk away.
The most disappointing part is that TDU1 released almost 20 years ago and almost every aspect about it was/is better than TDUSC... its truly unbelievable.
The only compensation they should give to us is fully free season passes and refunding the extra cash that people spent for the gold and silver edition. They just don't deserve further money than the base price of the game.
I personally love the game. Yes it has a long way to go but the basics are in place now fix issues and grow. Yes it's missing a lot. Hopefully they will add the missing Content
I dunno.... To me the biggest issue with the game is that it is missing absolutely everything that makes a TDU game well... TDU... And with its current state I do not see any of that coming any time soon or if at all. What we have is a generic copy/pasta Racing game now complete with a "battle pass". A damn shame really.... Anything that they say or communicate, I could care less at this point. Actions are stronger than words and if we are going to be real here, I've seen really no actions.
Correct - this is also a very big issue of the game, however i believe it is not the nail in the coffin because to me that would be the game itself - it's code, its graphics, its backend - it's all terrible.the game engine can simply not handle this game as it was tailored for their WRC titles back in the day and so their tools seem outdated today.
When will gamers or people in general fucking learn. How many examples do you need. I don’t even feel bad anymore when people say they bought a shit game and feel ripped off. 🤦♂️
hopefully GTA VI will be next one given what Rockstar is doing since like 2017 still remember how my brother was one of the 8 million victims of pre ordering Cyberpunk
@@adlibbed2138 unfortunately quality is just down in every gaming genre in general as a whole. I’m not even trying to shit on anyone being excited for a game or anything, but I genuinely just don’t at all anymore because I just expect them to come with problems. Why pay for problems when we already face them for free lol
I recently payed 25€ for a regular key, don't feel the need for extra cars or whatever that I'm not gonna use anyways. I just say it's worth the money I spent on it. I like the races, the car sounds are pretty great for most cars and I like the handling. I also love that some cars can be tuned to ridiculous power levels like the Ferrari (random number) Superfast that I bought today. It went well over 500 km/h ! 😂 For me, the AI is challenging but it's fine. I play on PC with a controller, 0% ABS, 0% TCS and I don't have to use meta cars to beat the AI on any track. Some are harder than others and need some tries but it's fun to have a challenge and not beat every race 1st try with ease. You gotta be good at driving AND tuning your car. You can play everything thats important solo anyways. Ranked racing doesnt matter, you can buy the cars one month later in the shop for credits. Otherwise you can just use family share to boost yourself if you have a spare laptop that can barely run the game 😅
To this point the game has been an epic failure. I quit playing shortly after release and have not gone back. I'm having more fun playing Horizon 5 again.
If you’ve played TDU2 then you’ll understand that this is normal. For the first 6 months. I know the games not working I know it has problems and I know it’s bad but it’s still a fun game and it will only get better as for the communication it’s really bad. They need to fix that. However this games launch is still better then TDU2
I understand that and agree that this game should have been Offline and online mode optional. But I still enjoy the game like many. Crud I’m 1st in the world on ranked races. I’ve won 400 races lol
@@NormalCleanCars They shoulda keep the sessions up would be nice to Drive around with other players now after completing all cups Championships it gets boring real fast
Yea I paid the for the gold version and stop playing at level 11 I can’t even join a gang or crew or whatever hopefully they fix this game like cyber punk and in the future hopefully it’s better
So much hype about this game and all they have delivered is a boring grindfest made even worse by the last patch increasing already extortionate car prices, and the Solar Pass is just a joke, 50K solar coins x4? Who is going to pay for that going forward if that is their model? So mad i wasted £80 on this overhyped POS. Should have stuck with TCM as Season 2 for that looks very good. Either fix the game pretty damn sharp or offer refunds
honestly with their attitude, the damn game I spent over $100 bucks over still will not be finished within a year, the people behind TDUSC just sucks!, if you can't figure out how to provision a stable server for at least 100,000 players at a time, what the heck are you doing in this industry?
They just don’t want to deal with the problems and are probably incredibly let down by the community perception so they’re just pretending like things are fine and minimizing everything. This game was DOA and is just a cash grab from the start.
They delayed the maintenance 😂😂 The game got delayed 2 years in a row. Then the week 1 patch is delayed by 3 weeks along with season 1. Now a season 1 fix (that is already a week late) is delayed. I
We all agree that the graphics are completely horrible for a 2024 game compared to the trailer we were shown, but the question I ask myself, the two French people we saw in the video of their press release, before releasing the game, said to themselves: the graphics are correct and people will love it loll wtf?!?!?! 🤦♂️
This is a small team, less than 100 people. I love this game, yes it is not perfect but they will fix it but it takes time. Look a AAA games, they all come out broken. If you love test drive games these people (developers) will deliver. This is a passion project for them too. This will be great. I know it should release perfect!! We all know every game in the last 5 years, this doesn't happen, give this small team a chance, I am and I think we all should.
They are Incompetent and Without Excuse, I have Played Games with Vastly smaller Budgets, from teams of Ten People or Less, even just one Person, and they have been Masterpiece Level. Katie Racing are Incompetent and are without Excuse, they had their Chance and they Blew it! they do not get a Second.
@@simeonyves5940to put it on perspective, games like Night Runners, Japanese Drift Master, Project Wingman, and recently Road To Vostok and Black One Blood Brothers showed what KayTee racing how games made by even less manpower was actually capable of without any corporate strings attached
You say you don't want it to fail but your title says: The real nail in the cofin and everyone knows they have issues inside they have been on strike before the game was out. They knew it was not going well already but had to get it out because of the people at the top wanting their load of cash it's all they care about. They don't know how to make games, they probably dont play games they just are told they can make a lot out of it and they do. In the end the consumer is the one who is losing because there is no real law about giving you a product that should be as advertise or their would be consequence.
Not trying to be rude but, this game was in development for a long time and it didn't sell well AND the players that bought it aren't really playing it. They LOST A TON OF MONEY on this game at this point. Calling it a cash grab is just wrong to be honest.
@@MilitiaGamingCommunity It is because they knew what they were releasing like what happened with Cyberpunk 2077 they even apologize but in it end its just hollow apologies they have our money its over...
The game is absolutely trash and the game developers are making the situation worst than it can be, I ain't even going to say anything about the battle pass... To me the game developers just wrong scam on gamer
Am I the only one who feels the basic driving physics and looks of the driving are the biggest issue with this game. The driving is terrible and so floaty. I feel as if I'm driving a cartoon Goodyear blimp! To me, the game that got it right is Need For Speed Unbound.
6:30 most of the fixes feel like they were just back end coding that they didn't quite finish before releasing this unfinished game😂 i feel like if they just waited another 8 months this would've been completely avoidable. I havent touched the game in like 2 weeks. I got to level 48 in the first 2 weeks and hardly scratched the surface of the races. Just driving around and finding roads and getting the xp collectibles. Games trash and i regret spending money on the gold edition. AAA money for a 1.5 A game
My only complaint about the game is that my Moza R5 occasionally loses input and I need to downshift/brake to regain control through the wheel and pedals. i find the racing fun, the map great, and I personally like the fact that the game doesn't throw cars at you for free every second level. Never had any servers problems or any major bugs, right from day one. Like everyone else, I hope it gets even better but I really don't understand all the hate.
i knew this game would flop since the early betas. they have the same issues that the full release had and they did not address anything. just like nfs etc before these guys are selling potential and banking on the lead dev for the old game to help here lol
I don't know which blogger complains about performance anymore. Why do all RUclipsrs have such bad computers? I have a AMD Ryzen 7 5700G and 3060. I used to play on medium preset with fps 35-40, after the patch I can play on high preset with fps 40-50. I can even set ultra graphics, but then the fps drops to 25-35 with drawdowns of up to 18 frames. I see an improvement in performance and the rest don't, why are your computers so bad??? In general, I agree with the review, but computers...
The guy literally said he has a 3090 and an i9 processor... how is that a bad computer? lol I have a 3080 and a 5800X and my frame rates were all over the place during the beta as well.
@@dapunisher6666 I just don't understand people who complain about graphics, okay, it may not be very detailed, but overall the picture is pleasant. At the same time, they play with normal fps, with normal graphics, especially after a patch that objectively improved performance, they manage to complain that their fps sank from 185 to 184. I'm going a little overboard here, but I hope the meaning is clear. And I also hope my translator translated it into English normally :D
The ONLY thing that could possibly save this game is for the devs to develop a dedicated PVP only mode. And that will not happen. Nails in coffin already.
The worest racing/driving game EVER, having in mind it's predecessors from the same series and not even mentioning almost any other of the same/similar type! There is no way to improve it because everything looks soooo ugly, starting with the cars, races, graphics, environments, gameplay, basically EVERYTHING!!! Although I've wasted £90 it's not worth even for FREE!!! UTTER RUBISH but AlexVII is still making silly long videos trying to convince people it's worth it, hahaha.
FYI, A7 has not been trying to convince people it’s worth it at all. He’s been saying he can’t recommend the game at all right now, and that people should wait until the game gets things straight before spending money.
@MilitiaGamingCommunity agree with your opinion but still trying to "find" positives in all this mess regarding servers or bugging issues undermining the main issue of "missed" game on every front! Starting with very poor storyline where "thousands" if not more of contestants are "packed" in one funny looking hotel, graphics are very basic with almost all the buildings looking the same, like boxy parcels, streets look the same, boring and all repetitive environment where almost every race looks the same, specially off road ones with only addition of extra curves and bands. And the main issue that can't even be sorted at all unless you start fro the drawing board, are the car graphics?! There are only few cars that actually look decent and realistic compared to other games like GT series, Crew and Motorfest, NFS, Grid, and many other similar ones. Not saying that is not playable but very disappointed after so much expectations, even now TDU2 looks and feels much better than this one! Obviously it's my opinion and there are lot of people thinking completely opposite...
@MilitiaGamingCommunity nah I'm sorry but I have seen alex7 in comments arguing with any valid criticism. People trusted him as I did. We were passionate about a good franchise being resurrected. He literally said in videos that the game was in a much better state than the betas and we believed him. Now he's faced valid scrutiny he says we all push and agenda about him when we're angry that he's glazed over this crap and fought anyone who opposed his extremely biased opinion
They released the game to soon because of pre orders. Ya'll been handing them money before it even came out. Now ya'll whining. Stop paying for unfinished products!
Think if TDUSC had the Motorfest or Forza budget this would have been dope but this is super trash, They sold everyone a dream. This game is cooked and they do not have the budget or the infrastructure to fix this dated looking mess, No thank you I will stick to the chaos of horrible driver and glitchy cheats and resets in Grand Race
Honestly this is pretty much what I expected from a TDU game... TDU2 was full of problems well over a year in and servers would randomly go down for days at a time. The only salvation for TDU2 was it had an offline mode that it would default into when servers were down, well most of the time it would LOL. I was hoping this game would be better than TDU2, but nope, still crashes to desktop just like the old game, servers are glitchy and getting into sessions with friends is a pain and even when you do, ping times have to be perfect or lag is deadly. To make it all worse, graphics are overly demanding and the AI are weird at best.
Screw this game Militia sorry not buying and would not care about it, look at the difference between Carx and TestDrive, a 20 dollar game vs a 59.99 game hell no for that price tag you want at least the basic things in order , I would ask for my money back for this mess of a game. We can't keep encouraging this companies to keep putting sht out like this its 2024 we deserve better!
The game is just absolute shit it holds the attention for about 20 min and now after playing for a while I start the game and then just shut it off it’s that shitty
If you ever feel tempted to pre order a game, save a screenshot of this game
You’re absolutely spot on I been saying this for months the communication for them is piss poor and quite frankly they think there selling a dream like they need to wake the fuck up and acknowledge the terrible state TDUSC is in
Comparing CD project red & what they did with cyberpunk to Kylotonn & test drive issues is an absolute joke. Just because one game did it, doesn't mean every game that has a rough start will pull it off. Kylotonn has 148 employees CD project red has over 600, these situations as a whole are so different...
I also always wonder what the constant comparisons with cyberpunk are all about. 1. does CDPR have the budget, and 2. was Cyberpunk very buggy at launch, but the actual game was already on a very good level as far as the open world, story, etc. were concerned.
@@benn87 exactly. CP2077 is fundamentally sound, despite infamously botched launch.
can't say the same thing to Solar Clown.
It shouldn't even happen in the first place, but these youtubers will push the idea because they make money off these franchises. They're all company men, selling out the industry under the facade of "community engagement".
also Destiny 2 did it, but TDU just doesn't have that kind of big and loyal fanbase. no one will wait a year for them to fix things when the base of the game isn't even good like D2 was.
With the state of things, and the fact the first two seasons are included with the initial purchase 70 weeks a piece, there's almost no way they'll have anyone left by the third season to purchase it.
Didn't the French devs went on a strike when the game launched? I think it affected the studio immensely, and I think they have a skeleton crew working on fixing the game. They're not telling much.
They juste dont have the talent, the good ideas and the skills to create a good Test Drive expérience
the fact that the game has no crossplay, is region locked and there is no ranked matchmaking means it will die out in the next 2-3 months.
talking about it is just a waste of time. every single thing leaving the devs mouth is just PR damage control and unfathomable levels of gaslighting.
one of the worst game launches i have ever seen and the game is fundamentally flawed so there is little hope this shit will get fixed within the next year.
On steam its already barely 1000 players… it will die sooner if they not fix it
@@danifit24 and now it's below 500.
I'd say that the biggest problem with Solar Crown is the fact that it launched so feature incomplete that it's just not a TDU game.
The biggest issue with the game is the always online. It's the worst implementation of it in any racing game. If they made it a single player game with an online functionality even with all the bugs and missing features it would've been a completely different story. But now they have to fix all of the bugs, add content AND on top of that keep the servers running smooth. Again in a game with the worst implementation of always online.. This comment would be soo much longer if i had to list everything wrong with it. Not even close to NFS 2015's always online, The crew 2 and motorfest or Forza motorsport. Realistically there isn't an uno reverse card that could fix this, unless they go back deep into development and rework core game system. Which is just not happening.
not being able to tune the AI difficulty is also the biggest sin. it straight up cheats and achieves impossible acceleration and cornering in the cars that should have no business doing so like Alfa Mito. you're pigeonholed into using meta AWD cars if you want to even have a chance at competing with AI.
All I want is for them to add the offline mode and for the game to be $30, but I guess that's asking too much. I'm willing to pay for a bare-bones open world to drive in. The map looks stunning and I can even get past all the gameplay shortcomings if it were cheaper, but the fact that it could be taken away at any point right now is discouraging especially given the publisher issues they're having.
😂😂same
I feel like the minimizing of issues, the early talks of EoL, people not being able to play at all, the bugfixes not fixing anything, and the literal delayed maintenance (no, I'm not kidding on this part) says alot about how long the game will actually last. Not long enough to see the casino being added.
Most of the Features of the Series are missing from this game
1 No Hitchhiker or package Delivery Missions
2 No Purchasable Houses
3 No Casino
4 Can't Drive To Clothing Shops
Plus The Map is Boring and Car List is disappointing with so many iconic Cars missing from this game
Once CarX Street arrives on Console It's game Over for TDSC on Console
It's the Offline patch and Maui island in MOTORFEST that will put TDUSC down
This message sums it all up. Those are staples of the franchise. They thought they knew better than an established franchise that had such a winning formula that they felt the need to utilize the name, but didn't know enough to stay true to the roots. They can say they wanted to do it better but as of launch, they haven't done any of it AT-ALL.
You missed offline mode.
The biggest problem is that the game is simply not a TDU. 90% of what makes TDU TDU is missing. Of course, it doesn't help when the communication is so bad. Also, the developers didn't exactly come across as understanding the problems and the community in their diary. To me it comes across more like they want to do their own thing instead of listening to the community.
Guarantee you by next year, there will be a Class Action Lawsuit to the developers lol!
I miss the good old days when you were sold a true and tested product. Today you no longer know what you are getting. After 40 years of gaming I have been sadly disappointed with this game.
I feel you brother, I've literally in the just the last week, cancelled ps plus and moved on to PC, like you after 20-30+ years of gaming this current generation had been morning but incomplete projects and systems plaguing the market. I haven't played an actual "finished' game in years. I'll stick with emulation for the time being
This is exactly why I don't pre-order or buy within the first month of a games release anymore, almost any game that releases nowadays is either broken or lacking content massively, often on purpose so they can live-service that content in later, sometimes even for money and were talking stuff that used to be standard in any game on release day.
But recently a lot of bad games have flopped hard which is a good thing because it will eventually force developers to actually release good games again in order for it to succeed.
Share the sentiment, 20+ years of gaming, and have seen them shift from the exploration of ideas, feelings, and stories in an art form to an industry manufactured product with features that chase market trends to try and capture the magic of great games but instead find themselves drifting away from it.
Good games are still released, but most AAA games are not doing it anymore, that's why my library and recommendations are filling up with Indie and AA titles.
Super weird you pay to be a member for a chanel lmao
@@kdmscarlett2012 why because I earned money and want to support my friends.
Thing I noticed after MAINTENANCE, you no longer need to downgrade the power of the car of your already downgraded it once when you restart a race, until the patch you needed to press the “autodowngrade” button each time you restarted the race, now you don’t need to press it anymore
This game is pure GARBAGE, I wasted over a hundred dollars on it and quit playing it. I literally feel ripped off and feel like I paid 100 dollars to be a beta tester 🤬
Man I feel sorry for you but I don't have the ability to afford expensive editions so I have to be careful with cash
"HaHa" in Nelson's voice but in all honesty, if you were actually in one of the numerous playtests, you wouldve known to stay far away from this mess, let alone pre ordering it
Never pre-order, that simple.
@@Rafale01I did and I got burned
Lol why did you do that?
The ai is brutal in this game you can be waaay out in first place and one mistake they are out in front in a split second and it’s super hard to catch back up and most of the time their performance rating is significantly less
Why can't games just launch without any problems? We are living in 2024, and we have all the newest technology as well as years of experience in game development. I know all games do not launch perfectly, but you would think that today they would.
The biggest issue is the ease of getting patches out spoiled developers along with shareholder profit expectations. The Higher Ups have the mentality of get the product out there so the revenue stream starts as soon as possible and we can just shoot out fixes later. It used to be a much more difficult process to get updates out there, so you didnt have the option of just being lazy and patching things whenever.
@@skyraiser9Exactly and they're always ready with excuses like 'game development is hard' and other such statements while totally forgetting how much money they are charging for their games...
Its not the technology, its the investors
I haven't noticed any improvements when it comes to the graphics on the PS5! The Crew Motorfest has beautiful 4K graphics on PS5 and that game is open world as well, with a complex world, a lot of cars etc. Sorry, but there are no excuses when others can do it and you see that it is possible! ✌️❤️
The real nail on the coffin is that the dev's messed up big from the start this is why you shouldn't pre order games because I don't pre order games
It is so sad that we are getting more and more games being launched in this state like TDUSC, now we lose time that could of been used to develop more content, now that time is being used to instead fix their own game. It is becoming like a business model where developers will release a game early to people who pay the most with the Gold Edition with not much content compared to previous games and then use those people to test and remove bugs...but in this case it is much worse as it still has so many issues that it has driven most people away from the game. To date since the launch of the Gold Edition on Xbox I still haven't had more than 3 people in a race including myself. What a mess of a game.
Is that a 2cv doing 140MPH? COME ON!!!
If the open world rumours for Assetto Corsa Evo are true, this game is dead before end of year.
its dead either way
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It seems like it's not a TDU Game. TDU isnt a racing game it's a driving game No garage limits, no houses, stores and the dealerships don't look anything like a dealership lol. Not to mention no quests or convoy missiona or uber ish missions.
That is the main problem for me. It's simply not a TDU...
Yeah they just stripped anything unique out of it. The smaller map and copy-paste buildings really don’t lend themselves well to exploring or just cruising. I had a much better time in tdu 2 or the crew 2
They say they fixed 300 bugs in quite a short time, but basically can't seem to fix the new season bug. It seems a bit contradictory to me.
I really miss the houses we need properties and we need them now!
The failed and limited communication plus have to always be online tp play solar crown is holding me back and giving totally red flags from even wanting to play solar crown
Gameplay reminds me of The Crew 2 which is not a TDU game at all
Well the Devs who made TC2 worked on Older TDU games
Bruh, I had more fun in The Crew 2 than in this "TDU in the Name Only" lmao.
Granted, TDU 2 is still King.
Well they better fix it before GTA 6 comes out
Every problem this game has was expected as soon as they announced it was an Always online game. Every publisher/developer setting a game as always online have all these problems, they know the game is in beta state and force online to patch it up. These publishers deserve when the game fails, I feel sorry for TDU fans who got ripped off
what i honestly think that nacon should do, is either cut the shit and actually work on the game or get in contact with ivory tower and get a couple of their folks to help out nacon and get tdusc running to the best of its ability
That's like Ferrari asking Lamborghini for help. Never gonna happen. Too much ego.
Like Ubisoft is going to let them borrow people from their studios to work on another one's project...
As a racer of 33 years.. the only "fix" for this game is to look to the right and toss it in the trash. It's six miles out even from the arcade (literally) game Cruzin USA from the 90s
The lead on this project should be fired and then start on a new game while refunding everyone who paid for this "game"
It is a farcry (cough* Ubisoft) from their old games. If they lean into this one it will be a devastating blow to their bottom dollar.. it pains me to say all of the above
This is a market grab pure and simple.. and they missed the rope
Nacon and KT Racing track record of updating their games are pretty terrible
Oh, and their small team are working on a new game already so I wouldn't expect much from TDUSC
At first when you said about the main issue not being so much about the server issues, I would have respectfully disagreed with you. But when you said about the main issue being communication, you are ABSOLUTELY spot on Trigger. They've said that there were about 300+ bug fixes in TDUSC since it's first patch. So what are they? Nowhere does it tell you. And most people from what I've been reading are STILL having server issues which was SUPPOSED to be the main issue that they fixed in the first place. I've said it before and I'll say it again. NO driving game whatsoever should be online only. That's just fact and has been proven time and time again. I don't care or giving a flying fig about their supposed excuse being to prevent cheaters. At this point, that excuse is just that.
The only light is this game hopefully will go to another company
thank you for beta testing the game
The game succeeded in multiple ways of letting everyone down. Not only they tarnished the "Test drive" franchise but their own studio reputation. The few players there are will leave and they will be forced to shut down. But this is what happens after so many years in development to literally be an unfinished mess.
This y I never pre order a game ever. I wait for the kinks to get found
This video is so true, this guy nailed it.
There needs to be way more things to do, grinding the same race events over an over is dull, which is strange because that's loterally what we do in Forza Horizon, which isnt dull.
Sadly, I give it one month, tops, before Nacon cuts their Losses and Runs, Shuts the Servers, and throws the Playerbase to the Wolves, it will not be the first time they have done that, I do not see Nacon sticking with this Game for a full Year. Remember, we are talking about a Company so Vile in its Business Practices that they make EA look Pro Consumer by Comparison, do not put anything past them!
Remember, that Dev Diary was nothing short of False Advertising, it, in Lying in an Advertisement for the Game, was the Literal Legal Definition of False Advertising! and False Advertising, at least in the Country where I live, is against the Law ! So put nothing past Nacon, not even Shutting the Servers before this Year is out.
This Game is done, walk away people, it is a lost war! walk away.
There's a circuit dirt race I can't even play cuz bad breaks and the off road cars keeps flipping
nothing worse than disconnecting during a race
The most disappointing part is that TDU1 released almost 20 years ago and almost every aspect about it was/is better than TDUSC... its truly unbelievable.
Simply, its not Test Drive game. only thing in common with Test Drive is a name. rest is far, far off.
The only compensation they should give to us is fully free season passes and refunding the extra cash that people spent for the gold and silver edition.
They just don't deserve further money than the base price of the game.
I personally love the game. Yes it has a long way to go but the basics are in place now fix issues and grow. Yes it's missing a lot. Hopefully they will add the missing Content
when they fix it I'll buy it for now I can wait
TDU the biggest racing game flop in history
I'll keep quiet 😂👍
Man what a mess, great vid though!
I dunno.... To me the biggest issue with the game is that it is missing absolutely everything that makes a TDU game well... TDU... And with its current state I do not see any of that coming any time soon or if at all. What we have is a generic copy/pasta Racing game now complete with a "battle pass". A damn shame really.... Anything that they say or communicate, I could care less at this point. Actions are stronger than words and if we are going to be real here, I've seen really no actions.
I want my money back.
Correct - this is also a very big issue of the game, however i believe it is not the nail in the coffin because to me that would be the game itself - it's code, its graphics, its backend - it's all terrible.the game engine can simply not handle this game as it was tailored for their WRC titles back in the day and so their tools seem outdated today.
You have to find people to boost off of. The games regular matchmaking isn’t reliable at all.
Good game 🎮 Thank you about time
When will gamers or people in general fucking learn. How many examples do you need. I don’t even feel bad anymore when people say they bought a shit game and feel ripped off. 🤦♂️
hopefully GTA VI will be next one given what Rockstar is doing since like 2017
still remember how my brother was one of the 8 million victims of pre ordering Cyberpunk
@@adlibbed2138 unfortunately quality is just down in every gaming genre in general as a whole. I’m not even trying to shit on anyone being excited for a game or anything, but I genuinely just don’t at all anymore because I just expect them to come with problems. Why pay for problems when we already face them for free lol
I recently payed 25€ for a regular key, don't feel the need for extra cars or whatever that I'm not gonna use anyways. I just say it's worth the money I spent on it. I like the races, the car sounds are pretty great for most cars and I like the handling. I also love that some cars can be tuned to ridiculous power levels like the Ferrari (random number) Superfast that I bought today. It went well over 500 km/h ! 😂
For me, the AI is challenging but it's fine. I play on PC with a controller, 0% ABS, 0% TCS and I don't have to use meta cars to beat the AI on any track. Some are harder than others and need some tries but it's fun to have a challenge and not beat every race 1st try with ease. You gotta be good at driving AND tuning your car.
You can play everything thats important solo anyways. Ranked racing doesnt matter, you can buy the cars one month later in the shop for credits. Otherwise you can just use family share to boost yourself if you have a spare laptop that can barely run the game 😅
To this point the game has been an epic failure. I quit playing shortly after release and have not gone back. I'm having more fun playing Horizon 5 again.
Anyone else’s radio not work in the game? Like wtf
they're considering selling nacon mostly due to the failure of this game
If you’ve played TDU2 then you’ll understand that this is normal. For the first 6 months.
I know the games not working I know it has problems and I know it’s bad but it’s still a fun game and it will only get better as for the communication it’s really bad. They need to fix that.
However this games launch is still better then TDU2
It's trash. You can play TDU2 offline when they had server issues.
I understand that and agree that this game should have been Offline and online mode optional.
But I still enjoy the game like many. Crud I’m 1st in the world on ranked races. I’ve won 400 races lol
@@NormalCleanCars They shoulda keep the sessions up would be nice to Drive around with other players now after completing all cups Championships it gets boring real fast
@@XxrazorxX21 they have online on PC for sure.. modded servers and stuff but .. wishing we had a high quality TDU in 2024
Happy I didn’t care enough to buy it 😂
Yea I paid the for the gold version and stop playing at level 11 I can’t even join a gang or crew or whatever hopefully they fix this game like cyber punk and in the future hopefully it’s better
Anyone got a refund from playstation store
How the fuck is a 2CV going 140??
i hate to play devils advocate but i enjoy watching these guys fail their twitter posts and backlash from the community is hilarious to me
So much hype about this game and all they have delivered is a boring grindfest made even worse by the last patch increasing already extortionate car prices, and the Solar Pass is just a joke, 50K solar coins x4? Who is going to pay for that going forward if that is their model? So mad i wasted £80 on this overhyped POS. Should have stuck with TCM as Season 2 for that looks very good. Either fix the game pretty damn sharp or offer refunds
This game wasn’t ready. They should’ve waited another year. Now they can’t fix the shitshow. I hope other games LEARN from this. 👍
honestly with their attitude, the damn game I spent over $100 bucks over still will not be finished within a year, the people behind TDUSC just sucks!, if you can't figure out how to provision a stable server for at least 100,000 players at a time, what the heck are you doing in this industry?
They probably had to release it now because they ran out of money. And that doesn't bode well for the future of the game...
They just don’t want to deal with the problems and are probably incredibly let down by the community perception so they’re just pretending like things are fine and minimizing everything. This game was DOA and is just a cash grab from the start.
They delayed the maintenance 😂😂
The game got delayed 2 years in a row. Then the week 1 patch is delayed by 3 weeks along with season 1.
Now a season 1 fix (that is already a week late) is delayed.
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We all agree that the graphics are completely horrible for a 2024 game compared to the trailer we were shown, but the question I ask myself, the two French people we saw in the video of their press release, before releasing the game, said to themselves: the graphics are correct and people will love it loll wtf?!?!?! 🤦♂️
This is a small team, less than 100 people. I love this game, yes it is not perfect but they will fix it but it takes time. Look a AAA games, they all come out broken. If you love test drive games these people (developers) will deliver. This is a passion project for them too. This will be great. I know it should release perfect!! We all know every game in the last 5 years, this doesn't happen, give this small team a chance, I am and I think we all should.
They are Incompetent and Without Excuse, I have Played Games with Vastly smaller Budgets, from teams of Ten People or Less, even just one Person, and they have been Masterpiece Level. Katie Racing are Incompetent and are without Excuse, they had their Chance and they Blew it! they do not get a Second.
@@simeonyves5940to put it on perspective, games like Night Runners, Japanese Drift Master, Project Wingman, and recently Road To Vostok and Black One Blood Brothers showed what KayTee racing how games made by even less manpower was actually capable of without any corporate strings attached
You say you don't want it to fail but your title says: The real nail in the cofin and everyone knows they have issues inside they have been on strike before the game was out. They knew it was not going well already but had to get it out because of the people at the top wanting their load of cash it's all they care about. They don't know how to make games, they probably dont play games they just are told they can make a lot out of it and they do. In the end the consumer is the one who is losing because there is no real law about giving you a product that should be as advertise or their would be consequence.
Not trying to be rude but, this game was in development for a long time and it didn't sell well AND the players that bought it aren't really playing it. They LOST A TON OF MONEY on this game at this point. Calling it a cash grab is just wrong to be honest.
@@MilitiaGamingCommunity It is because they knew what they were releasing like what happened with Cyberpunk 2077 they even apologize but in it end its just hollow apologies they have our money its over...
Fun fact: main reason for Always Online game is to avoid game to be cracked and protect sales on launch. Not sure it was really effective...
The game is absolutely trash and the game developers are making the situation worst than it can be, I ain't even going to say anything about the battle pass... To me the game developers just wrong scam on gamer
Am I the only one who feels the basic driving physics and looks of the driving are the biggest issue with this game. The driving is terrible and so floaty. I feel as if I'm driving a cartoon Goodyear blimp! To me, the game that got it right is Need For Speed Unbound.
Yeah everyone praises the handling but it's way too understeery. You can't even make tight turns because the wheels don't turn much
Dang sounds like a scam
i just wanna say thanks to the pre order ppl and spending your 100 bucks & for your great sacrifice so i don't have to waste my time or money lol 😂🤣
6:30 most of the fixes feel like they were just back end coding that they didn't quite finish before releasing this unfinished game😂 i feel like if they just waited another 8 months this would've been completely avoidable. I havent touched the game in like 2 weeks. I got to level 48 in the first 2 weeks and hardly scratched the surface of the races. Just driving around and finding roads and getting the xp collectibles. Games trash and i regret spending money on the gold edition. AAA money for a 1.5 A game
More concerning than a broken game lol 😂
It's a shit show. I'm gutted I bought the gold version.
My only complaint about the game is that my Moza R5 occasionally loses input and I need to downshift/brake to regain control through the wheel and pedals. i find the racing fun, the map great, and I personally like the fact that the game doesn't throw cars at you for free every second level. Never had any servers problems or any major bugs, right from day one. Like everyone else, I hope it gets even better but I really don't understand all the hate.
i knew this game would flop since the early betas. they have the same issues that the full release had and they did not address anything. just like nfs etc before these guys are selling potential and banking on the lead dev for the old game to help here lol
Hmm I give up on the game already, they can never turn it around, its a lost cause~!
I don't know which blogger complains about performance anymore. Why do all RUclipsrs have such bad computers?
I have a AMD Ryzen 7 5700G and 3060. I used to play on medium preset with fps 35-40, after the patch I can play on high preset with fps 40-50. I can even set ultra graphics, but then the fps drops to 25-35 with drawdowns of up to 18 frames. I see an improvement in performance and the rest don't, why are your computers so bad???
In general, I agree with the review, but computers...
The guy literally said he has a 3090 and an i9 processor... how is that a bad computer? lol I have a 3080 and a 5800X and my frame rates were all over the place during the beta as well.
@@dapunisher6666 I just don't understand people who complain about graphics, okay, it may not be very detailed, but overall the picture is pleasant. At the same time, they play with normal fps, with normal graphics, especially after a patch that objectively improved performance, they manage to complain that their fps sank from 185 to 184. I'm going a little overboard here, but I hope the meaning is clear. And I also hope my translator translated it into English normally :D
The ONLY thing that could possibly save this game is for the devs to develop a dedicated PVP only mode. And that will not happen. Nails in coffin already.
compared to motofest the car handling in this game is awful
The worest racing/driving game EVER, having in mind it's predecessors from the same series and not even mentioning almost any other of the same/similar type! There is no way to improve it because everything looks soooo ugly, starting with the cars, races, graphics, environments, gameplay, basically EVERYTHING!!! Although I've wasted £90 it's not worth even for FREE!!! UTTER RUBISH but AlexVII is still making silly long videos trying to convince people it's worth it, hahaha.
FYI, A7 has not been trying to convince people it’s worth it at all. He’s been saying he can’t recommend the game at all right now, and that people should wait until the game gets things straight before spending money.
@MilitiaGamingCommunity agree with your opinion but still trying to "find" positives in all this mess regarding servers or bugging issues undermining the main issue of "missed" game on every front! Starting with very poor storyline where "thousands" if not more of contestants are "packed" in one funny looking hotel, graphics are very basic with almost all the buildings looking the same, like boxy parcels, streets look the same, boring and all repetitive environment where almost every race looks the same, specially off road ones with only addition of extra curves and bands. And the main issue that can't even be sorted at all unless you start fro the drawing board, are the car graphics?! There are only few cars that actually look decent and realistic compared to other games like GT series, Crew and Motorfest, NFS, Grid, and many other similar ones. Not saying that is not playable but very disappointed after so much expectations, even now TDU2 looks and feels much better than this one! Obviously it's my opinion and there are lot of people thinking completely opposite...
@MilitiaGamingCommunity nah I'm sorry but I have seen alex7 in comments arguing with any valid criticism. People trusted him as I did. We were passionate about a good franchise being resurrected. He literally said in videos that the game was in a much better state than the betas and we believed him. Now he's faced valid scrutiny he says we all push and agenda about him when we're angry that he's glazed over this crap and fought anyone who opposed his extremely biased opinion
Point of this video......... um wait for game to be fixed it's not there yet. If ever.....
The game has ZERO TDU vibe, everything that made the originals great, is lacking in this game.
They released the game to soon because of pre orders. Ya'll been handing them money before it even came out. Now ya'll whining. Stop paying for unfinished products!
even when/if they fix the servers and bugs it's still a badly designed game and not worthy of TDU name
Think if TDUSC had the Motorfest or Forza budget this would have been dope but this is super trash, They sold everyone a dream. This game is cooked and they do not have the budget or the infrastructure to fix this dated looking mess, No thank you I will stick to the chaos of horrible driver and glitchy cheats and resets in Grand Race
Honestly this is pretty much what I expected from a TDU game... TDU2 was full of problems well over a year in and servers would randomly go down for days at a time. The only salvation for TDU2 was it had an offline mode that it would default into when servers were down, well most of the time it would LOL. I was hoping this game would be better than TDU2, but nope, still crashes to desktop just like the old game, servers are glitchy and getting into sessions with friends is a pain and even when you do, ping times have to be perfect or lag is deadly. To make it all worse, graphics are overly demanding and the AI are weird at best.
Screw this game Militia sorry not buying and would not care about it, look at the difference between Carx and TestDrive, a 20 dollar game vs a 59.99 game hell no for that price tag you want at least the basic things in order , I would ask for my money back for this mess of a game. We can't keep encouraging this companies to keep putting sht out like this its 2024 we deserve better!
The game is just absolute shit it holds the attention for about 20 min and now after playing for a while I start the game and then just shut it off it’s that shitty
Kt is an arcade game making company that’s it just like there shitty rally games
Until the game is fixed enough people can play it, it's trash.
Excluding server and optimization issues, this game is also the worst game in the last decade, bar none, for gameplay alone