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The Crew: Motorfest |OT| Aloha, Horizon
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Fox Mulder
Member
Long time player of Forza Motorsport & Horizon here.
Is the "new" handling more Horizon or NFS based ?
I hated TC2 handling and wonder if Motorfest changed in a good way.
Thanks!
It’s totally going for a Forza Horizon feel. TC2 was way more arcadey.
Wizz-Art
Member
I had nothing to do today so I bought the Ultimate Edition since people were saying it's almost like Forza Horizon which is my favourite franchise I can't go wrong even it's a lesser surrogate was my reasoning.
A couple of hours in I can't believe how much of a FH rip-off it is, not in a bad way though as more FH is a + in my book but it's clear that the devs took a good look at FH. It stil does the RPG like upgrading of your car as we became accustomed to with The Crew. The handling is much more to my liking, not Horizon like but a lot closer to Horizon than 2 ever was. As someone said previously the cars feel heftier and therefor it just feels better to play. It looks beautiful and I play in performance mode on the XSX and it's a smooth experience so far. Also really cool that they kept it a small install size, less than 37 GB!
A couple of hours in I can't believe how much of a FH rip-off it is, not in a bad way though as more FH is a + in my book but it's clear that the devs took a good look at FH. It stil does the RPG like upgrading of your car as we became accustomed to with The Crew. The handling is much more to my liking, not Horizon like but a lot closer to Horizon than 2 ever was. As someone said previously the cars feel heftier and therefor it just feels better to play. It looks beautiful and I play in performance mode on the XSX and it's a smooth experience so far. Also really cool that they kept it a small install size, less than 37 GB!
Doctor Hades
Member
Forza Horizon: Hawaii... sorry, The Crew: Motorfest is a very good game and I had a blast playing the closed beta and am now enjoying the final game.
It's a very nice game even if it is a very blatant copy of Forza Horizon, even down to the whole festival vibe and constant chatter from various NPCs as you drive around and do events. It is also a lot better than The Crew 2 as this has more personality and focus, especially with it being an island setting as opposed to an entire continent! Graphically the game is solid and sometimes even pretty but it looks like Forza Horizon 5 on the medium visual preset. It's not quite as visually impressive as that game, certainly not the PC version with ray-tracing enabled for sure, and there is more noticeable pop in, especially of shadows and foliage/trees. I kind of want a higher than Ultra setting for the draw distance on PC, oh and an option to unlock that 60 fps framerate. My PC is barely breaking a sweat running this game maxed out at 1440p.
I am enjoying the car events and the game imported 33 cars from my The Crew 2 save. The boat and flying events are a lot less enjoyable though and just feel like filler. I did a boat event on Intermediate difficulty yesterday and finished 7th place (out of 8) as the other boats were much faster than mine and I was unable to catch up. Car racing though feels much more balanced on the same difficulty.
It's a very nice game even if it is a very blatant copy of Forza Horizon, even down to the whole festival vibe and constant chatter from various NPCs as you drive around and do events. It is also a lot better than The Crew 2 as this has more personality and focus, especially with it being an island setting as opposed to an entire continent! Graphically the game is solid and sometimes even pretty but it looks like Forza Horizon 5 on the medium visual preset. It's not quite as visually impressive as that game, certainly not the PC version with ray-tracing enabled for sure, and there is more noticeable pop in, especially of shadows and foliage/trees. I kind of want a higher than Ultra setting for the draw distance on PC, oh and an option to unlock that 60 fps framerate. My PC is barely breaking a sweat running this game maxed out at 1440p.
I am enjoying the car events and the game imported 33 cars from my The Crew 2 save. The boat and flying events are a lot less enjoyable though and just feel like filler. I did a boat event on Intermediate difficulty yesterday and finished 7th place (out of 8) as the other boats were much faster than mine and I was unable to catch up. Car racing though feels much more balanced on the same difficulty.
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Rivdoric
Neo Member
Bought the game in the end, took a risk but after 700h of Horizon 5 i wanted a change.
Forza Horizon copy/paste for almost everything but it provides a bit bigger and a lot better map. Handling is really good, much closer to Horizon than the Crew 2 which i stopped after 5h because it was just plain bad.
Playlist system is a bit better than the cringy stories in Horizon 5.
Overall I'm pleased to see the changes !
The only very bad point is, being a Ubisoft game, there is already premium currency and some items only purchasable using it. Meh Ubisoft.
And i REALLY hope they will consider adding DLSS in the close future because the forced TAA is simply awful and ruins all sharpness and you can't disable it.
Forza Horizon copy/paste for almost everything but it provides a bit bigger and a lot better map. Handling is really good, much closer to Horizon than the Crew 2 which i stopped after 5h because it was just plain bad.
Playlist system is a bit better than the cringy stories in Horizon 5.
Overall I'm pleased to see the changes !
The only very bad point is, being a Ubisoft game, there is already premium currency and some items only purchasable using it. Meh Ubisoft.
And i REALLY hope they will consider adding DLSS in the close future because the forced TAA is simply awful and ruins all sharpness and you can't disable it.
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Lucifers Beard
Member
I’m really tempted to get this for something to chill with of an evening. I’ve seen some videos and it just looks like FH. Can anyone let me know what the car handling is like?
Shame it’s not on Steam as I’d liked to have played on Steam Deck.
Shame it’s not on Steam as I’d liked to have played on Steam Deck.
Dr.Morris79
Member
The fuck is this shit? All my favourite cars are now gay left hand drive??
A fucking violation this is!
A fucking violation this is!
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Reminder.
The free 5-hour trial for this will start at some time today (might even be live now, no idea).
It will last till the 17th.
Your progress made in the trial will carry over to the main game.
The free 5-hour trial for this will start at some time today (might even be live now, no idea).
It will last till the 17th.
Your progress made in the trial will carry over to the main game.
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Got to love Ubisoft servers. Downloading the trail now... at 2.6MB/s. What is this shit?
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This is all we need to be honest. I'd love to see a clone of Test Drive Unlimited with driving physics of Horizon. Maybe one day!
Fart Knight
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Maybe Test Drive Solar Crown?
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I don't know about that. I've seen the preview and it's not looking too hot.
Lucifers Beard
Member
Played for around 45 minutes this morning and I’m really enjoying it so far. Can actually see myself buying this one. I was gonna get Forza 4 or 5 instead but this feels just as good as what I played of those previously.
Fart Knight
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Yeah the handling is finally on point. Game is a real alternative for Horizon.
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Senua
Member
You can't have a fun arcade game without cringe characters, thems the rules
Denton
Member
Fixed this by switching uplay to beta. So stupid, but then again it's ubisoft, so what else to expect.
Fox Mulder
Member
The redliner kit vanity summit reward sounds amazing. Makes the cars sound insane with higher revs and turbo noises.
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OK, I played the intro section + some free drive + 1 proper race. Quick impressions:
- Graphics are okay but they are last gen okay. I've maxed out it on PC (for some reason framerate is capped at 60, that's stupid) and it looks like Forza Horizon 3.5.
- Visual diarrhea is everywhere. Island you're on is full of floating balloons, there's confetti and smoke when you race and it's just such a bad art design/style, very unpleasant to look at. Horizon did it the right amount and much, much better.
- Characters look atrocious, as expected.
- Dialogue and voice acting is headache educing. Do yourself a favor and turn off voice in audio settings.
- Car handling - pretty decent. It's not Forza but if your point of reference is The Crew 2 you'll be blown away.
- User interface is garbage. You can switch some of it off but not all and there's no option to scale it. Fucking speedometer and map is taking 1/2 of the screen.
- Hardest difficulty setting with all assist off seems to be not so hard, I easily finished first in my first American Muscle race.
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Fox Mulder
Member
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Цыц! You don't get it. The cringe is intentional, it makes them stand out from the crowd, look very important and iconic. If you'll take that away from them, what else they have? Jesus, man, have mercy, will ya.
GHG
Member
Thanks, will give it a go then and see how it works with my setup.
Roman Empire
Member
I'll give the 5hrs trial a go to see how much they improved the handling. I played both The Crew games so I know what I'm getting into, my problem with them is that I simply grew tired of the way cars handled. I need more weight! More power! And better track and environmental design. I wish I could be surprised by the end of the day.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Performance on PC is far from ideal - traversal stutters, really bad framepacing and zero stability, freezes etc. (I've 8700K and 3080Ti).
Clearly CPU and GPU are basically idling and doing nothing. I also don't get why they've decided to use compressed videos instead of in-engine cutscenes. It looks like there's no way to switch to DX11/12 instead of using Vulkan.
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DaGwaphics
Member
Thanks for the heads up. I'll have to pull myself away from Starfield and give it a shot.
Bry0
Member
Having enjoyed 1 and 2, the handling is much better for cars. Planes were basically completely ruined however. The “playlists” forcing cars on you through the first round of them is kind of painful. I feel like graphics and car handling are definitely a step up but it lost everything else that made the crew interesting.
Glad I tried it with ubiaoft+, I’ll just say that. If I paid $70 I’d be disappointed.
Glad I tried it with ubiaoft+, I’ll just say that. If I paid $70 I’d be disappointed.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Links for the free trial
Xbox:
Playstation:
PC:
store.ubisoft.com
Xbox:
购买 The Crew Motorfest - Xbox Series X|S | Xbox
Sharpen your driving skills and get your ticket for a one-of-a-kind car festival set in one of the most spectacular locations in the world: Hawaii.
www.xbox.com
Playstation:
PC:
Buy The Crew Motorfest - Available Day 1 on Ubisoft+
Included with Ubisoft+. Compare The Crew Motorfest Editions. Available on PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S.
store.ubisoft.com
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Fart Knight
Al Pachinko, Konami President
You can adjust the plane controls. I dont care about them or the boats.
Denton
Member
So I played the intro, "A Ubisoft Original", how fitting considering it is a shameless rip-off of Forza Horizon. Then I selected some scenic route "playlist" and played in the open world for a while. I shut the game down, now I started it, and I have no fucking clue how to enter the game. I am in the shitty garage with other clueless people, there is the playlist activity banner, but no obvious way to re-enter the game. What the fuck am I overlooking.
(admittedly I skipped over all cutscenes, which is something I never do but I could not take the cringe, plus it is a time limited trial)
(admittedly I skipped over all cutscenes, which is something I never do but I could not take the cringe, plus it is a time limited trial)
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Insane Metal
Member
Gonna give this a try.
Bry0
Member
I’ll have to double check that then and switch it to the dual stick controls. Thanks for the heads up
nikos
Member
Interesting way of saying "I'm a dumbass."
Dr.Morris79
Member
UBI Support is utter gash. Been waiting two days for account support, their Twitter is shit, support forum is shit, zero reply to support tickets for days and their Discord is shit..
Just all round shit.
Just all round shit.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Denton
Member
I might very well be, but you are a cunt. Now stop being one and provide useful info instead.
edit - never mind, found it.
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Dr.Morris79
Member
It's that, but with less singing.
drotahorror
Member
Press B/Circle or Hold B/Circle.... Or maybe go back to Forza Horizon?
Don't understand the "forza horizon rip off" statement a couple people are shoutin. This game was made by the people that made the original Test Drive Unlimited (which took place in O'ahu as well). If anything, Forza Horizon is a ripoff of that.
drotahorror
Member
I'm closing in on completing my 10th playlist today (can't wait to fast travel to the events I want to play more of, which is nice when you're on a wheel since flying is impossible on it). I want to give my thoughts soon. Didn't realize there was an OT til just now. Gonna talk about wheel support/gameplay etc. So far I'm really enjoying it though.