Be Excellent To Each Other

The colours of the face-offs give it away. Blue for cornering, orange for drift and yellow for average speed.

That helps a little thanks - but unless I can tell its you that I need to beat, I don't care

Just for you i've changed it.
I've also just crushed some of your times as punishment...

Yeah, that's much better. I tried the Golf one in Scotland for a while - dunno how you manage to hoon it round that first corner without crashing... I can only get within about a second as I spend the whole lap playing catchup!

Just better at gaming than you, i guess

I'm really enjoying this game, it's great for a quick blast and I think the handling is pretty good. A very good mix of arcade and sim, which seems to suit my driving style, as I can get pretty high up some of the leaderboards without a huge amount of effort. I can get nowhere close to the top on a proper sim or full on arcade game!

You have a driving 'style' ?? I just hold down R2 and sometimes make a vague attempt at steering.

That's a style.

Loving this game. Feels solid and very pretty (just like me). Frustrating that I don't have some cars unlocked yet that I need for the challenges.

Trooper defo using some pokes for that Loch Scotchland track.

I can beat his ghost for the first half of it, or the second half but not managed to combine both into a single lap. Yet....

I hate Trooper and I hate that track. And VW Golfs. And Driveclub.

You'll need to beat his ghost then knock another second off.

There's definitely a few more tenths left in there for anyone with the patience, though.

The more I play this the more I'm liking it. I definitely need more practice on it tho, I'm not very good at it. It took me 4 laps to beat Zardoz on that vw Scotland track and I'm still slower than Myp. Badtimes.

Out of interest, has anyone tried a wheel with this game yet? Presumably the Logitech ones don't work with the ps4?

Nope, only Thrustmaster ones seem to work at the moment.

Logitech aren't making any new wheels, so I can't see them adding driver support for their old ones, sadly.

It's a curious situation. Logitech and Sony are blaming each other.

Sony have said they'll support any company who wants to make a driver for their wheels to work with the PS4. I'm not sure it's really their responsibility to ensure every third-party peripheral can work with their console.

It makes no financial sense for Logitech to bother, as they aren't selling any more wheels. Of course it means we consumers are stuffed.

Indeed. But they won't pay for the licence to develop a driver that interfaces with the chip, for obvious financial reasons (ie they won't make any money from it). According to Sony the chip is required to stop unlicensed knock-offs working, as per the 360/XBO.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014- ... ing-wheels

So it seems that Sony simply don't want anyone except Thrustmaster making wheels for them and won't provide the necessary SDK to create drivers. Yes, Logitech aren't making console peripherals but why would they abandon all the tooling etc. for their existing products if they could still sell them? It's all seems pretty shady to me.

It's a shame, but it just means I'll likely get Project Cars on PC instead. I keep my wheel in the office anyway.

Tomorrow, I'll be stacking my cheap PSN credit with that 10% off voucher we're getting to land this for £15. I'll be needing a club to join.

BEEX HARDER

We have a spot open.

We're also at a higher level than the pretenders.

And much better looking.

Your livery is shit. And you suck at driving golfs.

I concur.

So it looks like Sony and Thrustmaster have a deal, otherwise why would Sony care about unlicensed knockoffs?

It's a scummy thing to do but I can understand it from a financial point of view, but as you say, it's the consumers who get stuffed.

My main issue is that I'm already having to defend having two steering wheels in the house nevermind having to add another one!

Clearly I'm the runt of BEEX HARDER, but I'm really enjoying it. I'm glad i"ve got it digital because it really works to dip into for 15mins.

It's a great balance between arcade and sim for me. I'm starting to vaguely get breaking. At least I've unlocked the first Cup thingy.

Wooo LEVEL 9 GET ME!

(Also, turned all the UI off, and actually did better. It also really crazy realistic)

I'm glad BEEX HARDER has some people in it who aren't good. I shall join it later.

We pride ourselves on our inclusivity, even welcoming Zardoz with open arms.

You are all making me want this. But I have FH2.

I'm going to get it.

I hope you're all happy now. You bastards.

Completely different game. I have The Crew but it didn't stop me getting this.

Yeah, get on it. Look at this:

It's downloading now to my PS4. Like I say - bastards

Good. You should join the original and best BEEX racing club.

We're full with the inclusion of Gaywood anyway.

I don't think this many of us were playing the same game since the glory days of Xbox Live.

This is what happened early last-gen as there is a paucity of options. Sadly the community fragments as more and more games get released and people go in their own directions.

I'd agree with that when it comes to shooters as there are so many but genuinely decent racing games are generally few and far between. Forza 2, 3 and 4 all had a decent amount of people playing.

PS+ freebies bring people back together though.

Yeah, I guess it didn't help that MS managed to completely ruin the 360 experience for the last couple of years.

And for those still undecided the game is still £20 on PSN but you can use the special code for this weekend and knock another 10% off

I have hardly played this but it is one of those games that looks so much better than everything else






Gif's of gameplay :

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It's ridiculously pretty. Some screenshots from the rllmuk thread:


DRIVECLUB™_20150121220537 by phil.turner43, on Flickr


DRIVECLUB™_20150121221154 by phil.turner43, on Flickr


DRIVECLUB™_20150121222010 by phil.turner43, on Flickr


DRIVECLUB™_20150121222506 by phil.turner43, on Flickr

Online is still a little bit fucked though, a couple of times i've tried to play and the servers have been unavailable.

Popped home early today, just in time to casually beat a few of the Beex challenge times

That twin'run concept is a spin happy little beast, isn't it!

Annoyingly, you can't do a challenge if you don't have the car unlocked, so I can't do the Alfa 4C one yet.

That's PSN.

I'm not so sure, I seem to be online fine on PSN, just the driveclub server isn't up. It's only happened a couple of times though.

Yeah, I've also had it on time trials where the ghost cars only show up half way round or been in the menus and all the panels with content from the network are empty for a long time. Pretty sure it's still flaky, also on Twitter they post quite a bit about server maintenance.

I've caved with the PSN offer + Discount code. Downloading now.