Juan Domingo wrote:
I'll try to give a constructive opinion, this is a message for the Forward team and the community in general:
I've been playing CCD for about five years, so i've seen the game being improved by myself. First of all i have to say that the game is now much better than how it was in the 2.2.7 version. On the other hand, compared to other games, CCD hasn't evolved that much. The new map was a new addition, as well as the snow, the graphics improvements... but there are also lots of things that have to be improved.
Here are my top things that i dislike or that are annoying for me. I'll have always in mind that Forward Development is a small team and, of course they can't do as much as for example Activision.
- The traffic behaviour is still a bit weird sometimes. There are parts of the highway where the cars stop without reason, IA accelerates really fast when a light turns green...
- Physics are a bit strange too. Almost all the cars seems to be driven in the same way, when in the real life a Fiat 500 will be a lot different compared to a Holden Commodore.
- The map starts to be a bit boring. I know that you guys have plans to improve it in the near future, but around three years without any expansion starts to be repetitive.
As i said before, i'm always having in mind that FD is a small team, and that most of their earnings come from the Enterprise Version, but CCD is a game that has a lot of potential, and with some time working with the Home Version, sales can imporove a lot.
One of the problems with the last update is that the game has destroyed one of the most important things that keep the game alive, the custom content. Let me explain this a bit better.
Every development team needs the players, who keep the game alive, and every player needs that team, who develops the game for them. One of the most important things in a game life period is the communication with the community. Hopefully, CCD has many users that are very interested in the content creation, like TJ or Kas, with game improvements, bug reports... FD should take adventage of this, allowing people to give their opinions about updates, to give their ideas or suggestions...
More concretely with tihs update, it has worsen one of the most important things that keep CCD alive, the mods. To be honest, i think that without mods game will start to became boring in the first two months. There are for example cars with an excelent quality, very nice graphics and texture mods... Making that cars is a good way to keep players interested in the game. The biggest problem is that this update has broken lot of mods. Automatic transmission is bugged in many cars, custom sounds has gone... This is something that has to be revised, because it destroys many hous of hard work doing for example the car custom sounds. I also have to say that helping creating my own car for the game was something that i enjoyed a lot.
Passenger transportation and fuel consumption are always welcome additions, but i think that CCD, before start adding new things needs to be improved in other things. It's unuseful to have new map districts or new cars if you can't properly use them without having issues like lag. Apart from this, i recommend you guys to have in mind Kas's proposition of helping with the suggestions. Passenger transportation is a good thing, but i'm sure that many users are not very happy with it because they now preffer other addons. Develop a game and have all the community happy is not easy, but some kind of things like a suggestion topic with polls for new features will make everything easier and will avoid misunderstandings.
I think that this is everything that i wanted to said. Please listen to the community, since they are who keep CCD alive still in 2018. I decided to stop playing because there are lot of bugs which makes the game unplayable or at least that makes you not to enjoy it. Right now, mods are one of the most important things in the game, so please take care of them and their creators.
Thanks for reading my opinion, i'm here to help with anything i can.
Regards, Juan.
I totally agree with this, sounds to me still should be reverted the same as in 1.5.6 and same with the physics it wasn't even totally good then but its more worse now if it can be like 1.5.6 it would be good or better but I doubt that will happen and there are too many mods to update just for sounds and physics in my opinion they haven't really taken this into consideration.
Even when you make the physics compatible with 1.5.7 its still not very good like in 1.5.6 or it needs to be better the stock cars don't even have good physics for example the Toyota Corolla wheel spins and doesn't handle as good or grips very good like before its to be better and even back then it needed to be better to overall in my opinion they made it worse instead of better.