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Old 05-11-2014, 09:53
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Dspy3 isn't too far from clicking over to lvl 29 now.
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Old 05-11-2014, 12:22
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Im in Digital Spy 2. Think we are on level 19. We need to pick it up now.
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Old 05-11-2014, 17:17
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well I've finally given in and got the game, so any club slots free?
Digitalspy 3 had a space when I looked
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Old 05-11-2014, 19:57
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Digitalspy 3 had a space when I looked
thanks, just done a race and when I got to the average speed challenge the other person's average was 1178 mph.
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Old 05-11-2014, 21:04
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thanks, just done a race and when I got to the average speed challenge the other person's average was 1178 mph.
It's a known issue that sometimes drift scores are coming up as speed challenges.
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Old 05-11-2014, 21:22
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It's a known issue that sometimes drift scores are coming up as speed challenges.
Ok. thought it had been hacked or something.
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Old 06-11-2014, 11:41
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Most racers have a technique that can be learnt especially for drifting, but there doesn't seem to be any in DC, if anybody has mastered the drifting in this game please post here. I think the drifting is like the servers, broken.
If you ever played any of the PGR games the drifting in this is very similar to those - much more so than something like Grid -probably why I'm pretty decent at the drifting in this as I played the hell out of PGR2 back in the day.

Basically go into a corner as wide as you can at decent speed (but probably not at full speed), as you take your finger off the gas and start turning into the corner tap/press* the handbrake button - this will kick the back end out. Then you need to quickly move into countersteering to stop yourself from spinning out - get it right and you can glide round a corner virtually sideways and rack up the fame points. It's a fine line though and some cars are more tricky than others to drift with (The Bentley continental, for instance, is like a tank and sticks to the road like glue so takes a much weightier press on the handbrake to set it into a drift)

* When I say tap/press it depends on the handling and weight of the car. Some cars a quick tap will send it into drift city (Ariel Atom for instance) but most require more of a press than a tap.
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Old 06-11-2014, 11:47
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Incidentally I don't know if any of you guys have seen but the upcoming new location has been leaked - Japan.

Also a new track for Norway based on Atlantic Road which would look amazing!

http://strangesounds.org/wp-content/...antic-Road.jpg

Apparently they need to wait on getting permission from the Norwegian government to release it though...

BTW If anyone is still looking for a club mine has a free spot. It's currently at level 18. Search for DAgnasti. PSN is subcutaneousphat.
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Old 06-11-2014, 12:14
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If you ever played any of the PGR games the drifting in this is very similar to those - much more so than something like Grid -probably why I'm pretty decent at the drifting in this as I played the hell out of PGR2 back in the day.

Basically go into a corner as wide as you can at decent speed (but probably not at full speed), as you take your finger off the gas and start turning into the corner tap/press* the handbrake button - this will kick the back end out. Then you need to quickly move into countersteering to stop yourself from spinning out - get it right and you can glide round a corner virtually sideways and rack up the fame points. It's a fine line though and some cars are more tricky than others to drift with (The Bentley continental, for instance, is like a tank and sticks to the road like glue so takes a much weightier press on the handbrake to set it into a drift)

* When I say tap/press it depends on the handling and weight of the car. Some cars a quick tap will send it into drift city (Ariel Atom for instance) but most require more of a press than a tap.
Thanks for advice. Will give it a go.
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Old 06-11-2014, 12:19
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Thanks for advice. Will give it a go.
Hope it helps. There's definitely a knack to it but once you get a feel for it it will all hopefully make sense. I think I've got three stars in all of them now apart from one particularly tricky one.

If you still have problems take consolation in the thought that while writing that post and trying to explain it I had to sit here playing an imaginary game of Driveclub with my hands on an imaginary controller so I could try to put it into words
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Old 06-11-2014, 12:35
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Good drifting advice up above but you can watch videos on YouTube of people who've done it and you might pick up some tips from that about how to enter a corner or whatever.
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Old 06-11-2014, 13:17
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Any news about which cars are coming with the first dlc drop ?.
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Old 06-11-2014, 14:07
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Any news about which cars are coming with the first dlc drop ?.
I haven't seen any. Though I believe there's already been one car released?
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Old 06-11-2014, 22:04
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Could have some fun if there were private lobbies. Hope that comes. I quite enjoy the online anyway.

There's surely no way they can release dlc though until the main game is fully functional.
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Old 06-11-2014, 23:45
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Could have some fun if there were private lobbies. Hope that comes. I quite enjoy the online anyway.

There's surely no way they can release dlc though until the main game is fully functional.
I don't see why not, really. Sure, people are going to bitch about it but people are going to bitch anyway. Personally I'm hungry for a new track or two, more so than I am for all the online stuff to be sorted out. If they delay the DLC much longer that's going to bring with it's own wave of moaning.

I did see somewhere that apparently there will be effectively two months worth of DLC dropping towards the end of November, catching up on October's I guess. Presumably that's working on the assumption the online will be all sorted out by then Photo-mode is supposed to be included with it.
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Old 07-11-2014, 05:37
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Can see it from both sides but these no way I'm personally doing more money on it until we get what we originally paid for.
Don't get me wrong its currently my go to game and I enjoy for the most What's there.
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Old 07-11-2014, 07:58
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Can see it from both sides but these no way I'm personally doing more money on it until we get what we originally paid for.
Don't get me wrong its currently my go to game and I enjoy for the most What's there.
i really liked the look of this, hopefully it should improve...
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Old 07-11-2014, 08:02
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I'm now on the Legendary races although I spend most of my time trying to get into the top 3 on the 'friends leaderboard'.
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Old 07-11-2014, 08:52
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I'm now on the Legendary races although I spend most of my time trying to get into the top 3 on the 'friends leaderboard'.
i wont be playing this till xmas but i would like to play online with some of the guys on here
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Old 07-11-2014, 08:59
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I suspect there will be a Japan car pack to go with the Japan tracks.
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Old 07-11-2014, 09:02
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I'm now on the Legendary races although I spend most of my time trying to get into the top 3 on the 'friends leaderboard'.
Add me: A_Homeless_Jew_

I do like to beat some times on Driveclub or try even lol.
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Old 07-11-2014, 11:14
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Can see it from both sides but these no way I'm personally doing more money on it until we get what we originally paid for.
Don't get me wrong its currently my go to game and I enjoy for the most What's there.
I'm trying not to cave and buy the season pass until all the online stuff is fixed, but I'm floundering!
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Old 07-11-2014, 12:07
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I'm one of the season pass 'mugs', although I didn't expect the launch of the game to be so bad nor for the trouble they seem to be having with the online side of it. It's been a total disaster for Sony and Evolution.
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Old 07-11-2014, 13:04
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I'm one of the season pass 'mugs', although I didn't expect the launch of the game to be so bad nor for the trouble they seem to be having with the online side of it. It's been a total disaster for Sony and Evolution.
It's not been good, for sure. I still think (hope) they can turn it round though. The core game is excellent imo (playing the Crew beta just highlighted how many of the basics Driveclub absolutely nails for me). And I'm still hugely excited for when new tracks and the weather patch drop.

If they can sort out all the online stuff by the the end of this month (which seems to be the expected timeframe) and then start dropping some good DLC content they could bring a lot of people back in who gave up out of frustration. I think it will ultimately live or die on retention of players rather than necessarily sales. If it can keep me coming back to it despite the problems hopefully it can keep others too, and I'm not the outlier.

I do think it would be wise on their part though to come up with some sort of compensatory good-will gesture for those who had already bought the season pass though. Making it completely free and refunding might be a bit of an ask, but maybe making it half-price and sticking a tenner in people's PSN wallets would be an idea.
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Old 07-11-2014, 13:58
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i wont be playing this till xmas but i would like to play online with some of the guys on here
As far as I know nobody from here races one another in a regular basis. Not sure why really.
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