I just visited the forum for the first time. I've seen where there is no FF support and no in-car view. At least there is a bonnet view.
I also have read a lot of talk about how the physics looked great, just from screenshots and videos. I had a good laugh over that one, the physics "look" great, as if you can really see the physics.
As I said before, either in this thread or another, I have something called Cabelas' Off-Road Adventures (CORA). Cabelas is an outdoor/camping/hunting store. When I looked at these screenshots and videos way back when, it all looked very much like CORA, even down to the camera angles and views on the videos. CORA did have FF support, or at least as far as I remember it had FF support. It also did not have a cockpit view, but a centered bonnet view. The rotating of the camera around the vehicle in the Motorm4x videos as well as the static camera with the vehicles driving past in the videos are identical to the camera views of the CORA.
CORA was cool for the 90's. If Motorm4x is similar to that or as I suspected, an update with mostly graphical updates to the Cabelas program, then it won't hold it's own in today's realism of driving sims. It will merely be just a game. I'm interested and have been interested in off-road simulation for a very long time, longer than I've been with LFS and I was hoping that Motorm4x was what I want.
I also have to laugh at the suggestions in the forum. I read talk and suggestions for Motorm4x 2 already. Sheesh, the demo hadn't even been out yet when those posts were created. Hmm, that should sound familiar to a lot of folks here...
What bling bling? It looked very nice for me. Realistic looking graphics doesn't equal bling bling. I thought it looked quite realistic.
It also crashed constantly for me. I would go to the first trial or whatever you would call it, and each time when I arrived, it crashed.
From my earlier post, I mentioned Cabelas Off-Road Adventure and thought this might have been a continuation of that. It is definitely not. It looks almost identical as in the terrain and vehicle models and cameras, but it drives absolutely nothing like it.
I agree with Danowat, it felt "airy". It did not feel connected to the ground at all. It would definitely need force feedback. Cabelas has force feedback, if I recall.
I managed to start the first trial once before the program crashed. I could not get my vehicle to move. The throttle control was nearly nonexistant. But that could have been due to my Momo pedals, but I think my throttle is good. It's my brake pedal that is FUBAR. I use to be a 4wheeler in a stock Toyota Hilux with open diff front and rear. There is no way a vehicle with locked front and rear and decent tires that would stop dead and sit and spin in one place on something like that first trial is. Nor would the tires even be able to spin like they did running in 1st gear low range. I could only do maybe a max of 5 mph in my truck. If traction was lost, the tires might skip on rocks similar to in the game, but not flat out spin at 25 mph.
As there is talk, not just from the forum members at the game's forum but from the developer himself, of Motorm4x 2 already, this is a giant failure.
I've been away for weeks, but I just had to come back to say:
There's no bloom and no HDR, so well done. Stop bitching about the graphics just because your 4 year old rig can't run it.
It's reasonable fun for a while. On the OGRE forums one of the devs mentions the demo is fairly old and some bugs have been fixed. Won't be buying it for full price, seems like a perfect bargain-bin purchase to me.
I could never get the truck up to any speed to see any motion blur. I haven't been into gaming since the Sega Genesis (I only do racing sims such as NR2003 and LFS and flight sims) so I don't even know what bloom and HDR is or looks like. It all looked very good to me, but I had many of the graphics options disabled. I saw no bling bling graphics such as I've seen in screenshots of NFS if that is what you mean by bloom and HDR.
It looked very very nice, as in looking realistic. The vehicle physics were very poor, that's the only thing I can say negative, which is, of course, huge when you are looking at a simulator.
Was it not just released a few days ago? Releasing something and then saying it is very old and bugs are now worked out is very poor development releasing in my opinion. I had read that it was going to be priced at a bargain-bin price.