Road Rash Inspired Kickstarter

Yeti Beast · 06-06-2014 12:37pm

Right, played a bit more yesterday evening. My thoughts;

Rubber-banding has been drastically reduced - races no longer feel fixed. Very positive! Also makes melee much easier to initiate.
Handling feels a tad better.
Lots of graphical improvements/better animations.
The addition of cops and AI v AI melee are huge positives.
The new map is nicely done.
The new play modes add some nice variety, although some are still way OTT (raining cars mode) for my personal tastes.
Physics are improved, though still need work (lots of collisions do nothing other than bounce you around).
The debris model is much improved, though could probably be toned down further imo.
Some weapons are great - love the sticky bomb, although it should be very limited in the final release, imo.
The pipe bombs though are pretty crap - too hard to use. I think the devs acknowledge this too.
Slight tweak to the controls is mixed; you can now "counter" an AI swing and disarm them which is good, but I don't like the double tap nitro activation.
You now rejoin the race much quicker after unseating than before.
The changes do make the game feel a bit easier now, though that should be remedied by more balancing and different difficulty levels nearer full release, as well as playing against other players rather than AI of course.

I'll add more when I get around to playing it again, but it's a definite improvement over an already solid starting point. Still a long way to go though which is probably going to be the sticking point for a lot of people - I can see progress being pretty slow given the size of the team.