Ben-DutkaDamage that doesn't accurately impact a vehicle's performance isn't a damage modeling system Kazunori Yamauchi would be interested in.
And while the most amount of damage physics will be applied to the 200 Premium car models in Gran Turismo 5 , it seems that all of them will suffer hits against their capabilities if you…well, if you suck at driving. The Japanese version of the game's official site has listed out the various damage details and a helpful little chart to help us understand how the damage model will affect both the Premium and Standard cars. As you can see, they're looking at three different damage calculations and all three apply to the Premiums while two of the three apply to the Standards. That third missing aspect for the Standards is "deformation of the panel gap," which basically means that only Premium vehicles will sport the full effects of incurred damage. But obviously, for simulation purposes, it was important that damage affect all cars in the game and early on, we had heard it might not. Well, I think the Forza fans were hoping it wouldn't, at any rate. Bitterness puts one in a foul mood, after all.
The bottom line is that regardless of the car you are driving, you had better take care of your vehicle. If not, you could find yourself out of the race or in an ill-advised pit stop due to reckless racing or a lack of ability. Practice, people. It's a simulator.
Related Game(s): Gran Turismo 5
Public Service announcement: Watch that PSEYE head tracking or you'll wind up kissing the wall.
Damage affects, huh? Damn!
OK, just a slight modification needed then….
"Hey walls, stay off my asphalt"!
so there will be no wall pinball?
DAM!
nice to see this game finally coming out though, hopefully theres still the famous license tests in there.
they were always the things i did first in a GT game, it was so much fun.
now i just need to wait till the logitech wheels come down, i saw one today at wireless for 400 bucks marked down from 560.
but 400 is still way too much!
id be ok if there was heaps of games to use it with, but to be honest i wont play GT5 that much, especially enough to warrant a 400 dollar accessory!
hopefully sony will release their own wheel or something, of a more affordable cheaper price.
Go over to Amazon and do a search on "Logitech PlayStation 3 Driving Force GT Racing Wheel". They're $130. I've had one for quite a while now and love it. I think it's the "official" wheel of Gran Turismo; it even has the "GT" logo in the middle of it.