Few notes (graphics, physics, etc..)

[lucatabaton]

First of all I have to say I haven't had so much time till now to test this promising game, but I have anyway already some issues after few runs.

Apart from the strange behaviour which affects me as well and is very annoying as you may only run quite slowly to avoid that after few corners, I have two or three problems/issues.

• Resolution. the only way I can really see all the screen is running in 1080. This has anyway few problems for me. First thing all the small windows (e.g. the tires window) are showing way to small and almost unreadable due to the high resolution (at least for me). Then the other problem is that as my pc is not a monster one I have a massive FPS drop with high res and I'd like to test the game even in much lower res and details in order to try and drive with a reasonable FPS. I tryied to lower other values in settings in order to reduce the problem but it's not getting so much better (maybe are just really few options on which you can play now). In other resolutions I can see only part of the screen (like maybe top left or something like that).
• Car physics. Difficult to say something really complete until that strange behaviour occurs. Anyway I feel few things wrong/strange. First thing is clutch.You have to use full thershold of clutch in order to engage another gear both upshifting and downshifting. that's not IMHO a pedal saturation problem or something like that as starting from stand still is quite realistic with the ingame clutch, so it must be something regarding "software rules" fro gear changes. I remind you that 131 had a dogbox transmission which as many like that can be even used without clutch, providing the revs are reasonable (even if obviously it's not the best thing for reliability though). Now gear changes are really really slow for me (compared to what should be with that car) and in some way extremely difficult in some particular conditions. Brake as well have some issues for me. It's like it has brake fade from beginning of the stage. you feel that first part of brake pedal is only play and is not giving pressure to the system (like you have a "long pedal" due to brake overheating). Otherwise it can be that simply the pressure given is to low and can be adjusted quickly (maybe it's a thing that in future could be set also in car setup, like brake master-cylinders choice). The bad thing is that apart from these the physic looks already very good!! you can feel quite well the weight of the car as well as weight movements (pitch and roll).
• Second car. Have you preapared at least a second choice of car? I've seen some pics of a stratos for instance. it would be really useful to have a second choice, also to see if the feelings which seem wrong are just related to a specific car (that can be bugged or maybe not very well fine tuned) or to the physic engine itself.

Apart from this I've found minor things for the moment which have already been written by others. By the way luckily I haven't had any problem up to now to start the game or to start the sim window.

I hope you don't take these as complains (I know it's a little more than an Alpha now and it's more than normal to have issues), I just wanna try to be helpful. Unfortunately I'm not expert in coding and this kind of things so I can only give you car feeling feedbacks and few more.

By the way I think that the project is really really promising and I look forward to future improvements!!

BR Luca

[GRally-mulder]

we're not taking these comments as complaint but as a very good and complete review of the feeling and issues you've while testing gRally. And, as we wrote for other comments, we thank you for that. Some of the things you were mentioning (gearbox, brakes, physics) are already known and we're already working on them but nevertheless is important to know what you feel when you drive and you were pretty good in writing down everything :) for this reason, thank you!