Now that it is just days too full release, the official simulation of the Blancpain GT series deserves some attention being raised for it.
For example the stunning graphics, whcih I enjoy in already very good VR, and thatg get exemplary illustrated by the drama of a night racing in the most severe of rains.
Under such conditions, you drive the track by memory only, and I dfopubt in reality the race would have been launched, like in this movie. But still - never has rain looked so well in a racing sim. And believe me, it feels so perfectly right when driving on such a track as well.
The simulation leaves Early Access and is released as full version on May 29th. Its scope might look limited, but this is also its advantage - Kunos' working time is not cluttered on hundreds of cars and tracks, but just the official content to the series - but that content completely: all cars, all drivers, all teams, all tracks of that series, seasons 2019 and 2020 - and nothing included that is not in that series. This ultimately means a focussing of ressources, I do not think of it as limitatoin but concentration. As somebody who is driving this since Early Access version 0.1, I can assure you that this title is very serious business - and not a game.
TAKE HEADPHONES - the sound is brutal!
As contrast to the noise and drama, here come two of Chris Haye's most excellent videos, representing EA builds 0.5 and 0.4:
While I expect the sim to take the thrown on many aspects and in many categories of sim racing, I only frear a little bit about the AI, whcih agai8n so far is somewhat unambitioned. It is reliable and trusdtworthy in situaitonal awareness and not ramming player'S car, but it lacks a bit the fangs and claws I came to expect fromt eh benchmark in sim racing AIs, which imo is that i Raceroom. ACC's AI so far showed to be fast and trustworthily doing the laps, but iot is - again, like ion AC1 - a bit too mpacifist and uncreative, for my taste. I am used to more fighting amd expecting the unexpected, Raceroom has spoiled me there.
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But who klnows what they may have acchioeved int hese regardsd between EW verison 0.6 and then 1.0 in - well, in eight days from now on. Wednesday next week will be the day. I will be unavailable then since I need to date Spa and Silverstone.