sense of speed in n4

am i the only one who gets absolutely no sensation of speed from the cockpit view in n4? i feel like im driving a lawn mower around a track. anyway just a personal observation. feel free to ignore cheers Jim

No your not the only one! Chris -- www.geocities.com/simbokza Remove _your_clothes before replying "Jim Davies" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:ZKEZ5.42551$[email hidden]... > am i the only one who gets absolutely no sensation of speed from the cockpit > view in n4? i feel like im driving a lawn mower around a track. anyway just > a personal observation. feel free to ignore > > cheers > > Jim > >

I ran GPL on an oval and felt a great sense of speed, I guess this doesn't cross over to the Nascar chassis, oh well. Vintook "Jim Davies" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:ZKEZ5.42551$[email hidden]... > am i the only one who gets absolutely no sensation of speed from thecockpit > view in n4? i feel like im driving a lawn mower around a track. anywayjust

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On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:35:32 GMT, "Vintook" <[email hidden]> wrote: >I ran GPL on an oval and felt a great sense of speed, I guess this doesn't >cross over to the Nascar chassis, oh well. >Vintook Talking about sense of speed.. what is it that gives a game a sense of speed? I love Viper, but I sorely miss the sense of speed in Viper. Only a few games have a real sense of speed imho... GPL ofcourse, RC2000, NFS:PU, GP3, F1CS2000... ehh.. that's about it :) Some games which have no sense of speed at all imho: Viper, SCGT, Ford Racing.. I guess the field of view has something to do with it, since in most games the sense of speed if much worse in cockpit view than in bumper view.. Andre

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>"Jim Davies" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:ZKEZ5.42551$[email hidden]... >> am i the only one who gets absolutely no sensation of speed from the >cockpit >> view in n4? i feel like im driving a lawn mower around a track. anyway >just >> a personal observation. feel free to ignore >> >> cheers >> >> Jim >> >> > >

Andre Warringa <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:35:32 GMT, "Vintook" <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >I ran GPL on an oval and felt a great sense of speed, I guess thisdoesn't

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> >cross over to the Nascar chassis, oh well. > >Vintook > > Talking about sense of speed.. what is it that gives a game a sense of > speed? I love Viper, but I sorely miss the sense of speed in Viper. > Only a few games have a real sense of speed imho... > GPL ofcourse, RC2000, NFS:PU, GP3, F1CS2000... ehh.. that's about it > :) > > Some games which have no sense of speed at all imho: > Viper, SCGT, Ford Racing.. > > I guess the field of view has something to do with it, since in most > games the sense of speed if much worse in cockpit view than in bumper > view.. > > Andre >

Which is also why being a passenger in my friend's little sports car can scare the pants off me, but driving the same roads at the same speeds in a taller car doesn't do anything. I imagine a Caterham would make everything look like warp speed. Stephen

i think possibly the problem is that in real car you get to feel the vibration and all the other sensory cues that arent seen in a game. I remember that my old civic hatchback felt like it was blasting along at 75! (got it to 99 once but the wheels were about to come off) then i drive my dads V8 jag and it just feels like cruising speed

Yup. doing 200 mph feel like doing 50 mph... I think it's cause they made the FOV so tiny...peripheral stuff.. A wider FOV would increase the sense of speed...but then cars in the distance..actually everything in the distance would get even smaller...and it seems tiny allready.. Nascar heat does give a very nice sense of speed. I'd love N4 with nascar heat's sense of speed and nascar heat's multiplayer code where, unlike in N4, you can actually bump someone without all hell braking loose.. Actually...of the thread.. i luuuuuuuuve N4.. except for : The tiny sounds... i've gotten used to the engine sound but collisions etc etc really suck...and the engine sound could get a bit of more balls aswell as far as i'm concerned. The multiplay code.... come on papy..at least give us code that will allow bumping under good connection quality...cause right now even with a 100ms ping and no loss at all bumping results in havoc...NH proves it can be done.. Do something to increase the sense of speed... Cheers, Willem On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 06:33:29 GMT, "Jim Davies" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>am i the only one who gets absolutely no sensation of speed from the cockpit >view in n4? i feel like im driving a lawn mower around a track. anyway just >a personal observation. feel free to ignore > >cheers > >Jim >

I get a sense of speed, certainly it is not like was originally in N1, but perhaps a tradeoff to help framerates maybe? I remember when N2 came out I thought the sense of speed in it was not as much as N1. -- Don Burnette Dburn in N3 and Legends ICQ# 74084566 "Jim Davies" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:ZKEZ5.42551$[email hidden]... > am i the only one who gets absolutely no sensation of speed from the cockpit > view in n4? i feel like im driving a lawn mower around a track. anyway just > a personal observation. feel free to ignore > > cheers > > Jim > >