Announcement trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5RIoJgfQJg
More information from the Codies blog:
http://blog.codemasters.com/grid/04/introducing-grid-autosport/
Since it's a long blog post, here's a copy-and-pasted summary of the things they're doing with GRID: Autosport.
1. Codemaster had acknowledged that they had made some bad decisions in Grid 2 which resulted a poorer quality game so Grid Autosport is set to fix some of Grid 2's problems such as bringing back cockpit views. Instead of one cockpit view, Grid Autosports has 2 different cockpit views: The first one is on the driver seat, the second one is on the centre of the dashboard.
2. They promised that the physics of the new game will be more towards the simulation spectrum while it remains fun and still easily accessible. It will be authentic, akin to Grid 1 but not as difficult or clinical to play like Assetto Corsa and iRacing. At the same time, each car will be tuned differently as a touring car like a Ford Focus BTCC will handle differently from a Formula 3.
3. There will be different classes of cars that ranges from Touring Cars, GT, Single-Seaters, Muscle Cars, Drift, Supercars, Hypercars, Time Attack, Prototypes and others. Also, different game modes like Endurance that you have to manage your tire wear, tightly packed touring car races and racing through claustrophobic roads with street cars. In short, Autosports is closer to Grid 1 or TOCA 3 than Grid 2 that focuses mainly on street races with mostly high performance stock cars.
4. Confirmed tracks so far are: Hockenheim, Sepang, San Francisco, Jarama and Yas Marina. Much more tracks are featured in the game where Codemaster claimed that they have 22 locations with a combined route list that totals over 100. They also claimed that circuits made up the bulk of the tracks despite offering street tracks. No sign that Live Routes from Grid 2 is coming back.
5. Career wise, you will be allowed to play as a professional racing driver where youll be able to join and switch teams, fulfil sponsor demands and beat rivals. Also, the well loved team mate feature from Grid 1 is back with a new feature that you can command your team mate to defend its position or move up the positions with a single button press. Apparently you can also request information from your team engineers. There will be multiple racing discipline in the new game where you can choose what you like to play and ignore the rest that you do not enjoy, similar to Grid 1.
6. There will be practise rounds and qualifying before each race. Qualifying determines your starting position so no more RNG starting position.
7. Cars will have tunable parts such as brake bias, differential, downforce, gears, ride height and suspension at both the front and back.
8. Multiplayer wise, Racenet is back with new features like ability to create race clubs and race under the same team with friends. Also have similar weekly challenges as Grid 2.
. When is RTC 4 for PC coming out? It came out for iOS and Android a few days ago.
Facebook
Twitter