PC2 Project CARS 2 announced with crowdfunding options

[Alex Franchini]

Slightly Mad Studios has officially announced a sequel to Project Cars today as Project Cars 2 is now official, and the WMD crowdfunding campaign has gone live.

Apparently the first big difference with the first title is that PCars 2 will feature off-road racing, along with Touge and Hillclimb events.

The crowdfunding tool-packs, which you can see on the WMD page, start from 50 British pounds and go all the way to 10,000 pounds.

Here's the shortlist of the PCars 2 features:

• THE LARGEST TRACK ROSTER EVER – 50 unique locations and 200+ courses including ‘loose surface racing’ on dirt, gravel, mud, and snow. All will have dynamic time of day and weather allowing you to play anytime, anywhere

• THE WIDEST VARIETY OF MOTORSPORTS with 8 different disciplines now including Rallycross, Hillclimbs, and Touge. 200+ cars from over 40 different vehicle classes including never-before-seen Concepts and Banned Race Cars

• CO-OP CAREER – Play as the Teammate Driver, Spotter, Driver Swap, or Co-Pilot. More choices, more opportunities, more strategy, greater risks and greater rewards

• SEAMLESSLY CONNECTED – Socialize and compete via Online Track Days, have players from around the world take the place of AI-controlled drivers in your solo play, and get news updates on the Driver Network around you

• PRO ESPORTS RACING – Skill & Behavioural-based matchmaking, create your own Online Racing Leagues, and Live Broadcast and Spectator functionality

• YOUR HOME FOR RACING – Your own personal, customisable Test Track to tune and test your cars. Invite others to showcase your passion for racing and learn race craft and engineering with the Project CARS Academy

Update: First videos already out on YouTube
Update 2: Videos have been removed from YouTube

 

[SwaggerJacker]

WMD reps coming here to soothe emotions, but still manages to take on a demeaning attitude. Damn.

This is the real problem. The backlash comes now with this odd announcement, but really, if more simracing people hade been on the WMD forums it would have come a lot sooner.

To me, this is a continuation of an alarming attitude within SMS and WMD. WMD is not the happy place of collaboration it was said to be... It really is nothing different from any business meeting where the power clique will bully the rest into submission.

Its just that for many people not being members (conveniently shut off after a while) the hype took over and the reality is dawning now.

But the sim itself is good. It is kind of a more user friendly GTR2... It is a shame that certain business people are where they are in SMS.

Driver friendly, yes. User friendly?

 

[SwaggerJacker]

It's an estimate since the final figures for the quarter haven't come in from BN yet. Heck of a "patch".

It's way easier to tear something down than it is to build something. I get that.

It's way easier to tear something down when it's half built. This seems more accurate.

 

[Cristian Garza Flores]

What an unethical attitude they've made.
On another note I think this is positive news for Gran Turismo while they are currently developing his next game, and currently not out there on the next gen consoles.

 

[Dan Allen]

As much as I love the idea of Rallycross and banned race cars, I second everyone's opinion on the unfinished state of the first game.

Not that I dislike pCARS 1 of course...

 

[David Ignjatovic]

I wonder if 40 people are devoted to fixing/patching the game doesn’t really mean...."we've doubled our PR staff, and hopefully we'll saturate the net with more sickening stories of the near orgasmic experience it is to work in SMSs virtual office".

Someone referred to Bell as "prince charming", but perhaps a better description is "THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS".

Don't ask me where to place micass in this disturbing pecking order, but he's one of the most absurd kissasses I've ever encountered.

I hope the mods don't delete this as u know it's true, lol.

 

[LTC_Mike]

I really don't get why so many people that don't like pCARS, SMS, Ian Bell and the whole WMD concept and community at all have to shout this fact over and over through the Internet. Is there some kind of mission or crusade that I may have missed? Or shall we need to save our children from walking to the dark side? Why don't all these people just forget about it and play the other titles? If there would be true indicators or even proof that SMS is going to fraud their customers, well, then call Scotland Yard and send a SWOT team over to SMS... else ... I really don't get it. Aren't there other problems on this planet or is this just a first world issue because there is no other struggle ?

 

[Radu Oros]

I really don't get why so many people that don't like pCARS, SMS, Ian Bell and the whole WMD concept and community at all have to shout this fact over and over through the Internet. Is there some kind of mission or crusade that I may have missed? Or shall we need to save our children from walking to the dark side? Why don't all these people just forget about it and play the other titles? If there would be true indicators or even proof that SMS is going to fraud their customers, well, then call Scotland Yard and send a SWOT team over to SMS... else ... I really don't get it. Aren't there other problems on this planet or is this just a first world issue because there is no other struggle ?

Can be a first world problem, but it goes deeper than that. Because it passes on many chances the gaming and work ethics. And all the over-hype coming from SMS and the WMD members who couldn't contribute to the game development, but contributed to the marketing all over the internet. People are going to be pissed off to all this.
If the people who contribute financially to develop pcars and are wmd members, and Ian Bell says they charge money for people to show commitment, as the WMD forums are like a work place/office, why is he banning so much those who dare to challenge the boss.. instead of talking with them and explaining why things are that way.. there's barely any transparency, and a lot of choice-decision illusion they give to most low-end wmd backers. Because those who invest the most get to say what goes in the game, and they will be looking for profit to their investment. This doesn't benefit at all sim racing. It benefits people who are looking for an arcade/semi-arcade racing game.
In fact it doesn't benefit that much, since forza, gran turismo, driveclub already do a much better job in that department.
99%complete game in November 2014? They want half a year to polish that 1%? It still looks like 91% polished in overall.
And Ian should learn some work and gaming market ethics. Or he adopted a boss persona from the Industrial Revolution? Those wmd members from pcars1 are also collaborators in a work place, the wmd forum. He gets rid of them like that would be his house. Guess what, the wmd forum is not his house, so he should follow some work ethics.
So yeah, people are going to be pissed off about the whole picture, the pcars over marketing hype from shills, bad work and game product ethics from Ian. He should learn to be a leader and not a boss. So what if people criticize the game in the wmd forums? He should have kept and respected that criticism, maybe the user and customer reception of pcars would have been better. He shouldn't have marginalized those people, even if he didn't like their tone. You know what happened? Natural selection on the reverse. He kept those people who only agree with and fear him. Rest of the story happened after 7th May. So here we are.

 

[ONT]

"I really don't get why so many people that don't like pCARS, SMS, Ian Bell and the whole WMD concept and community at all have to shout this fact over and over through the Internet. Is there some kind of mission or crusade that I may have missed?"


LOL true that, it's looking like some form of forum Tourette Syndrome

 

[Andy_J]

"I really don't get why so many people that don't like pCARS, SMS, Ian Bell and the whole WMD concept and community at all have to shout this fact over and over through the Internet. Is there some kind of mission or crusade that I may have missed?"


LOL true that, it's looking like some form of forum Tourette Syndrome

So that also goes for all the other internet forums discussing and ranting complaining about the exact same things. You might not like to admit it because you are an investor, but their PR in this matter is so wrong it hurts. But as your unofficial mouth piece Micass keeps telling us, all PR is good PR and thanks for the money that keeps rolling in.

 

[LTC_Mike]

And Ian should learn some work and gaming market ethics. Or he adopted a boss persona from the Industrial Revolution? Those wmd members from pcars1 are also collaborators in a work place, the wmd forum. He gets rid of them like that would be his house. Guess what, the wmd forum is not his house, so he should follow some work ethics.

Hmmm, is it so? When i google SMS and WMD i get this e.g.:
Slightly Mad Studios

Ian Bell...
What does your job involve?

As Head of Studio I’m involved in many different aspects from defining the direction and philosophy of the company to setting fast lap times for the team to beat ;o)

World of Mass Development

WMD (World of Mass Development) is a new platform for games creation from the award-winning developer Slightly Mad Studios that allows: ...

It seems to me that Ian is the Boss of all this and if he likes to do like he does, well, everyone could take it or leave it. No one is forced to invest, buy, play their products. And what harm could a single game do to the world wide sim racing club if it's really such a bad product and the company has such a bad reputation and their fellow community consists of bad habbit Simcade fanboys...

I don't get it still. And if Forza, Driveclub, GT etc. are so much better, than why not talking about these kind of "real racing simulators" and ignore pCARS at all? Maybe I am too stupid to get the real thing that's going on, maybe I have grown up in a different way, with a different education with to live and to let live is a good thing ...

 

[Radu Oros]

with to live and to let live is a good thing ...

Yes we agree on this, though my post above is not remotely connected to this phrase.

 

[Kakha Jomardidze]

cancer is not curable! in the beginning 2011 it was still hoped, that they will come something valuable, But in their announcement, showed their claws.

 

[Andy_J]

cancer is not curable! in the beginning 2011 it was still hoped, that they will come something valuable, But in their announcement, showed their claws.

Que ?

 

[Kakha Jomardidze]

Que ?

რა?!

 

[David Ignjatovic]

Hmmm, is it so? When i google SMS and WMD i get this e.g.:

I don't get it still. And if Forza, Driveclub, GT etc. are so much better, than why not talking about these kind of "real racing simulators" and ignore pCARS

Who are you to set the discussion

 

[GTAce]

Which one are you?

Neither. I'm not a fan of SMS and their behaviour, I also voiced my opinions loud enough to almost lose my WMD account, what I posted is true though.

I'm not wasting any energy explaining this further, too many delusional peeps here.

 

[Richard Eriksson]

This reminds me IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover. The game was lauched bugged beyond hope. 6 months later it was dead.

Ouch, i remember that release very well. Damm, still pisses me off

 

[LTC_Mike]

Who are you to set the discussion

Do I? I just asked questions because I am wondering that such an (tiny) announcement causes such an uprising within the (sim) racing community. And to express: I am no one that wants to set anything ... just expressed my opinion as anyone else here. But maybe the elite in sim racing wants to stay alone without beeing confronted with suspicios questions? [Danger: ironic statement!]

 

[David Ignjatovic]

Do I? I just asked questions because I am wondering that such an (tiny) announcement causes such an uprising within the (sim) racing community. And to express: I am no one that wants to set anything ... just expressed my opinion as anyone else here. But maybe the elite in sim racing wants to stay alone without beeing confronted with suspicios questions? [Danger: ironic statement!]

Because the whole point of this particular development process was to AVOID past problems, yet as it turns out they're no better, but even worse, they agressively avoided constructive feedback by banning "troublemakers"....aka people logging genuine complaints.

This whole he didn't talk respectfully is a load of bullshit, ie, the reason people didn't talk respectfully is that ONGOING problems weren't being addressed, so unless you asskissed, you were bullied, threatened, warned and banned.

THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS also mocks people logging legitimate complaints and then boots them out his CASTLE DRACULA CESSPIT.

 

[LTC_Mike]

But doesn't it remain his ( aka "the Prince of Darkness") party anyway? And if it's (or has become) Dracula's Reich of Evil why not stay away from such painful areas? I still don't get why so many get so upset and not just leave it as it is and ignore or stay away from it at all? Or does the sim racing community has to be on a crusade against such evil development studios and/or publishers that fraud their high ideals - then maybe one of the Kings of the Crusaders should make a list of them to blame them so that everyone could stay away (why do I have to think about George W. Bush now...???)