Auto-drive would have been more cool than dozens of fast travel points. Cyb77 is a complete different game now than it was on 2020 so devs could rework that too, since now it is a smooth cool and beautiful experience to drive around.
I have a question for veterans. How do you deal with the keyboard driving model? How do you drive smoothly when you constantly have to press the gas button and when you release it the car slows down? You can't avoid the "frog jumps" effect. You can't get the effect of smooth driving at a uniform speed. Constant acceleration, slowing down, acceleration, slowing down. Such driving is frustrating and not fun.
I play with mouse and keyboard, and I drive with a controller. Personally, I use the Guilikit King Kong Pro 2. Hall sensors on the analog sticks are an exceedingly wonderful thing. If you don't like using gamepads...try one of these. Silky smooth, analog control of gas and brakes, steering axis, and camera axis. It works really well in games that have totally jank driving, as well, like Ghost Recon: Wildlands.
And, they won't break the bank. Usually around $40-$50 USD.
This and keybinding almost made me return the game on launch. (Thanks to steam return policy because I was one of the year long pre-order customers.)
However...
Fortunately for me I was able to make a driving mod day one by tweaking the Json file for the driving. AND then that is still not great so I only use motor bikes that give you more margin for error. Unless I am in the bad lands, then I use cars but still manage to crash into things once in a while.
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Anyone know if the driving controllers with steering wheels work? Or are they just driving wheel shaped keyboards?
Yeah, they work. Just get a well designed one. (The more complex moving parts, the worse it will wind up being. It's a simple gear, lever, and wheel -- that's all you need.) Used one that was 3D printed in less than 5 hours, and it worked fine.
For myself, I just use the stick.
oh no I did not mean the clip ons that go on top of a paddle controller.
I mean the keyboard replacement driving wheels that just plug into the PC via USB. I would guess that the clip on versions would work because they are still a paddle controller with the analog joystick electronics. But I have a bad feeling the PC keyboard driving wheels are just driving wheel shaped keyboards.
That's not the point. Not at all. It's not about traveling fast, or that driving is tedious. It's about enjoying the area during the ride.
For example, if I'm a passenger in real life, I can enjoy the views more than my driver, who has to concentrate on the road and the driving. The metro is quite nice and I love it, but it's always the same route. As a driver you can take different routes. What I like to do is when I'm paying my bills or sitting around chatting with my friends in the Discord, I sit back and enjoy the game as well. Take a little break of sorts. With the metro, for example, I lean back and just move my mouse to enjoy the view.
Especially with the VR goggles, it's amazing. Instead of taking control, it would be great if someone else took control and I could look around with the VR glasses without having to pay attention to other drivers.
That's also why I would like this. I love how the FarCry games let you just hit a button, and your character will just drive to the destination you've selected like a normal driver. It's cool to just feel like you're there, on the road, handling a car the way you would in real life. It's a level of immersion that's hard to simulate (...even with a hall-sensor gamepad and excellent control. It's still a bit finicky.)
The most immersed I ever feel in the game is when a quest NPC is driving me thru the city. I replay these momets via save games a lot just to re-experience this.
Yeah I saw it. Thats pretty cool.
It's not just the Auto-Drive that's the problem, but how the rides have been programmed. Before 2.3 came along, the NPC drove very strangely. Sometimes they just stop in the middle of the road. And I think with 2.3 they just added it in for the player. What needs to be fixed is the road driving.
It's not just the Auto-Drive that's the problem, but how the rides have been programmed. Before 2.3 came along, the NPC drove very strangely. Sometimes they just stop in the middle of the road. And I think with 2.3 they just added it in for the player. What needs to be fixed is the road driving.
Ah, so that is how they did it. I hope it gets fixed for you.
I'd have to be dead, torched, and with no limb attached to let something drive me beyond what's scripted as part of the game. With my modded Cali, I reckon I need three minutes and fifteen seconds tops to reach any commonly reachable road point on the map from any other commonly reachable road point on the map. And I know the streets of NC perhaps better than my own pockets. Nothing replaces that joy.
I'd have to be dead, torched, and with no limb attached to let something drive me beyond what's scripted as part of the game. With my modded Cali, I reckon I need three minutes and fifteen seconds tops to reach any commonly reachable road point on the map from any other commonly reachable road point on the map. And I know the streets of NC perhaps better than my own pockets. Nothing replaces that joy.
Even though the mod is officially discontinued now that the feature has been added to the game, he's updated it so that both his version and the in-game autodrive can be used. Honestly, his implementation is far superior at the moment, but I'm hoping that the in-game version improves with patches.