Feedback thread - v0.0.4

[terra-wrists]

I'm pleased i'm not the only one who hates the floating icons... pads are much better.

[blackwiggle]

It's just a hang up I have about racing games.....if R8 want people to take FF seriously as a racing game, you don't go putting in aspects of a arcade karting game that obstructs the drivers field of view, playing this at any speed in cockpit mode [always my preferred view in racing games ] is just going to be a game killer for me.

When you add in the trail effects of any craft in front of you [option to turn off please as effects HUD reading as mentioned], the HUD [when they sort that], weapons going off, track lighting effects, and the blur effect speed pads have [option to turn off please, like WO HD ]......You'd be lucky to be able to see much of the track at all.

Perhaps they could still have the icons floating, but just off the surface of the track horizontally, not vertically, like WO pads except floating...that might work, but as it is...sorry, losing interest already.

[Cipher]

I can totally agree with the hologram pickups, especially if you're flying internal, i didn't find them too bothersome when flying though, but i can understand that it gives a really arcady feel
They still have a lot to do to make it great, definitely not a fan of the current handling, track design could be more wild and 100% agreed on OP speed pads and rockets

I wrote a full feedback thingy on the r8 forums,b ut i'm not gunna post it here cuz it's a bit of a giant wall XD (But if you're interested, here it is; http://formulafusion.co.uk/index.php...t&comment=1952 )

I'm not really going to be testing/looking at every update though, only when something major's changed

And i'm really happy i'm not the only one who dislikes the ship design, they said there will be different designs at the highest speed class, but all the others will be these :/ (Maybe they'll re-consider )

Cipher

[blackwiggle]

Well I'm home from work and still no luck getting FF to start, it says it's in my library, it start to load up with the big start button which you can see the track behind, but when I go to press it Ziltch, it tries to start but nothing happens ......I'm just wondering...I have 3 drives on the PC FF is loaded on, C:/ for OS and programs [Steam is loaded onto this drive], another as a scratch drive for photography, and a large WD black as a storage drive, which I think I might of told Steam to download the FF onto that.

Does FF or any other game you want to play via Steam, have to be loaded onto the same drive Steam is loaded on?

Looking at the handling, it reminds me of when a mate strapped a Go Pro video camera to the front of his skateboard

[Hellfire_WZ]

No, I run the same setup with Steam on a different drive to the steamapps folder. It should work fine.

Silly question, but are you trying to use the controller on the menu? It only works with the mouse.

[blackwiggle]

I realised the game could only be launched from a mouse, a message came up when I tried doing it with the 360 controller, tried it, no success.

I wasn't sure about the situation with different drives, so I checked the Steam site....this is what it said.
Steam installs to the following folder by default:

C:\Program Files\Steam
Files for games installed on Steam are stored in the following folder:
C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\

During the installation of Steam, you have the option to install Steam to a location other than the default. Since Steam relies on the game files residing in the SteamApps folder, your game files cannot be moved outside of this folder. The game files must be in the SteamApps folder in order to function.

If Steam is already installed, you may move the installation to another location, such as a different hard drive using the following process.

So I followed the instructions below given at Steam's site to the letter [I copy/pasted it and printed it out]
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_...7418-YUBN-8129

I had hopes,...Steam updated, I verified the game cache...then diddle squat...it's even worse now....I have no Steam shortcut on my desktop that works as obviously the files have been moved, Steam has disappeared from START> All Programs [just a steam folder you click on and it takes you nowhere]...it's basically all gone to sh1t....even went to un-install programs...clicked on Steam and windows said it isn't there....there's nothing to un-install.

What crap instructions Steam

I'm over it, I'm just going to purge the whole lot from my up until now, perfectly running PC, ASAP.
I don't know if I'll bother to reinstall any of it again, I'm just too pissed off

[Cipher]

Lol, those are some really silly instructions, simply deleting folders and files of a program is not something you want to do in windows XD

Just re-install Steam Wiggle, if it says it's already installed, you're gunna have to mess with the registry, but i don't think you'll need to (Don't delete the folders you still have)
Once steam is done installing, copy the contents of the steamapps/common folder (you did keep them right?) into the new installation directory (eg c:\ program files x86\ steam\ steamapps\ common)

Cipher