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[altenbach]

Not sure what has been mentioned or not, so here are some personal observations from playing the open beta. Sure hope some will be fixed once released.

• It is annoying that windows throws an UAC prompt whenever this game is started from within uplay.
• Two lockups with black screen and only the word "live" flashing in colors forever in the lower right corner.
• One hard crash, asking me to submit a crash report, which I did.
• The Radeon 500 series has been out for over a year, but is not listed as supported on the requirements page. (This is a problem for all ubisoft games, though. The list goes up to the 400 series, then skips to "vega".) Running Radeon RX 570 here.
• After 60000 miles in the "Crew 1", it was initially difficult to get the new key mappings into muscle memory.
• The initial screen with "start your story" also needs a "continue current story" choice. I sure hope that the current beta achievements (>1 Million bucks!) will carry over into the full game. (After having played the short closed beta, I pressed "start your story" in the open beta because it was the only choice and was surprised that none of the achievements carried over from the closed beta and I had to start over with the original four gauntlet races. Maybe this was by design, but maybe I should have pressed <esc> instead. Hard to tell, but I wasn't able to test and start over again, of course.)
• Certain things are poorly documented. For example once I got a cryptic message that something was in the "mailbox". Took me a long time to figure out where that is...

There are the major critical points. Things look pretty good otherwise.
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[Angry.Pup]

Progress does not carry over between betas and the final game.

[altenbach]

> Progress does not carry over between betas and the final game.

Oh well, no big deal. Hopefully some of the other issues have been addressed, though.

(I thought there were some games in the past where stuff from the open beta carried over, but maybe my memory is failing ...)

[TGMayhem]

Ubisoft will not care at this point with big changes. They will roll the game in any form they like and address small problems months later through small patches. Eventually the game will die out and people will buy Forza 4 by October xD

[ChiroVette]

Eventually the game will die out and people will buy Forza 4 by October xD

Its funny you say this, because I had always assumed that I would be buying the game at a hefty discount because of all the problems I had with the AI on "Hard" difficulty in races, the lazy rubberband AI, and the fact that I would NEED the Season Pass to reduce grinding but am unwilling to pay LMAO $99.99 USD for the Gold Edition. So I figured, after getting info on Gold and combined with my experience with the AI in the open beta, that I would wait for a VERY deep discount to buy the game at a more reasonable price.

But your post just made a light bulb go on in my head, lol or over it. It will probably take 3-4 months before the price of the Gold version of TC2 comes down to what I would be willing to pay for it. So that begs the question, why not simply buy Forza 4 instead, which would probably release around the same time?

[TGMayhem]

Because I need to play a game for the summer xD Then I will play Forza 4.

[ChiroVette]

Because I need to play a game for the summer xD Then I will play Forza 4.

I can see how this would be a good summer game for some people. Luckily, in my case, I have a ton of games for the PS4 Pro, XBOne, and PC I have procrastinated starting, so I have plenty of summer games to keep me going. So I would only buy this game when the price comes down AND if they fixed the terrible AI, the latter I expect to NEVER happen, while the former certainly will.

I know next to nothing about FORZA, though. Maybe I should start researching it?

[TGMayhem]

Yeah the E3 demo looked amazing. Dynamic weather and always amazing graphics in Forza. Garages you can pick as well once you save more money. Basically The Crew 2 but much better and no planes/boats...