I have a hard time believing that this is going to PS4, even if it is just a demo. The game has a pretty awesome aesthetic and the music is pretty awesome, assuming you have the rights to it. But the game is all over the place. The controls are okay but the steering feels like it's either a leisurely drift to the next lane or a 720 flatspin into a 3 fatality rollover with no in between. The level design is all over the place, ranging from carefully crafted speedway to a 5 year old's hot wheels track. The jumps never feel good since you're either on a single trajectory or the game takes over and puts you back on track, they don't feel like obstacles as much as they do set pieces. The fact that there are bombs on some of them makes them even more frustrating unless you're some kind of savant who can perfectly calculate the travel time of the car and where each bomb is going to be when you get there. And it's far to easy to just miss one or take a bad angle so you drift off into space, not in a way that feels difficult, but rather unrefined. All this on top of the fact that the constant load/unload of each section completely kills the pace and momentum every 30-45 seconds. It looks cool, but that's about it.

Thoughts so far:

The aesthetic is cool. The graphics are neat. I like the music and stuff.

I wish it loaded track in segments so I didn't have to watch a loading screen and then start from 0mph each level.

Here's hoping it gets some polish on that handling. I especially notice weirdness when I hit a wall or the edge of the track. Usuallythe car sticks to the track like glue in spite of hitting the curb.

When you hit a surface with any part of the body of the car rather than the wheels, it bounces weird. Sometimes when you hit walls, the collision looks soft and pillowy rather than solid.

I got one question:

Is it possible to beat "Hard Right" without cheating? I only got the Secret Ending because I drove right off the edge, fell down and skipped half the road to that checkpoint.

What about support for other platforms?

Hi,

Does the game require me to use "Joystick0"? Or, are only certain controllers supported?

I hit "Start" on my wireless XBOX 360 controller, nothing happens; nor does anything happen on my Thrustmaster Ferrari 458.

I can hit space or escape on the keyboard and get the menu to appear, but it still seems to ignore my controllers.

Good luck with the game, I'm excited just by the soundtrack I'm hearing on the start screen:)

Regards,

RR

I think this a 64-bit build? If so, is there a 32-bit build anywhere?

Sorry for being awkward, my kids are pretty keen to give this a go, but they have 32-bit windows on their gaming tablets (I think it will probably run ok, they can just about run Slime Rancher, and Rocket League runs ok in a fairly pixelly mode).

Ah, you said you were looking for a mac tester: I've got a 2009 MacBook that can run Chaos Reborn and my own Unity 3D projects, I'd be happy to try it out for you with my PS4 controller.

Apart from the technical stuff this is amazing. I'm all excited for the full version!

In the tutorial section the motion blur is just extreme for me.  I'd appretiate the option to turn it off either way. It does enhance how the speed is communicated, but it ruins the amazing graphics.

And the controls are all over the place on the keyboard once you are supposed to do barrel rolls. I can pull off an A+Z+C combination with one hand awkwardly enough, but it's impossible to see the X key then. I'm sure this was a standard configuration, wasn't it?