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Hey guys, So I've started playing project cars 2, and i would like to see what other people think of it, and if anyone is having the issues i am.... I will give my first (not very good) impression of it: After spending HOURS and HOURS playing project cars 1 i can say that I'm more than a little disappointed in the new one... The cars/tracks and everything feels completely different, they feel sluggish and handle like absolute horse shit. Ive also found quite a large bug that irks me more than it should. I'll give some details, note i use a controller: My lap record on Bathurst PC1 was a 2.03 in the Aston Martin GT3 car. I spent a fair bit of time fiddling with suspension etc to get that lap time. I think from memory before i started fiddling with stuff properly i was doing 2.08 ish... something like that. Possibly remove a second or two with improving as a "driver" as i got more practice. I pretty much bought this game for Bathurst, specifically to take the 32 GTR around it. So i thought i'd start with that. Having driven Bathurst on car games ever since i was a child i know it like the bath of my hand, i thought i would have not too much of an issue, just teething problems. Holy shit have i never been so wrong, the thing handles like absolute horse shit, its the most tail happy piece of shit i have ever driven... Now granted it is an old car, but it is more tail happy than my GTR by a significant margin. So the first thing i did, fiddle with the sway bars like i would my car., now that made a huge difference but it really leaves me wondering why that wasn't done on it. So i spent the next two days taking that car around, and eventually gave up , and went back to the Aston GT3 car i have spent hours driving. Maybe going back to a car i know would let me learn the game a bit better... then i could come back to the 32. Heh wrong again. I got in the GT3 Aston (stock) and was struggling to do a 2:15. The time trial is hugely punishing for clipping walls ever so slightly, or even hitting the ripple strips. Ive lost countless laps that realistically had no reason for it. It felt completely different to the car i used in Project cars 1, but i cannot pinpoint what it is. I feel like it could possibly be a combination of the following: steering: Issue that is causing my hassles, though reading i'm not the only one with this issue. I have had to drop my steering sens hugely, otherwise with a controller i basically do S bends down the main straight as i can't get the f**king thing to point its nose straight. Now going into corners i feel like i have no steering. However i do feel they have improved the feeling of the car, in that i can tell when the back end is going to go, rather than PC1 which was "anddd im spinning". Brakes: Or lack there of... My brake markers are nowhere near what they were in PC1... legit they are 5-10m from where they were. This is causing me huge issues, as i use the brake line i have for hours and hours, and it sends me flying into a wall because the nose of the car won't f**king get into line lol Acceleration: Eh feels pretty much the same as PC1 in terms of too much throttle/not enough in corners. Transition: This is probably the most noticable for me, but i find every car i have tried to be hugely sluggish for transitions into corners. They REALLY don't like going back on the gas after heavy breaking, and even with throttle play, the nose just won't pull around. I feel like i actually need to leave a fairly large delay from braking to accelerator in order for the car to settle down for the corner. It really throws my line up for the corner, as I've never had to leave a delay like this in any game. The next one is one that people will either hate me for or get where im coming from.... Driving line: Buggy as alllllll hell. When it's on the track it's completely wrong, and i say "when" because 1 lap it will be there, the other it wont. When trying to learn a new track it is COMPLETELY useless. Considering the driving line is fantastic if you want to use it like i do... I basically ignore what it says and use the little triangles as depth perception, being on a monitor you literally have no depth perception and it has always been the biggest hurdle IMO that sims need to get past. So because of the buggy driving line, i have zero depth perception, even when it is on it's wrong and sends me flying into a wall or tells me to go way too slowly. because of the dead brakes i have no brake marks that i can use from the old game... Do i have to completely ignore all past sims that i have used to learn the track again?? At this point I'm thinking of returning PC2 and getting PC1 again. What are other peoples thoughts, am i retarded, or is there something off with this game? Am i missing something?