Using A REAL-LIFE GPS To Drive In Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown! (1:1 Hong Kong Island)

In today's video, we are Using A REAL GPS such as google maps To Drive In Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown's 1:1 Hong Kong Island map! Literally gotta be one of the best open world racing game maps of like all time I can't even cap!
0:00 - Cruising To The Racetrack!
9:14 - Racetrack Gameplay!
15:24 - Cruise To Observation Wheel!
21:37 - Cruising To The Belchers Block!
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[@sharifhaque4722]

They need to add gps in interior screen. Even TDU2 had it!

[@TheAlexVII]

For sure!

[@Kylfahn]

Don't think they will sadly

[@RCmies]

I think it might be something that car manufacturers are against also

[@johnyboy9102]

Even TDU 1 had it

[@final353]

Imagine cruising on the freeway with interior GPS with no hide with the crew,beautiful.

[@GTFelix]

I'm grew up in Hong Kong and still lives there. All I say is that, in terms of the road itself, the accuracy is spot on, EXCEPT the width. They haven't just made each lane wider but really adding them. For example, at 2:35 the highway narrows to 2 lanes at this point. Also this highway in real life has more ramps that leads to tunnels going off Hong Kong Island. But since this game solely focus on Hong Kong Island, those split roads are removed. This is why all those lane guidance sounds off at times telling you stay left or right when the road simply has nowhere to go off to in the game. The other thing is that in Hong Kong, there a lot of central dividers and the traffic lights are at the middle of the road to split on coming traffic. The game developers simply removed them for playability. By the way the solar crown race track is a Jockey race ground in real life.

[@Parthr8]

I lived in the Belchers (Sharps HQ) up until last year. In real life the mall extends to about 6 floors after which the structure fades away into an apartment complex with an entrance next to the University further up the hill. The details are SPOT ON. The MTR metro stations are missing but everything else, the signage, the lights on the floor, the rock formations in the surrounding area are all exactly the same. It's extremely strange to drive around these areas without having the shops/stores/restaurants as they are in real life. But with my familiarity of HK island, I can say that 90% of the map is exactly as it is in real life. Even the rural beach areas like Shek'O. Its truly a shame that they didn't model the Kowloon side of things because that area is pure chaos, but I guess that would've pushed development for another few years, so take what you get!

[@01081988chrislai]

Nice content! This is actually more accurate than I thought, me as a Hong Konger was screaming out go left go right😂😂😂

[@TheAlexVII]

🤣🤣

[@GroovyTrancer]

@@TheAlexVII @Alex! Real nice video, again! I've got 2 questions about TDUSC: 1. What do you think about the races in TDUSC on consoles/PS5? Will we need to have a subscription to PlayStation Plus to be able to play the races? Or will they be automatically filled with AI drivers if you have no subscription (which would be completely fine for me)? Or will we not be able to join any races, unless we have PlayStation Plus? 2. Will the Logitech G923 be compatible on PlayStation 5? I can't find any official info about this. Thx for your answer and the nice vids! ;-)

[@TheAlexVII]

@@GroovyTrancer it might be like TCM where you’ll be able to play the game but just only have AI lobbies I’m not sure. They’ll explain before launch I’m sure. I’ll add that question to my dev interview. G923 will be compatible yes

[@GroovyTrancer]

@@TheAlexVII Super! Thx for asking the devs! When will the interview take place?

[@mmj6500]

You are great man. You are one of the only people who has kept the hype of test drive unlimited for so many years now. Keep up the good work. I really hope this game gets the success it deserves because it looks great. But there will be some people with bigger voices who will be over critical and influence the masses.

[@TheAlexVII]

Thank you! And yeah I know exactly what you mean, at some point the masses will turn, even if it takes years it’s a growth of a franchise returning, which I can’t wait for :)

[@GroovyTrancer]

@@TheAlexVII Real nice video, again! I've got 2 questions about TDUSC: 1. What do you think about the races in TDUSC on consoles/PS5? Will we need to have a subscription to PlayStation Plus to be able to play the races? Or will they be automatically filled with AI drivers if you have no subscription (which would be completely fine for me)? Or will we not be able to join any races, unless we have PlayStation Plus? 2. Will the Logitech G923 be compatible on PlayStation 5? I can't find any official info about this. Thx for your answer and the nice vids! ;-)

[@toptierdiscordmod7806]

@@GroovyTrancer well PS plus is required to play, i dont know if you will be able to login the game without it, as for wheel support the devs worked on WRC generations so why not

[@KingdomTwelve]

The Sharps would like to have a word with you Mr. Alex 🤵‍♂️

[@TheAlexVII]

😂😂😂

[@flawmotore]

Je te le dis en français : TU RÉGALE !! Merci Alex ! Par contre pas de téléphone au volant 😜😜😜

[@bobmarley6306]

This game looks breathtaking, the cityscape and lighting along with how accurate the recreation of Hong Kong Island is, this video demonstrates that well, it's extraordinary and I absolutely cannot wait for release.

[@Ckou95]

Yeah but the handling is shit... so the rest is pointless

[@wollom0148]

​@@Ckou95 I think the players are split on handling/physics. I think it's alright as it's in-between sim and arcade. Rwd traction needs attention, but think with a couple tweaks it'll be alright. It gives a good sense of speed, I'm not going 300mph in a golf like Forza haha. What are your thoughts if you can pin them down??

[@bobmarley6306]

@Ckou95 I havent played it but from what I can see during wheel gameplay the cars handle naturally and there's a difference between cars based on drive train and weight, the car reactions to inputs look good. Have you played it yourself?

[@greensamurai5805]

​@@Ckou95Get good kid,the handling is rough around the edges but way better than any the crew/NFS game of the past decade

[@greensamurai5805]

​@@bobmarley6306I have over 10 hours in the game, the handling is very fun most of the time .its not afraid of the player and his ability to learn and gradually master the game which is the best part the graphics are great and the environent layout of the map has alot of interesting stuff to see it has a cozy vibe. You should give it a try !

[@Issam-od4pg]

For as much criticism as the game is getting right now, it's honestly just sad how insanely impressive features of the game like the map are getting completely overlooked. Heck even the multiplayer that people kept criticizing (and fairly because the servers don't always work) looks just as fun as tdu2

[@ch14f96]

Aquí en España es una vergüenza la actitud tan negativa que están teniendo con TDUSC. A mí me encanta lo que veo por ahora, ya reservé la gold edition.

[@gabrielgranadosg]

That was a very cool route to explore! 👌 Thanks very much for sharing this video Alex! 💖 *Greetings from Costa Rica!* 🌴

[@hongkonggooglepixel3495]

the hong kong map is better than sleeping dog

[@redhunnid5142]

I miss Sleeping Dogs so much if it didn’t release next to GTA it would’ve never went out of business that is another game developer that took GTA as a joke and should’ve released a year or two after GTA 5 with a lot of marketing

[@Striker-bg5sf]

You did with passion bro.Hi from Türkiye.Keep it up

[@b58m23]

and the sound of the cars love it

[@TheAlexVII]

One of the Best parts about this game tbh

[@bamboozooka-yk7qn]

gotta cruise cos i couldnt get into any race lobby today

[@AYO_KO]

Really waiting for a game to have good turbo sounds. The cheesy F&F over the top BOV noise has been done to death. I wanna see if they could add that turbo spool you get from Catless GTRs, AMGs, Bimmers, Audis, Porsches, turbo R8s, turbo 5.0s, Turbo Vipers. Just that constant spool🔥🔥🔥

[@calebliu7581]

lol that speed is giving you a heavy fine irl

[@johnnyng8527]

I actually wish they use narrower roads to stay true to hong kong road conditions

[@bunkerspy7469]

I can’t wait to play it on my wheel

[@gamingwiththegrangers]

Still can’t believe we’re playing the new test drive, good times! Love your vids man 👍🏻

[@TheAlexVII]

4 years since the reveal XD finally indeed haha, and thanks yo!

[@iDriiven]

Video idea : try to find the houses that we will be able to purchase in the future update it will be interesting I think

[@wollom0148]

There's definitely some places that would suit, the pier, a yacht, skyscrapers and probably some in the mountains. I'm looking forward to houses that were said they would introduce after launch, hopefully they include uniqueness to each one and customising them too

[@MuscleCarLover]

Wheel Vs controller. What's your recommendation for TDU SC? It's kind of a dilemma for me because wheel means buying the game on Xbox and controller means buying it on PS5. PC isn't a possibility for me because I have an i7 8700 and GTX 1070

[@AggressiverKoala21]

Love your tdu content🤝

[@TheAlexVII]

Thank you! :)

[@b58m23]

this is crazy

[@Tyresome]

I kinda did this in my stream the other day but I thought I saw a building and it turned out the building I thought I saw was in London...

[@TheAlexVII]

Hahahaha

[@LucaBrasi125]

8:17 is that a slammed raptor 😂

[@TheAlexVII]

hahaha yeah traffic bug atm XD

[@ryt5978]

As a Hong Kong people, although the roads are too wide, the map is really amazing ,most roads and buildings look the same 👍

[@TheAlexVII]

Ahh I can imagine yo!

[@deepjoshi9570]

Upload day light gameplay more please

[@TheAlexVII]

Will do!

[@wydua2049]

It would be so cool and weird if someone made ,mod to integrate google maps and tdu but also so so hard it would require the fakery of gps but also reading game inputs but tbh it can be done, it would just be very weird

[@TheAlexVII]

A companion app would be pretty incredible. I guess if you can somehow read the games telemetry of the vehicles position you can make a program that takes that and outs it on an IRL zoomable Google maps

[@wydua2049]

@@TheAlexVII oh yee actually there are mobile apps that already can let you walk on fake gps they were very popular during early pokemon go explosion before it got patched out if you could plug that telemetry into the steering input of fake gps you could do it

[@Xir-kx7cx]

It wouldn't even be that hard on Android (no idea about iOS). This is called a "mock location provider" and it's fairly basic stuff. However, the difficult part would be to: 1) retrieve the vehicle's position from the running game, and 2) translate the position from whatever coordinate system the game uses, into Earth's latitude and longitude coordinates, so that the mock location shows up in the correct place of IRL Hong Kong Island

[@wydua2049]

@@Xir-kx7cx I have literally said that

[@LucaBrasi125]

Could be possible, but the game being online only makes mods a bit harder

[@Ryzza5]

8:10 you were literally at the entrance to the race track when you crashed. It's on the left.

[@TheAlexVII]

yeah I know, but I wanted to follow the GPS IRL haha

[@joehasenstein8843]

Oh-dom-iter lol though odo-meter and speedo-meter are funny

[@MkGreene]

So fricking cool. Should make any video like this, but overlay the gps in post for a more short form content showing how accurate it is.

[@𝔲🅂ₑ𝓻④𝟘🈁]

(Probably a stupid question.) As far as I know, PS5 and Xbox, for the most part, require a subscription in order to access multiplayer. Does that mean that those people who don't have a subscription will only be able to race with bots?

[@TheAlexVII]

I’m guessing? No idea for sure honestly, but they’ll detail how that works before the game launches or during the first console tests I’d think. Not a stupid question though haha!

[@maikbottcher795]

You can't start the Game without subscription.

[@wydua2049]

@@maikbottcher795 source?

[@RCmies]

@@maikbottcher795 That would be wild

[@DrippedOutPoodle]

For Xbox any game that is ONLINE ONLY does NOT need a subscription to play. The Crew for example can be played without Xboxs Subscription. PlayStation do not do this and for ONLINE ONLY games the player will still require a subscription.

[@tadeasplicka5199]

What are your PC specs Alex?

[@TheAlexVII]

7800x3d and 4090

[@KnightWolf-xy5mn]

Says "Keep LEFT" *continues to drive on the RIGHT Lane*

[@TheAlexVII]

MY BAD! 🤣 I need a sim rig phone mount now hahahaha

[@jacobweiszberger194]

Can u plz do first person

[@UknownDriver]

This game keeps blowing my mind 😍😍😍

[@TheAlexVII]

Haha 😆

[@dansmith9610]

I played tdu and tdu2. I only have one concern about tdu solar crown. If its pvp only I can not buy this game. I refuse forced pvp.

[@bobmarley6306]

It's online only but not PVP only, so you can race against bots. I totally understand if you don't want to buy an online only game though, honestly valid.

[@themorocco6921]

@@bobmarley6306it’s not only when you don’t find other players that you race against bots ?

[@bobmarley6306]

@themorocco6921 This I'm unsure about as I havent played the demo, I assume it's like every other online only racing game where you do have the option to race bots, but someone who has tried the demo will have to confirm.

[@wollom0148]

I have played demo and had one or two where it's two humans. Normally 99% of the time It's PvE, 1 human, 7 AI racers. If someone joins it's PvPvE so like 2 players and 6 AI racers. It's not strictly PvP unless they add special clan races as that would make sense too.

[@Michael27Romero]

Can’t wait for this game to get cooked to death on steam when it drops 💀

[@redhunnid5142]

Forza Horizon 5 took 6 months to fix lag, disappearing players and dsync as a big budget triple a developer funded by Microsoft you fanboy yet you ran to buy and gave it good reviews because of graphics I will argue with you and that arcade handling all day in Forza Horizon you gravitate towards that game because it’s easy to drive on that game it’s for casuals any one can pick it up and drift you can’t hop on Gran Turismo and start drifting with ease why because it’s realistic I’m not saying this game is perfect but the way you bash this game constantly comparing it to Forza Horizon 5 is insane people like you are the reason the car racing genre is dead y’all want everything to look and play like Forza Horizon and it’s literally nothing to do in that boring game it’s a pretty graphic festival racer that’s it and it doesn’t even look realistic it’s outdated if we really want to get technical about graphics Forza Horizon and Gran Turismo have already been surpassed in the graphics department in realism go look at “Unrecord” and “Bodycam” the bar has been set way higher than ever before their is no game that can look more realistic than those games until a car game comes out looking as realistic as those games I don’t want to hear nothing more about realistic graphics

[@Michael27Romero]

@@redhunnid5142 at least u could still play the game offline just couldn’t see ppl. And it took only 3 weeks try again.. this game u couldn’t even load on a dam demo w a nasa computer or run anything above 720 graphics before the game crashed 💀💀💩💩👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻 forxa is fully optimized to run on hp this game can’t even run on quantum computers

[@alphapackaj76]

Feel like everyone is joining the streets and there will be hardly anyone in the sharps

[@wollom0148]

You can take a look at the leaderboards, and most at top are sharps 😈🕴️

[@tomstark6361]

Not so 1:1 after all. Not to be negative. Just an observation. Imagine they replicated every sigle road. That would be something.

[@TheAlexVII]

1:1 means the actual size and topography of the island is 1:1. It doesn’t mean every road is recreated, that would be tedious as both a development timeline and gameplay design tbh. I get what you mean tho

[@tomstark6361]

@@TheAlexVII yeah I get that Alex. Still super close map. Just a thought. That would be kinda ground breaking. Like a actual 1:1 map.

[@zeus7545]

Streets are going down ☠

[@davidroberts8760]

🎉😢😮Wake me up when you get there!!! 😪

[@_blankface]

I'll be pretty upset if I keep seeing all these people playing the game and it looks beautiful but when I play it looks like fuckinh dog shit - doesn't make sense. I have a good PC lol

[@TheAlexVII]

Lmaooo just a demo version when it’s optimized I am sure we will see it across the board

[@_blankface]

@TheAlexVII lol I hope so man - I want this to be the go to racing game. I just uninstalled and reinstalled it and it still looks reeallllly bad. I'll still buy it just because it's test drive

[@_blankface]

@@TheAlexVII just don't understand why my game looks so much worse compared to youtubers

[@TheAlexVII]

@@_blankface what specs do you have? I mean game isn't optimised either don't forget

[@_blankface]

@@TheAlexVII I know I'm staying optimistic- 3060ti 32 gb of ddr4 and an i9 10th gen. I run forza horizon at 4k at 60 fps

[@Michael27Romero]

They actually believed this ! 💩💩💀💀 "When you are able to go off-road and climb mountains, it's not the same level of simulation like a Formula 1 or WRC game," Jarniou explained. "The idea is to be more simulation than The Crew or Forza Horizon, which are quite arcadey." "Part of the enjoyment of driving is to have something that's realistic but not too simulation. But we want to give players the freedom to tweak driving aids to get something that's closer to simulation if they want." Alex u kno dam well this game arcade af can’t even drift w full angle or steering lock 🤣🤣🤣👎🏻👎🏻

[@redhunnid5142]

Go play Forza Horizon fanboy you’re on every TDU content creator channel and get it out of your head you spend more time hating on a demo than playing your Forza Horizon game that’s supposed to be simulation go play it last time I recalled you drive hyper cars off road in Forza Horizon at a 100mph fully controlled but you keep saying it has the best realistic physics that shouldn’t be possible you don’t need a off-road car to drive off road in Forza Horizon but it has better physics according to you even in the base car in Forza Horizon 5 you can drift with ease that’s not simulation that’s pure arcade you shouldn’t be able to easily drift in a simulation game yet you can in Forza Horizon Gran Turismo physics are more realistic than Forza Horizon you can’t jump in a base car and drift out the gate

[@Michael27Romero]

@@redhunnid5142 I don’t any horizon F Boi keep thinking this arcade racer is anything close to sim 💀💩💩 can’t wait for steam reviews to rip this game to shreds and have it free on game pass cause nobody wants to buy it for $20 🤣🤣🤣👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻

[@kedwyd6535]

@@Michael27Romero bro's butthurt that forza horizon's finally getting competition

[@Midnightvq]

@@kedwyd6535motorfest is more competition for forza than this bro..

[@natan6997]

TDU Solar Crown...is kinda lame ....glad i didn't pre ordered it 👀

[@mmdreza.m]

Keep playing nfs kid

[@davidroberts8760]

I Bet the Initial cost will Drop so low ,So Quickly after Christmas Walmart will have a Sale to get it for $30!😮😅😂

[@davidroberts8760]

I'm Falling asleep there so much Excitement 😢😮

[@bobmarley6306]

To each their own, but why did you feel the need to come to a TDU video and comment this?

[@natan6997]

@@mmdreza.m i Played the Demo....ist bad.....Player all Forza Horizon games....but getting boring over the Time....i was hyped for the game sinced it got announced but ....its bad

[@sargamuzik247]

GRANDAD DRIVEING

[@stanleycheungtvb]

This segment is so entertaining man. Please do it at least once a month when the game is released.🤩 It's even more fun for a HKer to watch this since we care a lot about accuracy. I wish they hadn’t cut out as many narrow roads as they did, but hey, I appreciate them for how it is finished now! Salute KT racing🫡 Again I know it’s a far fetched possibility but I wish they would tackle the Northern Parts of Hong Kong to make this game epic !