Pista Motorsport Review: Worth Your Money or Skip for Now? Honest Review!

[@locaog4mesyoutube612]

Fun fact, the publisher has 3 mobile games about this series, ACTC Racing, Turismo Nacional and TC Racer. They are kinda ok games, with WILDLY understeery handling, but actually have quite good graphics for a mobile sim-like. I'm willing to bet most assets are just carry overs from the mobile titles

[@WromWrom]

Didn't know that. may very well be the case...

[@FlamingCurtain]

I was hyped for a new vr sim, so many horrible vr implementations but this was apparently built with vr in mind

[@WromWrom]

Yeah, and they had a small update so that you don't have to disconnect you VR anymore if you are not going to use it.

[@FlamingCurtain]

@@WromWrom that’s actually hilarious that it was even an issue to begin with. Thankfully there is modded ac for people like me. I just want a career mode sim racer that has good vr, no such thing yet

[@WromWrom]

@@FlamingCurtain It's like they never did QA, which is quite possibly what happened, seeing as the team is two people.

[@TonySnake80]

Long story short: -Bought -Played (or tried to...) for ELEVEN minutes -Refundend

[@WromWrom]

Yeah, they should have waited a bit more. This is even worse than the first LMU drop...

[@TonySnake80]

@@WromWrom LMU was gold in comparison

[@WromWrom]

Agreed

[@jase-t1k]

@@WromWrom No ppl have to stop buying these 1/2 baked sims/games in EA, we have the power but everyone wants something new ASAP even EA does not guarantee you will get a finished product, 1.0, updates ect... but ppl dont seem to read that when buying a EA.

[@tbarlitt]

Agreed. I refunded it after 30 minutes. Not holding my breath on this title unfortunately.

[@WromWrom]

We of course will keep it - if only for historic and journalistic reasons - but privately I would have refunded it too, I think. Went too soon into EA.

[@STRIDER_503]

Either you have EXTREME graphics like Gran Turismo 7 or Assetto Corsa + CSP, or you have NONE of it like Art of Rally, Richard Burns Rally or Live for Speed. This game sadly struck the disastrous middle ground of neither.

[@WromWrom]

I could live with mediocre graphics for a while (it's Early Access after all) but Simucube and pedals not being fully recognized hurts - and the VR issue is bizarre.

[@flightis3dollars]

There is work to do but plenty driveable for me. My Simucube 2 Pro and Heusinkveld Pros (clutch, brake, gas) work fine after calibration and assignment. Hit and miss for some though unfortunately. Hope it get sorted and improve at a fast and steady pace.

[@WromWrom]

Did your Simucube get recognized immediately or did you do something specifically? And how's the FFB?

[@flightis3dollars]

@@WromWrom My Simucube and Heusinkvelds were named in the controller menu right away but calibration and assigning was required to make them actually work when driving. The ffb does the job but feels a tad flat/numb/indirect, as an imediate impression, compared to the more developed games. Your 'wheelage' will probably vary. All in all I like the game as a start.

[@arr1009]

Just another thing, Serta you are wrong about to ask or wait for Turismo Carretera series on this sim, the cars included are from categories that no are part of the association that owns the Turismo carretera series (ACTC) and his diffusion/image rights. The cars and categories included on this sim are part of the APTP, not ACTC. And believe me, you are not loosing anything good to not have the Turismo Carretera series, this series use to be great over 80's and 90's but last 15/20 last years the category is just popular because of the past history and more from emotional side than technical or pure racing spirit. The cars are rare prototypes with carburetor engines and tubular frames, now trying to replicate forms of new cars, the whole category loose the horizon 30 years ago. The most similar cars to what Turismo Carretera used to be are the big ones included in this sim. I'm 48 years old, following races here since childhood and you can believe that you not loose anything, actually, for me, Turismo Carretera sucks, and the more entertaining races comes from the categories included on this sim.

[@WromWrom]

Thanks for the info, but I thought Pista is the second tier of Turismo?

[@arr1009]

@@WromWrom Nope, the second tier of Turismo Carretera (TC) is called TC Pista (TCP) and is not the same that Turismo Pista,.... I know, the name are very similars, could cause confutions even for us living here, but they are different categories and very differents cars. The TCP is very similar to the TC, exterior shape similar to old rear traction Ford´s, Chevy´s and Dodge´s from the 60´s over a tubular frame and big old engine blocks (6 line cylinders of 4.0 liters and more) ´´modernized´´, rear traction. The Turismo pista are made from new (here) small and medium size street cars that anyone can buy in the Argentinian car market today, all of them front traction, 4 cylinders and around 1.6 liters engines.

[@WromWrom]

Ah, fark, then I fell into that trap after checking the Wikipedias (English and Spanish) and the website of what was the TC...

[@arr1009]

Ibought them just to support the iniciative. No problems to detect and configure my base (Simagic), some work with the pedals calibration, (they must include some kind of explanation about dead zones and zero zones). I don't care too much about graphics, miss some details on the road mainly, they must work hard on this. The circuits are boring but they are equal in real life (I'm from Argentina and I have the opportunity to make some track days on some of those). The physics of the cars for me are ok, not great but ok. I give the chance to test more time, hoping that developers make improvements next few months. More kind of support the developer than enjoy of the sim.

[@WromWrom]

I wish it would recognize my base and the pedals fully then... 😞 And I agree on the graphics, those can be corrected on the go...

[@arr1009]

@@WromWrom The FFB works with Simagic and Logitech, but still need work too, for me works better than Rennsport for example, but still need a lot of work. I know they can improve a lot, they need money to do that and I think is time to support. Try to contact them, maybe they can do something quick for you