so netKar Pro is finally out...

I was just reading about this, he seems like a bit of an ass tbh. Glad I decided to wait for a few patches until I bought it. Luckily only one ever got released so I didn't.

Still, it could have been a very good sim.

Had the promise, I'm sorry for those who bought this

Just hope there's some update!

Date: August 06, 2006 10:03AM
Posted by: Sil3nt-War (IP Logged)

Kunos posted on the italian forums that sales for the game were less than expected and he considered giving up.

Only himself to blame. It had all the bugs of the origonal nk unfortunatly.

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It could have been really good too

H E L L O

Definitely! It's sad because I know someone who bought it (NorseS4)

The problem is it was buggy, so didn't sell. The two go together really. I haven't tried the patches (anything really changed?) but the game has so much promise if he continued.

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> The problem is it was buggy, so didn't sell.

Big Rigs would have sold by the bucket load if they'd just polished off those couple of bugs too.

It's a real shame - it genuinely felt like the best game since Papy folded. The graphics engine was stunning, if a bit limited in potential. Lack of content (just like rF was out of the box) was the main reason it never took off I guess. It had a great base too it, so it really is a shame nothing more will ever come about it.

Lack of content

Thats a bit of an understatement surely? 3 cars (or was it 4?) that were all largly the same. 3 tracks (or was it 4?) that were fictional, and still largly the same. No AI, netcode which was rubbish at best, and a whole range of bugs...

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To be fair I don't think tracks nor cars or the lack of AI were the downfall of the game.

It was the bugs which have given nK a very bad name. The netcode isn't all that bad but its very easily upset, so to speak. Kunos went and added the downloading skins feature but of course typical him didn't think about computers suddenly being forced to download a skin and then load it. Problem is when someone joins the session (if your lucky enough to be able to ) even if your racing it trys to download and apply it to the car which causes huge problems.

Add in his lack of interaction with the community and you have a disaseter IMO

Hopefully this new deal with ballracing will get it moving again becasue it has potential to be great. Just hope he doesn't try charge for this patch because I never bought the game under those TOC and I kept a screen print just incase he tried to do that

Keiran


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The lack of cars and tracks (or even AI) would not have caused the downfall, but it certainly added to it.

If your not interested in single seaters, you cant use it. But you can use rfactor, LFS, GTR2 etc etc.

If you wana race offline, you cant use it. But you can use rfactor, LFS, GTR2, GTL etc etc

It wasnt that the features were limited, its that they were EXTREMELY limited!

Im very glad i didnt buy it. Its been a massive flop.

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Website update [www.netkar-pro.com]

Its been a flop so far but i doubt the team will make the same mistakes again. Im willing to forget about the old nkPro provided they update it fairly quickly.

Just spent the last half hour playing the demo. It really is an awesome simulator. Never played online though which is where the bugs appear to be present from what i hear.

Great news, nice to see him back. Still disapointed at the long silence. I guess he was running out of money and couldn't afford to delay nK Pro any longer which in turn didn't work how he probably hoped. Hopefully all the beta testers have been sacked and new ones who can actually beta test found

If he works out the little things in the online play then I'm back :D


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I for one can't be arsed with it, got lucky that I didn't buy it the first time round. Guess it's 'good' that Kunos is back, but how long will it last? until he's got enough money to piss off again?

keiran schrieb:
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> It was the bugs which have given nK a very bad name. The netcode isn't
> all that bad but its very easily upset, so to speak. Kunos went and
> added the downloading skins feature but of course typical him didn't
> think about computers suddenly being forced to download a skin and
> then load it. Problem is when someone joins the session (if your lucky
> enough to be able to ) even if your racing it trys to download and
> apply it to the car which causes huge problems.
>

there is no such feature as downloading skins in netkar...you can only see the skins installed on your computer, otherwise it only shows a plain red skin. where did you get that from keiran, because it's wrong.

but at its present state you can call it disatrous nontheless...the lack of communication/support definately had the biggest impact imho, as it seems to work ok for a lot people with higher end machines (i don't have one unfortunately...and they're using hamachi to get a more stable connection).

well...lots and lots of work for the dev team...i don't expect any major update before september/october...and even then it is questionable if it will work as "advertised" on my machine. there is only hope.

regards
daniel

Ryoji Wrote:
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> keiran schrieb:
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> -----
> > It was the bugs which have given nK a very bad name. The netcode
> isn't
> > all that bad but its very easily upset, so to speak. Kunos went
> and
> > added the downloading skins feature but of course typical him
> didn't
> > think about computers suddenly being forced to download a skin
> and
> > then load it. Problem is when someone joins the session (if your
> lucky
> > enough to be able to ) even if your racing it trys to download
> and
> > apply it to the car which causes huge problems.
> >
>
> there is no such feature as downloading skins in netkar...you can only
> see the skins installed on your computer, otherwise it only shows a
> plain red skin. where did you get that from keiran, because it's
> wrong.
>
> but at its present state you can call it disatrous nontheless...the
> lack of communication/support definately had the biggest impact imho,
> as it seems to work ok for a lot people with higher end machines (i
> don't have one unfortunately...and they're using hamachi to get a more
> stable connection).
>
> well...lots and lots of work for the dev team...i don't expect any
> major update before september/october...and even then it is
> questionable if it will work as "advertised" on my machine. there is
> only hope.
>
> regards
> daniel

I always thought that what was happening to me was the skins were being `downloaded` and that was causing problems as it didn't prioritise. All be it I never really took much notice of skins. I guess all it was that skins were being loaded from the your folder to the cars which if that's the case that's kind of pathetic that it causes stutters. No other online game I've played has had problems like that.


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keiran schrieb:
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> I always thought that what was happening to me was the skins were
> being `downloaded` and that was causing problems as it didn't
> prioritise. All be it I never really took much notice of skins. I
> guess all it was that skins were being loaded from the your folder to
> the cars which if that's the case that's kind of pathetic that it
> causes stutters. No other online game I've played has had problems
> like that.

hehe...ok. maybe there was just a little misunderstanding. your thinking the right direction, as it's not only loading the actual skins from your hd but the whole cars afaik. and no workaround (unfortunately) like the isi tempcars or something else. it was there in 0.99 namie too.

regards
daniel

netKar Pro 1.0.3 is out :D

Check out www.netkar-pro.com for the release!

Crikey. Is this still going?

Yep!

This was the make or break patch - if you read the RSC forum or the LFS forum you will see 99% of people are happy with the new version and people are even buying it after all this time :D

After the time and effort i put into testing it along with the other beta tester's it's really great to see.

Now all we need is to get the Hill climb track with the Osella out and the Fiat 500 Abarth hehe.