Volume 7 feedback thread

This post is exclusively regarding the existing additions to Volume 7.
Will do a feature wishlist in a future post, so I'll hold off from adding requests in this post.

Regarding Drift Pro Modes and Handling:

The PROS:
- Overall improvement from the previous Drift Event system.
- Good variety of tracks. good length on playlists.
- Makes a wider variety of existing vehicles useful.

- As of now, feels fair, one can win even with rental vehicles.

The *:

- The physics, while fun, are a bit too "on ice" there's a lack of grip for controlled movement in certain scenarios
- Due to the physics, Traffic becomes a rather frustrating challenge while on events, without outright removing the traffic (nullifying the challenge), A lower frequence of cars could be implemented to alleviate this fact, either that, or Remove it but put in place stationary obstacles themed after street racing.
- Colossus has been made a Drift Only Layout. Instead of it being playable as a race course.

Regarding Drag Mode:

The PROS:

- Overall the mode is very fun and fast paced
- Gives use to Higher Speed Builds where they were extremely situational before

The *:
- Can feel very unstable or janky, specially on races involving jumps
- Lane Switching makes people unable to evade certain traffic cars, especially after a Crash has already happened
- There's a strange hiccup in the gears around the starting 2 gears where the powerband falls for a second, resulting in sometimes unpredictable shift timing
- Most 1/4 Mile Drag Races are only available to Open Playlists, making it difficult to practice them.
- Drafting feels useless in Drag racing, as it gains you no Boost, or drafting bonus like the original Underground Drag racing
- The Burnout system at the beggining lacks difficulty and depth, and maintaining optimal temperature leads to the wheels moving in an unatural way

Regarding Underground Playlists:


Whilst they are fun for a skill challenge of PvP, I do wish some of the races featured in these playlist were found in some custom car playlist, overall do enjoy them and I'm hoping to see more Preset Car Races.

Regarding New Additions:

Wheels: it's nice finally seeing new additions to the wheel roster, freshes up some old builds of mine. However it comes into my attention that the new SSRs and the Work Equips are not available to vehicles who don't have 17 inch wheels or smaller.

I've also noticed the new M3 Drift Custom has Work Meister L1s, is there a possibility to get these wheels available in the future?

I've also noticed some SSR Wheels that we don't have in-game appear in the level 230-239 Icon, are these planned to be used in the future?

LED Rims and "Spinners" : Not much of my cup of tea, but there's some really fun designs within, I do wish the spinners properly behaved like the real ones, and in general it would've been nice to have some actual Spinner Models.

Driving Effects: Still not too much of a fan of the driving effects not looking like they used to, it has some cool concepts, but I wish there was more driving effects like from the first Volumes, or that the new effects at least gave visual feedback when Using Boosts

Other/Misc: The License Plates are mostly fun, like the new LED plates, some do have a bit of an unnapealing pattern design with the text clashing with the backgrounds, the license plate holders are top notch though.

The Underground League: Like the idea, but the races are not as difficult as I would have enjoyed them, in fact they're not difficult at all, hoping future races are at least a bit more interesting.

PvP Playlists: I haven't experienced much in these for the reason that the Playlist glitch is back and my selection won't link me to the correct playlist, hoping this can be fixed soon

Regarding New Vehicles:

Ford Mustang Dark Horse 2024: Fun car to drag and drif around in, however it's driving is a bit weird, drifts are too broad and a bit unstable, it's hard to race with it, 6th gear is also painfully tall, to the point of it being a detrimental aspect of the car.
Styling-wise, the bodykits are really nice, with the strange absence of the GTD Front Bumper for the kit, I also should mention that RTR rims are no available to the Dark Horse, which is a shame

BMW M3 Touring 2024: I haven't gotten enough time using this vehicle, but it handles nicely as far as I've driven it. The bodykits are hit and miss, with some strange placements for spoilers for the Avante Wing and Drag Spoiler.

I also noticed a few new stickers on the Drag M3... it would be nice to have those in the livery editor.

Overall

It's a cool update that has given a lot of used to some previously unloved cars; Added variety to the gameplay of the game...
However it has quite a few amount of technical flaws and bugs that I hope get addressed soon in any upcoming updates

Next time I'll touch upon in more wishes and questions in another thread

Until then,

Zino Out.