Evolution is yet to confirm this, but the Japanese PlayStation blog has put up a Driveclub post with images that appear to show buggy vehicles appearing in the game. The vehicles look exactly like the buggies from Evolution’s other racing franchise, MotorStorm, and this could be the studio looking to its own past for inspiration for new content.
Considering not all the vehicles have been confirmed yet for Driveclub’s future content this could be legit, though it is unknown when, or even if, these vehicles will be available. We’ve asked Evolution for clarification on whether the images have been taken from a future download pack.
Source: Japanese PS Blog
Kennykazey
A new Motorstorm in the vein of the first two would be awesome. I preferred their setting to the third.
Pixel_nme
Ahhh imagine a Motorstorm with Driveclubs graphics :O,imagine just a Motorstorm for the PS4! Make it so.
MrYd
Could be fun. Until then, we’ve got an extra car today. And mirages. And replays, but nobody wanted that, did they? That’d mean you can see just how bad you did.
And they’ve increased the scoring for the drift events, making the first 2 targets completely trivial and the third only requiring a bit of skill.
It’s only a small update today as well. Half a gig maybe? I’m not sure. (It lists the update size as 7gig or so, but then starts at 6.something. Didn’t realise the PS4 did it that way. Or at least _could_ do it that way)
TSBonyman
About 600MB, i’ve just had a quick go and the replays are looking fantastic. You haven’t seen Driveclub until you’ve watched a replay ;)
JesseDeya
Are all drift events easier now? I’ve had a hell of time with a wheel, to the point I just ignore drift events completely.
MrYd
It looks like they’ve rearranged how they award points. If you do a nice long drift while staying on the road, you get more points. But you possibly get less points if you go off road.
If you get some bits right and don’t do as well on others, the increase in points for the good bits seems to more than compensate for what you lose on the bits you screwed up. I completely messed up the first corner, scored no points at all (or near enough) and then got loads on the rest and still finished with more stars than I had previously.
And yes, it’s all drift events. It’s just a change in how the scoring works.
The drift events were an easy way to pick up more stars to unlock the later events anyway. Add the new scoring to the decrease in how many you need for the DLC tours and I can’t quite work out the logic behind what they’re up to. Why would they try and take all the challenge out of the game??
Tomhlord
Beacsue the vast majority of people cannot do them and you sir, are not the vast majority.
tonyyeb
Never had a problem with drift events, all passed with little problem.
double-o-dave
Apparently the replays are now live too and a new Ferrari for people who have reached level 50. I’ll have to check it out tonight.
TSBonyman
There’s also a Motorstorm avatar/logo above the playback bar, look’s promising. Now just add some dirt tracks and let it rain!
2ofclubs
I reckon that logo is just the persons avatar. I wouldn’t read too much into it but who knows.
Tuffcub
Buggies are great, but unless there are tracks with mahooosive jumps then a bit pointless.
camdaz
Just what I was thinking, need some specific tracks for the buggies as none of the ones in the game would bring out the best in them.
hornet1990
Maybe, if they don’t handle like the x-bow which I absolutely dispise!
Jag
Pacific Rift was by far the best one, I’d love a follow up to that!
However I don’t want them to walk away from DriveClub as despite the launch issues it’s one of my favourite PS4 games.
PoolieMike
They need to make the game harder, I’ve done pretty much everything bar the ridiculous accolade grind and the DLCs rarely take me more than a day or two (a few hours total) to complete.
Sitorimon
Much rather have a separate Motorstorm game – Apocalypse was an all time classic that was released and then hidden away due to the Japanese Tsunami which curtailed people comfortably saying how amazing it was.