Project Motor Racing, the spiritual successor to the GTR series and Project CARS series aiming to bring the best motorsport sim, is out now. But not without issues.
Early impressions and reviews of the game has been less than positive, with the most damning critique being how the racing game has a consistent CPU bottleneck issue that hampers the physics. That is followed by the much-hyped AI opponents not living up to expectations.
We at Gamer Matters are still working on our own review, but can confirm these issues are real.
The game on Steam, at the time of writing, sits at Very Negative with 368 user reviews.
In response to this, developer Straight4 Studios has shared a noted addressing the community. The devs note that they are now aware of how the game performs terribly on lower-spec PC (this was something they did not catch in early testing), the AI’s awareness (or rather the lack of), and has plans for “more structural fixes” at the engine-level, which will take some time to be done.
“We’re not backing away from these challenges. We’re facing them head-on,” the note says. “This sim matters to us. And your experience matters to us.”
A roadmap of performance fixes will be shared over the coming days, as well as updates on triple screen and VR support. The latter two are described as the “most requested community features” which speaks to the target audience for Project Motor Racing being hardcore sim racers with the hardware to run these otherwise niche features.
On top of that, Update 1.5 has been released on launch day, addressing handling issues, visuals on cars and tracks and improving stability when racing online.
Released today, Project Motor Racing has laser-scanned tracks, licensed cars from various motorsport categories over the decade, a 720Hz physics engine and promise of mod support. This is published by Giants Software, makers of the ever-successful Farming Simulator series.
In Asia, Sega helps distribute and promote the title, as part of a partnership with Giants Software.
Project Motor Racing is out now on PS5, PC (Steam, Epic Games Store, Microsoft Store) and Xbox Series X|S.