Forza Horizon and December IGN Car Pack videos

DLC from last Tuesday introduces 7 new cars (or rather 6 + 1 paint for Ford F-150):

• 2011 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor Halo Edition
• 2008 Aston Martin DBS
• 2012 Ferrari F12 Berlinetta
• 2006 Ford GTX1
• 2006 Hummer H1 Alpha Open Top
• 1993 McLaren F1
• 1971 AMC Javelin-AMX

 And here are videos with 4 of them.






I wanted also to do small comparison of 1 car from DLC price in Forza Motorsport 3, 4 and Horizon:

• Forza Motorsport 3 - 10 cars per DLC, price 400M$P -> 1 car for 40M$P
• Forza Motorsport 4 - 10 cars per DLC, price 560M$P -> 1 car for 56M$P unless you've bought Season Pass for 6+1 DLCs (VIP owners received American Muscle DLC for free, so then buying Season Pass they have paid 2400M$P for 6, not 7 DLCs), so price for car included in Season Pass is 34,3M$P (if you had not VIP membership) or 40M$P (if you had VIP)
• Forza Horizon - 6 cars per DLC, price 400M$P -> 1 car for ~66,7M$P, unless you've bought Season Pass for 4000M$P... Will it include all DLCs for Horizon? MS said that buying DLCs "out" of Season Pass will cost 800M$P more, but I still don't know how many cars will Season Pass include...

Forza Horizon and November Bondurant Car Pack videos

Short presentations and cruising videos with Nissan 240SX SE '94, BMW M3 GTS '10 and Jeep Wrangler Rubicon '12 from new November Bondurant Car Pack for Forza Horizon. Enjoy! :)

Forza Horizon and small ETS2 info update

The game so far was fun, map is not so small, it could be bigger of course, but it's varied, every place is unique. Drifting, racing, cruising, full-throttle speeding - all of them are enjoyable. However, it seems for me that tyres have more grip than in Forza 4, because now drifting untuned 130KM AE86 is harder, I mean it's harder to lose tyres traction.
What not satisfying I found in Forza Horizon in addition to previous disappointing aspects? In free roam online there is no traffic. :( In my opinion there should be option to turn on/off traffic in lobby settings, without AI cruising is not giving so much fun unfortunately.
Another thing: Forza Horizon have only 146 cars in showroom + 9 wrecks to find. Comparing to other games it is still quite good choice, but comparing to other games from Forza series... a little disappointing. I was thinking that game will contain about 250-300 cars.
The achievements seems to be quite easy, you need only some time to get them.

Now videos from FH. First 15 minutes of gameplay:

Ford F-150 SVT Raptor vs Dodge Charger SRT8 race:

Cruising in Ferrari 355 Challenge:


About ETS2:
Patch 1.1.3 is out, you can download it here.
Also, In next major update SCS is going to add licensed DAF trucks + improvements and tweaks in physics, AI, map, lightning and other things. Really nice that SCS is keeping so big support for their games even after release, many other companies will start selling DLCs instead.
At the end one delivery video from ETS2 also:

Euro Truck Simulator 2 - unboxing & gameplay

Here is unboxing of my copy of ETS2 :D

And video from Wrocław to Prague delivery with Scania truck:

I very enjoy playing this game, it's great!
More videos soon! ;) PS. Install patch 1.1.1 if your version is 1.0.5, I have experienced BSODs on 1.0.5, but 1.1.1 seems to be fine. Here you can download it: eurotrucksimulator2.com/update.php

Ultimate non-stop multi-track drifting (Deja Vu! and goats clipping point)

It took some time to do it, but I think it was worth it.
Enjoy! ^^

Forza Horizon (demo) - videos and first impression

My short opinion about demo: awesome. For me it's like grabbing best things from Forza Motorsport 4 (nice handling, big variety of cars, tuning (in full version of course)) and Test Drive Unlimited (open multi-player world where you can drive with friends as you want) and putting them together in Forza Horizon. Moreover very nice graphics with far-distance picturesque views and beautiful car quality (driving at night with inside camera is superb :D ).
However there are small defects:
1. Collisions with traffic. You can do head-on collision with traffic and the result is that your car loses a little bit of speed while traffic car is bouncing somewhere beyond the street. Too arcade in my opinion, even in Burnout Paradise head-on collision was much more "dangerous".
2. Off-road is rather arcade also. Lamborghini LP-640 Murcielago drifting on gravel road? ORLY?
3. During the drive the only thing you can do with car is... "driving". You can't turn on/off lights, flash long-lights, turn on blinkers, use horn, turn on/off engine... Hopefully you can change radio station or turn it off.
Anyway it's still great (must-have for me) game. So if you enjoyed Forza 4 and Test Drive Unlimited, there is high possibility that you will enjoy Forza Horizon. ;)

Outerra Video Converter GUI 0.2.0 tutorial (how-to-use)

HOW TO INSTALL TUTORIAL

1.       Go to: http://www.outerra.com/video/ and download ffmpeg-yog.zip ( http://www.outerra.com/video/ffmpeg-yog.zip ).

2.       Go for example on my blog: http://lookastdu.blogspot.com/2012/08/outerra-video-converter-gui-020.html and download Outerra Video Converter GUI 0.2.0 (or later version).

3.       Now you should have ffmpeg-yog.zip and OuterraVideoConvGUI_0_2_0.rar (or later version). Unpack these files.

4.       After unpacking you will have 2 folders.

Now copy files from folder OuteraVideoConvGUI_by_lookastdu - 0.2.0 to folder video (or vice versa, it is important that they must be in copied into one folder).

Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86 touge run - FM4

I love to drift hachi-roku. ^^ Enjoy.

Train Simulator 2013 (aka Railworks 4)

Yesterday when I started Steam I discovered that my Train Simulator 2012 (Railworks 3) was updated to Train Simulator 2013 (Railworks 4) for free. ^^ Really nice from devs of this game. What is more important, it seems that "TSX engine" is much better optimized - now I have about from 50% up to 130% more fps with the same settings*. Also, there is no more launcher, everything is composed into game. Main menu is having better (in my opinion) user interface, for example after starting game I was able to see what DLC's I have bought so far (I dunno where I was able to check it in TS2012, I haven't played to much this game). Of course all DLCs and scenarios from Train Simulator 2012 are working in 2013 version.
 * TSX on, most settings set on medium level, 1280x720, track: from Donner Pass, I don't remember exactly which one.
TS2012 - 5-15 fps
TS2013 - 20 - 35 fps
Both results from Radeon 7770, AMD Phenom 9550 (2,2GHz X4), 6GB DDR2 800MHz

At the end my next video (to be honest I've done this "2 (4) wheel driving" accidentally discovering with what speed I can enter this turn withour rolling). Enjoy! :D

More PLM map videos and new GPU info

Here are next videos from PLM map mod to German Truck Simulator.
This time Konin to Wieluń route.


Also, my Radeon 3870 broke down about 11 days ago. Probably one of video memory chips began to "lost" data and I was having intresting black stripes and other shapes on screen (even in BIOS).
I decided to order Radeon 7770 from XFX in Double Dissipation edition. It has 1GB GDDR5 memory with 128bit bandwith clocked at 1125MHz (4500MHz). GPU clock is standard 1000GHz. Also, double fan seems to give good OC potential. So far I'm satisfied with it performance, but probably my old Phenom 9550 (2,2GHz per core) is lowering GPU performance. ;)

German Truck Simulator PLM map mod videos

Ok, I recorded some videos from PLM map mod to German Truck Simulator.
Here's 1st video with track from Konin to Stryków. Enjoy! ;)

 Here you can download map: http://plm-map.c0.pl/showthread.php?tid=139
Btw. I'm in credits of this map. :)

And at the end my kitty playing on tablet. :>

Outerra Video Converter GUI - 0.2.0

Ok, here it is! Outerra Video Converter GUI* version 0.2.0. :)
* Graphics User Interface

Installation:
Copy Outerra Video Converter GUI.exe and Qt .dll's from rar to the folder, where you have original video converter binaries (conv.bat is also needed).

Additional info:
You can select multiple entries on list using Ctrl as well as Shift.
Clicking properties button is pointless as yet. Abort button is also still useless.

Changelog:

### Version 0.2.0
Features:

• Converted videos now are having green background on list
• App is asking if you want to exit during closing it if on the list there are still unconverted files

Bugfixes:

• Now you can use "Run all" or select more than 1 file and use "Run selected"

Bugs: not found so far...

### Version 0.1.0 (Initial release)
Features:

• Adding and deleting multiple entries on list
• Converting videos using conv.bat
• Cool design :P

Bugs:

• Running more than 1 video to convert crashes program after finish of converting 1st video

 
Download 0.2.0:
Click!


Thread on Outerra forum

Hello :)

I set up this blog to post here updates about most of the stuff I'm creating and uploading.

I have done so far 25 vids (mostly from Forza 4) and I uploaded them on my youtube channel. Also from time to time you can see me in videos on MotoGamesTV youtube channel (usually as partner for races in Forza 4).

I like very much Outerra engine. I have seen it first time in summer 2010 and I was amazed. Currently I am still amazed of power of this engine. :) So now I'm testing, searching for bugs, having fun :) and helping this way (I hope) to make it even better.
I decided to write in C++ using Qt Graphical User Interface for original console video converter from Outerra. I called it Outerra Video Converter GUI and you can know more about it here: outerra.com/forum/index.php?topic=1176.0 I'm still developing it in free time.

Also I'm following SCS Software blog, because about 2-3 years ago I was modding Euro Truck Simulator and German Truck Simulator quite much. I helped a little bit with making Polish-GTS map to German Truck Simulator. It's still in developement, but you can visit forum of this modification (it's in polish) and search for more info about it (if you know polish). Ofc I'm waiting for release of Euro Truck Simulator 2 (maybe I will back to modding again?).

And at the end of my first post I'm attaching my next video. ;)