Igromir Expo 2007

[Ubaku]

Originally Posted by GargantulaKon

Ubaku when that Igromir expo will start?

The Igromir expo is going on right now. Some people from the Russian 1C forums have already been at the expo and posted comments. Its not good...... The demo is extremely buggy. I mean some comments are that the trucks sometimes sink into the ground, sometimes there isnt a driver, some trucks have their wheels missing and etc. Its scary. You can see some screenshots taken at the expo in this thread. http://forums.games.1c.ru/?type=thread&msgid=1953815

In fact let me post the screenshots here. I can't translate all the comments for you sorry, I dont have the time. I will translate the important stuff.

http://i016.radikal.ru/0711/79/0e5c7d067f62.jpg

http://i034.radikal.ru/0711/c8/abbf8af71867.jpg

http://i034.radikal.ru/0711/65/154efc9b6bab.jpg

http://i010.radikal.ru/0711/a8/68be86bffe98.jpg

http://i039.radikal.ru/0711/04/f7ee5ddeb25b.jpg

Comment: Bug, no raindrops on windshield
http://i008.radikal.ru/0711/ec/b4c637711034.jpg

Comment: Bug, Truck sinks into the ground
http://i033.radikal.ru/0711/82/999736eeae2a.jpg

Comment: Bug, half the freaking panel is missing!!!!
http://i006.radikal.ru/0711/0d/818f5e1fbd74.jpg

Comment: Where the heck is the driver?
http://i030.radikal.ru/0711/64/ad37e412ec4a.jpg

Comment: When you knock over a fire hydrant this happens
http://i037.radikal.ru/0711/af/26e3cc0bbd22.jpg

All these comments are by the person who made these photos, I just translated them into English.

[GargantulaKon]

I did not write that, Freak Of Nature did on this thread.

Oh no, not good at all. After all of the waiting for other people, they are going to be a "little" angry. I would like as many bugs fixed before the simulation is released. It feels like we might have to wait for the year 2009. The graphics look nice in the screenshots. I saw rain drops working in earlier videos, I wonder what happened to it.

[EDIT] The rain looked awesome at the time in Hard Truck 1, 2 and King of the Road. My sister loved driving in the game just to see the rain effects. I loved them too since I felt immersed in the world since the rain effects were nice. From seeing some other videos of Rig'n'Roll, the rain looked awesome.

Here comes the rants!

[JOleg]

Okay now the main question is whether this demo is fresh or not. If it's fresh then it just proves the fact the game is nowhere near completion. In fact, it will never come out anyhow.

[Freak Of Nature]

anyway I still want to try that demo ! !

[Freak Of Nature]

I hope gamer who were or are going to play RnR post a lot of screensots and videos whith sound would be cool

[Ubaku]

Originally Posted by JOleg

Okay now the main question is whether this demo is fresh or not. If it's fresh then it just proves the fact the game is nowhere near completion. In fact, it will never come out anyhow.

I will email Igor Belago and ask whether the demo at Igromir 2007 is the latest version or not. Somehow I think its the very first demo from 3 years ago. Because other than the bugs the guy who made these photos said the graphics and etc are great.

We are still waiting for the videos from the expo. I wish I lived in Moscow I would shoot hours of video on my DV camcorder.

[Freak Of Nature]

Originally Posted by Ubaku

I will email Igor Belago and ask whether the demo at Igromir 2007 is the latest version or not. Somehow I think its the very first demo from 3 years ago. Because other than the bugs the guy who made these photos said the graphics and etc are great.

We are still waiting for the videos from the expo. I wish I lived in Moscow I would shoot hours of video on my DV camcorder.

So do I

[1Truck]

I'm almost positive this is the old demo. I mean, why would they make a new one, and not let everyone try it? Plus there are a lot of bugs. I wouldn't see bugs in the demo and expect them to be in the game. That's probably why they didn't distribute that demo, it would look bad. Thanks for posting Ubaku. If you don't mind, I'll post a the rest from the thread that you didn't:

http://i020.radikal.ru/0711/6d/48a4975a0c31.jpg

http://i031.radikal.ru/0711/a7/a9185ccbe455.jpg

http://i037.radikal.ru/0711/ae/650ba84963e7.jpg

http://i003.radikal.ru/0711/60/2fba6cfe250e.jpg

[GinXeng]

I really hope thats not the latest Demo, because if it is. That means 2 more years trying to find what is causing the bugs and another 4 years to fix it.

[JOleg]

Originally Posted by 1Truck

I'm almost positive this is the old demo. I mean, why would they make a new one, and not let everyone try it? Plus there are a lot of bugs. I wouldn't see bugs in the demo and expect them to be in the game.

I'm having a hard time understanding what you've just said. But in any case, to elaborate, I would say the following:

On the other hand, why would they present the old demo? Do you not think this is like digging your own grave or something? Showing something which does not resemble the quality of the final product even remotely? Just expose bugs and let everyone know it's still in development phase? If it was I to make PR decisions for the SoftLab-NSK, I would either say "we're not participating in Igromir 2007" or "we must bundle up a new up-to-date demo". Period, no other option. Following this logic ... they did participate, and this means what we see is an up to date demo. Besides, here's another fact:
As we can see from the screenshots, there's no rain drops on the windshield. And we've already seen working raindrops on windshields, so this means this demo cannot be older than what we have already seen. Can it be newer in this case? My guess - it can. And the reason we don't see the raindrops on windshield is either 1) because they've messed something up and this is a bug, 2) this was overkill for the graphics and they decided to take down this feature and 3) this is the result of some turned off setting in the options to increase FPS. I really hope this is 3). But it can be anything.
And also .... they did not participate on that plane expo in Russia this year ... why? Because as I said, they did not have the new demo. So then why participate in Igromir 2007? - Obviously because they did make a new demo afterall.

I just know that showing off an old demo is like doing suicide, apart from plain stupidity.

Oleg