Pacific Drive

Another unoptimized Unreal engine game. So many crashes within the first few hours, which is strange for a game that is not graphically or mechanically demanding in any way. Shame, the little bit I did play was a lot of fun, but not when it's crashing every 5 - 10 minutes (with no manual saves available during the areas).

I was loving this game till I absolutely hate it. I must have done the first "mission" three times and every single time there was no prompt to save or manually save, or wish you could save. I figured I must just be a moron but after three times I am pissed and want everyone to know about it. an hour of progress that wasn't saved is just nuts. then it hangs or crashes or becomes unresponsive after leaving the garage. I am done!!!

Good game. Better than expected. Well written. Good gameplay. Very enjoyable.

Originally, I pirated this game just to test it out. Then I bought it to support the developers. I even bought the DLC, but I still couldn't load my save. Why, you ask? Because I don't own those stupid paint DLCs. Oh my, no. I will not be buying them. Instead, I reverse-engineered the save system, fixed my saves, and will soon publish the little fix thingy I made. Problem solved. Dear developers, please don't introduce measures like this into your games. They ruin the experience for people like me who pirate software to test it and see whether they actually like it before buying. But in all honesty, this is a great game. I loved it within the first four hours of playing.

Гра просто прекрасна я практично весь місяць підписки Game Pass у неї грав. Сюжет прям 💩 але геймплей схожий на сталкер на колесах. Раджу грати на максимальному рівні складності (без видалення сейву) так відчуття, що попі боляче більше.

I love the concept, and I love the idea of a super customisable vehicle being the centrepiece of the game. It's a shame the gameplay is so dull. There is no combat, just avoid stuff that hurts you and scrap stuff for resources. The ultra poor durability of my tools got old fast. Just make them last forever, having them break every 5 minutes is just irritating, focus the resource usage on upgrades and meaningful progression. About 4 hours in i found myself googling 'Does Pacific drive get more interesting after the first couple of hours?'. The answer seems to be no.

The introduction of Pacific Drive is cinema! It really hooks you in, It’s really good. I love the music, visuals, gameplay and the overall vibes of the game. They’re all so great. I’m going to be referencing a bunch of games I’ve played previously to explain and compare elements that I liked and disliked about the game. The atmosphere is awesome. It kinda has a bit of that death stranding vibe of, you’re travelling all alone, no one around, and there’s like weird anomaly stuff everywhere. I think people also say that it's inspired from S.T.A.L.K.E.R, as the location is some sort of eerie “Exclusion Zone”. When I first saw the anomaly for the first time, I thought it was like a horror game and I’ve been like on edge for a lot of the early game play, but really, it’s not that scary and you sort of get used to the eerie vibes of this world pretty quickly, similar to Dredge. The story of the game is pretty cool, it’s a bit like firewatch, where you’re talking to other people through the radio and most of the story is told through the radio. The people on the radio are scientists researching this crazy place. They're all great characters that you get to know throughout the game :D The main gameplay of exploration, resource management, and crafting is really good. It's nicely balanced and I don’t feel like I’m spending too much time on just one thing like resource management which is awesome. For me, this game really feels like an extraction game where you do a bunch of runs and each run, you bring home more loot to progress in the game. Man, I spent soo much time in Rust and Arc Raiders just like opening barrels and scavenging for random scraps to turn it into cool items later. And Pacific Drive definitely has that element down. I ended up farming so much material, all my lockers were full of just stuff haha. The crafting of this game is nice and easy to understand which is great. I don’t even need to be holding the items or have the items on the player at all to craft things, all the lockers and storage seems to be universally connected when you’re at the garage so, I can just chuck all my items in one of my storage and I don’t have to bother grabbing the specific items to craft anything. The tech tree is really well made, there’s so many options and it makes you think about which upgrade to get next. And they all feel like useful upgrades to get. The criticism. Maybe I am either dumb or haven’t played enough games like this. But at the start of the game, I have gotten confused quite a few times on what I’m supposed to do and how to do it and it feels like I’m getting given a lot of information in a very short amount of time. This is just my opinion but maybe the pacing for the introduction of the game might be better off being a bit slower, and I could probably use some more hand holding, or maybe just tell me what to do if I’ve not figured out what I’m supposed to do after like 2 minutes. But, that being said, I learnt the basics of the game pretty quickly so maybe it’s fine.

I did not get to play much of the game, the controls are completely borked. Using a controller it is completely UNPLAYABLE, the deadzones while driving are absolutely insane, you may attempt to fix it using SteamInput, but then you notice that the right stick has issues too, even larger ones: the sensitivity is completely unusable and it behaves like a 8-directional d-pad instead of an analogue stick. This again, can be fixed using SteamInput by emulating a 'relative mouse'. At this point you would think: "Finally, now after an hour of tinkering I can finally play". Not so fast! Now you noticed that no matter what you do the zoom in/zoom out controls (right stick up/down) do not work, no matter what you do. Fine, let's play with the keyboard! The Devs also thought about that, if you don't use QWERTY, then you're out of luck, have fun remapping by hand. Again, you can't! It takes you 5 seconds after you done the work to find plenty of UI controls that do not care about mappings at all! And even if you add QWERTY keyboard to your system, just for the game, it still does not recognize when the layout is switched so it must be your DEFAULT layout... At this point: Forget it, I already lost a good chunk of my Sunday to this game, and I don't plan to lose more.