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[JaguarGod]

Story here at IMG!

WOW! Simply cannot wait! Games like the ones I am currently working on are small and barely make a splash. High profile games like these are badly needed on the Mac to really keep the faint pulse of native Mac racing games alive. Thank you Feral for taking an interest in releasing Mac versions of these racing games. It's gonna look great on my new Mac racing sim setup.

Vision Racer VR3 New "Carbon" Unit with modded keyboard holder
G27 Wheel
27" LED 1080P monitor (waiting for the triple monitor stand from Vision Racer later this year)
1000w Audio System (only 2.1 though)
Buttkicker LFE
Modded Mac Pro built into Thermaltake Level 10 BMW Design Case

[edddeduck]

JaguarGod, on 16 June 2011 - 09:41 AM, said:

Story here at IMG!

WOW! Simply cannot wait! Games like the ones I am currently working on are small and barely make a splash. High profile games like these are badly needed on the Mac to really keep the faint pulse of native Mac racing games alive. Thank you Feral for taking an interest in releasing Mac versions of these racing games. It's gonna look great on my new Mac racing sim setup.

Vision Racer VR3 New "Carbon" Unit with modded keyboard holder
G27 Wheel
27" LED 1080P monitor (waiting for the triple monitor stand from Vision Racer later this year)
1000w Audio System (only 2.1 though)
Buttkicker LFE
Modded Mac Pro built into Thermaltake Level 10 BMW Design Case

You're welcome

[lewdvig]

such a good game mac racers deserve it - I played the snot out of it - easily worth $40

wish it was dirt 3 so i could skip the pc version

porting this engine should mean F1 2012 and Grid 2 in a timely fashion, yes?

[lewdvig]

[choiceweb0pen0]

Excited about this too. Loved the port of Colin McCrae a few years ago. It made my want to try rallying for real.  

[iRolley]

Really excited about this ! BTW very good idea to announced so close to release date (only a month before). Keeps the hype up until release day.

Will we get a demo before the release ?

[edddeduck]

iRolley, on 27 June 2011 - 12:29 AM, said:

Really excited about this ! BTW very good idea to announced so close to release date (only a month before). Keeps the hype up until release day.

Will we get a demo before the release ?

There will be a demo closer to release but we are focused on the full game first then the demo once the main game has been completed. Content will be the same as the PC demo.

Cheers,

Edwin

[Thain Esh Kelch]

Yay, demo time!

[JaguarGod]

Can we get any information on the FFB in the game? Will it feel more like the console/PC versions or more like what we saw in Colin McRae Rally Mac?

[edddeduck]

JaguarGod, on 28 June 2011 - 06:00 AM, said:

Can we get any information on the FFB in the game? Will it feel more like the console/PC versions or more like what we saw in Colin McRae Rally Mac?

FFB will exist but it will have the same limitations as the PC. Supported devices will depend on what devices support FFB on the Mac. More details will come closer to release.

Edwin

[gizmo]

Great news about Dirt 2 coming to Mac. I'm curious to know what graphical effects made the port. I remember the game for PC was delayed because Codemasters wanted to take advantage of DirectX 11. Did some of that eye candy make it? I'm sure it would look very pretty on the new iMacs/MacBook Pros that got decent video cards this year.

[Janichsan]

gizmo, on 29 June 2011 - 07:55 PM, said:

Great news about Dirt 2 coming to Mac. I'm curious to know what graphical effects made the port. I remember the game for PC was delayed because Codemasters wanted to take advantage of DirectX 11. Did some of that eye candy make it? I'm sure it would look very pretty on the new iMacs/MacBook Pros that got decent video cards this year.

Even if the DX11 extras won't make it, you probably won't really miss them.

[edddeduck]

gizmo, on 29 June 2011 - 07:55 PM, said:

Great news about Dirt 2 coming to Mac. I'm curious to know what graphical effects made the port. I remember the game for PC was delayed because Codemasters wanted to take advantage of DirectX 11. Did some of that eye candy make it? I'm sure it would look very pretty on the new iMacs/MacBook Pros that got decent video cards this year.

DX11 water effects will not be on the Mac version as Mac OS (and the version of OpenGL bundled) does not support Hardware Tessellation. This means things like the DX11 eye candy in DiRT2 will have to wait for more of the OpenGL 4 features to be implemented on the Mac before it is possible to have DX11 style effects on the Mac.

However as mentioned by others the DX11 stuff is very subtle so on new iMacs the Mac version will look a lot nicer than the XBox or PS3 versions but very slightly less than a PC with DX11 enabled but if you run them side by side at full speed you would have to look closely to notice! I have to say on new Mac's DiRT2 will be the nicest looking game in the Feral list of games and will be up their for the status of being the nicest looking game on the Mac. Then again I am a little biased

Edwin

[iRolley]

edddeduck, I guess the game will make it to the Mac App Store, correct ? Do you plan on having it available there around the same time it is available on disk(DVD)  ?

These questions because to me the biggest advantage of a game on the Mac App Store is no need for putting in the disk each time I want to launch the game. I got really tired of looking around for a disk each time I want to play a game.

[Janichsan]

iRolley, on 30 June 2011 - 12:06 PM, said:

These questions because to me the biggest advantage of a game on the Mac App Store is no need for putting in the disk each time I want to launch the game. I got really tired of looking around for a disk each time I want to play a game.

With Feral's current DRM, you don't need a game disk even when you buy the disk version – when you choose to activate the game online.

[edddeduck]

iRolley, on 30 June 2011 - 12:06 PM, said:

edddeduck, I guess the game will make it to the Mac App Store, correct ? Do you plan on having it available there around the same time it is available on disk(DVD)  ?

These questions because to me the biggest advantage of a game on the Mac App Store is no need for putting in the disk each time I want to launch the game. I got really tired of looking around for a disk each time I want to play a game.

You have not needed a disk in the drive for about 6 months at least now All Feral games in 2011 (including re-releases of games like BioShock and LEGO games) can play with a DVD or using a serial code it is the users choice (one time activation required after that you can play forever offline without internet). We now sell all our new games and release at least one older game in the new DRM format every month we have about 12 games available using this system so far and plan to keep growing the catalogue in the future.

As a side note all Feral games available to download all have exactly the same DRM so you don't need to worry about what store you buy the game (MacGameStore, D2D, GameAgent etc) it will always be the Feral system, all patches and updates always come from our servers directly once you bought the game you don't need to wait for your specific store to patch the title. AppStore patches might in some cases be a few days later as they need to wait for Apple approval.

Edwin

[Janichsan]

edddeduck, on 01 July 2011 - 03:01 AM, said:

All Feral games in 2011 (including re-releases of games like BioShock and LEGO games) can play with a DVD or using a serial code it is the users choice (one time activation required after that you can play forever offline without internet).

On that matter (and slightly derailing this thread): are there plans to patch earlier sold copies of these games to the new DRM? Or is this just not feasible?

[Sargiel]

I'd also be interested in losing the DVD dependancy of my older Feral games - but appreciate it might not be possible.

[edddeduck]

Sargiel, on 03 July 2011 - 02:59 AM, said:

I'd also be interested in losing the DVD dependancy of my older Feral games - but appreciate it might not be possible.

We have legacy support coming for any game that we have re-released in digital format, we are just working out the best way for users who bought the game before we had serials to upgrade to the new serial code system. Just like with the initial DRM release we don't want to release anything until it is as near to perfect as we can manage as the worst thing is to release something that is not quite perfect and needs updating.

Cheers,

Edwin

[Janichsan]

edddeduck, on 04 July 2011 - 04:57 AM, said:

We have legacy support coming for any game that we have re-released in digital format, we are just working out the best way for users who bought the game before we had serials to upgrade to the new serial code system.

Great to hear.