Slightly Mad Studios (SMS) has released the Japanese Car Pack, celebrating the cars of the car crazy culture.
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The pack features eight cars, including the Toyota LMP1 (joining the Audi LMP1), a couple Mitsubishi Evo’s and a bunch of Toyota GT-86 varients.
The free car of the month is the Scion FR-S, so if you’re not in love with the FR-S/GT-86, you don’t have to drop the $3.49 on the car pack.
– 1999 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI TME
– 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX FQ-360
– 2012 Toyota GT86 / Toyota 86
– 2015 Scion FR-S Rocket Bunny Edition
– 2015 Toyota GT-86 Rocket Bunny GT Edition
– 2014 Toyota TS040 Hybrid
Have to say, this isn’t the most thrilling pack to come out of SMS. 1 race car and 7 road cars is kinda meh. On top of that, five of them are all versions of the same car. What is this, Gran Turismo?
With that said, the pack is cheap, so SMS knows it’s not as jammed pack as previous DLC’s.
The pack feels like a money grab to some extent: multiple versions of the same car, forcing LMP lovers to buy the whole pack, most cars will only be available for a few invitational events,…
Still, I bought the pack, since they are all fun cars to drive. The Evo’s (especially the TME) are awesome to throw around corners like a maniac, the FR-S RB feels like the first driftable car in PCARS and the TS040 drives more like an old school LMP. This pack brings in less serious cars, more street style than track focused, which is a nice change of pace IMO.
BTW the Toyota GT-86 RB is a GT4 class race car, not a road car like the other 86s.
I must say the FRS is a blast to drive though. Enjoying stepping it out in the corners.
The LMP sounds okay, but still…
Gotta drive em, better than they sound…Rocket Bunny!!!
The 86 is easily the best road in PCars, slow but a blast to drive. The RB varients are meh. The Evo VI and IX are pretty good too even though the dynamics are slightly off their real world counterparts.
I do like the FRS, it is free, and kind of cool. Here’s the thing, I am getting dead spots in my throttle especially in the street cars in the PC version of the game. Mostly around the pits, corners and timing markers. Now here’s the thing, not on all tracks or cars and only in the PC version not the PS4 version. I checked, cleaned for the fun of it my pedals and rechecked my pedals. They work fine in other games and on the thrustmaster profiler they are fine. I don’t even get the problem in all cars in Project Cars. I am running a T500 with G27 pedals thru a Bodin adaptor. Anyone else able to reproduce these problems? Street cars, mostly on the tracks at partial throttle especially, near pits, timing marks and especially corners.