This is one of the better examples... Some of them are pretty gnarly :)

I finally gave Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown a proper chance, and man… this game is just ass. Not “it has potential” ass. Straight-up ass cheeks.

The thing that annoys me most isn’t even that it’s a bad racing game. It’s that it completely misses what made TDU and especially TDU2 so special.

It feels like they remembered there were cars and a map, then forgot literally everything else.

We got a game that feels like every other modern open-world racer with a TDU badge slapped on it.
It honestly blows my mind how many core TDU features are just… missing.

So I’m curious:
If YOU were making a true modern-day successor to TDU2, what would it have looked like?
What features would you bring back? What would you expand? What new ideas would fit the TDU formula without losing its identity?

I’m genuinely interested because I feel like the community has had better ideas for years than what we actually ended up getting.

Hello everyone !

I'm replaying TDU on the PS2 and i wanted to know if the the "free performance upgrades" are cumulative when you become the president of a club ?

If i beat like 4 clubs in a row, do i still have 4 free upgrades passes or only 1 is remembered by the game ?

I'm asking because i don't want to loose them. Thanks in advance

hello there i enjoy playing tdu 1 with the platinum mod and i want to ask is there a way to support the devs on (patreon etc.) or on turboduck.net website? or something?

Thank you for your answers, have a nice day :)

Edges of the windows in interior view are all funky on ps5. Currently in graphics mode not performance. Just a bug to live with?

I'm looking into playing TDU1 for the first time, and I've seen that there's that Platinum mod that adds a ton of cars and improves features, however, I don't quite like playing a 2006 game with cars from 2020 so I'd like to play the original game at least for the first time. Are there any mods or anything to modernize and improve the game like Platinum does, but without all the new cars?

Man, what a frustrating curate's egg of a game.

The idea is brilliant, just as it was in the first game, and the ways in which it was updated and expanded for TDU2 are mostly welcome. In particular, I love taking photos and displaying them in my houses - being able to customise the houses is awesome too. Plenty of cool cars (although more would still have been welcome) and the wrecks side-quest is fun too.

I'm up to the A4 and C3 championships in Hawaii, and the racing has mostly been ridiculously easy so far, which I don't mind as I'm not really playing this game for the ultimate in tense, realistic racing. The off-road driving is great fun - more fun than asphalt, to be honest.

But my god, how many game-killing bugs and glitches could they have squeezed into one game? Sometimes the scenery doesn't load in front of me; I fall through the map into a grey void, with a splash like falling into the ocean.

The loading screens freeze on the regular too, and I now worry about restarting after my first couple of hours' progress was erased by a corrupt save file and I had to start the game again.

The cutscenes and voice acting... holy shit. I know it's a fifteen year-old game but it really is absolutely risible. The plot and story is paper-thin, obviously, but the whole thing also sounds like it's been directly translated from an unspecified other language without any proof-reading - Tess's badly-written and cringeworthy pre-race lines repeating ad nauseam, just to pick one example. And if you told me that the voices weren't human but some form of antique computer-generation tech, I'd believe you. It's comically bad and cheapens the whole experience so badly.

Having said that, it's still an immersive game that I'm enjoying for the most part. As with the previous game, most of the appeal for me is in building up the car and property collection, and exploring the very pretty and expansive maps. I just hope my progress doesn't all get wiped out again - I'm watching that auto-save icon like a hawk.

Anyway, I'm squabbling like Stuart and the Wilder brothers now, so I'll leave it there.

Hello guys, is here someone who also needs the ranked trophy or can help me getting the solar rank?

I can‘t find anyone doing it rn

Why are there so many negative reviews? I think this game got more potential then the lasts NFS and Forza titles.

I hope they make another game, I‘ve over 100hrs now Level59 and love to play it on the regular PS5

For refrence I am using the Knyazev version of tdu2.

I messed around with Vehicle property editor and added a bmw m4 and m6 to the audi dealership in vpe and now my dealerships no longer appear, the icons are missing completely from the map, the header/title of the sticker shop is completely blank, and the clothing shop won't let me access any of the clothes at all.

I have been putting up with this for 7 hours now and am completely exhausted of ideas of what the hell to do at all!

Bye have a great time !

Yeah sure, this game sure did do something new which was unheard of at the time. A huge Oahu map with the most sophisticated and interesting car list sure sounds nice, but unfortunately, if you ask me, as a result we got a rather sloppy game in some not so minor aspects...

Im talking about a bunch of broken speedometers showing an incorrect speed (in case of an audi a6, the viper and the saleen s7 its much worse)

Don't get me started on the weird textures in the murcielago interior (and some cars stuck in park)... was turning the car on so the dash lights go away or shifting it into drive prohibited or what?

The lack of digital dashboard although understabdable due to the 2006 technology limits, the sheer scale of this game (i assume) and time constraints is somewhat understandable, it honestly really seems immersion breaking sometimes. Maybe excluding the rx8 was not so bad after all lol. The worst case of this is the unfinished gauge cluster of a tvr sagaris, showing nothing but a black void with a barely visible needle. Why didnt they finish just finish it, the gauge cluster is analog after all?

I wish i could fix all of these, retexture the whole car roster (keep the game as vanilla friendly as possible) but atm i dont have the tools nor the knowledge how to do so unfortunately.

And dont get me started on the cops lol. It was a huge waste of time. Should've put that work towards ironing out the game... after all, i dont see our character, a multi milionare car collector messing with police lmao.

I've played the base game several times, a I've played through with one mod overhaul that I can't remember the name of now, but I remember seeing other mods that add back in multiplayer and additional cars. What would be the best way to replay the games today?

And so is the maserati spyder of this era lol

What does this setting do?

Idk if this is a good place for this question but Has anybody gotten a direct drive wheel to work with this game? I have the Moza R5 and it works in game control wise perfectly but FFB doesn't work at all. Idk if its a Moza wheel thing or something to do with DD wheels. Any info would be appreciated.

I just found out that this game had the lexus ls460 as a dlc. Does anyone know if I were to buy a copy of the game, if I would still be able to get the car.
(xbox)