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2.5 hrs last two weeks / 1,355.7 hrs on record (979.1 hrs at review time)
Posted: 10 May, 2021 @ 11:22pm
Updated: 10 May, 2021 @ 11:23pm

Early Access Review
the game is 24 dollars. those complaining the game has been out for 6 years if not longer need to understand this game is being made by about 20 people. and for 24 bucks its got alot you can do. and with nearly 1000 hours into this game on steam and probably more then that before it was on steam i can say without a shadow of a doubt this game is worth its weight in gold and then some.

mods add an insane value to the game. i have been around for alot of the crazy stuff. from the first working shooting tanks. to cloth physics being a thing. a drone with a mini gun attached to it (i miss this mod alot wish it would be updated) airplanes being in the game as mods and flying purely from physics alone with no programming otherwise added to the engine for them to function and helicopters. all of the wild and wacky crashing maps, rock crawling maps, racing, showroom or even just exploring.

-beam mp
you cant talk about beamng without talking about this mod, it lets you play on servers with other people adding functionality previously thought impossible to the game, you can literally do anything you can do alone with all of them. from cop chases. from the start my friends and i thought that multiplayer would be a god send to this game and it is. at this point they go hand in hand and cant really be separated. yes its buggy. and funny. nothing like seeing your buddy rock crawling with half his truck bent under itself and driving along like nothing is wrong.

the game can be rough to run at times (looking at you jungle rock island) and other times barly sips on the system. it all really depends on what your trying to do. i have played this on low end laptops to extreamly high end desktops and even at the low frame rate end the crashes are fun and enjoyable to watch and the game even has a reduced collision mode to make low end gaming more accessible. on the higher end of things you can turn on realtime reflections and have many more cars on screen so you can turn on traffic. as the game gets more and more updates its preformance goes up massively. there was a time that the t-series would barly run on even the top end cpu's. i remember when they added the outer ring to the grid map and my fx8350 at the time would tank down under 30 fps if i drove on it because of the bumps on the surface. but that was years ago. the game runs near flawlessly now

i cant gush enough about this game. its been a big part of my life and has kept me sane for some of it (yea its that important of a game to me i know im a nerd).

all that said things i would love to see is a pairing of this game with snowrunner/spintires or maybe farming sim. all 3 would be interesting.

system specs at time of writing
cpu-AMD Ryzen 7 3800x
ram-32gb Gskills Trident z RGB @ 3200 mhz
gpu-EVGA RTX 3080 xc3 ultra
motherboard-Gigabyte b550 Aorus master

and yes i know my review was less of a review and more of a beloved fans rambelings on possibly there most cherished game
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5 Comments
Scarlett 12 Oct, 2024 @ 11:37pm 
Just wanna say, your review rocks! It's so full of insights and cool stuff. You really nailed it
76561199763973621 24 Aug, 2024 @ 8:51pm 
Your passion for the game is clear! It sounds like a unique experience, especially with all the mods and multiplayer features.
bswilliams12711 23 Nov, 2023 @ 2:36pm 
bruv i read this whole thing it took me two whole minutes bro u deserve a medal your adjectives and everything just makes me want to buy the game even more
Rake 9 Jun, 2021 @ 7:05am 
*a lot
Dan 29 May, 2021 @ 11:16am 
Would love to give this a shot, but as you mentioned aswell, I need some form of progression/grind/goals in games. I have no doubt it´s a good product, but messing around in a physics engine doesn´t cut it for me, no matter the price.