That kind of situation never should happend."Īfter noting how 'disappointed' they are by CMS18's less-than-positive Steam ratings (in contrast to the more rapturous response to CMS 20), they admit that "You have full right to be angry at us, to be disappointed. There are way too many bugs, We are aware of that. "We are deeply sorry for all those problems with the game. While the dev's mea culpa doesn't go into the reasons for the game so spectacularly failing its MOT, they're about as a heart-on-sleeve as it gets, kicking off with what scans eerily like a William Carlos Williams poem: a janky interface that seems to be stranded in a bizarre and uncomfortable halfway house between keyboard+mouse and gamepad.bigger game-breakers such as a black screen bug for some players and infinite loading screens.an assortment of game-breaking bugs that can, amongst other things, make repairs impossible, parts disappear, cars immovable or menus that stick to the screen forever.overall performance (so much so that the devs recommend running the game on Medium graphics settings, no matter how powerful your GPU).There's a mess of mini-issues under CMS18's hood, but the ones that would most contribute to this particular garage having a very poor Checkatrade rating are: Indeed, they've already issued five patches in the four days since launch. We deserved it," they acknowledge in an uncommonly desperate post, but pledge to make the game road-worthy asap. "You have full right to be angry at us, to be disappointed. I was very much not alone, as the currently 'Mixed' Steam reviews reveal - prompting the devs to issue a public apology.
I found that, on launch day, the game was in worse shape than a Robin Reliant that had spent the last thirty years abandoned in a tumbledown barn, and sadly had to bail on playing it. It brought flashier graphics, raiding junkyards for salvageable car husks, over 1000 parts to wail in confusion at and, it transpires, about as many bugs. Car Mechanic Simulator 2018, the latest iteration of the surprisingly zen-like automobilic repair game, launched last Friday.