BeamNG.drive

This game has been the best thing I've ever played since 2015.. BUT... Please… PLEASE release a patch or allow us to officially downgrade to 0.38. I never thought I'd be leaving a negative review for BeamNG.. but it's done complete 180. I've been a huge supporter of this game for years, but this is truly the worst state I have ever seen BeamNG in. It is genuinely concerning how many game crashes and glitches came with 0.39. From seizure inducing light flickering and insane lag to broken interface layouts and literal Blue Screens of Death, the game is simply unplayable right now. I'm not being dramatic I really wanted this update to work out but I am in absolute shock that they released a version in this condition. I’ve been playing this game since 2015, and not once have I gotten bored or run into major issues with it. Literally not one. Over the years, it evolved from a basic car crash sim into something truly unique. I've been so impressed with the incredible halogen and LED lighting updates through v0.38. That attention to detail was honestly my favorite thing about the game. I was always completely content with whatever updates the devs put out, and I never felt like the base game was missing anything, largely thanks to the incredible modding community. To me, BeamNG always had immaculate performance for what it was. It never felt glitchy or problematic, just a clean, rock solid simulation sandbox. That’s what made it stand out from the slop racing games you see everywhere else. Modders created some of the most detailed, realistic models, from ordinary daily drivers to crazy exotics and the freedom the devs gave us to customize, mod, and play however we wanted was unmatched. So when 0.39 was in development, I didn’t think too much of it at first. I mean the game has technically been a work in progress for over a decade, so I understand there can be growing pains. I was absolutely not prepared for what was to come tho. When announcements about graphical and performance overhauls were made, I wasn’t particularly excited about the PS5 version of BeamNG. I assumed that BeamNG would remain PC oriented, preserve its unique identity, and continue to be as playable as it has been for the past decade. I was wrong, oh was I wrong. Proper clouds and beautiful sunsets aside, the game has degraded massively. Night driving is still atrocious, the auto exposure looks like you're viewing the world through the blown out lens of an iPhone camera. I understand that might be "realistic" in a photographic sense, but I don't want to view the game through an iPhone camera. Honestly don't want to view anything from an iPhone camera at night.. Vehicle lighting has also been completely ruined, which breaks my heart because up to v0.38 it had one of the best vehicle lighting systems in my opinion. With 0.39's revamp, vehicle lights are completely dim and invisible during the day, and overly bright and washed out at night. To be fair, the devs tweaked vanilla vehicles so you can actually see them in daylight again :) Good luck getting proper lighting on modded vehicles now. It makes me genuinely sad, because vehicle lighting and overall stability and performance were literally perfect in 0.38. I dream of getting it back one day... BeamNG had literally been the most consistent game, until now... There's more wrong with the game I'm leaving out but just wanted to get this out after the game crashed for the 5th time today. I don't understand why this version was quickly released without any testing or consideration. At least give us the option to update or not. I guess the money is worth being sellouts and reduced to being just another pointless, soulless car console game. RIP it was fun while it lasted. Sad.