Drivin' the boats

[Tanner_rennaT]

I was wondering how far out into the ocean you can drive boats. Please tell me there won't be an invisible wall! I mean, in a perfect world you could cross the Atlantic to Euroupe but I don't the game is that detailed. Hmmm, also, will there be citizens in their boats riding in the ocean with you? Major crashes! :p

[matt__jon]

I'm not sure, maybe at a certain distance your boat automatically turns around, or it'll be like Driver 1 where you got knocked through the walls and drive forever.

[neonfaktory]

Ideally I would like to see it let you drive out forever. Have it generate simple water cells, or whatever they use to determine world space, and figure in how far you've boated away so it takes the same amount of time to boat back.

The only problem is that this assumes all the maps are full islands. What if the world consists of a square area of half land and half water? You could get some nasty graphical errors if the player tries to boat around the squared off portion of land, assuming there are no restrictions.

My guess is they are using some kind of bounding method, in which case I would prefer the "Auto Turn Around" to an invisible wall.

[matt__jon]

Yeah, I'd rather have auto turn around too. Maybe they'll put a hidden island far off the coast and not on the map with secret stuff on it. If I heard they did that, I would search for a long time. I wonder how you'd get felony on the high seas, other than killing people and crashing your boat into other boats. Theres no speed limit in the ocean.

Anyway, in Driver 1, when you went through a wall, you could drive 100 miles off the map if you wanted to, but then you'd have to drive 100 miles back to the map.

[Vasquez]

Remember in RIo, driving off the edge of the world? lol, hopefully christopher columbus will be a maker of this game to fix that. LOL.

[El_Nach0]

"driving off the edge of the world" -what? how?

[PSgamer262]

if you went too far in the ocean with invincibility on...

[El_Nach0]

Ooh Snap, I never thought of that, I'll do it as soon as i log off.

[matt__jon]

On this one site I found last night there was an article that the only thing new on there said in one mission you have to navigate the inside of a 200 ft yacht. Note, it doesn't say drive the yacht, just go around the inside. My guess is it probably ends in a gunfight and the sinking of the yacht.