Maybe we had the wrong type of player in our play-test.' 'It feels like people are struggling and I'm not sure why that is. 'But certainly it feels like people are struggling and I'm not sure why that is. We did tune it harder towards the end, but the assumption was we were only making it harder for the top end, once you already know what you're doing. 'But towards the end of development it started to feel like the game felt too 'light'.

'What we set out to do originally was make the game very, very straightforward and very acessible,' Laakso explained. It would be preferable to have in the game.'ĭespite wide reports of players being unable to decipher the game's drifting controls - including Eurogamer's own Tom Bramwell, who documented his efforts in Eurogamer's 8/10 Ridge Racer Unbounded review - Bugbear originally intended the game to be 'very, very straightforward'. 'A patch is a possibility, we haven't decided anything yet. 'We're now thinking that we should find a way to include a more hands-on tutorial,' Laakso continued.

Developer Bugbear also felt its existence was 'too in your face' and might make players feel like it was 'underestimating' them. The tutorial was cut as it had become 'a pain to update' as the game's mechanics changed during development. So perhaps, lesson learnt there,' Laakso said. 'We felt it over-explained things and got in the way. It lasted until 'not too many weeks before launch', before it was removed. Ridge Racer Unbounded developer Bugbear Entertainment has admitted it cut an in-game tutorial that helped explain the game's polarising drift controls.īugbear is now considering a patch to address complaints about Unbounded's control scheme, which stem from a failure to adequately explain how the game's braking technique operates.Ī tutorial to aid gamers with the game's controls did exist in working builds of Unbounded, lead producer Joonas Laakso revealed to Eurogamer.

Ridge racer unbounded drifting