Ive been ssubbed to your channel for a few months and just realized the little amount of subs you have, the quality of your content doesnt relate to the numbers! This should be a 800k channel at least. Timing can be a b*tch, but eventually u will get there!
@@TalksWithNoise there’s also a big difference in the beamng crash scene we have the old players who have been making crash scenes for years now and we have the new ones/shorts who just make it as dumb as possible
Sadly, one “friend” of me, thinks that BeamNG is a crashing simulator, where the *ONLY* goal is to crash your car and that’s it. I’m really sad about this and the devs really should think about that side of BeamNG. Another problem is, that almost all pictures, banners and posters (from from 3rd party and ads sites) of the game are outdated. So that everyone thinks that BeamNG has no good graphics and cars. Great video by the way!
I think the devs are on the right path. They never post about wrecking related topics. Although I think the Steam page needs updated the moment they get a chance.
same with my dad. He asked me about it and just the fact that i said "softbody physics make car go crunch" made him a bit mad and i was kinda sad about it.
I think the main reason for BeamNG being seen as nothing more than a crash sim is predominantly because that’s how they initially marketed the game in its pre-alpha and current alpha stages. Racing, accurate vehicle driving dynamics, and other qualities came later and were only advertised to an extent. Of course influencers just showing off the crashing physics do play a part as well.
I'm not so sure. I don't think the early marketing for BeamNG is even relevant now, since very few people are aware of just how old the game is. It's more popular now than it ever has been, independent of the early marketing.
@@KeeganYF12 Tbf recent marketing doesn’t do it justice either. The 2019 tech showcase and showreel mostly featured crashes over driving characteristics of their vehicles. It’s their game and they can market it however they want, but they only really show off the driving physics to those who are dedicated fans.
Yeah I remember years and years ago when BeamNG was brand new and sort of obscure that their whole marketing thing was that they were the one of the first sims with realistic damage rather than just applying a handful of fixed animations to a car The origin is long forgotten but in the game of telephone that is TH-cam where the obscure niche meme will eventually trickle down to algorithmic AI garbage, that’s what sticks in minds
Back in 2013 or late 2012 I picked up a free tech demo for BeamNG back when it ran on CryEngine 3. Young me at first really did think of it as not much more than a physics idea. Then I grew up, and along with that I’ve been with BeamNG through every update. My tastes changed and along with it the game. I spend the vast majority of my time in the game rallying and simply just hitting the road usually with music or a video playing in the background. When I returned from the military I was diagnosed with PTSD and oddly enough a great way I relax is with this game. I don’t mindlessly crash cars anymore (most of the time) but now I have such a deep appreciation for this game. This game also contributed heavily to my utter love for engine, gasoline and wheels. I work on cars irl now and am saving up to start my own rally project car.
I also started with the tech demo in 2019, basically just for crashing. Then, i wanted the burnside and more maps (and mostly spawn multiple cars) and then i started actually driving for fun and not crashing (I still crash a lot and drive over cars with a dump truck and enjoy the camodo gaming stuff but i also use it as a sim for basically everything (i do off roading, racing, casual driving, police chases and so on...)
@@JoseBR520_NoobContent I think the least the devs for racing games where wheel support is a big thing can do is set up some good default bindings for, at least, all the "popular" wheels, that work for every situation.
The temptation to make brain rot content just to get higher views is very strong. As BeamNG creators we need to find something that can appeal to both a wider audience while maintaining a somewhat mature subject matter. It's pretty difficult 😭
@@Physicsless8 BrainRotting people is so easy to not do look he is doing it rn its not hard talking about the game and not boy vs girl tesla go boom bugatti noise
@@eratoz5096 i average about 5 hours of recording, editing, checking, on my smaller videos, my biggest one took over a week of nonstop work (my 100 sub special) so i would say i put in hard work
introduced to BeamNG around its early phases, around when WhyBeAre made BeamNG content, and thats the only BeamNG content i was introduced to, it showed me what this game was capable of, and i then went deeper and saw how amazing this game really is. *insert reasons why BeamNG is so great, im to lazy to write about this* BeamNG good game (exluding the children fed shorts)
This! I was introduced to BeamNG by WhyBeAre also back in the early days (like 2013-2014, his second or third video on beam period) and I watched no one but him, with that introduction to it it also showed me what people were capable with the game could do, and what you could do in it. Now years later that I've had the game myself and play it, its still amazing how truly amazing BeamNG is. Its a shame the shorts kids got a hold of it.
I was quite late to beamng (0.27) but as any other game i buy, i dug deep about it and i didnt see any of these crash content stuff (possibly cuz i have shorts disabled on pc)
I grew up watching why be are since like 2015 ish and i was hooked, I watched almost all of his videos and I wanted the game so bed, the thing I was most excited for on my 13th birthday was making a steam account and buying the game that day lol (I wasn't allowed to lie about my age) I still play every minute I can, I've went through three computers trying to keep up with the stuff I do in beam. I mostly play Carp, Cops and Robbers and other Beam MP related things as i racked up about 650 hours in single player and it does kind of get old :)
I remember talking about games to a coworker who has a 3 year-old kid, and she said her kid loves "watching videos of that game where you crash cars down ramps and stuff", which I almost imediatelly guessed was BeamNG, so there's the issue. On a bit of a tangent, I remember looking up car crash compilations on TH-cam when I was younger, like those classic Russian dashcam videos. I guess BeamNG is the modern version of that for newer generations.
@@Freezorgium There's a lot of content out there now using Farming Simulator too. Flatmate's got a pair of toddlers, they love their car videos... :P Their little minds are going to be blown once they're old enough to be trusted in front of a computer and get to have a go with my sim rig. ;)
I first discovered BeamNG around 2014 from a WhyBeAre video about trying to carefully deliver propane cans. I didn’t even know it was about crashing until I saw the end! I spent the next 5 years fantasising scenarios of just regular driving with an unexpected crash, but not just crashing. When I actually got the game, everything was more deep and a lot of fun.
"Handling" is quite a new thing to BeamNG, it´s only been a couple years that the cars have been actually good to drive. Beam started with great crash physics and bad driving model, the early versions were really difficult to drive, so no wonder people mostly crashed
When I discover BeamNG when I was a lot younger in 2015 (God, that was 7 years ago, I feel old now, and I'm not even 17 yet) I was immediately interested in crashes, you know watching channels like Wreckstation, Crashboompunk, Insanegaz (for the OG) and many more... But now after watching more gameplay focused videos from WhyBeAre, Ermin Hamidovich, Camodo... I don't know why but I really like just spawn a car and drives it aimlessly, or set a time on a track... And with the new Career mode, I feel like that driving around has a purpose now...
Same,Im 15 and im playing Beamng since 2014/15 and also because i watched WhyBeAre and many other great youtubers,now i have 880 Hours played on Beam just because i like the realism that the game has,such a good sim game.
You genuinely bounce the cars with the nodegrabber to simulate the movement talking... Genius detail. My opinion on that definitely isn't biased at all
I got into BeamNG because of the realistic traffic crashes, i feel like a lot of those videos shine a better light on the game, especially comparison videos of real life vs BeamNG, because it shows off both the driving physics and crashing physics, plus those videos dont have the ADHD oversaturated feel, theyre like 10 minutes long and theres 3 scenes with the same crash from all different angles. Those channels put a lot more effort into their videos, and i respect them for it.
We’ve watched a few of them over on the Discord. Many of them have super fluid and believable shots. The setup work is usually on-spot. Also some of the cinematic style videos are really cool where they play out movie scenes.
I bought the game to crash and ending up racing, rock climbing, doing rally, realistic car meets, drifting and much much much more, the game has it all.
i got beam because it was the first game to best have everything for realism without modding things into it. i can spawn a truck and trailer, drive a drift car/truck on, drive to and unload at a spot. great for RP
FailRace does some fun Beam videos. A lot of them take advantage of the game's unique damage simulation as something to add greater challenge. Stop the Beast is a favorite example of mine, where he'll choose a really beefy truck and try to escape from his friends who are driving several smaller vehicles. Pursuants whose cars become too damaged can reset, but they be gotta race from their spawnpoint to rejoin the fray; if FailRace himself is damaged to the point of being undrivable, he loses. The point for everyone is specifically to AVOID crashing (unless it's a tactical kamikazi by one of the hunters), but the very fact that vehicles can not only amass damage, but simulate very specific damage with unique side effects - such as snapped steering bars, leaky oil pans, flat tires, etc. - makes it a much more interesting and tactical competition.
His Driven Till Destruction series and Raced Till Destruction streams are also really good and shows of Beams damage and driving model especially how cars behave overtime when taking damage.
the trouble is, that the longer videos that are not 'crash' ones are hard to get people to watch....i did a long video of offroading in a jeep, without crazy crashes in it, and it flopped because im a small channel, larger channels get the lovely views on these kind of beamng videos, me not, so i can see why alot of people like me go for more shorts crashing videos etc, BUT beamng is such a good DRIVING sim and your so right, its known too much for crashes and not what its capable of!
I think really one of the best TH-camr's for BeamNG is Jimmy Broadbent. He doesn't play it very often, but being that he is an experienced racer in sim and on circuit, he's able to really push the cars well. To improve the entertainment value without deliberately crashing, he will often pick scenarios or challenges that are outside his tarmac driving skill set, such as a rally stage, or offroading. This leads to plenty of very entertaining mistakes, without taking the focus of the video away from the actual driving dynamics of the vehicles.
@@scrunkelmadunk7304Thank you, scrunkelmadunk, for the hilarious name and profile picture, with the perfect comment to top it off. That is both a horrifying and hilarious thing to see.
I bought the game because "The Crashing Simulator" back when the driving physics were only good enough to get you to the next crash. I got to 1100 hours more recently in the game because actual driving. Exploration, cruising, and hotlapping are my current favorite activities. I've felt genuine thrills when discovering objects hidden in the foliage in Jungle Rock, or finding a boundary break and wiggling my vehicle into the Farlands. I've also gotten that goofy grin when I nail a tricky corner perfectly. I've found boundary breaks in Johnston Valley (the famous "400 polygons next 8 miles" fence gap to the salt flats - keep going and you'll get into the Farland mountains), ETK Driver Experience (the barricade at one end of the highway has a gap, this map's Farlands are VERY fun as you end up driving on the floor of the world ala the Gridmaps and the distant mountains don't have collision), and Automation Test Track (throw a crawler at the mountainside near the dam - you'll need it to get around up in those mountains). I've also flown the river valleys in Italy's Farlands with my Wingeon and crawled up the side of the Cliff. I'm working on finding ones in West Coast and Hirochi Raceway. Should see if I can find one in Utah too. I haven't played East Coast in a while and don't know how breakable that map is. IIRC Hirochi and ECUSA re heavily forested and impassable in most larger offroading vehicles. I didn't realize boundary breaks were a thing in that many maps until recently. There's also a semi-break in Industrial, where you can get over the barricades blocking the ends of the small bridges with a capable enough crawler. This'll open you up to miles of sprawling grasslands. I hesitate whether to call this a true break. You can also just drive through the "ditch" with a Wydra. You owe it to yourself to fly Italy's Farlands in a slower airplane like the Wingeon. MuYe's video exploring them doesn't do it justice.
i guess these comments just annoy me because i play it mostly because it has good crash physics. and it’s not like it’s bad to like it almsot purely for the crashes. i get that not everyone is into that type of game and that’s what you’re saying, but it just has an underlying implication (at least to me)
my point exactly @@R_E_D22 i guess it could also be used for realistic handling but it’s literally advertised by showing like 2 or 3 car crashes and then 1 or 2 other videos of non car crashes
Beam NG originally started as as soft body physics engine and for years its the path that was taken even the devs once stated they are not trying to make a racing or driving simulation hence the arcadey nature of the game.
I was once in a bus talking about BeamNG with my friend, then a kid came up to us and said "You mean that one crashing game?" I replyed with "It's more like a everything simulator." From there I don't remember much more. BTW this was about 4 months ago.
It's unfair to shift the blame for BeamNG's current reputation to content creators and YT Shorts guys who see it as a crashing game first and foremost. You have to remember that BeamNG got its popularity from being a crashing sim and it started development as one. The shift to all the other types of gameplay was fairly recent and a lot of people just didn't hear the news/still think that the "gamey" elements of the game are quite raw (which they are tbh). BeamNG is still in development, give it some time, let the gameplay elements develop further and get more deep and the game's reputation will change. Right now the game is still mostly about choosing the map, the car, setting up some obstacles and doing whatever you want, which doesn't let the game mechanics that are not just crashing shine.
Jaiden Williams has the perfect beamng content if I’m being honest, he has normal driving, but he makes the crashes funny (however his shorts do focus on his crashes)
In all my 15 years of life, BeamNG Drive was the best car simulator I've ever played. I was the happiest person when I could finally play that, I had so much fun on it, racing, testing configurations, or just cruising around the maps. Unfortunately, my parents banned me from playing beamNG because "the game is aimless and all you do is crash the car, press a button and the car appears repaired, so you can crash it again." I didn't even try to argue, I already knew it was a lost battle. I miss that game and my Vivace.
I really enjoy the balance that Failrace brings to the game. There is a crashing component, but it's an "Oh I screwed up." not a "Haha, fling me at a wall because funny haha.", and the racing is actual racing, just with cars that are sometimes a bit silly, or maybe a flood or something is causing people to drive at 10 10ths.
The BeamNG developers are probably the greatest of all time. They've been consistently pushing out high quality updates for a decade and not a single bit of it gets put behind a paywall. Considering how far the game has come since it was first released, I wouldn't be surprised to see BeamNG becoming the de facto driving simulator in another 10 years. They don't seem to be slowing down
The one of the worst type of Beamng shorts (apart from the stupid health bar/chance of survival and other stupid challenges), are the ones that recreate IRL crashes just because want to do it, and put that stupid Kerosene music in the background, I just do not find those any interesting or fun.
TH-cam is littered with the health bar themed BeamNG shorts. I’m alright with the dashcam style videos and some of the creative cinematics people make such as stuff I’ve seen by ImpactPointProductions. But a lot of the quick-made stuff is climbing the ladder far too quickly. And there’s TONS of it :/
I think the issue is that they treat the game more like arcade, they play with controllers and only do things that have to do with destructive driving. Sure, Neil does reviews, but he mostly sees how fast the cars go, how well they crash, and how far they go of the Car Jump Arena
@@kj64gaming19 you seem to forget Neil has said pretty damn often that he is bad at driving and sim rigs are a pain in the ass to set up and get going when you do not have the space to keep it set up 24/7
@@_blood_moon_proto_1500 I have a basic Thrustmaster 248. It takes 30 seconds to set up. I don't expect him to set up a whole Sim rig. I just don't think there's much of an excuse to not have a simple wheel.
Beamng drive has been a crashing simulator since release, because no game is anywhere close to as realistic as beamng drive is when it comes to crashing simulations.
My mindset towards BeamNG is similar to Burnout. A game where you won’t get mad if you crash but it’s not your primary objective (unless you count the Crash junctions)
I agree BeamNG content on YT is over saturated with crash content, but I've got to give a shout-out to Patrick Zeugirdor's channel for creating elaborate and REALISTIC crash scenarios that aren't just stupid mindless destruction.
When a game exists that simulates car demolition physics better than any other game and has remained unchallenged for 10+ years, of course that's all it's gonna be known for. It's also partly the devs fault for marketing BeamNG drive as a tech demo. Seriously, who names their game, "Beam NG dot Drive." Sounds like a scam website.
It doesn’t help that any of the older audience that gets exposed to beamng thinks the driving sucks. Honestly. I think driving in other sims feels stiff and unnatural, whereas beamng actually feels like a car.
Something like 8 or 9 years ago now I used to watch SpiersTheAmazing play BeamNG. They were just regular commentaries about random shit and while he would crash a lot in those videos, it wasn't just about the gameplay. He used to talk about so much random stuff in those videos, and looking back I miss that type of content. They were longer, not cut, and not fighting for your attention. I still remember specific parts of some of those old videos. Meanwhile I couldn't tell you what the last short I watched was about :(
I’m thinking more-so about having some realistic sim representation vids on the front page to attract a diverse crowd. There are a handful of creators posted numerous times with similar content. Sprinkling different play styles would be nice :)
What you said in the video resonates with me because it's what I keep telling my community, that BeamNG isn't just for crashes! I was on the BeamNG forums in 2012, I've been playing since it released DAY ONE, it's quite a pride for me, I am now part of the Creator team and I've even had the chance to meet some of the team in real life! My journey with this game is crazy! Today, I make tutorials for the game, I explain the beauty and depth of this game, I create video concepts where we test the cars in different situation, sometimes crashes, but concepts of all kinds that highlight the game for what it is and not just for the crashes!
I disagree with your motion about the "image problem" the game has. Sure, you can do some realistic racing in the game, and that's cool, you can play the game how you want. But it not going to "damage its image" if it never really had that to begin with. It's always going to be about crash physics first and Racing second because that's what it was marketed as. Hell, it's a successor to Rig of Rods, another physics-based crashing game. This is a just a strawman argument and a "old man yells at cloud" situation. This is like trying to play Assetto Corsa and complaining about the crash physics in the game. The fact that "actual racing games" not having the best crash modules is that they put the racing first and the crashing second. (Also licensing issue, big name companies don't want to see their products destroyed all to hell).
We’re no longer talking about BeamNG’s earliest years. There’s clear developmental direction away from crashing which is why there’s an image problem at stake. I think the analogy with AC would be closer to the game having decent crashing physics and people not knowing they exist.
crazy, a driving game sold as a soft body physics simulator, who's own store page starts with a video involving a crash in 1 second, is associated with physical destruction
Something I believe contributes to BeamNG's image as a crashing simulator is that while it does a wide variety of things well, the one thing it does better than anyone else *is* crashes.
I was first introduced to BeamNG way back when Rigs of rods was the BeamNG, basically when BeamNG was announced. I couldn't play it even if I wanted to due to my system at the time wasn't capable of playing it (it was barely capable of playing Rigs of Rods). Many people even in Rigs of rods was treating RoR as just a crash simulator, so the issue is a long one. I myself was using it for an off road game (hill climbing, rock crawling, mudding), racing game, BUT at least Rigs of Rods officially supported online multiplayer, unlike BeamNG which currently doesn't officially have an online multiplayer component (yes there is BeamMP but that is a mod, not official supported by BeamNG, or apart of BeamNG).
Basically using ROR for its originally intended purpose lol, offroad trucks and all. Still a pretty neat game to this day IMO, and technically still gets dev updates but obviously it's small and few and far between now.
FailRace treats it as a serious thing, with a few series' based around it which are quite good. I watched a little BeamNG content back in the early days and I'm so incredibly confused with what it has turned into.
I think the biggest problem with BeamNG’s image is the fact that in a world of cutting utensils BeamNG is a Swiss Army knife and nobody’s bothering to sell a can opener, so when people look at it all they see is the thing that nothing else can do and completely skip everything else.
I was a kid when I found BeamNG in 2014, and I was really interested in the realistic way the cars moved and crashed. If TH-camrs want to show the game to kids, they don't need to be pumping up the contrast and making bad jokes, just show the game how it is
I remember watching youtubers playing BeamNG 5-10+ years ago - They were just playing normally, but BeamNG was a much worse rounded game back then so even then crashing was the main thing people flocked to.
It was a crashing simulator for me for a long time. when I got the game, the only map was the grid map with stuff to crash in to. But then I started to notice how fun it was trying not to crash, and at the same time it started to become more serious of a driving game. And when I got a driving wheel, I really noticed how detailed all of the driving physics were. Now crashing is just a small part of the game, an entertaining thing that happens when I discover the limits of the vehicle I'm driving.
If you're looking for an immersive racing experience for BeamNG, I highly recommend an in-the-works mod called Project Academy. The devs are extremely connected with the community and they've got around 50 Automation cars that they've COMPLETELY reworked with new hand-crafted jbeams and their own tire model for a unique simcade driving experience. It's nothing like any other mod that's out right now.
The racing is perfect with Beam NGs own cars, especially if you tune it yourself. I dont know how it feels for keyboard and controller players tho, I always play with a wheel.
I found out about beamng on its early days from a Irish youtuber: Jacksepticeye. Then Camodo's perspective introduced me more about the physics simulation and it's community of Modders, Map makers, and Multiplayer
Camodo and Nielogical have a lot of focus on crashing but their videos are usually races or challenges so it's a bit more in-depth than the TH-cam Shorts where they just crash.
i use it for offroad and drag racing, one of the only games that gets drag racing right, proper control of suspension, transmission, boost etc, only game ever that has real automatic transmission simulation with a functional torque converters etc
I’ve been a fan of beamng crashing videos for 7 years and didn’t realize it wasn’t just a crashing sim until I actually bought the game and I started watching Muye’s videos.
I love FailRace for his BeamNG content and other videos, and while he tests the limits of the cars, he does it in a way where you might learn something about the cars, and with a course that's meant to challenge and break the cars over time. Of course there's always going to be wrecked cars, but he at least makes it about the cars and less about the crashes.
My cousin actually got into this game when we were younger due to the crashing but it eventually evolved into a love for racing I actually found out how good of a driving sim this game could be through him playing
BeamNG doesn't have a image problem. It's just a fun mess around open sandbox game that's centered around cars with no purpose other than accurate simulation and realism which in return makes it very fun.
@@TalksWithNoise That's true and may be the majority. But many of those videos you've searched that came up display the game with more than just crashes. Neilogical especially fans of him will know this. WhyBeAre was also a popular BeamNG channel until he fell off before the shorts started exploding. TH-cam shorts in general are always going to be the most viewed. Unfortunately the type of content is lacking to appeal to a great majority of simple minded people. TLDR BeamNG has a big community knowing what the game is about, along with a big community who don't. I'd say it does equal out a bit even if the shorts seem to be the most saturated content wise.
I've come to be surprised with how big Beam's community is. As for shorts, I believe that's unfortunately the direction TH-cam is going to continue leaning in to try and wash the competition.
@@TalksWithNoise Yeah it is indeed sad.. It's tainting BeamNG's name and simplifying it to something that it isn't. But at the same time it does bring exposure to people about it so it will only grow the community in the end. Shorts are just a necessary evil.
I tried 0.1 which was a whole talking point I cut from the video. But essentially found out devs showed hints of interest in making a driving sim. But they knew their targeted audience for the time being. An example being the Bolide release video where they announce they promise to deliver more crashing content which is pretty wholesome imo given the breakthroughs they were making.
I found BeamNG through the ‘carboys’ series from polygon’s youtube channel. Sure, it’s crashing, but it’s a fricking art form. They meet satan and god.
tbh i thought this was a fun crashing game, but I saw that I could do lots of stuff like driving normally, doing police chases, or just messing around with insane jato-equipped cars
cracking video man, love the idea of the vehicles as their own car-acters (ba dum tss) thoughtful, funny, well edited and to the point. i hope you're having fun making the vids so that they keep coming!
to be fair, beamng was always marketed as a soft body physics sim first. i started playing around 10 years ago when i was a kid because of channels like insanegaz and whybeare showing off the physics. as i've grown up with the game and it's been updated, they've focused more on driving physics and realism with updates to the tyre physics and PBR materials but i'm not sure they've really changed their marketing to reflect that. I was blown away with how good it felt to just drive in the game once i got my first wheel, and now crashing seems like a fun bonus rather than the main reason i play
What got me into this game was how it works with automation. I mainly play automation to build and design cars and as soon as I saw they were working with beamNG to allow you to actually drive the cars I got the game instantly. Before that I had only seen the crashing videos but after seeing how well the game drove (even with the terrible cars I made) I started to get into it more.
I find cars racing around punishing environment and slowly falling apart and seeing how long you can survive most entertaing, Beam is really good for that. Like how Failrace does the Driven to Destruction races
I got beamNG yearsssss ago, because yeah I thought it was like a cool car physics simulator for crashing things... But then I opened the game and promptly realized it was a hyper-detailed driving sim that just happened to use realistic physics
Good video these BeamNG „crash“ videos are just flooding the video feed when you search BeamNG I hope someday BeamNG will be seen as more than an crash game. It’s sad because it has become a really good driving simulator also with the simulated damage of gearboxes, driveshafts, suspension, engine etc.
Half of what i do is just try to cause the most cinematic and satisfying crashing, and the other 50% is a mix of rally, reliability tests, seeing how far a car can make it with certain parts removed, and customization.
I subbed. I enjoy watching those videos where they simulate realistic car crashes just to see how it would play out and draw conclusions if it would also happen in real life like how it did in the game.
I am not a driving game player (I play Mario Kart and GTA and nothing else really) but when I upgraded my PC BeamNG was one of the first games I bought for the crashing physics. I don't really see this as a "problem" as it really helps the game stick out. To me, most racing and driving games are interchangeable and I just don't really buy them, but that feature makes it stand out. I don't think it's as much "people overlook the other stuff it has to offer" and more "the larger majority of gamers don't really care about games that offer that stuff" and BeamNG has made a lot of sales to non-racing fans.
And, that's why I don't focus on crashing videos all of the time. My focus has always been on storytelling instead of crashing. Crashing is just a fun bonus in my videos. I'm here to make videos that have good car chases while telling some fanmade lore. And, I don't rely on AI-generated voices aside from talking vehicles that have AI components in them. So yeah, even I believe that BeamNG's crash content is oversaturated nowadays. It's amazing that my videos barely get as much views as the ones from BeamNG Shorts as I am not a fan of their content. But, content creators are still here to make money one way or another. Guys like BeamNG Boy and SourDisc are excellent channels that are underrated. So yeah, I know good BeamNG content whenever I see it.
what i believe what the best thing beamng drive is for, is endurance racing as it turns out it is kind of hard to not damage your suspension when going at speeds exceeding 40mph
If this video doesn't get 69 likes and 420 new subs I will make a shorts channel.
Edit: Some people are taking the body joke seriously 💀
Oh please no
Please don’t
I am your 83rd.
Ive been ssubbed to your channel for a few months and just realized the little amount of subs you have, the quality of your content doesnt relate to the numbers! This should be a 800k channel at least. Timing can be a b*tch, but eventually u will get there!
@@DeltonAdamsLEGOhello lol! Didn’t know you to meet here lmao
Bodies in Beamng.... you might actually be right
Straight from a PG to AO rating 🫡
Just make the character model a test dummy we can dress up as character customization.
They would all move over to instagram reels, that all I see on there
With the most realistic gore the devs can muster up
@@MRSPORTYTRUCKER reels would become "blood filled beamng crashes" and "cartelgram" with a hint of cat videos.
I’ve never virtually been hit with a piece of paper…
Thank you for not ending me 🫡
😂
I don't think it was malicious. I thought it was funny!@@trabant601e
It's all good. Your channel is awesome!@@TalksWithNoise
@@TalksWithNoise there’s also a big difference in the beamng crash scene we have the old players who have been making crash scenes for years now and we have the new ones/shorts who just make it as dumb as possible
Sadly, one “friend” of me, thinks that BeamNG is a crashing simulator, where the *ONLY* goal is to crash your car and that’s it. I’m really sad about this and the devs really should think about that side of BeamNG. Another problem is, that almost all pictures, banners and posters (from from 3rd party and ads sites) of the game are outdated. So that everyone thinks that BeamNG has no good graphics and cars. Great video by the way!
I think the devs are on the right path. They never post about wrecking related topics. Although I think the Steam page needs updated the moment they get a chance.
same with my dad. He asked me about it and just the fact that i said "softbody physics make car go crunch" made him a bit mad and i was kinda sad about it.
i mean the campaign (at least the parts i’ve played) have been either trying to crash, or trying not to crash, and that’s about it
The banners and posters were updated a few weeks back
@@latexwhistledown342The campaign is a decade old
I think the main reason for BeamNG being seen as nothing more than a crash sim is predominantly because that’s how they initially marketed the game in its pre-alpha and current alpha stages. Racing, accurate vehicle driving dynamics, and other qualities came later and were only advertised to an extent. Of course influencers just showing off the crashing physics do play a part as well.
I'm not so sure. I don't think the early marketing for BeamNG is even relevant now, since very few people are aware of just how old the game is. It's more popular now than it ever has been, independent of the early marketing.
@@KeeganYF12 Tbf recent marketing doesn’t do it justice either. The 2019 tech showcase and showreel mostly featured crashes over driving characteristics of their vehicles. It’s their game and they can market it however they want, but they only really show off the driving physics to those who are dedicated fans.
Agreed
yeah, i remember watching jacksepticeye play it as a kid and even back then treating it as a crashing sim
Yeah
I remember years and years ago when BeamNG was brand new and sort of obscure that their whole marketing thing was that they were the one of the first sims with realistic damage rather than just applying a handful of fixed animations to a car
The origin is long forgotten but in the game of telephone that is TH-cam where the obscure niche meme will eventually trickle down to algorithmic AI garbage, that’s what sticks in minds
Back in 2013 or late 2012 I picked up a free tech demo for BeamNG back when it ran on CryEngine 3. Young me at first really did think of it as not much more than a physics idea. Then I grew up, and along with that I’ve been with BeamNG through every update. My tastes changed and along with it the game. I spend the vast majority of my time in the game rallying and simply just hitting the road usually with music or a video playing in the background. When I returned from the military I was diagnosed with PTSD and oddly enough a great way I relax is with this game. I don’t mindlessly crash cars anymore (most of the time) but now I have such a deep appreciation for this game. This game also contributed heavily to my utter love for engine, gasoline and wheels. I work on cars irl now and am saving up to start my own rally project car.
What a story, hope your PTSD can get better and I really hope you can start that project car! Best wishes.
I also started with the tech demo in 2019, basically just for crashing. Then, i wanted the burnside and more maps (and mostly spawn multiple cars) and then i started actually driving for fun and not crashing
(I still crash a lot and drive over cars with a dump truck and enjoy the camodo gaming stuff but i also use it as a sim for basically everything (i do off roading, racing, casual driving, police chases and so on...)
Wait, there's a cryengine techdemo?
@@Dryfloorsignno it switched to torque3d before anything was publicly released hes prob getting confused
@@Dryfloorsign on BeamNGs own channel their first video.
Carmighty is doing a good job of highlighting how it's a fun racing game, too
The controls on wheel are utterly horrible to set up which is what discourages me from actually racing on it instead of having fun crashing
@@skive_1888it seemed pretty easy when i set mine up
@@skive_1888What wheel setup are you using? I have a Logitech G923 PC/Xbox and it works perfectly fine after setting up some keybinds
@@JoseBR520_NoobContent I think the least the devs for racing games where wheel support is a big thing can do is set up some good default bindings for, at least, all the "popular" wheels, that work for every situation.
@@skive_1888 it's not that hard to set up
The temptation to make brain rot content just to get higher views is very strong. As BeamNG creators we need to find something that can appeal to both a wider audience while maintaining a somewhat mature subject matter. It's pretty difficult 😭
"difficult?" more like impossible
@@Physicsless8 BrainRotting people is so easy to not do look he is doing it rn its not hard talking about the game and not boy vs girl tesla go boom bugatti noise
@@eratoz5096 no like, getting veiws without the brainrot is like impossible, my best videos are the closeset videos i have to that stuff
@@Physicsless8 I don't think that's the reason why youre not getting views good content is hard and takes effort
@@eratoz5096 i average about 5 hours of recording, editing, checking, on my smaller videos, my biggest one took over a week of nonstop work (my 100 sub special) so i would say i put in hard work
introduced to BeamNG around its early phases,
around when WhyBeAre made BeamNG content, and thats the only BeamNG content i was introduced to, it showed me what this game was capable of, and i then went deeper and saw how amazing this game really is.
*insert reasons why BeamNG is so great, im to lazy to write about this*
BeamNG good game (exluding the children fed shorts)
This! I was introduced to BeamNG by WhyBeAre also back in the early days (like 2013-2014, his second or third video on beam period) and I watched no one but him, with that introduction to it it also showed me what people were capable with the game could do, and what you could do in it.
Now years later that I've had the game myself and play it, its still amazing how truly amazing BeamNG is.
Its a shame the shorts kids got a hold of it.
I was quite late to beamng (0.27) but as any other game i buy, i dug deep about it and i didnt see any of these crash content stuff (possibly cuz i have shorts disabled on pc)
I grew up watching why be are since like 2015 ish and i was hooked, I watched almost all of his videos and I wanted the game so bed, the thing I was most excited for on my 13th birthday was making a steam account and buying the game that day lol (I wasn't allowed to lie about my age) I still play every minute I can, I've went through three computers trying to keep up with the stuff I do in beam. I mostly play Carp, Cops and Robbers and other Beam MP related things as i racked up about 650 hours in single player and it does kind of get old :)
whybeare and speirs they both made some amazing beam ng vids back what 6 years ago now
WhyBeAre is the reason I own the game and play it daily. I will miss him on TH-cam
I remember talking about games to a coworker who has a 3 year-old kid, and she said her kid loves "watching videos of that game where you crash cars down ramps and stuff", which I almost imediatelly guessed was BeamNG, so there's the issue.
On a bit of a tangent, I remember looking up car crash compilations on TH-cam when I was younger, like those classic Russian dashcam videos. I guess BeamNG is the modern version of that for newer generations.
if someone has an ipad toddler and they love watching videos with cars, it's either GTA V with mods or BeamNG.
To be fair, I’d much rather have my kid watch fake video game crashes than real footage of people potentially being killed
@@Freezorgium There's a lot of content out there now using Farming Simulator too. Flatmate's got a pair of toddlers, they love their car videos... :P Their little minds are going to be blown once they're old enough to be trusted in front of a computer and get to have a go with my sim rig. ;)
@@snekhuman Nah, it gets them ready for reality
I first discovered BeamNG around 2014 from a WhyBeAre video about trying to carefully deliver propane cans. I didn’t even know it was about crashing until I saw the end! I spent the next 5 years fantasising scenarios of just regular driving with an unexpected crash, but not just crashing.
When I actually got the game, everything was more deep and a lot of fun.
nice pfp
@@goobergoober2263thx lol ive had it since august of 2019 XD
Ah yes, YBR's Propane Shipping Service.
Putting the pain in propane.
The fact that whybeare has kinda… vanished is sad.
"Handling" is quite a new thing to BeamNG, it´s only been a couple years that the cars have been actually good to drive.
Beam started with great crash physics and bad driving model, the early versions were really difficult to drive, so no wonder people mostly crashed
4:46 My dad’s 65 and plays beamng. Not sure if he watches anyone play it but he certainly is somewhat in the community.
That’s super cool to hear :D
You should persuade him to start a yt channel!
IIRC, the creator of Los Injurus map is over 50 years old (implied on his bio)
im glad i found beamng from ybr instead of whatever is going on in youtube shorts
I’m not so certain people are finding Beam because of the shorts. Likely the opposite :/
I found it via InsaneGaZ
YBR is the goat
I found beamng through Jackspeticeye
same
When I discover BeamNG when I was a lot younger in 2015 (God, that was 7 years ago, I feel old now, and I'm not even 17 yet) I was immediately interested in crashes, you know watching channels like Wreckstation, Crashboompunk, Insanegaz (for the OG) and many more...
But now after watching more gameplay focused videos from WhyBeAre, Ermin Hamidovich, Camodo... I don't know why but I really like just spawn a car and drives it aimlessly, or set a time on a track... And with the new Career mode, I feel like that driving around has a purpose now...
I got it because a while back I saw Jacksepticeye and PewDiePie play it. Got it to crash. Now my PC sits next to a car-desk.
Same,Im 15 and im playing Beamng since 2014/15 and also because i watched WhyBeAre and many other great youtubers,now i have 880 Hours played on Beam just because i like the realism that the game has,such a good sim game.
@@TalksWithNoise Ah, good ol' days... And I just realised something, 2015 was 9 Freaking years ago... I feel like I'm a Boomer now...
7 years ago? you mean 9? (so sorry for making you feel old)
Insanegaz... haven't heard that name in a thousand years
You genuinely bounce the cars with the nodegrabber to simulate the movement talking...
Genius detail.
My opinion on that definitely isn't biased at all
I see no reason caboose could be biased
I got into BeamNG because of the realistic traffic crashes, i feel like a lot of those videos shine a better light on the game, especially comparison videos of real life vs BeamNG, because it shows off both the driving physics and crashing physics, plus those videos dont have the ADHD oversaturated feel, theyre like 10 minutes long and theres 3 scenes with the same crash from all different angles. Those channels put a lot more effort into their videos, and i respect them for it.
We’ve watched a few of them over on the Discord. Many of them have super fluid and believable shots. The setup work is usually on-spot. Also some of the cinematic style videos are really cool where they play out movie scenes.
I bought the game to crash and ending up racing, rock climbing, doing rally, realistic car meets, drifting and much much much more, the game has it all.
Car meets in multiplayer?
@@iijj yah its possible with beammp
@@AMDRyzen57500F is it much more taxing on performance than single-player?
@ much more taxing in performance, my pc can barely run multiplayer (15-20 fps) but can run single player just fine (35 fps lock that is)
@ thought so. Thanks!
i got beam because it was the first game to best have everything for realism without modding things into it. i can spawn a truck and trailer, drive a drift car/truck on, drive to and unload at a spot. great for RP
FailRace does some fun Beam videos. A lot of them take advantage of the game's unique damage simulation as something to add greater challenge. Stop the Beast is a favorite example of mine, where he'll choose a really beefy truck and try to escape from his friends who are driving several smaller vehicles. Pursuants whose cars become too damaged can reset, but they be gotta race from their spawnpoint to rejoin the fray; if FailRace himself is damaged to the point of being undrivable, he loses. The point for everyone is specifically to AVOID crashing (unless it's a tactical kamikazi by one of the hunters), but the very fact that vehicles can not only amass damage, but simulate very specific damage with unique side effects - such as snapped steering bars, leaky oil pans, flat tires, etc. - makes it a much more interesting and tactical competition.
His Driven Till Destruction series and Raced Till Destruction streams are also really good and shows of Beams damage and driving model especially how cars behave overtime when taking damage.
the trouble is, that the longer videos that are not 'crash' ones are hard to get people to watch....i did a long video of offroading in a jeep, without crazy crashes in it, and it flopped because im a small channel, larger channels get the lovely views on these kind of beamng videos, me not, so i can see why alot of people like me go for more shorts crashing videos etc, BUT beamng is such a good DRIVING sim and your so right, its known too much for crashes and not what its capable of!
I think really one of the best TH-camr's for BeamNG is Jimmy Broadbent. He doesn't play it very often, but being that he is an experienced racer in sim and on circuit, he's able to really push the cars well. To improve the entertainment value without deliberately crashing, he will often pick scenarios or challenges that are outside his tarmac driving skill set, such as a rally stage, or offroading. This leads to plenty of very entertaining mistakes, without taking the focus of the video away from the actual driving dynamics of the vehicles.
@@bubbleman2002 I have to look this man up now.
man I love bean in cheese!
The best kind of driving sim.
Ah yes, Bean in cheese...
Soft body physics driving simulation
wh-why dont i understand this? waht?
@@chips7049you clearly haven't been in the cheese..
@@scrunkelmadunk7304Thank you, scrunkelmadunk, for the hilarious name and profile picture, with the perfect comment to top it off. That is both a horrifying and hilarious thing to see.
5:36 LMFAO
Found ya
3 likes what the fuck how
Hi mute
Hey Muye
holy shit its been 9 months how does this have 19 likes
I bought the game because "The Crashing Simulator" back when the driving physics were only good enough to get you to the next crash.
I got to 1100 hours more recently in the game because actual driving. Exploration, cruising, and hotlapping are my current favorite activities.
I've felt genuine thrills when discovering objects hidden in the foliage in Jungle Rock, or finding a boundary break and wiggling my vehicle into the Farlands. I've also gotten that goofy grin when I nail a tricky corner perfectly.
I've found boundary breaks in Johnston Valley (the famous "400 polygons next 8 miles" fence gap to the salt flats - keep going and you'll get into the Farland mountains), ETK Driver Experience (the barricade at one end of the highway has a gap, this map's Farlands are VERY fun as you end up driving on the floor of the world ala the Gridmaps and the distant mountains don't have collision), and Automation Test Track (throw a crawler at the mountainside near the dam - you'll need it to get around up in those mountains). I've also flown the river valleys in Italy's Farlands with my Wingeon and crawled up the side of the Cliff.
I'm working on finding ones in West Coast and Hirochi Raceway. Should see if I can find one in Utah too. I haven't played East Coast in a while and don't know how breakable that map is. IIRC Hirochi and ECUSA re heavily forested and impassable in most larger offroading vehicles. I didn't realize boundary breaks were a thing in that many maps until recently.
There's also a semi-break in Industrial, where you can get over the barricades blocking the ends of the small bridges with a capable enough crawler. This'll open you up to miles of sprawling grasslands. I hesitate whether to call this a true break. You can also just drive through the "ditch" with a Wydra.
You owe it to yourself to fly Italy's Farlands in a slower airplane like the Wingeon. MuYe's video exploring them doesn't do it justice.
its sad everyone think beamng is crash sim...
Seems to be growing in the sim space at least. But I’m concerned about how people are first introduced to it.
i guess these comments just annoy me because i play it mostly because it has good crash physics. and it’s not like it’s bad to like it almsot purely for the crashes. i get that not everyone is into that type of game and that’s what you’re saying, but it just has an underlying implication (at least to me)
it is tho the main selling point is the soft body physics (real time btw) allowing for realistic crashes
@@R_E_D22The soft body doesn't mean just crashing, it also means realistic chassis and driving physics
my point exactly @@R_E_D22 i guess it could also be used for realistic handling but it’s literally advertised by showing like 2 or 3 car crashes and then 1 or 2 other videos of non car crashes
Beam NG originally started as as soft body physics engine and for years its the path that was taken even the devs once stated they are not trying to make a racing or driving simulation hence the arcadey nature of the game.
I was once in a bus talking about BeamNG with my friend, then a kid came up to us and said "You mean that one crashing game?" I replyed with "It's more like a everything simulator." From there I don't remember much more. BTW this was about 4 months ago.
Show that kid the finest details of the game, it's career and it's cool stuff.
This was the first video I've seen from you and I gotta say, the amount of effort and creativity is off the charts! Great stuff man!
It's unfair to shift the blame for BeamNG's current reputation to content creators and YT Shorts guys who see it as a crashing game first and foremost. You have to remember that BeamNG got its popularity from being a crashing sim and it started development as one. The shift to all the other types of gameplay was fairly recent and a lot of people just didn't hear the news/still think that the "gamey" elements of the game are quite raw (which they are tbh). BeamNG is still in development, give it some time, let the gameplay elements develop further and get more deep and the game's reputation will change. Right now the game is still mostly about choosing the map, the car, setting up some obstacles and doing whatever you want, which doesn't let the game mechanics that are not just crashing shine.
Very well said.
Jaiden Williams has the perfect beamng content if I’m being honest, he has normal driving, but he makes the crashes funny (however his shorts do focus on his crashes)
Same thing with coolkidfrmbx
In all my 15 years of life, BeamNG Drive was the best car simulator I've ever played. I was the happiest person when I could finally play that, I had so much fun on it, racing, testing configurations, or just cruising around the maps. Unfortunately, my parents banned me from playing beamNG because "the game is aimless and all you do is crash the car, press a button and the car appears repaired, so you can crash it again." I didn't even try to argue, I already knew it was a lost battle. I miss that game and my Vivace.
Man ur parents defo are strange, they don’t even know the purpose
Dense ass parents
Huh?
ur parents are fucking weird
I really enjoy the balance that Failrace brings to the game. There is a crashing component, but it's an "Oh I screwed up." not a "Haha, fling me at a wall because funny haha.", and the racing is actual racing, just with cars that are sometimes a bit silly, or maybe a flood or something is causing people to drive at 10 10ths.
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Glad you enjoyed and thanks for joining! 🤍
The BeamNG developers are probably the greatest of all time. They've been consistently pushing out high quality updates for a decade and not a single bit of it gets put behind a paywall. Considering how far the game has come since it was first released, I wouldn't be surprised to see BeamNG becoming the de facto driving simulator in another 10 years. They don't seem to be slowing down
The one of the worst type of Beamng shorts (apart from the stupid health bar/chance of survival and other stupid challenges), are the ones that recreate IRL crashes just because want to do it, and put that stupid Kerosene music in the background, I just do not find those any interesting or fun.
TH-cam is littered with the health bar themed BeamNG shorts. I’m alright with the dashcam style videos and some of the creative cinematics people make such as stuff I’ve seen by ImpactPointProductions. But a lot of the quick-made stuff is climbing the ladder far too quickly. And there’s TONS of it :/
1:16 i dont think Neil’s is all about the crashing it’s more about the driving aswell. anyway, still a good vid talks. 👍
Comodo, Neil and OB are not even that bad, or really bad at all, they do stuff with lots of big people in the community, including Spencer Johnson
i think comodo's biggest problem is his inability to use the look back keyon the numpad
I think the issue is that they treat the game more like arcade, they play with controllers and only do things that have to do with destructive driving. Sure, Neil does reviews, but he mostly sees how fast the cars go, how well they crash, and how far they go of the Car Jump Arena
@@kj64gaming19 you seem to forget Neil has said pretty damn often that he is bad at driving and sim rigs are a pain in the ass to set up and get going when you do not have the space to keep it set up 24/7
@@_blood_moon_proto_1500 I have a basic Thrustmaster 248. It takes 30 seconds to set up. I don't expect him to set up a whole Sim rig. I just don't think there's much of an excuse to not have a simple wheel.
I dont think it really is a big deal, what we should worry about more is the shorts lmao
Beamng drive has been a crashing simulator since release, because no game is anywhere close to as realistic as beamng drive is when it comes to crashing simulations.
My mindset towards BeamNG is similar to Burnout. A game where you won’t get mad if you crash but it’s not your primary objective (unless you count the Crash junctions)
I agree BeamNG content on YT is over saturated with crash content, but I've got to give a shout-out to Patrick Zeugirdor's channel for creating elaborate and REALISTIC crash scenarios that aren't just stupid mindless destruction.
That's one of the reasons I love your channel so much.
The point is, beamng is an all vehicle simulation with realistic parts. You can do everything. Even break law of physics.
When a game exists that simulates car demolition physics better than any other game and has remained unchallenged for 10+ years, of course that's all it's gonna be known for. It's also partly the devs fault for marketing BeamNG drive as a tech demo. Seriously, who names their game, "Beam NG dot Drive." Sounds like a scam website.
It doesn’t help that any of the older audience that gets exposed to beamng thinks the driving sucks. Honestly. I think driving in other sims feels stiff and unnatural, whereas beamng actually feels like a car.
I share the same thought about force feedback. It’s gotten a whole lot better this last update as well :D Especially for Moza wheels.
If they did, add bodies, imagine how graphic BeamNG would be, and the age rating would have to go up
And that would be a very good thing!
Yes
Something like 8 or 9 years ago now I used to watch SpiersTheAmazing play BeamNG. They were just regular commentaries about random shit and while he would crash a lot in those videos, it wasn't just about the gameplay. He used to talk about so much random stuff in those videos, and looking back I miss that type of content. They were longer, not cut, and not fighting for your attention. I still remember specific parts of some of those old videos. Meanwhile I couldn't tell you what the last short I watched was about :(
I’ve met Comodo before xD, he’s a pretty chill dude
Camodo does actually make them about racing, he isn’t all about crashing but the crashing is one of the fun part of the races
I’m thinking more-so about having some realistic sim representation vids on the front page to attract a diverse crowd. There are a handful of creators posted numerous times with similar content. Sprinkling different play styles would be nice :)
3:10 was so funny. CAMODO GET OFF THE FRONT PAGE!!
A second later: Oh, he has 3 million subs sorry
The thumbnail: Cannon truck
Low volume and high quality videos? my favourite kind of channel, subbed
This video is fantastic hah.
damn.. Neil actually commented on this
lol
Thanks Neil :D
Why hello Neil
What you said in the video resonates with me because it's what I keep telling my community, that BeamNG isn't just for crashes! I was on the BeamNG forums in 2012, I've been playing since it released DAY ONE, it's quite a pride for me, I am now part of the Creator team and I've even had the chance to meet some of the team in real life! My journey with this game is crazy! Today, I make tutorials for the game, I explain the beauty and depth of this game, I create video concepts where we test the cars in different situation, sometimes crashes, but concepts of all kinds that highlight the game for what it is and not just for the crashes!
Got BeamNG for the crashes, stayed for the other half I didn't know about :D
I disagree with your motion about the "image problem" the game has. Sure, you can do some realistic racing in the game, and that's cool, you can play the game how you want. But it not going to "damage its image" if it never really had that to begin with. It's always going to be about crash physics first and Racing second because that's what it was marketed as. Hell, it's a successor to Rig of Rods, another physics-based crashing game. This is a just a strawman argument and a "old man yells at cloud" situation.
This is like trying to play Assetto Corsa and complaining about the crash physics in the game. The fact that "actual racing games" not having the best crash modules is that they put the racing first and the crashing second. (Also licensing issue, big name companies don't want to see their products destroyed all to hell).
We’re no longer talking about BeamNG’s earliest years. There’s clear developmental direction away from crashing which is why there’s an image problem at stake.
I think the analogy with AC would be closer to the game having decent crashing physics and people not knowing they exist.
'I will varnish all my furniture with my garage doors down' actually made laugh, ngl.
I didn’t think so many people would understand it 🤣
6:27 man.. i wish someone will make a gore mod for beamNG!
crazy, a driving game sold as a soft body physics simulator, who's own store page starts with a video involving a crash in 1 second, is associated with physical destruction
Associated is a light way to put it.
Also not understanding your argument in relation the topic.
5:56 you didnt use the right shade of blue for muye's car. Literally unwatchable.
I want BeamNG for everything it offers, the driving physics, racing, off-roading, crashing, everything. I just don't have a PC powerful enough...
Once you do it's 100% worth it imo. I had zero car for anything vehicle related before getting Beam :D
petiton to ban beamng shorts content from youtube?
🤚
Right here!
signed
100%
Screw the freedom to post content
Something I believe contributes to BeamNG's image as a crashing simulator is that while it does a wide variety of things well, the one thing it does better than anyone else *is* crashes.
100%. Diversity in interests while a key selling point sticks out to your average person.
One of my favorite beamng series is driven til destruction. Videos are slow and more calm but still feature some crashes in an obstacle course.
I really love FailRace's BeamNG videos. They showcase the ridiculous crashes in the context of fun races and survival competitions.
I was first introduced to BeamNG way back when Rigs of rods was the BeamNG, basically when BeamNG was announced. I couldn't play it even if I wanted to due to my system at the time wasn't capable of playing it (it was barely capable of playing Rigs of Rods).
Many people even in Rigs of rods was treating RoR as just a crash simulator, so the issue is a long one. I myself was using it for an off road game (hill climbing, rock crawling, mudding), racing game, BUT at least Rigs of Rods officially supported online multiplayer, unlike BeamNG which currently doesn't officially have an online multiplayer component (yes there is BeamMP but that is a mod, not official supported by BeamNG, or apart of BeamNG).
Basically using ROR for its originally intended purpose lol, offroad trucks and all. Still a pretty neat game to this day IMO, and technically still gets dev updates but obviously it's small and few and far between now.
FailRace treats it as a serious thing, with a few series' based around it which are quite good. I watched a little BeamNG content back in the early days and I'm so incredibly confused with what it has turned into.
I got beamng for crashing, ended up racing and building cars and rock crawling
BeamNG combined with Automation makes for such a uniquely brilliant experience, definitely the greatest animè crossover of all time
I have yet to try because it’ll be a major time killer XD
I think the biggest problem with BeamNG’s image is the fact that in a world of cutting utensils BeamNG is a Swiss Army knife and nobody’s bothering to sell a can opener, so when people look at it all they see is the thing that nothing else can do and completely skip everything else.
I was a kid when I found BeamNG in 2014, and I was really interested in the realistic way the cars moved and crashed. If TH-camrs want to show the game to kids, they don't need to be pumping up the contrast and making bad jokes, just show the game how it is
I remember watching youtubers playing BeamNG 5-10+ years ago - They were just playing normally, but BeamNG was a much worse rounded game back then so even then crashing was the main thing people flocked to.
This editing is phenomenal; it sets a high standard that new creators should aspire to, rather than producing low-quality shorts :D
It was a crashing simulator for me for a long time. when I got the game, the only map was the grid map with stuff to crash in to. But then I started to notice how fun it was trying not to crash, and at the same time it started to become more serious of a driving game.
And when I got a driving wheel, I really noticed how detailed all of the driving physics were. Now crashing is just a small part of the game, an entertaining thing that happens when I discover the limits of the vehicle I'm driving.
If you're looking for an immersive racing experience for BeamNG, I highly recommend an in-the-works mod called Project Academy. The devs are extremely connected with the community and they've got around 50 Automation cars that they've COMPLETELY reworked with new hand-crafted jbeams and their own tire model for a unique simcade driving experience. It's nothing like any other mod that's out right now.
The racing is perfect with Beam NGs own cars, especially if you tune it yourself. I dont know how it feels for keyboard and controller players tho, I always play with a wheel.
I found out about beamng on its early days from a Irish youtuber: Jacksepticeye. Then Camodo's perspective introduced me more about the physics simulation and it's community of Modders, Map makers, and Multiplayer
One of the internet issues where people VASTLY underestimate just how much power a large children base has.
Camodo and Nielogical have a lot of focus on crashing but their videos are usually races or challenges so it's a bit more in-depth than the TH-cam Shorts where they just crash.
i use it for offroad and drag racing, one of the only games that gets drag racing right, proper control of suspension, transmission, boost etc, only game ever that has real automatic transmission simulation with a functional torque converters etc
13.5k subs is a crime for this well made of content, keep it up man
I’ve been a fan of beamng crashing videos for 7 years and didn’t realize it wasn’t just a crashing sim until I actually bought the game and I started watching Muye’s videos.
I love FailRace for his BeamNG content and other videos, and while he tests the limits of the cars, he does it in a way where you might learn something about the cars, and with a course that's meant to challenge and break the cars over time.
Of course there's always going to be wrecked cars, but he at least makes it about the cars and less about the crashes.
My cousin actually got into this game when we were younger due to the crashing but it eventually evolved into a love for racing I actually found out how good of a driving sim this game could be through him playing
BeamNG doesn't have a image problem. It's just a fun mess around open sandbox game that's centered around cars with no purpose other than accurate simulation and realism which in return makes it very fun.
But many people don’t know it as so.
@@TalksWithNoise That's true and may be the majority. But many of those videos you've searched that came up display the game with more than just crashes. Neilogical especially fans of him will know this. WhyBeAre was also a popular BeamNG channel until he fell off before the shorts started exploding. TH-cam shorts in general are always going to be the most viewed. Unfortunately the type of content is lacking to appeal to a great majority of simple minded people.
TLDR BeamNG has a big community knowing what the game is about, along with a big community who don't. I'd say it does equal out a bit even if the shorts seem to be the most saturated content wise.
I've come to be surprised with how big Beam's community is. As for shorts, I believe that's unfortunately the direction TH-cam is going to continue leaning in to try and wash the competition.
@@TalksWithNoise Yeah it is indeed sad.. It's tainting BeamNG's name and simplifying it to something that it isn't. But at the same time it does bring exposure to people about it so it will only grow the community in the end. Shorts are just a necessary evil.
tbh, back in the days crashing was all there was that the game had to offer. So it grew out from that.
I tried 0.1 which was a whole talking point I cut from the video. But essentially found out devs showed hints of interest in making a driving sim. But they knew their targeted audience for the time being. An example being the Bolide release video where they announce they promise to deliver more crashing content which is pretty wholesome imo given the breakthroughs they were making.
I found BeamNG through the ‘carboys’ series from polygon’s youtube channel. Sure, it’s crashing, but it’s a fricking art form. They meet satan and god.
tbh i thought this was a fun crashing game, but I saw that I could do lots of stuff like driving normally, doing police chases, or just messing around with insane jato-equipped cars
cracking video man, love the idea of the vehicles as their own car-acters (ba dum tss)
thoughtful, funny, well edited and to the point. i hope you're having fun making the vids so that they keep coming!
to be fair, beamng was always marketed as a soft body physics sim first. i started playing around 10 years ago when i was a kid because of channels like insanegaz and whybeare showing off the physics. as i've grown up with the game and it's been updated, they've focused more on driving physics and realism with updates to the tyre physics and PBR materials but i'm not sure they've really changed their marketing to reflect that.
I was blown away with how good it felt to just drive in the game once i got my first wheel, and now crashing seems like a fun bonus rather than the main reason i play
I dont understand why people are getting angry about that people play the game differently
We just want to see a few reviews and sim-style players representing Beam on the front search page. So kind of the opposite.
nobody cares how you play the game, people just dont want beamng to be known as "the youtube shorts background slop crash ramp ai game vroom car"
What got me into this game was how it works with automation. I mainly play automation to build and design cars and as soon as I saw they were working with beamNG to allow you to actually drive the cars I got the game instantly. Before that I had only seen the crashing videos but after seeing how well the game drove (even with the terrible cars I made) I started to get into it more.
After watching this video, I have been recommended 2 crash themed Beam NG videos...talk about salt in the wound.
This is our way into the mainstream crashing algorithm.
I find cars racing around punishing environment and slowly falling apart and seeing how long you can survive most entertaing, Beam is really good for that.
Like how Failrace does the Driven to Destruction races
It's what BeamNG started as, a soft body physics game. The devs have done an amazing job turning it into a decent racing game
Those videos actually got me into beamng with the help of whybeare
I got beamNG yearsssss ago, because yeah I thought it was like a cool car physics simulator for crashing things...
But then I opened the game and promptly realized it was a hyper-detailed driving sim that just happened to use realistic physics
Good video these BeamNG „crash“ videos are just flooding the video feed when you search BeamNG
I hope someday BeamNG will be seen as more than an crash game. It’s sad because it has become a really good driving simulator also with the simulated damage of gearboxes, driveshafts, suspension, engine etc.
Half of what i do is just try to cause the most cinematic and satisfying crashing, and the other 50% is a mix of rally, reliability tests, seeing how far a car can make it with certain parts removed, and customization.
I subbed. I enjoy watching those videos where they simulate realistic car crashes just to see how it would play out and draw conclusions if it would also happen in real life like how it did in the game.
I am not a driving game player (I play Mario Kart and GTA and nothing else really) but when I upgraded my PC BeamNG was one of the first games I bought for the crashing physics.
I don't really see this as a "problem" as it really helps the game stick out. To me, most racing and driving games are interchangeable and I just don't really buy them, but that feature makes it stand out. I don't think it's as much "people overlook the other stuff it has to offer" and more "the larger majority of gamers don't really care about games that offer that stuff" and BeamNG has made a lot of sales to non-racing fans.
As soon as you said add bodies to the cars, my brain started screaming Flatout.
And, that's why I don't focus on crashing videos all of the time. My focus has always been on storytelling instead of crashing. Crashing is just a fun bonus in my videos. I'm here to make videos that have good car chases while telling some fanmade lore. And, I don't rely on AI-generated voices aside from talking vehicles that have AI components in them. So yeah, even I believe that BeamNG's crash content is oversaturated nowadays. It's amazing that my videos barely get as much views as the ones from BeamNG Shorts as I am not a fan of their content. But, content creators are still here to make money one way or another. Guys like BeamNG Boy and SourDisc are excellent channels that are underrated. So yeah, I know good BeamNG content whenever I see it.
what i believe what the best thing beamng drive is for, is endurance racing
as it turns out it is kind of hard to not damage your suspension when going at speeds exceeding 40mph