Rev to Vertex: Hong Kong Driving Sim Looks For New Track Feedback

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The mountain-pass driving simulator, currently within Steam Early Access, will be adding Bride’s Pool Road soon.

Images: Plutonization

The touge-like driving title Rev to Vertex will soon be adding a new venue, and it’s looking for community feedback before its release.

Entitled ‘Bride’s Pool Road’, it marks the third track available within the nascent driving simulator, which is created by Hong Kong developers Plutonization.

Rev to Vertex New Track
Rev to Vertex. Image: Plutonization

Set to sit alongside the Taimosan” and Tolo Highway locations, Bride’s Pool Road (or Xinniangtan Road) will be available in an early preview version initially to gather feedback. Via an ‘advanced trial version’, any bugs and glitches will be reported back to the outfit for further refinement.

Those interested in testing out the upcoming route can sign up via a Google Form.

Rev to Vertex has had somewhat of a tricky development process to date, launching a free demo on PC (which is still available) early last year that was beset with technical mishaps. This was followed by an improved, but still erroneous, ‘prologue’ in April 2023 and an Early Access release in August.


It sees you racing along laser-scanned real-world Hong Kong roads using (so far) unlicenced vehicles.

Currently priced at £18.80/$23.80, it faces an uphill battle (wahey) against the likes of some Assetto Corsa mods, although the diminutive team is seemingly committed to creating its spin on the genre.

It is set to feature some form of ‘battle system’ alongside an RPG-like story mode, and late last year held an online multiplayer alpha test. We’ll be keeping a close eye on its progress throughout 2024.

Have you tried Rev to Vertex and will you be signing up for future test sessions? Let us know in the comments below.
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I'm from Hong Kong, though the tracks are highly detailed, I wouldn't pay £18.80 for
a game that has much inferior physics and vehicle selection to some of the major sims in the market - such as Assetto Corsa (which cost way way less !) & Automobolista.

I would suggest y'all to stick to Assetto Corsa and any other major sim unless this game has shown marked improvement in the future :).
 
I just wanted to point out a small mix-up regarding "Bride’s Pool Road", mentioned as "Xinniangtan Road". In Hong Kong, it's officially "Bride’s Pool Road" in English and 新娘潭路 in Traditional Chinese. I said "officially" because English IS the other official language in Hong Kong beside Chinese.

While I appreciate your thoughtfulness to provide additional information to readers, I wanted to clarify that in Hong Kong, the naming conventions is that Cantonese pronunciations are used for phonetic translations, not the Mandarin-based Pinyin like "Xinniangtan". Most English names are direct transliterations from Cantonese, some translations by meaning like in the case of "Bride’s Pool" (新娘=Bride, 潭=Pool).

In few names that are of Mandarin origin, the Wade–Giles system is used. These names are dated before invention of Pinyin and are often referred to people or locations from Mainland China where Mandarin is predominately spoken. Additionally, some locations, mainly in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, have Chinese names that are transliterations of their English counterparts, like 詩歌舞街 for Sycamore Street and 奶路臣街 for Nelson Street.

Thanks for your article, and I hope this note helps in giving some contexts behind the naming.

TL;DR
The official name of Bride’s Pool Road is Bride’s Pool Road. Hong Kong is a multilingual city by law, so places have both officially a Chinese name and an English name. Depends on situation, names are translation by meaning or by their Cantonese pronunciations from the original Chinese name. While sometime the original names are English and get translated to Chinese. Mandarin-based spelling like "Xinniangtan" is never used.

P.S. Also, it should be "Tai Mo Shan" instead of "Taimosan".
 
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I just wanted to point out a small mix-up regarding "Bride’s Pool Road", mentioned as "Xinniangtan Road". In Hong Kong, it's officially "Bride’s Pool Road" in English and 新娘潭路 in Traditional Chinese. English is one of the official languages in Hong Kong.

While I appreciate your thoughtfulness to provide additional information to readers, I wanted to clarify that in Hong Kong, the naming conventions is that Cantonese pronunciations are used for phonetic translations, not the Mandarin-based Pinyin like "Xinniangtan". Most English names are direct transliterations from Cantonese, some translations by meaning like in the case of "Bride’s Pool" (新娘=Bride, 潭=Pool).

In few names that are of Mandarin origin, the Wade–Giles system is used. These names are dated before invention of Pinyin and are often referred to people or locations from Mainland China where Mandarin is predominately spoken. Additionally, some locations, mainly in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, have Chinese names that are transliterations of their English counterparts, like 詩歌舞街 for Sycamore Street and 奶路臣街 for Nelson Street.

Thanks for your article, and I hope this note helps in giving some contexts behind the naming.

P.S. Also, it should be "Tai Mo Shan" instead of "Taimosan".
This comment is far more interesting than the game and the article about the game.
 
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I'm from Hong Kong, though the tracks are highly detailed, I wouldn't pay £18.80 for
a game that has much inferior physics and vehicle selection to some of the major sims in the market - such as Assetto Corsa (which cost way way less !) & Automobolista.

I would suggest y'all to stick to Assetto Corsa and any other major sim unless this game has shown marked improvement in the future :).
The thing here is... if nobody buys it then there won't be the finances to drive it to a better standard.
While I appreciate that it might need more work and AC is likely better and perhaps more 'content' complete I don't believe we should just dismiss it too soon.
That being said, it's not on my list of likely purchases but I wouldn't want to deter anyone from firing their money that way.
 
The thing here is... if nobody buys it then there won't be the finances to drive it to a better standard.
While I appreciate that it might need more work and AC is likely better and perhaps more 'content' complete I don't believe we should just dismiss it too soon.
That being said, it's not on my list of likely purchases but I wouldn't want to deter anyone from firing their money that way.
I agree we shouldn't dismiss this game too soon, perhaps they'll improve it to the point where it deserves the current price tag. But for now, I would rather put my money on current and future Sim racing titles that deserves our attentions and hard-earn money :p, looking forward to the release of GTR3 by SimBin !
 
Played the demo a long while ago and it looked and felt really good !
Steam forums are not so happy with the demo, it seems the demo lacks updates... what seems to be a common practice in sim racing. :D
I will give it a try later... ;)
 
The demo unfortunately ran pretty badly on my system, and also has the modern syndrome of looking terrible at 1080p at the same time, so unless proven otherwise, I will not be picking it up.
 
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The demo unfortunately ran pretty badly on my system, and also has the modern syndrome of looking terrible at 1080p at the same time, so unless proven otherwise, I will not be picking it up.
time to update your pc. i upgraded my video card 3 years ago first time in 8 years, it made a huge difference, and this week updated my monitor for quite cheap to 1440p/165hz, now i never want to play 1080p again! you are missing out on great modern gaming.
 
time to update your pc. i upgraded my video card 3 years ago first time in 8 years, it made a huge difference, and this week updated my monitor for quite cheap to 1440p/165hz, now i never want to play 1080p again! you are missing out on great modern gaming.
My GPU is 4.5 years old (5700 XT), running ACC, AMS2 without any issues at high frame rates. However many games nowadays come out looking AND running worse. Sure I plan to upgrade but it's not so important right now to spend so much money so I can play games where developers forgot how to optimize (not thinking specifically about this game but the gaming industry in general). GT7 on the "weak" PS5 graphically wipes the floor with every sim, which perfectly shows how it's about dev effort not just hardware.
 
Wasn't this game initially going to be an AC mod? Perhaps it may have been better to distribute that as a payware mod and create a community around that.
I do applaud the devs effort to make something representative of Hong Kong which has a lot of great driving roads.
 
Wasn't this game initially going to be an AC mod? Perhaps it may have been better to distribute that as a payware mod and create a community around that.
I do applaud the devs effort to make something representative of Hong Kong which has a lot of great driving roads.
No, it is an entirely new project from scratch.
 

I am not sure if anyone is interested in checking the development progress of the game..............here is a quick onboard capture which shows the wip track and some primitive AIs. The game is still in a very early stage, so a lot of things and issues will be updated and fixed in the future.
 

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