Rev to Vertex Touge Battle Simulator Preview Demo Available

Plutonization today released (a little earlier in the day than expected) the demo for their upcoming Rev to Vertex Touge Battle simulator on Steam. You can get to it by clicking ‘Download Demo’ over on the right on the Steam Store page.

The demo includes a “free practice” session using a very fast generic car with great power levels, stiff suspension and extremely responsive handling. I’m not sure if it is meant to be based on a real-life vehicle, but in my opinion it feels very nice! The track included is a part of Route Twisk, a sprawling tight and twisty two-lane highway in Hong Kong, specifically the Tsuen Wan Section so-named because it terminates in the Tsuen Wan bay.

The video below shows a full run of the route driven by one of the developers. Captured at 4K60, it shows both the in-cockpit and ‘TV’ views side-by-side:

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The gear/cog at the top left gives you access to settings within the software. You then use the options on the screen to navigate and change them.

Control settings

PlayStation controllers currently do not work, and you must unplug any game controller if you wish to use a wheel.

Choose your desired input device at the bottom of the screen, edit your settings then save the preset.

Graphics settings

You can select a graphics preset at the bottom of the screen again, but my 3090 was able to run everything maxed out. Though on first running I did have a couple of jitters, this did clear up after a few moments.

Preset names include: super low, low, medium, high, ultra, hyper, future. Hyper is set based on an RTX 3080, Future is set based on an RTX 3090.

Gameplay settings

You can adjust the FOV and a number of other things in here.

Sound

I could not find a way to turn off the music, so I edited the audio.settings file with notepad and changed the volume to 0. The file is in \Steam \steamapps \common \Rev to Vertex Demo \R2V_Demo_Oct2022 \R2V_Demo_Oct2022_Data \UserData.

Replays

Replays can be selected and played from the bottom of the screen on the main menu. A developer replay (used to make the video above) is included.

On-screen HUD Key Commands

Driving View: C
Reset Car: R
Remove HUD: 1
Traction Control: 2
Anti-lock Braking: 3
Auto/Manual Gears: 4

Note that these do change if you use a gamepad controller.

Known Issues:

If the game fails to start successfully, please make sure to install the latest “DirectX End-User Runtime”.

For direct drive steering wheels don’t set the FFB frequency higher than 125Hz.

Fanatec and Cammus drivers are causing some performance issues that will be fixed in future updates.