za dualshockers:
Producer Kazunori Yamauchi mentioned in an interview on Game Watch that the game has a damage system that already works internally, but it simply wasn’t activated in the build shown in London (which isn’t too surprising, because if it was, very few would have gotten to the finish line on the Nürburgring Nordschleife).
We also learn that the inclusion of weather is planned, but this time around Polyphony Digital isn’t going to implement dynamic weather, and we’ll be able to select it at the start of the race. This decision was taken because dynamic weather involves a trade off in terms of quality, and the development team decided to prioritize quality this time around.
We also learn that the team is still targeting the 1080p and 60 frames per second combination. Yet, since currently there are areas in which frame rate drops, the objective for future development is to optimize the game in order to have a stable frame rate at 60 FPS.