Overhauled the big wiki page on wikipedia

Check it out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeamNG.drive

I added several citations and lots of other info

 

Not a single mention of nodes or beams

 

Will add that immediately

 

There are citations on there that are from the press as well as from some from the blog posts...I hope that's ok.

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Added a "disclaimer"

 

was about to add the box art from the "Download" page, but Wikipedia wants my acc to be confirmed first, and to wait 4 days, so, someone else will have to

 

We can't add photos to the page w/o any of the developers' written consent (what wikimedia says)

That box art is eww...

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I'd like to add this to the page as the "Game Logo"

@tdev @gabester ...

 

Thanks!

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Picture is added and some much needed info put in...check it out now!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeamNG.drive

 

I think you should be more precise with the CPUs.

The problem is that a core 2 duo is weaker than a Phenom II X4, in most games they used to say that core 2 duo or Athlon/Phenom II X3

In the moderate level you should write: Core 2 Quad or Phenom II X4 (and maybe Athlon II X4, for example a Phenom II X4 955 can run one car with decent FPS) and than you could use the Core 2 Duo, and Phenom/Athlon X2 for the base level, but I hardly doubt that you'll get decent FPS with 2 core CPUs...

And for the GPU... I don't think that you'll have more fps with an amd HD7950 than a HD7790... I use an AMD HD6850, and the game runs just fine, actually my CPU is runing on 100%... this game is just not GPU hungry

 

Good tips. I'll include the processors.

Really I copied what was on our wiki here and put it on there to make it as official as I could..

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I think an Intel Core I3 processor would be could for a medium spec.

 

You got the number of members wrong though. It's 122k posts, 57k members, and 9k active members.

 

Thank you!

 

I'm able to edit Wikipedia. If anyone need edits done I'll do them I'm not great at doing them by myself.

 

By myself I think I do okay (this was my first full "project" that I've assigned myself.) There's probably half a page of changelogs that has me saying "spelling error" or "grammar error"...stupid crap like that which makes a person into a perfectionist (I guess lol).

 

Don't worry, I'm a perfectionist as well.

 

Yup, just found some more grammar errors in there..*twitches a bit*

 

i3 itself tells you nothing about the spec. i3 is still a large model family on its own.

Personally I think the specs should be left out from the wiki page. Look at the other games pages on wikipedia, none of them list a hardware spec list, its pretty much irrelevant to a wikipedia article.

The other thing I've noticed is that wikipedia is bitching about the citations all coming from the same source. If anyone can find some external blogs with this info, might be worth reciting it.

 

Okay. Took out example processors. Also found where some of the info could be held elsewhere...added those citations.

 

I dunno, dude, it still reads a bit like a sales pitch. There were a few examples throughout, but the red flag was the system requirements. Neither the Wiki page for Crysis (a game known for being hard on then-current gen computers), nor KSP (a game famous for being near the pinnacle of indie development), list the system requirements of their respective games. I'd personally advise dropping it.

Even if the Wiki mods are fine with it, anyone trying to use their favorite unbiased internet encyclopedia to look into this "Beam thing" may become suspicious that the article is not as objective as perhaps they may wish. And that may turn them off from the game.