This week's new Cloud Monday video is part 1 of playing Hotshot Racing on PS4 via the PlayStation Plus Cloud Streaming Service to my Japanese launch model PlayStation 4.
In Part 2, my goal was to try out the online features and see if there would be any lag or any issues playing it via the Cloud. i wasn't expecting there to be issues as i've played online modes before in this series. unfortunately, there wasn't anyone else playing online. Initially tho i didn't think this was going to be an issue as it populated the race screen with Ai racers. but under that screen in small text it actually said we would need either 2 or 4 human players to start a race. seeing those Ai racers did get my hopes up. There was another section of the online that had labeled a section Servers. but as it wasn't populating i didn't know if this meant this section was going to show available races to join, available servers to join (as in a named server,) or available servers (as in regional servers.)
With nothing happening online i went back to Grand Prix and even tho the "enemy" tried their best to take me out i did manage to get gold. i only ever played on Normal difficulty level and i found the Ai of the computer racers to be really tough, in terms of their racing ability and their attempts at taking me out. i mentioned in the video that if often felt like i did bad because of them rather than because of my own skill. a comparison i tried to highlight was when they hit me and i would loose control and end up pointing in the wrong direction but when i hit them they had a moment of instability before straightening up like nothing ever happened. simply put, the Ai in Hotshot Racing didn't feel fair.
With their being no saves between races in Grand Prix and no online modes to speak of, the only thing worth doing in Hotshot Racing via the cloud would be either time trial or single races. because of this i can say it's only FINE at best when it comes to it's performance being streamed from the cloud. a game this small is better off being installed locally.
