In this session Eon tests cars on a highway and tries some drag racing — all while loading up new mods.
What drag racing tests
A drag race is a flat-out sprint in a straight line. It's really a test of acceleration — how quickly a car can go from stopped to fast. Eon notices the graphics and driving feel really good, because the physics underneath are doing serious work.
Why the loading is slow
Eon keeps running into slow loading screens — and there's a real reason:
A detailed world with realistic soft-body physics asks a lot of the computer. The more detail and mods you load, the more the machine has to calculate — so it takes longer to get ready.
That slow loading is the computer doing the hard work of a realistic simulation.
Testing, the right way
Eon's whole session is a loop of load → try → watch → adjust. A mod doesn't behave as expected? Reset, tweak, try again. That patient cycle — test, observe, change one thing — is exactly how engineers tune real cars and how programmers fix real software.
Try it
Pick two cars in any racing game and drag race them in a straight line. Which accelerates faster off the line? You just ran a real performance test.