Project Motor Racing “not backing away from challenges”, fix roadmap incoming

When Project Motor Racing was released yesterday (25th November 2025), it was met with some severe criticism.

From the graphics, to the AI-controlled rival behaviour, and then the multiplayer proved to be unstable.

Within hours of its launch, the Straight4 Studios and GIANTS Software team behind the sim racing game issued a public acknowledgement of its rocky release.

“We’re not backing away from these challenges. We’re facing them head-on,” reads the post shared on the title’s website.

“This sim matters to us. And your experience matters to us.”

Signed ‘The PMR Team’ and entitled ‘a message to the community’, the update openly accepts several key issues, in particular, “inconsistent” performance on “lower-spec machines” and the AI’s single-player behaviour.

It notes that more significant changes, such as those not seen in the first post-release Version 1.5 update, “need to be done at engine-level, and this will take time.”

Ahead of any significant changes, the following three items have been outlined for more immediate changes:

• Peripheral issues on PS5
• Online server stability (remaining under maintenance at the time of publication)
• Some Xbox users unable to launch the software

“We’ve built this on a new generation of simulation technology, with AI on player-level physics, a deep handling model, and systems designed with longevity in mind,” states the PMR Team.

“We’re still shaping it, still refining it, and we’ll keep doing that with you.”

Roadmap expected soon

To provide insight on what to expect next, a “full roadmap showing where we’re headed with performance updates” is expected in the “coming days.”

Those on PC are missing native triple screen support – at some preview events, the game was seen running across a trio of displays – and virtual reality. The latter was flagged pre-release as something that ‘could’ slip off the launch-day features. PS VR2 support, meanwhile, is all but cancelled.

Group 5 DLC and GTE Decade Pack (pre-order) were activated yesterday, 25th, too, with the next DLC pack (Japanese GT500) slated for ‘Q1 2026’.

In our review, we said:

“Emphatically, PMR isn’t a complete package.

“Once time and several updates have passed, we’ll happily revisit Project Motor Racing. But at launch, we can only give it a lowly score.”