Assetto Corsa

Borsch · 5 Mar 2015 at 15:36

Yeah, my bad, I did mean the 235i, just had a brain fart

Didn't realise it was a race version though, doesn't qualify as a street car then. Still, I'm not complaining

andythelandy · 5 Mar 2015 at 19:09

It needs to be a race version really or it'd just be too similar to the M1.

weeble · 5 Mar 2015 at 23:59

andythelandy said:
The first dlc was free technically as it was Spa and the Merv SLS. What confused me is they said the dreampack would be 50% off but it seems that it was only for people that bought it the month after V1.0 was released if the link above is anything to go by.

Think that was a steam booboo for affecting Europe I believe. Eitherway they are a small team within a race track and I imagine marketing is not their strong point, and got muddled with steam small print.

For less than a packet of smokes, you get the DLC. I succumbed to show my support and to grab that Sauber. Hopefully it'll go well against the 787b I also like.

Kulealshi · 6 Mar 2015 at 01:00

Looking forward to the official Nordschleife after installing the mod version of it, especially the 24 Hour race version of the track!

Bucko89 · 6 Mar 2015 at 07:37

Just pre ordered cannot wait to drive the P1/F1.

PinkFloyd · 6 Mar 2015 at 07:46

I just hope they add the F1 Road car at some point

MadMouse101 · 6 Mar 2015 at 18:18

Just bought this too, Looking for to it.

flinco · 6 Mar 2015 at 21:08

Me as well. Look forward to desperately hanging on around the fast Nordschleife corners!

phatboy · 6 Mar 2015 at 21:13

Had quick go with pad last night but really need to set up wheel properly as its SO much better

Forgot how great the gt3 Ferrari sounds at full chat

McGraw · 7 Mar 2015 at 10:50

Just had a go on the BMW GT2 on Spa.

It seems a heck of a lot easier to control than the forza 4 one.

Roll on Wednesday.

Goody_GTI · 7 Mar 2015 at 16:20

Looking forward to the dreampack!

Borsch · 8 Mar 2015 at 15:49

McGraw said:
Just had a go on the BMW GT2 on Spa.

It seems a heck of a lot easier to control than the forza 4 one.

Roll on Wednesday.

Just goes to show that more realistic doesn't necessarily mean harder. I personally struggle with arcade racers as their physics are arbitrary and strange. Here all the braking and cornering techniques just make sense intuitively.

Borsch · 8 Mar 2015 at 16:03

McLaren f1, there is speculation that we will get both the road and the race versions,
as unlike previous screens hots, this teaser shows no roll cage

McGraw · 8 Mar 2015 at 18:17

GTR looking awesome.

Goates · 9 Mar 2015 at 20:37

Really looking forward to this. Bought a new set of CSR: Elite pedals after my last set broke a few months ago.

Been trying a few mods and there are some fairly decent ones, especially cars out there. The NSX has to be my personal favourite (i know it is from rfactor orginally). That around a fully scanned nurburgring should be epic

Borsch · 10 Mar 2015 at 11:54

Nurb Nordschleife tomorrow

teh_captain · 10 Mar 2015 at 12:08

Seriously cannot wait for this, all these new pictures and videos are making me go funny in the trouser area

McGraw · 10 Mar 2015 at 13:55

I'm going to be very, very sad and drive slowly round whilst watching that instructor video pointing out all the beginner turn in points and lines.

I've driven the Forza ring loads but I know it's not great.

Will probably do the tourist fart thing as well (due to overexcitement).

Borsch · 10 Mar 2015 at 14:08

McGraw said:
Will probably do the tourist fart thing as well (due to overexcitement).

I've only driven Gran Tourismo version for a little while, so I kinda learnt the first half of the track, but all the later corners had me in permanent surprise mode

Lots of very fast corners on it, that I do remember.

this_is_gav · 10 Mar 2015 at 14:23

The good thing about the Ring is that it's split into very distinct sections, so for such a long, busy track it's very easy to learn. You've got to break it down into individual tracks, concentrating on them one-by-one.

There's an abridged version of the Isle of Man Mountain course on Grand Prix Legends, and a tool for it which allows you to start at different points, so I started before the final sector and when driving I'd keep edging into the first sector of the next lap, learning it bit by bit too. Then I'd move back a sector and do that a few times, carrying on into the final sector, then again the start of the next lap.

This was for a league race and I started months in advance, spending about 30 minutes a week learning it sector by sector. I didn't do a complete lap until the day before the race.

I uploaded a video last year, as it's certainly one of the best laps I've done in GPL. You can see how well I knew the track and that was only spending a total of about 2 hours split over several weeks. I knew it intimately, which kerbs I could ride and so on.

It's easier to learn the Ring due to the way it's set out and the flow from one bit to the next. It's much harder to just turn up and blap around lap after lap - instead try to break it down in your head.