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Considering buying this. I'm really looking at getting into a decent online racing game and this one keeps popping up.

How easy/hard is it to get into the already established community and does it look like it will stay strong for a while longer?

How easy/hard is the game itself? Can i play it with a xbox360 controller (not too keen in getting a wheel, wouldn't have anywhere to put it)

How is it on the tuning/customization side? I'm not too much of a petrol head, so a need for loads of time spent tuning the engine isn't a desirable feature.

If there are any other ones out there worthy of mention, feel free.
 
I was in the same position as well and i thought £24 was a lot to pay but it turned out that it worths every penny. You get a lot of cars and about 7 or 8 tracks plus custom ones available.

It is very easy to get into and all cars are pre-tuned and most have presets like Race / Rallycross. So you can play it without having to adjust anything. But should you want to there are lots of settings available.

And yes the x360 controller works perfectly although you don't get rumble support with the official driver. There are however custom driver out there that enables it in racing games but that only works in XP AFAIK. The only pain in the neck bit is to set up the buttons for the controller but after that it's all very easy.

The online multiplayer is very competitive though doesn't matter how fast I am I'm always about 4/5 seconds behind the fastest lap time..
 
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this game is brilliant, the demo doesn't do it justice at all, XRT is a rubbish car. Buy it and you won't look back. Stick to redline racing servers online, good people on there and there is zero tolerance for crashers. As for tuning/customisation, the cars are all identical, no upgraded parts or anything like that available, but there is a massive array of changes you can make to the setup of the cars, all of which are made to be as realistic as possible. A good setup will put you ahead no doubt about it, but friendly people online are usually willing to share setups. For customisation, you can design your own car livery and helmet if you so choose.

In fact, this game is fantastic, i'll see if I can get it to run on this old crappy PC I have now!
 
steve258 said:
And yes the x360 controller works perfectly although you don't get rumble support with the official driver. There are however custom driver out there that enables it in racing games but that only works in XP AFAIK. The only pain in the neck bit is to set up the buttons for the controller but after that it's all very easy.
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XBCD drivers work under vista 32 atleast, not sure about 64,
 
The demo is exactly the same as the full version which you can download from live for speed website. You just need to buy S1 or S2 license to get the additional contents in the game.
 
Streeteh said:
Considering buying this. I'm really looking at getting into a decent online racing game and this one keeps popping up.

How easy/hard is it to get into the already established community and does it look like it will stay strong for a while longer?

How easy/hard is the game itself? Can i play it with a xbox360 controller (not too keen in getting a wheel, wouldn't have anywhere to put it)

How is it on the tuning/customization side? I'm not too much of a petrol head, so a need for loads of time spent tuning the engine isn't a desirable feature.

If there are any other ones out there worthy of mention, feel free.
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The community is really good, and will give you all the help you require as long as you don't behave like a muppet. You get some leagues that are pretty much exclusive to established teams, but these tend to be endurance length races from 4 to 24 hours. There are plenty of other leagues to enter, I think a 'Newbies Cup' is being organised at the moment.

The game is pretty hard, it is a sim after all. You will soon get used to it though, speed comes with practice. As has been said, you don't tune the cars with aftermarket parts, but there are a load of setup options available.

There's a couple of places online where 'fast' setups are uploaded to, and most of the quick guys will send you their setups ingame, but try not to ask when they're actually racing.

We're currently at the alpha stage of 'S2', it's not quite feature complete so has the alpha tag. When S2 goes final, there will still be patch updates with improvements here and there, then all the speculation will be about when the first S3 alpha will be out. S3 will cost another £12, so £36 in total.

The XRT was replaced in the demo by the Formula BMW just before xmas (the demo drifting community was not amused). Part of the reason for this was that the FBM had to be freely available, as it is being used as part of some sort of 'find a racedriver' program that look like it will be on SkySports some time this year.
 
Bean0 said:
The XRT was replaced in the demo by the Formula BMW just before xmas (the demo drifting community was not amused). Part of the reason for this was that the FBM had to be freely available, as it is being used as part of some sort of 'find a racedriver' program that look like it will be on SkySports some time this year.
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Didn't know that, even so the demo will still be crap, the F1 car is outrageously fast and pretty damn hard to drive. I only ever used to drive the FOX, fast as hell yet easy to drive with keyboard throttle and brake. Used to love it when i set blisteringly fast lap times then get asked if it was a G25 wheel i was using :p
 
Depends what you want out of it. I certainly wouldn't say the demo is crap. I've had the full game for years and still love the basic cars. Also, the formula BMW mentioned by Bean0 is not the F1. It's a tad slower than the FOX you mentioned and a slightly different drive. Getting demoers to drive a single seater before being let loose on the full servers can only be a good thing :)

Hope you enjoy the demo, it really is great with a FFB wheel though.
 
Streeteh said:
Can i play it with a xbox360 controller (not too keen in getting a wheel, wouldn't have anywhere to put it)
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You can play it with a pad but I wouldnt recommend it. I tried it with my 360 pad. Accel/braking with the analogue shoulder buttons wasnt too bad, but steering just seemed far too twitchy for my liking - you just dont have the control like you do with a wheel.
 
Clarkey said:
Didn't know that, even so the demo will still be crap, the F1 car is outrageously fast and pretty damn hard to drive. I only ever used to drive the FOX, fast as hell yet easy to drive with keyboard throttle and brake. Used to love it when i set blisteringly fast lap times then get asked if it was a G25 wheel i was using :p
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It isn't the F1 car, it's the Formula BMW, much slower and easier to handle. ;)
 
skullman said:
You can play it with a pad but I wouldnt recommend it. I tried it with my 360 pad. Accel/braking with the analogue shoulder buttons wasnt too bad, but steering just seemed far too twitchy for my liking - you just dont have the control like you do with a wheel.
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Still it's surely better than keyboard where you can't even control the level of throttle/brake and steering. I play with 360 pad and I think it's the best controller to play LFS without a wheel.
 
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