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Spent a good couple of hours racing the Porka's yesterday. They are great and make for good close racing. 10 lappers wear you out a bit as you really have to drive the car for every second. Lots of scarey moments are had and plenty of people are on the servers.
This is what i love aboout Rfactor. Out in the Porka's for some hairy drifting and close racing, then jump into the F1's for some frantic action then out of them and into the Meganes, once done you can try the 1979 F1's.
Bare in mind that all four mentioned are mods and a free addition to the game. On top of all that they have all been released in the last week or so for Nowt.

How cool is that.
 
What are steering wheels like these days?
The last one i had was the Madcatz Dual shock or what ever it was called for the Playstation 1 and that felt too loose and nothing like driving a car, it was just very touchy.
Are newones tighter and more life like?
 
Having had this game for about a week with only my trusty 360 pad i`ve now ordered Logitech DFP and cant wait for it to arrive now. It has some very favourable reviews across the net so seems like an ideal candidate for me. As fun as the pad was, you cant really race properly without the FFB you get from a decent wheel.
 
malc30 said:
Brilliant news.
The V2 of the McLaren mod is out. Download and screenys here http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=McLaren F1 Challenge

V1 was superb and felt gorgeous, V2 is graded a 5 star mod :cool:

I will post back after i have played it.
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Oooh good news. Downloaded this when you posted the news. Haven't played it yet. I tried the v1 a while ago and quite liked it. Downloaded quite a few tracks off rFactorCentral yesterday so I have lots of tracks to try the CTDP F1 2005, Zondas, Meganes, Porsches, McLarens and other cars on. :D
 
Got the demo, but haven't given it a proper spin yet. I've never really got on with the ISI based physics engine, something always feels a bit fake to me.
 
From what I've read, the community is a bit of a mess. Lots of decent mods and talented folk involved, but the amount of different mods and tracks varying of quality has made the whole situation a bit fragmented.

Hopefully the whole thing can become more centralised.
 
NutritioN said:
:( Real shame I don't get on with the game engine. I want to like this too much.
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Hmm how do you not get on with it? Does it not run well on your PC or do you not like the physics or something? Do you prefer LFS or something else to rFactor then?

I like both rFactor and LFS. They both have plus points as well as minus points. I started out with rFactor and loved the moddability behind it. This is one of the minus points I have regarding LFS in its current incarnation.

However there are things I like about LFS. Mainly it took off in my appreciation when it released the BF1. That was cracking news for an F1 nut like me. However now rFactor also has this, as well as loads of tracks. For instance I doubt that LFS will ever let me drive the BF1 around say Laguna Seca or Le Mans 24 hours. rFactor will/does and I can't wait.
 
MarcLister said:
For instance I doubt that LFS will ever let me drive the BF1 around say Laguna Seca or Le Mans 24 hours. rFactor will/does and I can't wait.
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It has been hinted at that once LFS S3 is released (probably several years away) there will be the ability for the community to build tracks.
 
banja said:
From what I've read, the community is a bit of a mess. Lots of decent mods and talented folk involved, but the amount of different mods and tracks varying of quality has made the whole situation a bit fragmented.

Hopefully the whole thing can become more centralised.
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The rFactor community is that? Where did you read that? I'm not aware of that. I am aware having trawled rFactorCentral for tracks that there are some excellent tracks being made that score 4* plus and then there are some that struggle even to get 3*. As long as we download and use the high quality mods and tracks then hopefully the situation will improve. I doubt the crap modders would bother if no-one downloaded their stuff.

I hang around a GP4 forum and the moment someone proves that someone else has leeched their work the link to the file disappears, the leecher is told to vanish and isn't ever welcome again.
 
banja said:
It has been hinted at that once LFS S3 is released (probably several years away) there will be the ability for the community to build tracks.
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Yeah I've heard that too. However that will be years away, rFactor does this now. People like one or the other for graphics, physics whatever but I only just prefer rFactor in that it lets me download tracks that I will never see an F1 car on in real life and burn rubber. So until LFS lets the community do that LFS won't be my favourite.
 
NightSt@lk3r said:
personaly i wouldnt touch there sims with a barge pole for fear of being sued by them for misuse of something stupid like that
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Funny you should say that. I was thinking exactly that. I've never used their software before but the GP4 forum I mentioned before? Well turns out most of the people there hate iRacing with a passion and won't even buy the game because of the ludicrous and scandalous behaviour exhibited by iRacing in the past.
 
I don't know too much about the reasons behind all the trouble with iRacing, and I don't really care either. In fact, I imagine most people don't understand exactly what was going on.

It does seem to be a common thing to **** them off, but if their service turns out to be the best sim product ever, and judging by their past software I think it could be, I think simmers will join up.
 
banja said:
I don't know too much about the reasons behind all the trouble with iRacing, and I don't really care either. In fact, I imagine most people don't understand exactly what was going on.

It does seem to be a common thing to **** them off, but if their service turns out to be the best sim product ever, and judging by their past software I think it could be, I think simmers will join up.
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once they got there hands on the rights to NASCAR Racing 3 they started suing all the moders that had kept the game alive and selling all these years, and as a modder myself i dont take to kindly to that kind of thing
 
Oh well in that case, I'm going to deny myself the displeasure of using what will obviously be a brilliant sim.

If you took that attitude towards all areas of life, you'd be living in a mud hut, wearing leaves and eating berries picked from a tree. A little less naivity towards business might help.

Again, I'm sure there's more to the situation than simply suing 'all the modders', which isn't correct anyway because the GTP mod folk were allowed to release their mod - I have it on my harddrive.

And wasn't the rights they bought for NR2003?
 
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