rFactor Or Live For Speed? Questions,

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Am going to purchase one of them, although not sure which as I have a few questions.

Which one has the better community support in terms of mods, cars, drivers, track updates etc.

Is it possible in either to play through a season/championship online with a friend?

Am mostly interested in F1 racing.
 
rFactor

Dont think you can play a champ online with a friend, well you could but you would need to manually do the standings.
 
rFactor imo.


Real tracks, real cars and proper championships etc.

I`d recommend the F1 1979 mod using historic settings, great fun :-)

Theres also the F1 2005 mod which is insanely fast and much too scary for my old reaction times :p
 
banja said:
RFactor will suit your needs more. Although I believe LFS takes the win for physics.
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From what is in the original post this is true.
At the moment, there are no community tracks/cars for LFS, all updates are from the Dev team.

I would certainly give the LFS demo a whirl though, you might like it :)
 
It sounds like rF is more suited to your needs but I would absolutely give LFS a go as well. The LFS community is rock solid. No matter what time of day I go online I get a good race. The car handling and physics etc.. are superb, especially if you have a good FF wheel.

The rF community on the other hand can be quite fragmented due to the sheer number of mods, tracks and cars that people can be using at any one time so you really need to join a racing league or team if you want to get the most out of rF as a multiplayer experience.
 
Ive heard LFS is very good, although im after an Arcade/Sim game, not just a Sim which I believe LFS is.

Also, I only have a Gamepad and ive read on numerous forums that people say dont even try LFS unless you have wheels/pedals.

Is it playable with a gamepad and can it be made into more of an Arcade-Sim with the correct settings?
 
Gimpymoo said:
Am going to purchase one of them, although not sure which as I have a few questions.

Which one has the better community support in terms of mods, cars, drivers, track updates etc.

Is it possible in either to play through a season/championship online with a friend?

Am mostly interested in F1 racing.
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Answering your O.P RFactor is the only one of the two which has mods. You can alter the champs as you wish and set up whatever you want, although the Ai does need training on new tracks.

Having said that i own both LFS & RF & what bramski says is perfectly true. RF community is a mish mash of mods and different tracks and you really have to keep up to date with releases to stay in touch with the online community. LFS is much more a download pick up & play kind of game.
I would try both as choosing betwen the two is a personal thing.
Get a wheel aswell as it adds so much to driving games, struggling with a pad is not the way forward.
Also look out for Richard Burns rally as it is dirt cheap and the best driving game ever released on the PC. No online play but doing stages with a mate is a blast and very technical with any mistakes met with hideous but hilarious results.
 
Gimpymoo said:
Ive heard LFS is very good, although im after an Arcade/Sim game, not just a Sim which I believe LFS is.

Also, I only have a Gamepad and ive read on numerous forums that people say dont even try LFS unless you have wheels/pedals.

Is it playable with a gamepad and can it be made into more of an Arcade-Sim with the correct settings?
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aslong as the game pad has analogue steering and accel/brake then its fine..i play lfs with a x360 pad and whilst im by no means the fastest i am fairly competitive, though i will be moving to a wheel soon which means ill be crap until im used to it hehe
 
LFS also has the finest keyboard control for any sim. Including a nifty 'hold both steering keys at once to keep the steering fixed' feature. I know, because this was my idea and Scawen implemented it :)
 
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