Sorry to bump an older thread but I have just played the demo and it's quite fun Besides the obviously expected off-road fun, you get to purchase some upgrades for the vehicle (performance and visual). Driving on the rocks is really fun. I'd say realistic but I have no first-hand experience with this kind of driving so don't take me literally on that one. But I can say with certainty that on-road driving especially in high speeds is rubbish and surprising at least (takes some time to get used to). Anyway, it's fun to watch the car interact with the surface, especially rocks and bumps.

The are some driver aids, that can be turned off (anti-roll-over thing for example) and there are some gadgets to help you through the rough terrain (ESP, anti slip etc.). Fuel gets low pretty fast so keep your eye on the gauge.

Concerning the realism factor, it still isn't LFS, but I don't know a more realistic off-road game. The demo is already available (the link is at the bottom, under the 3 small images on the right) and is not time limited (only content limited, like LFS), at least I didn't notice any time limit.

I have tried one trial (medium difficulty) with a time of around 12 minutes. The AIs do it in somewhere between 3-4 minutes, so I guess I was too careful

Anyways, try the game out and post your experience, it's worth a try.

Oh and one more thing, did anyone of you try it with a FFB wheel? I have a G25 but currently disconnected. If no one gives it a try, I will, but in a few days.

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I didn't copy the conversation but 3 different people (judging by different nicknames) were asking me about diarrhea bread. WTF? I suspect I was talking to a chatbot or something.

- I have a strange desease. It's called "small skin".
- Uhm, what are the symptoms?
- When I close my eyes, I fart.

If it's as informative and entertaining as the British version, I am looking forward to it.

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Hi. You need to have some manners first. You can't have custom rims without them.

I wouldn't be angry at those who you call freeloaders and I don't care about their reasons to not buy the full game. What I find important is whether or not the so called freeloaders are grateful and respectful to the DEVs for letting them enjoy a great game for free. Either by expressing their respect here in the forum or by simply buying the S2 sometime.

Don't tell me that after those 2 years, you still have your original Windows installation

So basically what you are suggesting is not a LFS wheel, but a crusing wheel

And as for the gear lever, what's unrealistic about a "push-down" lever? I know several models of cars that have this type of gear stick.

If disk speed was the issue, he would experience frame dropping rather than low FPS imho. I'd advise to lower the resolution so that the CPU has less work. Anyway, if the intention was to post videos on youtube, 320x240 is fairly enough.

I don't know if there is such setting in Fraps, but if possible, try using some non-compressing codec (something else than DivX, Xvid, WMV etc.), that should unload the CPU a bit and increase the FPS.

It's a British documentary series about people with neurological problems. It's being aired on Five I think. The problem is, that it's not aired outside UK and that's where I'm from (outside UK), but I'd still like to see it.

Can any of you please give me some advice? I've tried watching it from their web through some british proxy...didn't work. I was looking for torrents...didn't work. I was looking even on DC++...same result. It's not that I want it for free, I just don't know where else to look.

I'm all for the original idea. If you let it stay big, you are also putting other racers in danger of being unintentionaly crashed by the punished one. And speaking of people forgetting - the Forced Pit Stop notification is even less noticable

48 slots is not enough? At least I have better things to do than create virtual skins for virtual cars in virtual environment

Pssst! 48 skins? WOW, that's a lot of hard work, respect, really

Neo cheating in Zion? Maybe he was the admin

Since the new VWS is a real car, I wonder if we will be able to choose between Right/Left hand drive.

ICQ and Skype

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i hadn't mentioned that in my OP, but yes, it's already checking minimum speed, though it's less than 50Km/h atm. It's 8.5m/s, or 30.6Km/h
Could raise it if that appears more convenient.

And how about comparing the (illegal) lap-time (when the shortcut was taken) with a (legal) lap-time (previous lap, best lap) and if the illegal time is less than the legal time, infraction would be applied.

Also you can compare positions. If a racer has gained position in the race by using the shortcut, he will be penalized.

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You should put it under the name of a forum regular for 1 day and see if anyone realizes it.

OMG, massive riot breaks out! Don't do that!

Backup your setups and replays first if you want to.

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We have had plenty of reactions on this. However, when it came to actually helping out, only a few of you showed their guts and participated.

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There's good news though. Some of us were willing to coöperate. Those people are honoured on the Honour list

Rascar13, golfert, dougie lampkin and hrtburnout.

What's the point of the Sissy list? To piss someone off? I don't get it.

I want Christmas tomorrow.

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can the mods ban someone for being the most annoying user in the forum?

OT: congratulations to the winner of the scirocco!

I'd sometimes welcome a feature of putting someone in an ignore-list and that person's posts will simply not display, as if they have never been written.

Concerning the VWS ingame, I wonder if we will be able to change as many aspects in the setup as with other cars (suspension type, differential type) or not (for the sake of "reality").