Without the stuttering (it's not even stutter, the game just runs like 30fps) and the bugs it is not horrible. But then again that stutter is a huge dealbreaker for me and the pedal issue I had makes me question do I want to risk my hardware to drive it.

So there is a free demo of sorts available on steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/429180

Vehicles
Huayra
Huayra BC
Zonda Cinque
Zonda R
Zonda Revolucion

Tracks
Nurburgring+Nords combo
Monza GP
Azure Coast

Game modes
Quick Race Weekend
Time Trial

And it is pretty poor to be honest. I've never really been fan of the paganis in any game but in this game they are definitely the worst paganis I've ever driven. Not worst horrible horrible but little bit below everything else. Overall the game drives kinda like a mix of gt6 amd forza. It has the slipperyness of forza while the steering feel of gt6. Ffb imho was not horrible but below average when you compare it to the pc sims. I just turned it down and let it there. It does decent job of self steering overall but it is not detailed in any way.

The driving model feels a lot like snowboarding. You kind of lean through corners. If you get it just right you cut through the snow without shedding off any speed. Get it loose and it is just like snowboarding when you are turning and sliding. Go too fast and you get a small damped jolt of oversteer which is easy to correct. There is a lot of lateral grip when sliding but longitudinally it is far less forgiving. Wheelspin is hard to detect, probably because of the poor sounds. There is no sense of revs in the sounds so it is hard to change gears based on sounds.

And it is buggy. You need to set world camera movement to 100 to make the camera not move. And after I exited the game to windows my pedals started vibrating (my fanatec pedals has the vibrator thingy). Apparently leaving the game was a cue to turn it on...

The screen looks like 30fps while driving even when I turn every most graphics options off (I have gtx970). It is not smooth at all and it almost feels like it is stuttering all the time. In cockpit view it is also pretty laggy but in nose or bumper cam it is kinda drivable. Sounds were surprisingly poor. I was expecting a lot more but the quality of the sound is like poor mp3 quality.

I need to get the lag/stuttering issues fixed, otherwise it is not worth playing at all imho.

1.0 is about to be released today:



It is still kinda rfactor but it has several key improvements (like the ffb for example). Online is very empty though, hopefully with the 1.0 release it picks up.

Last edited by Hyperactive, Wed, 24 Aug 2016 14:48.

I don't care anymore. I was week away from releasing the lx8. I'm moving to rf2. The way I see it kunos pulled the trigger. I'm just dragging the body elsewhere (rf2). See you on the dark side .

Quote from Flotch :

But for sure, now a LX8 would be amazing. A small constant downforce, a mighty engine and its small weight

Unless you add wings the lx8 should have lots of aero lift on front axle

(The ac version is going well. The last stage has taken more time than I assumed but I'd be surprised if it isn't out before end of may)

Quote from sinbad :

AC still have that maximum frame latency thing?

yes

\SteamApps\common\assettocorsa\system\cfg\graphics.ini
make sure you have: MAXIMUM_FRAME_LATENCY=1
Vy default it is 0 I tihnk.

tip 1. That's Prince Charles in the pic
tip 2. That's Prince Charles in the pic

Quote from Racer X NZ :

[b]To watch every major newspaper tell people not to see a movie, a movie they had never seen, is an unprecedented moment in this country. When has that ever happened?

Every major newspaper is saying don't go see a movie they haven't watched themselves. What's next, are they going to tell us to start burning books in the streets? We've never seen anything like this.

Same thing with top gear. When they tell you to not buy a car they are reviewing on their show they are actually advocating for burning all cars and banning transportation. We've never seen anything like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMR_vaccine_controversy

I think this is both incredibly hilarious and incredibly sad. Mostly hilarious because of racer xyz and his blind faith in proven liars.

Rf2 has had it for ages I think. Rf1 had it too I think.

LX8 at zandvoort:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMjzTiMDR6o

To me it just looked alonso's move was too close to the braking point and he misjudged how close he was to the braking point. I don't think the reason why alonso hit gutierrez was because the small line change of gutierrez but alonso simply misjudging where gutierrez is going to brake.

Overall the race was nice but it was a bit sad how hard it was to to overtake. I mean, I'll take this over the trillion meaningless drs passes no questions asked but when almost nobody even tried a move it was very much driving in a queue for the most of the time. Verstappen for example was a lot faster than sainz but had no chance to even attempt anything. Same with grosjean, hulkenberg and bottas. Only person to be passed seemed to be massa. Drs should die in a fire though.

I kinda liked the first two sessions. It would have been better if bernie's graphics people could have managed to create some graphics for the q1 and q2 knockout timers. It was just impossible to have any kind of idea where everyone is when you don't have the slightest idea if someone has enough time or not to to even try to improve his time. Not having the knockout timers in q1 was just unforgivable.

The worst part of the quali was how insanely unchaotic and predictable it was. Beforehand it looked kinda chaotic but turns out it was one of the most predictable qualifying sessions ever. If the goal was to mix up the order of the cars a bit so that cars don't start in order of fastest first and slowest last then it failed that completely. The cars are now in the exact order of performance.

LX8 lives
http://imgur.com/7Ve19V5

Really close to start beta testing but still lots of tiny things to check.

Just like ac is nkpro paid mod.

Soo what do you guys think about the new qualifying format?
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2016/02/24/fia-announces-elimination-qualifying-and-driver-of-the-day-award/

I first through it was outrageously stupid but then after thinking about it more it does have some power to improve the racing. I think it has some flaws in it.

First to me it seems track position out of pits is key. You want to be one of the first out in every session. That allows you to drive in clean air and helps to get more than one try. Come out the pits later and you are stuck in traffic. The engine that can sit longest on the pit exit without overheating will be first ones out of the pits. On dirtier tracks this can become more complicated though. It can create some funny moments when people try to pass and defend to keep ther positions or gain one on outlaps.

It also has the effect that it reduces the number of cars on track. In 2015 and 14 pretty much all the cars kept driving and did more than one attempt in most sessions. Now with the elimination some of those cars are sitting pits instead. Also cars which need some parts change have much less chance to make it into q1. By the time their equipment has been fixed they are too late to set a time. There will also be many instances when someone gets dropped out just because someone else caused a yellow or red flag.

Then there is the surprise or chaos factor. I don't think anything changes in p1-p4. The biggest changes happen in positions 6-12. Due to the dropout system there will be many cases where simple mistake can drop you from 6th to 12th. Or effectively out of q3. So the chaos factor mostly applies to the mid field imho. The system can also change the top2 slightly. I think it will be very equal between hamilton and rosberg in terms of who gets p1 becuase it will be more random. But not random enough for ferrari to get p1.

It is imho kinda messy and if the goal was to make top positions more random it doesn't succeed in that. Mid field racing can improve but it can also make mercedes domination seem even more strong becuase the midfield cars fighting amongst themselves will slow them down and allows top teams to run away.

I would have like a q1+q2 type of quali. First everybody goes out and sets fast lap times. Top 10 continues to q2. In q2 drivers go out individually in random order one by one using the tires they used in q1. Each driver gets one lap. Then drivers (who made it into q2) start the race on those tires.

Explaining the slip angle issue in ac to ac fanboys is a bit like trying explain (in 2005) to rfactor fanboy that real tires don't lose all grip at 30 of slip angle... The responses are pretty much identical. Lack of skill, learn to drive in real life, it is realistic becuase I like it, look at this youtube video. This thread is like rsc in 2005! I'm getting some serious flashbacks.

Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :

Take a powerful road car on the Lake Louise track "Crownest hillclimb" configuration - with street tires and a green track setting, and then tell me AC is "simcade"

I think the problem is that by default they set every car up with semi slicks, and the highest grip setting possible on the track so that newcomers don't find it too difficult. They've outright said that on the forums unfortunately.

AC is definitely snappier around the limits than LFS by a pretty good margin in my experience... which is 90% with road cars, I can't speak for the GTs and open wheelers.

Which is kinda odd because for me the only cars in ac that feel snappy are the gt cars and generally light cars with wings. Snappy is kinda personal word though just like slippery is. I doubt your definition is same as mine .

But still 90% of the cars are really easy to catch. And there is this magical barrier at 30-40 degrees of yaw angle where the car rotation just stops and doesn't go furhter. Even in ffb you can feel this barrier in most cars. Once you find yourself at that yaw angle the car is almost resisting to spin out.

Last edited by Hyperactive, Sat, 20 Feb 2016 16:33.

Dunno, in its current form ac feels more butter smooth than lfs. Granted it is ages since I last drove lfs.

Wow the trofeo lambo is a positive surprise. Best car in the dp3. Not my style of car at all but so satisfying to drive. Challenging but in the right way. The way it has those little understeer and oversteer moments really adds character and it has so much depth. And unlike most cars in ac it also punishes for driver mistakes. 9.5 out of 10. Need to use medium tires though. On softs it is iracing spinfest.

Was really looking forward to the escort but it is such easymore car that it is boring.

Full price for single bit of early access type of content for existing old game with very high chance of that content never materializing? £12 for one track? Even kaemmer doesn't ask that much for their tracks. I paid less for the nordschleife. Wish I had something positive to say.

Quote from ACCAkut :

Everytime we had a mod-to-licenced car change the mod thread went silent before it... we haven't heard from any of the big WIP mod Porsches in a while ,the 917K, the 962... mine doesn't count

That meco dude must be kunos undercover agent. Porsches in ac would be a huge bomb though and I seriously doubt it as it would be just too expensive. That being said I'm kinda surprised kunos hasn't yet done a porsche gt3 type of car with ruf badging like iracing did.

As for that pic the car behind the c7... to me it looks like the ruf 12rtrtt. Or it could be one of the other rufs that were announced a while back. Maybe the Rt35 S that was mentioned some time ago?

666. me

Chicane flat out!
Fookin ain't!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q4JOGTYywQ

That would be great! Thanks.