On the topic of VR, if you're still on the fence, I did an opinion piece a while ago that might be of interest: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/92074

The bloom effect on the dot matrix is actually fairly realistic, at least for my eyes. I find dot matrices on motorways and on kart tracks at night have quite significant bloom. Maybe I'm overdue an eye test...

It's really simple, if you're passionate about Sim Racing, invest in more sim software until LFS satisfies you again. I've got so much time, effort, blood, sweat and tears invested into LFS that I will always have one eye on threads like these to see how things are progressing because I want it to return to the forefront of Sim Racing. Am I sad that LFS is not developing as quickly as I'd like? Of course I am, who wants to wait years between major updates. Will LFS ever be at the forefront of Sim Racing again? Who knows. But these questions aren't stopping me from enjoying my Sim Racing. It just means that for the past few years I've been putting hours into iRacing instead and returning to LFS for the odd racing series when I feel like it. When the updates come, whether that happens in 12 months or 12 years, people will return, even if it's just to try out the new features. If we experience the spike in activity that the Westhill update brought, I think LFS will do just fine going forward, in its own special way. That's good enough for me.

I wonder how many demo users have ever bought skin credits. Might make for an interesting stat.

Quote from cargame.nl :

Insim controllable LED array color changing track panels would be awesome

I hope that the digi-flags (I think Blackwood is the only track to have them at the moment) will eventually display yellows in a sector, blue and red flags etc.

Looks good!

Quote from Flotch :

prepare your eyes for this saturday

Either you have an informant on the inside, or that was just spooky.

Quote from Scawen :

I asked Eric but he doesn't want to show South City screenshots yet.

He's been working on it, changing all the road surfaces and building some ways through that were blocked off before. It's not just the roads but barriers, fences, walls, etc. And many buildings will be updated.

It's a big job but will be worth the wait.

South City is worth waiting for. Go nuts with it Eric! CityDriving has been waiting for this moment for its entire existence!

That's exactly it, and yes it can be annoying sometimes when I send half a sentence by accident.

If you don't want to reassign the space bar, maybe require a press and hold over the OK and Cancel buttons for 500ms. Maybe visualise this with a progress ring around the crosshair.

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I wanted to make a thread about being able to customize the mapping for the VR Click (currently space). Every time I'm typing while leaning over my wheel I'm accidentally pressing OK, Cancel or special characters on the "T" text entry window because I'm pressing space to start a new word. To avoid it I have to deliberately look down while typing which is annoying during a situation where you need to focus on the road and type.

I should do that.

I can't attend round 1 sadly, but I'll try and make the rest:

LFSW name: MButcher
In-game name: [TC-R] Pete
Ful team name: [TC] Racing
Nation: United Kingdom

Ultimately we weren't able to have the final race showdown we were all looking for, but that being said, this series has potential going forward into future seasons once the bumps are ironed out. Thanks for hosting and I'm looking forward to the next one.

Thanks for the season-long battles folks, hope to see you at the next one too.

Argh.

Damn, that's major and looks awesome! Fingers crossed for you that it works out and you get to realise those designs.

I assume for a small number of rigs rather than the whole fleet? Otherwise, that's a huge coffee shop!

Quote from k_badam :

I don't think demo racing deserves special treatment from any other type of pick-up racing, hard racing should happen.

Racing is racing is racing. In my experience, drivers at the head of the field in demo races are just as aware, if not more so than those at the front in licenced races, so racing like this shouldn't be complained about.

That move is legit. Needed a bit of cooperation from the other driver, but the move itself was fair I'd say. Good pass.

Quote from MicroSpecV :

Come on Simox too! He's the one tussling it out with you

I was referring mainly to Trespasser's fighting talk in the news post. I'm sure SIMOX will be pushing too.

Quote from michal 1279 :

That pitlane was epic but the risk of possible heavy collision between cars exiting pitlane and cars on the racing line was very nightmarish

I can think of a few examples, especially Tilkedromes that have pitlane exits like that so it's not unthinkable. It's hard to tell from the screenshots, but there's definitely some sort of paddock setup happening on that straight towards the end of the 'North' infield.

Neat. Come on Tres, show me what you've got.

I spot a new S/F line in the infield. Did Kyoto 'North' make it to official combo status? Fingers crossed for that.

Grats Simox!

I won't be able to make the next race either because reasons, but should make the final three rounds no problem.

Apologies for the savage lunge out of the swimming pool Texas. At the time I thought it felt like a good move, but having reviewed the replay, it was opportunistic and I could've been more patient and waited for another corner.

There was a good deal of luck involved in my win today, but I enjoyed myself immensely, cool little track. Sadly I'll miss the next 2 races, but I hope I can still fight for the championship by rounds 8 and 9. Cheers!

Quote from Botswanan Salama :

*Snip*

Are you going to race this weekend? Please say yes!

Quote from michal 1279 :

The post-race activity on the server was phenomenal

It was like SO2R all over again.

Bonus points to @degats for being the only person to get it right first time. (Presumably from seeing the pile up)