I am here from 2002, as I remember was S1 Licenced.
...ago. No doubt there were times.
I remember that Scawen somewhere mentioned his ~BMW M3 with low mileage. This fact just says team had have ability to hire developers and grow up (custom cars, custom tracks, sandbox, modern graphics).
Paradigm changed, small teams are no more competitive, wrong decisions were made.
Main words was there in 2019:
4 years passed, no graphic updates, hehe. LFS is just a hobby project. Does not pretend to become something big (like Beamng) or famous.
4 years passed, no graphic updates, hehe. LFS is just a hobby project. Does not pretend to become something big (like Beamng) or famous.
When it comes to physics, things usually take a long time... 
LFS graphics and overall feeling not changed much
As track looks better it becomes more obviously that cartoon car models needs more polygons.
You have to be very naive to believe that a team of 3 people was able to make an outstanding model of tire physics, which cannot be done by large teams of developers of other race simulators. I don't.
Life For Speed had a great start. I personally remember how cool and fun keyboard control was when there were keyboard assistants. In some patch, the keyboard assistants were later removed (just before new to that time tire physics as I remember). If the developers could sell that physics model in order to insert such driving physics into another game like GTA, it would be a bomb blast and a revolution in the realism of that another game.
It is unlikely that the cozy indie LFS has a big future, there are too many competitors nowadays.
But I believe that the thoughtfulness of Live For Speed can turn it to a great game engine, like Source or Unreal, but for the auto racing niche. Just think how cool a driving training simulator for beginners would look like on an LFS engine. Realistic city, realistic controls, realistic physics, realistic AI - you could learn to drive a car right from home.
Life For Speed had a great start. I personally remember how cool and fun keyboard control was when there were keyboard assistants. In some patch, the keyboard assistants were later removed (just before new to that time tire physics as I remember). If the developers could sell that physics model in order to insert such driving physics into another game like GTA, it would be a bomb blast and a revolution in the realism of that another game.
It is unlikely that the cozy indie LFS has a big future, there are too many competitors nowadays.
But I believe that the thoughtfulness of Live For Speed can turn it to a great game engine, like Source or Unreal, but for the auto racing niche. Just think how cool a driving training simulator for beginners would look like on an LFS engine. Realistic city, realistic controls, realistic physics, realistic AI - you could learn to drive a car right from home.
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