rFactor 2 Slo-mo promo

I'm having a hugely entertaining time right now reading all the posts which make it sound like having a good tire model is a bad thing.

It's not like tires are the thing connecting the car to the race track, and their model is important in any way in how the simulation as a whole feels, or anything important like that, is it? The Youtube comments especially have been a good laugh.

 

Agree.
I always thought tyres were just something you gave a quick kick to see if a car is any good.

 

I guess I'll take my foot out of my mouth for the comments that I made. I was wrong no doubt about it. Sorry Tim. But I think I made myself look more like an ass than I did you.


I do have to say though if you don't like how the tire flexes and really want to moan about how rFactor2 looks then you should probably go and join the clown show over at virtualr and say how it looks like junk, cartoons etc. Then do your part and not purchase the new sim. Seriously. Any negative comments this close to release isn't going to do crap. If you don't like how things look then start modding or don't buy the beta and move on to something else.

 

People will always moan and whinge though. I answer it until I'm done with doing it. Then I just read and smile.

 

I'd say ISI is actually doing a decent job with public relations. Many developers don't say anything for months, or even years. For example, another game I'm following hasn't had a single developer update since February.
As for those freaking out about the release date, it's been 6 1/2 years since rFactor 1 was released, what's another few weeks, or even months? I want to get my hands on it as much as anybody, but I'm perfectly willing to wait for quality.

 

I'm waiting for Elite 4. I definitely know how that feels, MM.

 

Last news of Elite IV:

Have a nice day!

Sorry for the desviation post and merry christmas to everyone!!

We'll see you on the track!!

 

Well I hope it's more Frontier and less First Encounters

(and some people here keep pushing for an rF2 release date... I envy their apparent ignorance of what happens when a game is released on time at the cost of completeness...)

 

hehe, yeah. Although there are some very good FFE mods now which make it playable and fairly stable. And that's really a good point... FFE was a beta, released as a final product.

And also I feel some are forgetting rF2's open beta will be a beta. I feel we're going to have to list a number of bad things about beta software so people truly know what beta software can be... It's not going to be a final product, some things will be disabled, other things might work great one week, not to well the next, and you always have the risk of a catastrophic bug ruining your races...

 

will slo-mo replays be built in ?

 

I'm with you there Tim, I get the feeling that some people, judging by some of the replies, are forgetting this is a BETA release.

 

There's been some input to it, but you can still see the low fidelity (looks like skipping) in this video, and that needs to be increased before it'll look it's best. There's also a few pieces still to be hooked up (some suspension parts, etc - some things simulated physically, may not yet be visibly shown).

 

Is there going to be a public bug tracker? Without knowing what is and isnt enabled, there's going to be a lot of posts/reports of bugs where there arent bugs, but for us it would probably be a good reference so we dont end up bombarding ISI with reports of bugs that arent..... bugs

 

Well the beta is being released to check the mod ID and mod updating systems, and to make sure mod groups get used to them. It's not that we don't expect bug reports, but they are not the initial priority. There isn't a bug reporting forum. If you're getting into the beta, you're accepting it as-is initially.

 

If we are accepting it "as-is" can we really call it a beta?

 

LOL. This forum is going to be filled with "this game sucks" "ISI ripped me off" posts 30 minutes after the release.

I'm getting the beta but I don't necessarily agree with ISI's plan post beta release. This is exactly what Kunos did with his last beta release. It works fine for him since nobody owns netkar or cares but ISI has a few more customers who will probably scream bloody murder when they find something they feel isn't right.

 

It's in beta state, so yes - you can cal it beta

 

ISI do a great job, i think it's more than a beta at this state.