Q&A with Slightly Mad Studios: Ian Bell [Read OP]

[Vitesh Patel]

Will we be able to tell the impact that winning invitational races in the single player mode will affect career progression?

I had no idea of whether winning those series was helping to unlock higher tier contract offers early, whether they were driven by the bronze/silver accolades, or if it's governed by the gold accolades won by winning your main season?

 

[Glacc3751]

Hi @IanBell and @The_American ,
I have a question about lights: Imagine racing at night in a GT car, and let's say a faster LMP car wants to pass. Will they also flicker their lights and will it be visible in your mirrors?

Thanks guys! Keep up the good work, huge step up from pCars1 it seems

 

[jake2013guy]

I like that. I wonder if we are able to set number of cars in each class? For example: 2 supercars racing through stack of 28 Fords F150, and similar crazy options? This would be also very handy in setting realistic Endurance options.

They said it was decided equally. So it would be 15 Supercars and 15 F150s.

 

[MroczMR]

They said it was decided equally. So it would be 15 Supercars and 15 F150s.

I'm ok with this

But it would be cool though

 

[F1Racer68]

@IanBell or @The_American

Now that the release date has been confirmed (September 22nd according to Porsche article), when will we finally see the Steam Store preorder?

 

[jake2013guy]

@IanBell or @The_American

Now that the release date has been confirmed (September 22nd according to Porsche article), when will we finally see the Steam Store preorder?

Patience.

 

[Masscot]

Sure that date isn't a placeholder? I'm cooling my jets until SMS/Bamco say otherwise.

 

[Esgaloth]

Sure that date isn't a placeholder? I'm cooling my jets until SMS/Bamco say otherwise.

Either way, it gives us the ballpark in which they want to swing the release bat.

 

[jake2013guy]

Sure that date isn't a placeholder? I'm cooling my jets until SMS/Bamco say otherwise.

In fairness, it was where I was expecting in the range of Late September to Early October.

 

[F1Racer68]

Since it has been removed from the article again, I suspect it was a case of "Dammit! That wasn't supposed to be announced until next week at E3. Get rid of it."

 

[Tank621]

@IanBell @The_American
In the recent Porsche article it states that we are getting the "911 GT3 R (991), 911 GT3 R Endurance (991)"
Theres a bit of confusion as we can't work out what the difference between these two cars actually is. Can you give an explanation as to what the differences are?

 

[eruvadhor]

Dont race with noobs, easy to filter them out. Just set a sufficient minimum Safety Rating with our new Online License system.

See that's our approach, avoid hacky things like making everyone ghosts just to avoid noobs/wreckers. Use real-world solutions. Licensing, scoring, identification, host filters. These are the solutions we prefer. We hope you share our vision that these are the correct tools that allow for a fair and competitive online experience. (I will check however if making all online participants ghosts is an option, i believe it was at one point during development)

Thanks for your reply. I hope so much this will work in PC2 !! in Forza it was often times the only sollution to get a nice "race" with random player... I was only on track without ghost with friends. I was really happy to see your system on one of the last presentations ! good job.
For me it would be nice to get the ghost race OR a hot lap challange I like to battle with friends agains the clock

Hi @IanBell and @The_American ,
I have a question about lights: Imagine racing at night in a GT car, and let's say a faster LMP car wants to pass. Will they also flicker their lights and will it be visible in your mirrors?

This would be very nice, I like this flickering so much I do it also in PC1 ^^

 

[Jhonatas1981]

We only do 1 Race session. So those wouldnt fit. Your grid choices are by normal (not reverse) Qualy Time or Random. However, for multi-class races if you choose Random we always put the faster classes out in front of the slower classes. So it would just be random _within_ that class on the starting grid.

This is a shame, because I particularly like the position reversed by the result of the previous race. Because when in qualifying we get on pole and won the race there is not much fun in that, there is not much competition that way. In Pcars 1 I often did not do the pole on purpose, just to have more fight on the track

 

[notanexpert]

See, I really like the idea of the licenses but I fear I am one of those drivers that would brake waaaayyyyy to late first corner and crash everybody. Sorry in advance

 

[ozwheels]

@IanBell @The_American @The Owl @SMS
Will weather slots have an option to have a random amount of duration. Versus how pCars 1 has a predetermined duration around one hour for each slot. Not weather progression, the weather slot duration itself.

 

[The_American]

Equal duration i think, like last game. No change on this.

 

[breyzipp]

@IanBell @The_American
In the recent Porsche article it states that we are getting the "911 GT3 R (991), 911 GT3 R Endurance (991)"
Theres a bit of confusion as we can't work out what the difference between these two cars actually is. Can you give an explanation as to what the differences are?

I'm interested to hear this as well. Is the "GT3 Endurance" specced to race in the GTE series?

 

[Masscot]

Sure that date isn't a placeholder? I'm cooling my jets until SMS/Bamco say otherwise.

I retract my original statement and have now booked 22nd September (and the following week) off work.

 

[123Racer]

So, we have the Ferrari 488 GTE. Includes the AF Corse livery of WEC GT-Pro?

 

[05XR8]

Edit: wrong thread.

 

[RomKnight]

I'm interested to hear this as well. Is the "GT3 Endurance" specced to race in the GTE series?

I've answered this before. Yes.

 

[Konan]

I retract my original statement and have now booked 22nd September (and the following week) off work.

Only one following week?

 

[jmills]

I've answered this before. Yes.

Are you sure? I thought the endurance version meant it had the front dive planes like the ones that race at the Nordschleife. The GTE version isn't a 991. Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[RomKnight]

Are you sure? I thought the endurance version meant it had the front dive planes like the ones that race at the Nordschleife. The GTE version isn't a 991. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Indeed you're right.

I think I was mislead. My apologies.

 

[DesertPenguin09]

So is the release date true?

 

[35mm]

So is the release date true?

Yes.

 

[DesertPenguin09]

YASSSSSSS

 

[jake2013guy]

Out of curiosity, why did you decide to increase the car counts of RX and Super 2000 with the Mercedes and Renault?

I have no problem with it. I just want to know.

 

[Bealdor]

Most likely because one of the biggest PCARS1 complaints was not enough diversity in many car classes.

 

[DesertPenguin09]

The Trans-Am cars look cool, classic Camaro and Mustang race cars will sound glorious around The Glen