RaceRoom: The Racing Experience General Discussion

[StoneyNUFC]

^ as are all the other pack in-game

 

[Rage Racer]

What do you think is more worth buying in Steam: GRID Autosport for ~$6 or DTM Experience 2013 for ~$7?

 

[FuzzyFassbender]

Are you using a wheel? If so, and you like more simulation type racing games then easy - DTM. I have Grid AS but I don't play it as there are so many good Sim type racing games in my library.

 

[JR98]

Got this ages ago, runs at 30FPS on my PC. Only tried the Green LMP like car on the fantasy track, good fun with my DS3. Tried the hillclimb in the unlicenced BMW 1Series, I couldn't control it no matter what, it sounds great and has decent handling. It prompted me to get GT LEGENDS and I am still considering GTR2 when I get money on my steam wallet

 

[FuzzyFassbender]

Jay Ekkel of Sector3 Studios:

Hi all,

Thursday the 4th of December at 17.00 CET we will have our next dev stream, which as the last time will be a show and tell of things to come and what we have been working on since last time.

This will also give us the opportunity to answer some of your questions. So if you have any questions please post them in this thread and we will answer them. Well at least as many of them as time allows!

the Dev stream will take place o twitch:
http://www.twitch.tv/raceroomracingexperience

 

[Blkout]

Got this ages ago, runs at 30FPS on my PC. Only tried the Green LMP like car on the fantasy track, good fun with my DS3. Tried the hillclimb in the unlicenced BMW 1Series, I couldn't control it no matter what, it sounds great and has decent handling. It prompted me to get GT LEGENDS and I am still considering GTR2 when I get money on my steam wallet

GTR2 is still one of the best sims ever. The graphics look a little dated now, but there's some free mods out there to update it some. It still doesn't look terrible though given how old it is. It was probably a fanatastic looking game when it was released. That being said, GTR2 is all about the physics and FFB, its just really really good.

 

[JR98]

GTR2 is still one of the best sims ever. The graphics look a little dated now, but there's some free mods out there to update it some. It still doesn't look terrible though given how old it is. It was probably a fanatastic looking game when it was released. That being said, GTR2 is all about the physics and FFB, its just really really good.

Well it was what, 2004? I''ve played the demo and doesn't look that bad (Althogh the swingman camera is too close to the car for me, RACE 07 fixed that) I might use bonnet (hood) cam. I like the MoTec style rev limiter on it. I read somewhere the Steam version has no Porsche or Ferrari, any way to fix that? I love the old 911 GT3RS

 

[Johnnypenso]

Got this ages ago, runs at 30FPS on my PC. Only tried the Green LMP like car on the fantasy track, good fun with my DS3. Tried the hillclimb in the unlicenced BMW 1Series, I couldn't control it no matter what, it sounds great and has decent handling. It prompted me to get GT LEGENDS and I am still considering GTR2 when I get money on my steam wallet

Looks like you missed out on the recent SimBin Mega Bundle. I picked it up for less than $CDN9. It'll come around again I'm sure, gotta keep an eye on it as they have sales mid-week and every weekend. I also got SpinTires, Euro Truck Simulator, Assetto Corsa and more, all discounted substantially.

 

[Blkout]

Well it was what, 2004? I''ve played the demo and doesn't look that bad (Althogh the swingman camera is too close to the car for me, RACE 07 fixed that) I might use bonnet (hood) cam. I like the MoTec style rev limiter on it. I read somewhere the Steam version has no Porsche or Ferrari, any way to fix that? I love the old 911 GT3RS

Yes, there's a hack to get Porsche and Ferrari back in the game and its not difficult to do.

 

[FuzzyFassbender]

Well it was what, 2004? I''ve played the demo and doesn't look that bad (Althogh the swingman camera is too close to the car for me, RACE 07 fixed that) I might use bonnet (hood) cam. I like the MoTec style rev limiter on it. I read somewhere the Steam version has no Porsche or Ferrari, any way to fix that? I love the old 911 GT3RS

You need Game Stock Car Extreme and the mod below then:
http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/ferrari-f430-vs-porsche-997-rsr.4392/

Sorry posting this in the R3E forum - R3E and GSCE are my two favorite sims.

 

[MagpieRacer]

Coming soon to RaceRoom:


DTM 1992.

 

[Ak1504]

 

[MickLite]

I first downloaded this a year ago; played a little and thought...meh, it's ok...then did not play again until a week ago. I have bought some tracks and cars now and I have to say...THIS GAME IS ABSOLUTELY WORTH IT! 'That's all I have to say about that."

 

[Rage Racer]

Tried the hillclimb in the unlicenced BMW 1Series

It's licenced. BMW 134 Judd V8 does exist.

 

[JR98]

It's licenced. BMW 134 Judd V8 does exist.

I thought it was listed as an Alpine, not BMW. Anyway I had a go on the Alps track in a Saleen S7R and it was amazing. Considering buying Laguna Seca and a Corvette C6R

 

[BrandonW77]

So, there is much I like about this game. The sounds and visuals are great, the "life" on the side of the track is impressive, the AI is good, and the FFB is great...........except for one issue: I get virtually no feedback from the tires through the wheel or through my speakers. When the car is in a turn or sliding sideways there is zero sound from them and zero info being relayed through my wheel (Fanatec GT3 RS V2). I have both options for the tire sounds at Max and even turned down all the other sounds in an attempt to make the tire sounds louder, no luck. If I lock them up then they screech like mad, but in a massive drift or spin their quiet as a mouse. I've tinkered with the various FFB settings to see if I can get some tire feel through the wheel, no luck. What am I doing wrong? It's very disconcerting, when your car starts to slide you need to hear your tires to convey a sense of emergency, but instead it's the exact opposite. Is this normal?

Here's a video to illustrate, you can hear the tires lock up a few times as I go over bumps, but you never hear a peep from the tires other than that.

 

[Ak1504]

Pit Stops - How to

 

[skazz]

I'm glad they added Portimao as free track recently. Graphically it's a step up from the rather poor texturing of the Raceroom raceway, made me realize that R3E may be behind AC or pCARS in visuals but it's not as bad as I recalled.

After spending an afternoon playing tweak-the-FFB on my T500, I'm at the stage where I fancy purchasing a pack, however the one I want most is ADAC GT, and it seems logical to wait for the 2014 release rather than picking up 2013.

Any info on when it's due exactly?

 

[Ak1504]

What's new?

ADAC GT 2014 Masters Experience
- New routes: Slovakiaring, Sachsenring
- Cars: how ADAC GT Masters 2013 McLaren MP4-12C GT3 Pack + without Ford GT, Nissan GT-R
- Pit stops (driver change)
- Championship Mode (DTM as Experience)
- Scheduled for mid-December 2014


DTM 1992 Pack
- Cars of the 1992 DTM season: BMW M3 Sport Evolution, Mercedes 190E 2.5-16 Evo2, Audi V8 quattro Evolution, Opel Omega 3000 24V Evo500, Ford Mustang GT
- Planned between Christmas and New Year


Update December
- Pit stops in multiplayer (all R3E) planned
- AI improvements and tweaks


WTCC Experience 2014
- Cars of the 2014er season
- New routes: Spa-Francorchamps, Macau, Salzburg Ring, Shanghai, Paul Ricard
- Planned for early 2015


Dedicated Servers
- Connection to the portal (for statistical analysis)
- Ease of use
- Listing in lobby
- Should be personalized to some extent
- Planned in 2015


Multiplayer
- League system (for Dedicated Server; Portal)
- Improvements for multiplayer
- Multiplayer Beta
- Ranking System (+ Match-Making)
- Chat Feature


Others (2015)
- Silverstone and the Nordschleife in work
- New liveries for Touring Classics, Gr. 5, M1 Procar, GTR2 (perhaps even for the December Update)
- Sonoma to come for the 2013er WTCC Pack
- Fabcar the start of 2015
- Revision of the physics of the vehicles previously included in R3E
- Nissan 300 (GTO, 4WD) 2015
- Load setup / save (on Steam Cloud)

 

[skazz]

Thanks, nice overview.

In the meantime I figured out that you get price reduction on owned content, so there's no real problem with buying stuff now and adding more later. Bought DTM 2014 and ADAC GT 2013 and saw a decent price reduction to ADAC from already owning the tracks in Raceroom via DTM. I like that the DTM tracks are mostly German and Eastern European and there's almost no overlap with AC and pCARS track lists.

R3E is definitely making good progress. Now if only AI cars weren't so solid causing the player to bounce off even with the smallest impact... (Ok, it's not always that bad, but often)

 

[Ak1504]

21 Infopics for the GTM 2014...


Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Sector3studio/posts/1507177289564843?notif_t=notify_me

Or: http://abload.de/gallery.php?key=slt32FhG

 

[iMikeTheKing]

I tried RaceRoom and it was seriously fun. The only stressful moment I had was doing the master Apex Hunt in the Canhard at the Hill climb but overall the experience was great. Cars felt great, it looked good and the sounds were amazing.

 

[Ak1504]

If you still like the "old" content i think you will love the GTM 14 and DTM 92 cars

 

[Tired iron]

Could someone tell me how big is the download for DTM 14
Thank you

 

[skazz]

Could someone tell me how big is the download for DTM 14
Thank you

The Raceroom "free to play" download includes all content, including both DTM Experience games. You can then use that content either in competitions (if you don't own it) or for single and multiplayer racing (if you purchase it) but no additional downloads are required.

 

[Tired iron]

The Raceroom "free to play" download includes all content, including both DTM Experience games. You can then use that content either in competitions (if you don't own it) or for single and multiplayer racing (if you purchase it) but no additional downloads are required.

Thanks you Skazz just what I wanted to know. 👍

 

[Ak1504]

RaceRoom has been updated


What’s New

Experience
- ADAC GT MASTERS 2014 Experience

Cars
- ADAC 2014 - BMW Z4 GT3 2014
- ADAC 2014 - Audi R8 LMS Ultra 2014
- ADAC 2014 - McLaren MP4-12C GT3 2014
- ADAC 2014 - Chevrolet Camaro GT3 2014
- ADAC 2014 - Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 2014
- ADAC 2014 - Chevrolet Corvette Z06.R GT3 2014

And various new liveries.

New Tracks:
- Sachsenring
- Slovakiaring


Game:
- Fixed an issue where assigning a button wouldn’t override the other functionality that was using the same button.
- Fixed: DTM 2014 – If player has no pit preset, tyre compound selection reverts to “prime” after pit menu overlay is closed
- Fixed: Drive Through Penalty served is displayed after serving a Stop and go penalty.
- Enabled Pit Stops in Multiplayer.
- Enabled Pit Stops in RRE
- Added car status toggle in options.
- Fixed certain downloaded ghosts causing a crash when spawned.
- Improved pit waypoint system.
- Fixed an issue where the user landed on the main green orb menu with experience themed text, after changing the language.
- Fixed an issue where split time between drivers would sometimes show bad data for opponent.
- Fixed track texture quality being linked to the car texture quality in graphic settings.
- Fixed an issue where the bangers were still deformed after repairing aero in pit stop.
- Added a check in code that makes sure the physics are definitely loaded for the player car.

- Made the following changes to the wrecker prevention system:
Ghosted if:
- Going in the wrong direction for more than 3 seconds.
- Standing still for more than 5 seconds
- When resetting the car

Unghosted when:
- Driving in the correct direction
- Going faster than 20m/s (72km/h)
- No car within 5 meters

Offline (Car reset only):
- Only ghosted when resetting the car
- Unghosted when going faster than 2m/s (7.2km/h) and no car within 5 meters.

- Reduced damage when not using clutch to help with manual clutch shifting.
- Fixed Race session ignoring preferred grid position set in game menu if Practice is ON but Qualify is OFF.
- Fixed an exploit in Qualifying where the player could get an extra qualifying lap if they enter the pits instead of crossing the finish line at session end.
- Corner Markers are now OFF by default in settings.
- Fixed Lap counter in pause menu not always matching the real lap counter.
- Fixed an issue where tyre flex was visible and stretching across the screen when car is on two wheels.
- Improved code flow for initializing controllers and handling ffb restarts.


Multiplayer:
- Limited the amount of server ping requests that can be active at the same time to 5.
- We now freeze session times if there are no players connected in practice and Qualifying.
- Increased MP server response timeout.


Physics & AI & Camera & Audio:
- McLaren MP4 - Improved external sounds.
- McLaren MP4 – Lowered rear-view camera for better view.
- Honda Civic WTCC 2013 – Fixed Stereo Panning Channel, adjusted cockpit sound.
- Carlsson Judd – Fixed Stereo Panning Channel.
- BMW 635 CSi: Improved overall sounds.
- Made AI on main path not avoid cars in pit exit unless very slow.
- Made AI in pit entry/exit not overtake other cars unless very slow.
- Improved pit stop turn-in speed for low AI skill level.
- Fixed an issue that could cause AI to pit too late.
- Changed AI control timer when exiting pit from 3 to 0.
- Improved general AI behavior on all tracks.



Art:
- Chevrolet Camaro GT3 – Fixed issues with rear view and side mirrors.
- BMW M3 E30 – Various art fixes.
- McLaren MP4-12C: Fixed some reflection issues.
- Portimao - Updatedwith new road shader, road bumps and various tweaks and bug fixes.
- Zolder – Various art fixes such as flickering white lines
- RedBull Ring – Various art fixes for shadows.
- Hockenheim – Various art fixes.
- Indianapolis – Various art fixes.
- Nurburgring: Fixed flickering issues on some time of day settings.
- Lakeview Hillclimb: Various art fixes.
- Global: Tweaked shadows. Increased draw distance and limited noise.
- Global: Minor tweaks to car materials. Boost of reflections. Adjusted chrome, increased specular intensity on car and in cockpit.

Portal
- Added a discount functionality that pre-calculates the discounts before finalizing the order.
- Added Newsfeed notification settings in profile.
- Newsfeed now shows all FB updates from subscribed fan pages.
- Various optimizations to the store page for better performance.
- Fixed an issue where players could interact with menus outside of their visual representation.
- Fixed not being able to test drive DTM 2014 cars in R3E portal.
- Fixed Leaderboards related stats not updating in profile.
- Fixed Packs not counting the liveries that comes with the cars under liveries.
- Fixed Single Player practice menu showing Leaderboards header on top in all experiences.
- Fixed “Add all to cart” option appearing under user’s profile page.
- Fixed number of opponents not hiding properly in practice mode when selecting a hillclimb track.
- Removed headline/close on all championship splashes.
- Added class icons and link to Car renders in portal to better distinguish cars with same or similar names.
- We now grey out Confirm purchase button until the transaction is actually done to avoid double transactions being sent to Steam.

 

[Tired iron]

Before I download this racing sim and I want to buy a few packs I want to make sure my laptop can run it, here are my spec :

Windows 7 6.00 GB of RAM System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz, 1597 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
Graphic Adapter Description NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M 1.00 GB of RAM

I have my laptop hook to my wide screen tv via HDMI.
I am an old timer and don't know to much about this computer jargon

Thank You

 

[Ak1504]

i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M 1.00 GB of RAM

Sry I dont think this is enough power...

 

[Tired iron]

Sry I dont think this is enough power...[/QUOTE]

Thanks
It's getting old, I'm shopping for a new deskstop so I will make sure it's got lots of horsepower and a good graphic card.