Straight4 Completes First Internal GTR Revival Build, Teases Non-GT3 Car

Straight4 Ferrari 550 Maranello GTS Cockpit Teaser.jpg
The very first screenshot of the upcoming GTR Revival by Straight4 Studios is not even a week old, but the developer decided to show another pre-alpha image as part of its most recent newsletter. Meanwhile, the first internal build of the sim has been completed - progress is being made by the team.

Image credit: Straight4 Studios

Just last week, Straight4 CEO Ian Bell posted the first in-engine screenshot of what is to become GTR Revival on his Twitter account, leading to parts of the community groaning about yet another GT3 sim. An Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo (possibly a 2022 version of the Evo 2) can be seen from the inside, heading into the S do Senna at Interlagos in the shot.

Straight4's latest newsletter states that the first internal build featuring one car and one track has just been finished at the end of July, so it is reasonable to assume that the Audi and Interlagos are the two content pieces in question. "The current test mule car was selected for certain physics properties (as well as our ability to compare side-by-side with external parameters)", reads the studio's statement.

No New GT3s for Now​

More cars - all of them outside of the modern GT3 class - are set to be implemented now, one of which got teased via the screenshot in the header image of this article, along with the hint that "those who enjoyed GTR will recognize the mythical icon from the early noughties." Looking at the interior of the car, it becomes clear that the car in question is a Ferrari 550 GTS Maranello, which raced from 2001 to 2005 in endurance series like the FIA GT Championship, featuring a rather glorious V12 scream.


Additionally, the input of the community via the numerous surveys Straight4 has hosted over the last few months is highlighted as well, largely focusing on assists and how to improve as a sim racer. Interestingly, they show that the answers of experienced drivers and those who are relatively fresh behind the wheel and want to improve are relatively evenly spread, so with Straight4's community focus, we can likely expect optional assists and training modes in GTR Revival.

We have attached the results of the survey questions included in the newsletter to this article if you want to take a more detailed look yourself. Image credit belongs to Straight4 Studios. Meanwhile, a WMD-based Early Access program is possibly launching in time for Christmas, according to Bell.

Your Thoughts​

With the new information about GTR Revival in mind, what do you think about the title and its development? How much are you looking forward to the Ferrari 550 GTS Maranello and its competitors from the GTR and GTR2 days? Let us know in the comments below!
About author
Yannik Haustein
Lifelong motorsport enthusiast and sim racing aficionado, walking racing history encyclopedia.

Sim racing editor, streamer and one half of the SimRacing Buddies podcast (warning, German!).

Heel & Toe Gang 4 life :D

Comments

Premium
did you know, that this people did develop also GTR2 and there is a Ferrari 550 too.
Maybe they stole from their own game or some other did .
Did RSS exist 20 years ago?
So much unverified rumors today :roflmao:
Yeah, Your not helping your cause in anyway.

Should probably just backtrack at this point.
 
Last edited:
Even with permission, it is incredibly tacky to import a model from external sources, into an engine sourced from external sources and pass it off as a example of their progress.

I was semi-interested in this title, But this is just treating the community like a bunch of fools.
Some hard critics over here. Don't worry, not everyone and everything is here to get you. This is only meant to be a teaser of what's to come. People were complaining about "another GT3 game" just last post and this teaser is meant to show that there's actually other type of cars planned/being worked on. If you feel fooled by an outsourced model, I don't know what to tell you, but you should know that most racing game studios actually use outsourced models in their game to speed up developpement, not all cars model were made in-house.
 
Last edited:
Premium
Its not a teaser of anything, It just demonstrates they have nothing worthy of showing.

And reflects badly on the project. I'm amazed that a professional entity is doing this. I'd lose my job if I showed some pretend results and tried to pass it off as progress.
 
Its not a teaser of anything, It just demonstrates they have nothing worthy of showing.

And reflects badly on the project. I'm amazed that a professional entity is doing this. I'd lose my job if I showed some pretend results and tried to pass it off as progress.
It is a teaser, they could have shown a real life picture of the car and it would also have done the job. You're acting as if you're a stakeholder or something. Of course they don't have much to show, they barely started the project. All of these early progress pictures are meant to hype up WMD3, not to hype up the actual game just yet.
 
Club Staff
Premium
WMD-based Early Access...
Time to get loads of simracers putting in money, to then go and praise the game to heaven and back in an effort to drum up hype and get a profit on the investment.

That was so healthy for the simracing niche last time...
 
WMD-based Early Access...
Time to get loads of simracers putting in money, to then go and praise the game to heaven and back in an effort to drum up hype and get a profit on the investment.

That was so healthy for the simracing niche last time...
Well you see, WMD2 didn't have investment like WMD1 did, because they're not allowed to anymore (see the investigation that happened back then). You won't see investement like WMD1 ever again.

That said, the simracing community is already toxic anyway, I can barely see how it could get worse.
 
Last edited:
First screenshot of upcoming GTR Revival!
*image of RSS mod with no other context*
Thats-bait.gif
 
If they have a license they can take from a modder who doesn't, I believe codemasters did this with a Ferrari F1 model in fact.
But I'd wager they asked permission from RSS on this.
I'm amazed Ian Bell being the type he is never went after Kunos for all the SMS rips in AC to be honest.
Where did you get that idea you can steal anyone's work? That's absolutely astonishing to think anyone can think such an insane thing. Like a famous beard guy said : "you want to go home and rethink your life."
Seriously, in case yoy are really not aware about what working is about ; since many years, centuries, work has a commercial value (let's put slavery aside, as this notion has been, and still is, culturally different in societies). So you can't qteal anyone's work for false reasons lile "I got the IP, I can steal other works because they create something from scratch touching that IP, although they were legally allowed to do it becase they haven't used this IP's brand". Being paid mod or not, you can't steal anyone's work.

If you have difficulties to think in a digital world context, let's imagine a backery selling some coolies looking and tasting like Oreos (don't ask me why I think about Oreos, it's been at least 20 years since I ate one). And just in yhe same street another backery is selling the official Oreos, having all the official decoration because it has paid the license (I really hope this doesn't exist...), because obviously it attracts people. Do you think it would be legal to stole all the cookies stock from the first bakery to sell it, rebranded, in the official Oreo bakery? That is exactly what you are stating there. Hope it helps. When thinking about the digital world, always remember it is the real world before all, only the products are digital, not the human beings and the money, these are as true as you are.

A bit off topic, but I think it was a necessary point for some. About the screenshot in itself, I don't see what's wrong in using existing assets, it is just to show a rendering in the engine. What's wrong is not showing a video of that first stage of the game, if it really exisits. Nothing interesting there as always and, if not a vaporware, there won't be anything interesting before at least one year.

EDIT1 : do yourself a favor, don't eat these Oreo's chimical aberrations.

EDIT2 : for sure the same comparison can be done with a little girl giving for free oreo style cookies around the corner (a hippie for sure!) and the backer from the official oreo's shop stealing her cookies (that's the funniest part...).

EDIT3 : some editing after misinformation from my part about the article. My apologies to RD.
 
Last edited:
OverTake
Premium
About the topic, this is not the first screenshot of the game published on RD, what a shame RD, you even don't know your own content.
You mean like the very first sentence in the entire article clearly states and links to? :coffee:
 
"How much are you looking forward to...".

Hmm ...dunno. Two point five?

If just it will ban paddle cars and force clutch use, I'd be happy.
 
Last edited:
I will wait and see what its like when its released, after all this is Ian Bell. You have to take anything he might say with a massive truck load of salt. Much as I loved Project Cars and Project Cars 2, I don't think they lived up to all the promises and hype. So many bugs on launch which were clearly not tested properly (even if they were outsourced), and it was halfway through the development cycle before it was anywhere near decent. No more pre-ordering for me.
 
Last edited:
That is certainly not how that works. Even if Ferrari gave Straight4 the OK to have a 550 in their game, they have no right to give away RSS’ work, and would be a discussion and most definitely a financial agreement between S4S and RSS.
Well it happened, codemasters took a modders F1 Ferrari, he moaned about it, and ultimately he didn't have a license from Ferrari so what legal rights does he really have over it?
I think codemasters most likely did it to make a point rather than needing a Ferrari model...
I read about it on here ages ago so if was fake news it was on here...
 
Where did you get that idea you can steal anyone's work? That's absolutely astonishing to think anyone can think such an insane thing. Like a famous beard guy said : "you want to go home and rethink your life."
Seriously, in case yoy are really not aware about what working is about ; since many years, centuries, work has a commercial value (let's put slavery aside, as this notion has been, and still is, culturally different in societies). So you can't qteal anyone's work for false reasons lile "I got the IP, I can steal other works because they create something from scratch touching that IP, although they were legally allowed to do it becase they haven't used this IP's brand". Being paid mod or not, you can't steal anyone's work.

If you have difficulties to think in a digital world context, let's imagine a backery selling some coolies looking and tasting like Oreos (don't ask me why I think about Oreos, it's been at least 20 years since I ate one). And just in yhe same street another backery is selling the official Oreos, having all the official decoration because it has paid the license (I really hope this doesn't exist...), because obviously it attracts people. Do you think it would be legal to stole all the cookies stock from the first bakery to sell it, rebranded, in the official Oreo bakery? That is exactly what you are stating there. Hope it helps. When thinking about the digital world, always remember it is the real world before all, only the products are digital, not the human beings and the money, these are as true as you are.

A bit iff topic, but I think it was a necessary point for some. About the topic, this is not the first screenshot of the game published on RD, what a shame RD, you even don't know your own content. About the screenshot in itself, I don't see what's wrong in using existing assets, it is just to show a rendering in the engine. What's wrong is not showing a video of that first stage of the game, if it really exisits. Nothing interesting there as always and, if not a vaporware, there won't be anything interesting before at least one year.

EDIT1 : do yourself a favor, don't eat these Oreo's chimical aberrations.

EDIT2 : for sure the same comparison can be done with a little girl giving for free oreo style cookies around the corner (a hippie for sure!) and the backer from the official oreo's shop stealing her cookies (that's the funniest part...).
Its a long winded post atempting to look really smart.
My point was, and it happened, is that if a modder doesn't have a license for their model, and the people with the licence take the model, the modder is on very very dodgy territory if he thinks he can go and raise some legal case on it.....because hey, guess what, he hasn't any legal ownership as he effectively 'stole' the model due to no license...

These are facts and codemasters did just this....

I know we are in sim racing land here where a modder rips a model from a game into rfactor, then years later a modder rips the rfactor rip into say AC, then gets loads a messages saying they 'stole' it.....
Straigth4 asked to use RSS model for one picture, that is all...... its not necessarily in GTRevival as I doubt its even a working game at this point...
So they asked to use a picture my guess would be, big deal.

To be clear here on a separation, Ian Bell isn't some modder in his bedroom, he knows what he is doing, i trust him in that at least.
But all these modders making models of cars without a licence, you have no real claim of ownership aside from stupid legal disclaimers you put to threaten other modders.
Without a license its nothing.
Even RSS just changing names and removing badges, any half decent IP lawyer could take that down in a heart beat.
Weirdly sim racing modding seems to be left largely alone, but it doesn't mean it all legally fine.
I mean Ilija of AC CSP fame makes 40k a month from his CSP mod and he never paid a cent for a license to Kunos....but it shifts more copies for them so they leave it alone, but they COULD shut him down tomorrow if they felt like it and probably will when AC2 comes out...
 
Last edited:

Latest News

Article information

Author
Yannik Haustein
Article read time
2 min read
Views
16,269
Comments
117
Last update

How are you going to watch 24 hours of Le Mans

  • On national tv

    Votes: 235 34.1%
  • Eurosport app/website

    Votes: 188 27.2%
  • WEC app/website

    Votes: 131 19.0%
  • Watch party

    Votes: 57 8.3%
  • At a friends house

    Votes: 16 2.3%
  • At Le Mans

    Votes: 63 9.1%
Back
Top