Cars Prototype: Purpose built virtual race car, the Falke Erlkönig

[Warper23]

We are introducing the Falke Erlkönig to challenge the focus of today’s virtual motorsport. Most race simulations target to replicate real race cars as accurately as possible. This has two major drawbacks:

1. Real race cars are not focused on being as rewarding as possible for the driver. Rather they follow commercial, safety and/or environmental considerations.
2. Real race cars are unnecessarily hard to drive in race simulations because their vehicle dynamics design does not account for the missing physical feedback in race simulations (see deep dive below).

The Falke Erlkönig is an early prototype virtual race car, engineered for putting the driver in focus and to deliver an always rewarding racing experience. Join our Discord to help validate our hypothesis. For now we are using Assetto Corsa as a development and testing platform.

Download the prototype in our discord community: https://discord.gg/8z9TgzBmRs
Find out more about our ideas and some background: https://projectnn.net

A quick teaser:

Thanks very much to Ama FMOD who supplied the sound!

 

[Kjell Eilertsen]

Just spent a couple of hours together with two of the guys from the team racing this car around Spa on their server.
The car was a ton of fun to drive, even at this early stage, and the guys where really open to feedback so it was great to be able to drive it and have good discussions on Discord about what was good and what could be improved upon.
I highly suggest you join the servers and contribute, if for nothing else it's a fun time driving the car!

 

[pe2eg2ine]

The next test race session will be tonight at 9PM CET.

Come and join us, if you'd like to try out the Falke Erlkönig and particitpate in its development by giving us feedback!

Download the prototype in our discord community: https://discord.gg/8z9TgzBmRs
Find out more about our ideas and some background: https://projectnn.net

 

[Deleted member 223075]

@pe2eg2ine 418Mo just for bank file is really heavy. You can reduce it.

 

[pe2eg2ine]

@pe2eg2ine 418Mo just for bank file is really heavy. You can reduce it.

Thanks for your feedback! We put on the list for improvements.

 

[pe2eg2ine]

Upcoming testing sessions

1) Tuesday, 29th of December, 8pm CET (first in a row of Tuesday night sessions)

2) Wednesday, 30th of December, 9pm CET

Download the PNN launcher to update the car and also for convenient race join in our discord community: https://discord.gg/8z9TgzBmRs

We welcome everyone willing to share his/her opinion on the actual status of the vehicle development with us. Or you join us simply for some quick and fun race action. Happy testing!