rF2 Development Roadmap: Tatuus Coming Soon!

[Paul Jeffrey]

The latest rFactor 2 'Development Roadmap' is here - containing news on free Tatuus DLC, VR improvements and plenty more besides!

Catching me out by shifting the release date of the new roadmap forward a few days, Studio 397 have updated the community on their current development situation with rFactor 2 - including plenty of new and exciting news about the simulation...

June 2019 Development Roadmap:

Surprise, surprise! Let’s do the roadmap a week early, at the start of the actual Steam Summer Sale!

Summer Sale
There’s quite a few packs on sale this summer, more than we ever had, so let’s go over them! And of course, rFactor 2 itself is on sale as well!

We have three car packs on sale. The GT3 Power Pack and Endurance Pack are both 50% off, and the latest GT3 Challengers Pack has a 33% discount. Our first ever laser scanned track, that set a benchmark for future high quality tracks, Sebring, has a 30% discount.

A 25% discount was applied to the Formula E Race bundle, featuring the Gen 2 car as well as two, highly accurate tracks: Monaco and Hong Kong.

Our partners at Reiza Studios also have a special surprise for the summer. Not only are all three of their packs (the full pack, the car pack and the track pack) on sale, they also provided some fixes for the MCR 2000 as well as two brand new layouts for Imola, doubling the number of layouts available!

The existing layouts, the classic, dangerous 1972 layout surrounded by nearby barriers and the current configuration, fully adapted to modern standards but still retaining a lot of the unique challenges that made it famous are now augmented by the 1988 layout that introduced a few chicanes and the subsequent 2001 layout with further modifications and chicanes. I think it’s fair to say that this track can now be adapted to suit a car of any age! Of course, you get both new layouts for free if you’ve already bought Imola before! Just check the workshop for updates.

Last but not least, our partners at KartSim have put their package on sale at 50% off, a great opportunity if you want to get into karting.

Tatuus
We know we know, it’s been a little while…. open wheel fans have been sitting at the window longingly looking into the distance hoping for a sign. But wait no more, we are pleased to once again give you ‘open wheel’ aficionados something to get your pulse ‘racing’ again. So start getting worked up right now, because the Tatuus pack arrival is imminent. This punchy bundle of five unique open wheel Tatuus cars that includes the Tatuus F.3 T318, the Tatuus MSV F3-016 (aka British F3), the Tatuus PM-18 (Pro Mazda), the Tatuus USF-17, Tatuus F4 T014, and the Tatuus FT-50, will hit the ground wheels spinning on Thursday this week.

And one more thing, the Tatuus pack and all of it’s cars will be ‘free’ on the Steam workshop for everyone to enjoy!

New Build
We’ve also just released a new build with some fixes and new features in it.

VR Features
We basically added two new things. Support for “IPD” or “World Scale” adjustments, which allow the fine tuning of the distance between the eye cameras in game. Some headsets have hardware controls for this too, but due to popular demand from people in our community we added this as a software feature too. This adjustment allows changing stereo separation strength, which leads to different perception of VR image and in some cases increases comfort. We’ve added key bindings to increase, decrease or even reset the IPD so you can map those and make adjustments while sitting in the cockpit (don’t adjust and drive though!).

The second feature we added is for users of the Pimax (and possibly other similarly constructed headsets). It allows you to enable or disable a specific projection mode that respects the orientation of the displays in the headsets. On the Pimax they are canted. Setting this feature, that for now needs to be changed in the player.json text file, to “1” enables this new option for Pimax. As a side effect, rendering on Pimax becomes roughly 25% more efficient, which is a nice bonus.

Below is an overview of both settings as they appear in your player.json:

Changes
Other, smaller changes are:

• We’ve fixed a problem with our RSS based news feed in the old launcher (news failed to show up at all, should be back again now).
• The showroom was not correctly showing up in VR, now it’s back to normal.
• Temporarily we’ve disabled the heat haze effect as it was rendering incorrectly. We are working on a proper fix, it will be back soon.
• We’ve made some improvements to how our light probes are updated when jumping around in a replay between different times of day.

Road to Le Mans
The sign up for the qualifying races is going into the final hours, deadline is 15:00 CEST on the 26th of June. With qualifying races held this weekend the current 78 entries will fight to get into the final 45 spots. Oreca, BMW, Corvette and Porsche will race side by side for the ultimate glory. We will be crowing the 2019 winners of Le Mans when the race ends Sunday, July 7th.
As mentioned this race features our Endurance pack, which is on sale now. There is practically no excuse to not enter this epic event. Try out our recently released Le Mans laser scanned track. It can’t get any better than this!

That’s it for now. Enjoy the summer!

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[Cote Dazur]

VR Features
We basically added two new things. Support for “IPD” or “World Scale” adjustments,...........
The second feature we added is for users of the Pimax (and possibly other similarly constructed headsets).

Thank you S397, for improving your already great VR implementation when other developers just ignore VR. VR is the ultimate immersion tool and goes hand in hand with great physic and great graphics to create an outstanding sim experience.

 

[Jeremy Talbot]

Don't hear much love for the Tatuus pack here, but personally I'm very, very excited by it to be honest. Love these level cars, and think its superb that so many different models are coming, recreating so many real world series such as British F3, Pro-Mazda and Toyota Racing Series..

Epic.

Just need some New Zealand tracks now to recreate the Toyota racing series

 

[CDwyer]

Sale is enough for me to put my toes in the water, along with the formula E pack.

 

[Alex Townsend]

Just love reading the idiot responses in rF2 threads. I've started to enjoy them now. "No one interested"... that's a classic.
"I'm not going to bother with free stuff", more fool you eh?
But thanks S397 and Marcel, continual improvement of this title is always welcome. Le Mans was a very welcome surprise, free Taatus cars and a sale to give everyone on the fence a chance at some cracking content for a very nice price.
I don't like Formula E but the lure of Hong Kong, which is one of my favourite cities, along with some cars I've not tried before is proving quite strong... I may have to pick it up.
And, the UI will come, but I tell you something, you're not going to be sitting there with your wheel and pedals set up with maybe your boots and racing gloves on clicking through menus are you?
I'd like to think you'd be out there on track racing the wheels off of your favourite content.
That's what I do anyway, menus are there to set up some basics before you spend an hour or two lapping tracks or racing people.
Main thing I really want is the online side sorted so we can jump into online races with real people like we can on ACC... that's about it really.

 

[azqa]

There is no information about the Nordschleife in this roadmap, it's a pity !

I would find it great if Marcel Offermans gave us more information about it.

This track is fantastic !

I am happy for the Tatuus.

Great for the world scale VR.

Good job !!!!

 

[muzikant]

There is no information about the Nordschleife in this roadmap, it's a pity !

I would find it great if Marcel Offermans gave us more information about it.

This track is fantastic !

I am happy for the Tatuus.

Great for the world scale VR.

Good job !!!!

I think Marcel had said in the Lemans interview that it will be come in two months. from what I understood.

 

[Copef1]

I'm psyched for the Taatus cars. Thanks S397

 

[patchedupdemon]

Perfect feeder series of cars, loving the growth of rf2 since S397 took over

 

[Leynad777]

I think Marcel had said in the Lemans interview that it will be come in two months. from what I understood.

He said four to six weeks after Le Mans and the competition system rather in weeks than months some while ago in the forum. So we might see a release of both together.

 

[Nick Hill]

No VR, no buy!!!

Sorry, I know rF2 has VR support, I've just been wanting to post that to see what it felt like (it wasn't as much fun as I thought) and this was my first opportunity.

 

[BP]

I saw this thread and thought to myself...I said "self...I'd bet my favourite guitar someone complains about the UI or the price of DLC within the first 10 posts."...didn't think it'd happen on the FIRST TWO!

Oh fellow sim racers...resilience be thy name. Thanks S397, some of us still appreciate the work you're doing; thanks for the free cars.

Road to Le Mans
The sign up for the qualifying races is going into the final hours, deadline is 15:00 CEST on the 26th of June. With qualifying races held this weekend the current 78 entries will fight to get into the final 45 spots. Oreca, BMW, Corvette and Porsche will race side by side for the ultimate glory. We will be crowing the 2019 winners of Le Mans when the race ends Sunday, July 7th.

Where exactly is the sign up for this? I'm very curious and would like to give it a shot.

 

[pevides]

Seriously, who cares about TATUUS? It`s just a waste of both: time and resources.

Studio 397, do you will forget LMP1 forever? The LEGEND racing cars? LMP1 !

Are you serious? I`m sorry, but you`re making a mistake! 90% of the virtual pilots would buy a LMP1 car pack . And please don`t come with the new "Hypercars" excuse. That`s just a lazy excuse. I went to Le Mans this year and I saw LMP1`S! I supported the team Rebellion. Where is the LMP1 from Rebellion Racing in RFactor 2? Where? Where? Where?

Seriously!
A LMP1 pack with 3 modern cars and 3 classic LMP1`s like the ETRON, would be AMAZING for everyone. In another words, would be instant buy from everyone... you know... more money for you Studio 397. Wake up!

 

[Marcel Offermans]

I saw this thread and thought to myself...I said "self...I'd bet my favourite guitar someone complains about the UI or the price of DLC within the first 10 posts."...didn't think it'd happen on the FIRST TWO!

Oh fellow sim racers...resilience be thy name. Thanks S397, some of us still appreciate the work you're doing; thanks for the free cars.

Where exactly is the sign up for this? I'm very curious and would like to give it a shot.

https://forum.studio-397.com/index.php?threads/road-to-le-mans-24-hours-of-le-mans.63349/

 

[Ace King]

Seriously, who cares about TATUUS? It`s just a waste of both: time and resources.

I sure as hell care and grateful for this wonderful "Free" DLC and want to shout a big thankyou to S397.

 

[tpw]

I love lower powered open wheelers, can't wait to thrash some of these little beasts around a few smaller technical circuits (esp Oulton Park). Thanks Marcel and S397 for this!

 

[pevides]

I sure as hell care and grateful for this wonderful "Free" DLC and want to shout a big thankyou to S397.

You have better and also free alternatives. These tatuus don`t add literally anything new...
unlike a new LMP1 category.

 

[dreamer al]

Would be nice to have vibration/feedback on gamepads. Just saying........whistles..........

 

[dreamer al]

I would be interested in buying the "on sale" Formula E Race bundle, but I was a "silly billy" and bought the Gen 2 vehicle when it first was offered. I will just have to wait until it becomes a 50% sale (hmmmmmm).

 

[Dragon60]

Looking forward for the Tatuus and all the other improvement on rF2. Let the dogs bark the rF2 caravan moves on.

 

[AngryWolfCorey]

I don't want to disappoint you when we announce our next sale, but I'm pretty sure the Tatuus cars won't be discounted. Ever.

Just let those people who can't even be bothered to read the article wait for the discount.