rF2 McLaren 650s Released - GT3 Pack Confirmed...

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Studio 397 have released the new McLaren 650s DLC and opened pre orders for the newly announced GT3 DLC pack coming September...

Already confirmed as part of the 'Worlds Fastest Gamer' competition and marking the first time rFactor 2 has been in receipt of paid DLC content, the McLaren 650s GT3 DLC has caused something of a stir within the sim racing community in recent weeks.

Developed by Studio 397 in conjunction with both McLaren themselves and several GT3 teams who run the beautiful cars, the new DLC promises to be one of the most accurate first party additions in the history of the simulation.

Developed completely in house by Studio 397, the McLaren will be their fourth car release since taking over development of the simulation from Image Space Incorporated, and the new vehicle will be the first release under the new paid DLC structure introduced by the developers.

Retailing for £4.46 via the rFactor 2 Steam Store page, the car will actually form part of a wider five car GT3 release scheduled to hit later in the year in September.

Although pre order sales for the new GT3 pack have opened up, Studio 397 and rFactor 2 have yet to reveal which cars will be joining the McLaren in the simulation come release day. Although announcements are sure to come in the following days and weeks, it is known that the four as yet unannounced machines have been developed with full support and backing of the relevant manufacturers, allowing Studio 397 to lavish the same level of attention to detail across the whole pack as has been given to the new McLaren.

The 650s and upcoming GT3 pack are the first of several newly rationalised DLC offerings expected to be coming to rFactor 2 over the next few months and years.

Studio 397 have gone on record several times to reiterate that content releases for rFactor 2 will be more focussed towards releasing packs of related cars and classes in future, rather than the sometimes disjointed single car releases that seem to be the plague of the sim racing marketplace in recent years.

Catching a brief chat with Studio 397 head @Marcel Offermans tonight, the Dutchman had plenty to say about the bright future of rFactor 2 and the interesting DLC packs coming to the sim over the next few months.

When asked what the short, medium and long term future looks like for rFactor 2 content, Offermans confirmed that although plenty of officially licenced DLC is in the works, issues around non disclosure agreements and manufacturer approvals prevent the studio from revealing too much at this stage of development, however he did go on to confirm the studio plan to further make use of the Steam item store for not only official content, but third party releases too..

"We plan to open up this item store to third party paid content too, obviously making sure that content meets certain quality standards, is not ripped, properly licensed, etc (and we can work with people to achieve that)" said Marcel.​

This could potentially be a game changer for modding teams, especially with the confirmation that Studio 397 are willing to work alongside modding teams to secure the proper licencing rights and quality standards required to bring paid content to the simulation.

Moving on to the subject of tracks, it has been stated again that the developers plan to bring laserscanning locations to the simulation in the near future, in an effort to best replicate tracks to a standard now becoming something of an expectation of the sim racing community:

"...that is something we’re working on behind the scenes at the moment, and similar to cars we want to also come with paid, licensed and laser scanned tracks there.

However despite the recent pay DLC McLaren and upcoming GT3 pack, Offermans has confirmed that the simulation will still be in receipt of free add-ons too, ensuring those not willing to go down the DLC route still get something new to enjoy in the near future:

"Our strategy won’t be to only create paid content, we will keep mixing it up with free content"

"(as for) volume, well, that depends a bit on how things go. We see content as an accelerator to further grow the platform, and also as the basis for our upcoming competition infrastructure as that clearly needs some good, aligned content"
On a final note during our brief midnight hours chat, Marcel confirmed the developers are in the process of "releasing a few guides on how to properly use this paid content when hosting a dedicated server and when using it in leagues", which should help clubs and leagues like our own here at RaceDepartment make the best use of this exciting new content.

Stay tuned to RaceDepartment for a more detailed interview with Marcel Offermans and Studio 397 in the next couple of weeks.... (when time allows anyway!!!)...

The McLaren 650s is available to purchase now, with the GT3 pack to follow come September.

rFactor 2 is a PC exclusive racing simulation developed by Studio 397. You can purchase the McLaren 650s HERE and pre order the upcoming 5 car GT3 pack HERE.

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Check out the rFactor 2 sub forum here at RaceDepartment for all the latest news and discussion with regards to the simulation. You can take part in lively debates with fellow rFactor 2 fans and take part in some great Club and League racing events..! Head over to the forum now and share the love this simulation so very much deserves...

Have you tried the new McLaren yet? Will you be pre-ordering the GT3 pack? What do you think of the new DLC pricing structure? Let us know in the comments section below!
 
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@Emery Awesome...Thanks for taking the time to answer in such detail! I didn't take into consideration the following that rFactor has compared to Raceroom. Always nice to have someone else bring up another viewpoint. Only a few more days left, so you're right, might as well jump in. Thanks for the info. :thumbsup:
 
@Emery Awesome...Thanks for taking the time to answer in such detail!

You're welcome! Because I got curious this morning, here's even more detail.

Of the 10 Vegas eRace participants (yes, that infamous one back on Jan 7), 6 of them are in the WFG contest. As of last night's posting, here's their position:
* Bono Huis
5 Enzo Bonito
7 Petar Brljak
17 Graham Carroll
20 David Greco
235 Aleksi Uusi-Jaakkola

* Bono Huis was one of the six preselected to be in the finale, so does not have to go through the qualifying rounds. Four of the six preselections have been announced, awaiting word on who the other two people are.
 
Rf2 times 1:57 2 sec difference is a lot of time. Do the real drivers do the same times in their simulators?

Difference is that real drivers don't smash their car 250 times like simracers do when hotlapping. Easily only 1 in 3 timed laps for most top drivers are ever completed when their target is solely a single fast lap. Other factors are available time for qualification, whether there's traffic during qualifying (usually, unlike the private qualy of WFG), and the track conditions (WFG is pretty much perfect).

Personally I'd rather see the qualification be the total of 4 laps (outlap plus 3 timed laps) to rein in the banzai nature of hotlapping.

P.S. Thanks for posting the real world times!
 
Difference is that real drivers don't smash their car 250 times like simracers do when hotlapping.

Hey my friend, i think you slightly miss read my post ...Real life theres crash damage, injury, Pressure, financial consequence..... but do real driver achieve faster times in their simulators compared to what they do on track?
 
Hey my friend, i think you slightly miss read my post ...Real life theres crash damage, injury, Pressure, financial consequence..... but do real driver achieve faster times in their simulators compared to what they do on track?
I understood what you meant and thanks for posting the times. Compared to what I've seen of other times on the real track the 1:57's seemed a little unrealistic. Thanks for confirming.

A little off topic, but still rF2 related. How do you get the tire wear hud to display? I've seen hit "6" and then hit "enter" to cycle through, but for some reason I'm not seeing it in VR. Is it in-game or an addon? For such an older title it seems tough to find any information easily. I've seen several links to rF2 guides, but they're all dead links. Any working links would be greatly appreciated.
 
Real drivers drive in Silverstone.
Rf2's track is not laserscanned so not exactly Silverstone.
Real cars can't downshift as rf2 car does.
Real cars won't behave like cars in rf2 drifting with 250...
 
Real drivers drive in Silverstone.
Rf2's track is not laserscanned so not exactly Silverstone.
Real cars can't downshift as rf2 car does.
Real cars won't behave like cars in rf2 drifting with 250...

I've driven a real car (Caterham R300) at Silverstone. My prep in RF2 was very useful and everything was where it should be on the day, the sim had done an excellent job of preparing me. Laser scanning wasn't necessary. I used the skip barber car in RF2, not exactly like for like but close enough to get an idea of how fast to take each corner. It worked pretty well.
 
Here is some kind of record hot lap IRL I guess. 1:58:04

So if this video is authentic then it's quite possible to go 1:57 which is only 1s faster than real life.
When you have thousands of laps to experiment to drive over curbs and slide like mad man to find best possible racing line and you don't have to worry about preserving tires and crashing then you should go faster than real drivers.
 
This is posted at A.C.forum.
This is how aliens achieve super fast.
Loose setup and unrealistic driving with drifting on a gt3 car...this is exactly what I mentioned above.

http://devbot.enterprises/share/2017-08-06_01-22-22.mp4

Actually I was expecting the aliens to have more loose driving than this. The car is admittedly quite floaty, but here it stays normal most of the time. The engine braking is the only thing that straight looks wrong, in particular to T3, but then again if we assume an engine that won't break down, this would be the way to drive it I guess.
 
Here is some kind of record hot lap IRL I guess. 1:58:04

So if this video is authentic then it's quite possible to go 1:57 which is only 1s faster than real life.
When you have thousands of laps to experiment to drive over curbs and slide like mad man to find best possible racing line and you don't have to worry about preserving tires and crashing then you should go faster than real drivers.

Well I stand corrected. 1:57's are not unrealistic.:confused: But damn, how do I shave 5 seconds off my time?
I know! I'll just fool my little brain and say I hate Silverstone. That'll make me feel better. :roflmao:
 
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The competition had capped and static realroad. With further saturation the laptimes would have kept extending this gap by a further 2-3s. Anyway, it's been interesting to follow your breakdowns, Emery :thumbsup:.
 
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Well I stand corrected. 1:57's are not unrealistic.:confused: But damn, how do I shave 5 seconds off my time?
I know! I'll just fool my little brain and say I hate Silverstone. That'll make me feel better. :roflmao:
I wish I could help you but currently I am at 2:02.6xx after cca 100 laps. I believe I could get into 2:00.xxx after few hundred laps more of hard practice and playing with setup but not bellow that at my current skill level.
Probably way to go is watching onboard replay videos from fast simmers and then trying to replicate breaking points, turn in speeds but it is harder than it sounds. For instance I can carry cca 180 kmph in T1 while some of them carry 195 kmph. But it's ok and I am aware that I ma semi-noob class.

 
I wish I could help you but currently I am at 2:02.6xx after cca 100 laps. I believe I could get into 2:00.xxx after few hundred laps more of hard practice and playing with setup but not bellow that at my current skill level.

I saw a tip last night that I wasn't aware of. Set your TC to medium. I didn't try it because it was late, but some are saying it shaved off a few seconds. Seems like they would've set that to be fixed, but TC and ABS you can tweak. I'm going to try it when I get home from work.
 
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