Weekly Sim Racing News Round-Up
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Back to a busy week, we have updates for AMS2, Pure Rock Crawling, RaceRoom, and Grid Legends. RaceRoom also makes all of its content free-to-play for the rest of May. News on upcoming releases and/or info for Art of Rally, Need for Speed, BTCC, TDU and WRC Generations.
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Good video as always @Scaff
Regarding the 48 times greater fidelity in the physics of FM8 (FM) I've seen a quote since from one of the presenters of the reveal (Chris I think is his name) which seems to imply it's specifically relating to the tyre physics.
The tyres have gone from one contact point to 8 and the refresh rate is 6 time faster than in FM7. So it stands to reason the entire physcis engine will refresh 6 times faster than FM7 whicxh is already a good figure (on paper at least), but that doesn't mean the entire physics engine has 48 times the fidelity of FM7.
It might do, but it's revealing (IMO) that they connected that comment to the tyres alone and that doing the maths on the tyres gives you that 48 number, so that's probably thier marketing figure, but I doubt it applies across the board.
Regarding the 48 times greater fidelity in the physics of FM8 (FM) I've seen a quote since from one of the presenters of the reveal (Chris I think is his name) which seems to imply it's specifically relating to the tyre physics.
The tyres have gone from one contact point to 8 and the refresh rate is 6 time faster than in FM7. So it stands to reason the entire physcis engine will refresh 6 times faster than FM7 whicxh is already a good figure (on paper at least), but that doesn't mean the entire physics engine has 48 times the fidelity of FM7.
It might do, but it's revealing (IMO) that they connected that comment to the tyres alone and that doing the maths on the tyres gives you that 48 number, so that's probably thier marketing figure, but I doubt it applies across the board.
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I don't doubt it, but whoever put the marketing copy together didn't get the memo:
"We've completely overhauled the core driving experience to take advantage of the power of the Xbox Series consoles. This includes a 48 times improvement in the fidelity of our physics simulation."
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Indeed, maybe it is 48 times across the board, but it's be very coincidental that everything has multiplied by 8 x 6 which is specifically what they'd managed with the tyres. It's promising either way, but we'll have to see I guess.I don't doubt it, but whoever put the marketing copy together didn't get the memo:
"We've completely overhauled the core driving experience to take advantage of the power of the Xbox Series consoles. This includes a 48 times improvement in the fidelity of our physics simulation."
The All-New Forza Motorsport is the Most Technically Advanced Racing Game Ever Made
Discover the spectacle of racing like you’ve never seen it before in our detailed recap of everything the Forza Motorsport team shared at the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase.forza.net
I'm debating buying Redout 2 tonight, depends if I'll get any actual time to play it over the weekend or not. But I liked the original a lot.
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Just rendering a first-look video, the TLDW is no combat, pure racing, heavy on the GPU (1660Ti can't go any higher than Med preset at 1080p for a locked 60fps) and a few UE4 crashes to desktop. I do however like it quite a lot, even if it could do with a bit of optimization, as the actual handling is great.
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This week brings us updates for Pure Rock Crawling, Rush Rally Origins, Redout 2, and Automobilista 2. AMS2 also gets three new tracks in the form of DLC, as does Assetto Corsa Competizione, finally, we have news of an upcoming early access title called RaceLegue, and F1 22 is released across all versions.
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It's the two-year anniversary special!!!
Actually, it's not, as I totally forgot that it's two years ago that I started these, so it's a perfectly normal episode.
Updates for RF2, BeamNG, GT7 Wreckfest, ACC, FH5, and Grid Legends, damn that's a lot of updates. Oh and news about
TDU and WRC Generations.
Actually, it's not, as I totally forgot that it's two years ago that I started these, so it's a perfectly normal episode.
Updates for RF2, BeamNG, GT7 Wreckfest, ACC, FH5, and Grid Legends, damn that's a lot of updates. Oh and news about
TDU and WRC Generations.
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World of Outlaws looks really decent but too early to judge what iRacing's assets include. The previous titles of Monster Games were really good fun and with an AI that was more than challenging. If they improve on their previous TSaAR and SRX games we could end up with atop notch title
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This week's update sees multiple news stories for a few titles, with RFactor 2 getting an update and DLC; while RaceRoom gets an update, DLC, and news of further upcoming DLC. In other news, Redout 2, F1 22, and Race League all get small updates, while Automobilista 2 developer Reiza has detailed the upcoming 1.4 update and DLC, which is due at the end of the month, finally GT gets added to the roster for a well-known US motorsport organisation.
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This week sees updates for RFactor 2, Race League, Forza Horizon 5, Circuit Superstars, and RaceRoom. If that were not enough we have launch information for Wreckreation, Wreckfest Mobile, and NASCAR Rivals, and to round it all off it's the 20th Anniversary of Live for Speed.
