rec.autos.simulators

The SimBin Development Team, AB is pleased to announce our upcoming
game, GTR, the officially licensed simulation of the FIA GT racing
series.

Following are some of this exciting new game's features :

- 56 Cars racing on track simultaneously, including the full field of
the 24 Hours of Spa.
- The world's greatest supercars modeled with the most intricate
detail ever seen in a retail simulation.
- All of the real world tracks meticulously recreated using GPS data
for extreme accuracy, plus additional bonus tracks.
- Physics engine crafted with actual telemetry data from the
individual FIA GT teams for unprecendented realism.
- Dedicated server support for the most intense online racing
experience available.
- Thundering engine sounds sampled directly from each car puts you
right in the driver's seat.
- Online seasonal competition with massive prizes

Anticipated release date is mid 2004.

I bought F1C -  but I really wish I hadn't..

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ed_

It's a fun game, don't worry. Ed has a problem with the publishers business
ethics rather than the game itself.

Be sure to Google this group with regard to posts regarding controller setup
in this game as it sometimes displays some quircks.

Jan.
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I don't play F1C 'cause it's "crap"...  Compared to other racing sims *I
think* it sucks. The online play is crap, the menu's system stinks and the
controller setup is hell to get right...

Thus I've played the game about 4 times and thats it... (read waste of
money)   Like I said the same day I bought it... I wish I'd gotten Rise of
Nations" instead..

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ed_
http://rascar.racesimcentral.com
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$10 says Petter Solberg wins the 2003 WRC

Yea with 3 fps in a race. I'll be suprised if they can pull this off.

As for SimBin... anyone know if they wil develop their own engine
(driving model) or will they buy a license for an existing one (like
F1C's for example...)?

I find it hard to believe in a mid 2004 release date if they are
developing an engine from scratch.

Regs,

Jo?o Gonzalez

I'm sorry, I thought you were the "the patch is next years full game"-guy.

Online is indeed not as good as in Papyrus games, but it's not ***either.
Menu system is not very practical, but there is some logic to it, as opposed
to, say, GP4. Controller setup is indeed poor out of the box, but on the
plus side the configuration can be manually edited to correct mistakes the
game has made through not correctly identifying your hardware.

I'm geting my money's worth out of it. The F1 part asks a little too much
commitment, but the mods are fun *AND* there's finally a decent version of
Zolder ("local" track) for a sim.

Jan.
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Mike
http://mikebeauchamp.com

   THe LeMans 24hr 2k2 mod has had 50 cars running in f1 2k2 for months
now...some slowdown at the start, but not much after that.
F1c has even better pit code so the limitations of over 36 cars using the
pits is gone as well.  I've run an early beta of LM24hr_C(or whatever they
will officially name the F1c mod) with the 50 2k2 cars ported over and the
framerate will not be a drawback on most of the newer systems out there.
  XzibitA's gtr hack has had about 50 cars from the get-go.

dave henrie

PLEASE let there be a realtime 24 hour race option.

Mike
http://mikebeauchamp.com

That's a rather big assumption to make given that the press release only
mentions the cars themselves...

-jde