Dave
Rubbish.
> Dave
>> Ok i love gtr's both demos and only can afford to buy 1 to 2 games a
>> year. But i would only buy gtr if the online multiplayer was as good as
>> LFS or gpl, because thats the only reason you would buy a game like gtr.
>> If its anything like f1 chalange i would not buy it (that was a total
>> waste of money), so i want to know from people who have the game what
>> they think of the multiplay..
I like them both. I must be totally warped.
http://www.rfactor.net/
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David G Fisher
I believe GTR is still a good investment. The offline game, once you've
adjusted the AI to your preference, is as solid as GPL's.
The online game does have some limitations as other posters have pointed
out. These became very apparent to me these last 2 weekends with the release
of version 1.30. 1.30 has temporarily cost our league its main server due to
its requirement for a CD in the drive (the server presently does not have a
CD drive) and we were forced to utilize member machines. The member machines
were acting both as server and player machine and this double duty, coupled
with a smaller bandwidth availability, led to a number of problems
including the killer pace car and warping cars showing up. Once the numbers
fell to 8 or so the warps were almost gone (don't know if the killer pace
car issue goes away). I do know that when we ran a dedicated server on a
high bandwidth connect and version 1.23 these problems were just about non
existant even with 20+ online. This points to the problem being high CPU
utilization and swamped bandwidth rather than any fundamental defect in the
netcode. From hints that SImbin have dropped it appears that they have some
sort of dedicated server response out sometime early in May.
So you might be thinking "Big deal, how does this help me now?" The way I
see it you can wait around for however long it takes rFactor or FIRST's
offering to show up (and hope they live up to expectations) or you can buy
GTR and go racing in modern sportscars right away in a sim that will
definitly challenge you. For online racing it will require that you pick and
choose the servers you're playing on. A bit of research (AKA Asking people)
in the Simbin lobby should help you find some that fill your racing needs.
Don't try to get into the servers that already have 20 people on unless you
know they can handle the load. Simbin itself has several dedicated servers
up that ought to be stable.
Or you could keep playing GPL or paying for LFS.
Your call :)
Dave
I'd hold onto your money and wait until you start to hear good things
about it in here if I was you - they apparently have a patch in the works to
sort all this but since it's already been released internationally as
basically alpha code I put it in the category of "beleive it when I see it".
If you remember Cart Precision Racing then GTR is basically almost in
that category (nothing is as bad as CPR though) - it's got great potential
but if the weak links aren't removed then it just a frustrating peice of
junk.
