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Chris

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This may be heresy around these parts, but I'm seriously hoping that WSC is
good enough to supplant GPL.  If it's truly as open as I've read, people
will be able to model the entire 1967 season- tracks, cars, and all.  As
great as the GPLEA cars are, can you imagine a Ferrari or Eagle done with
the detail we've seen in the WSC shots?  And other seasons could follow-
pretend to be Fangio in a mid 50s car or Rosemeyer in a 30s Auto Union.
Imagine the possibilities!  A burning question though- will it support a
track as long as the old Nordschliefe?

But that's all apparently in the distant future and GPL does quite nicely
for now.

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I agree in many ways - after all, we don't really want to find out that
GPL is the best that will *ever* be produced, and that it's all
downhill from here.

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Well, it'll have to cope with Le Mans, so it ought to. IN any case, who
cares? The Targa Florio is what's *really* important!

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Marc.

I'm a relative newcomer to it all, I stumbled upon GPL in September last
year and then kind of fell straight into UKGPL league racing. It's been
a costly business. Since then I have upgraded everything and have
virtually played nothing else, my free time has dwindled away! I
wouldn't swap that time for anything (although my wife might disagree).

WSC looks and sounds as if it could also be _very_ special but we'll be
able to tell in the first 5 minutes whether it's going to be a real
contender. It's that way that GPL just feels like you're in control of a
racing car, whereas you feel strangely disembodied in GPn and every
other sim racer I've tried so far.

IMO it's in that translation of 'that special feeling' that we'll know
if there is a worthy successor to GPL, no amount of 'eye candy' will
ever make up for it. But even if it is the real McCoy, until we've got
everything GPL currently offers then I'm still going to fire it up for a
run out on my PC for a good long while yet! For nostalgic reasons it'll
be a very sad day when we fire up winvroc and there's nobody there, but
if that is the case we'll be already be in sim racing heaven with WSC! I
think this is just where the West's want to take us!

For today though, GPL truely is 'the bollocks'!

Cheers,

Andy

I can wait as well.  If we don't see it until Q1 2002 that's cool.  I just
hope it doesn't slip any further than that.

David Cook

Welcome back from your recent trip (mars?) :) - Just kidding, its the West
Brothers that are making WSC.

You'll find most imformation at http://www.racesimcentral.net/

The official website is http://www.racesimcentral.net/ - but the guys havent got
much stuff on the site yet, because they are working so *** trying to
get the game finished :)

All the best,
Ash

| x-no-archive: yes
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| OK, don't flame me, I've just upgraded and been playing GPL almost all the
| time, so I missed something here...
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| Who's producing WSC, is it a papy sim? Is there a web page for it?
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| Ta.
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| R.
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| > "...that special feeling" is directly related to the 6DOF physics model
| > IMHO.  WSC boasts support for this as well as the most incredible eye
| candy
| > I've seen in a driving sim yet.  The new menu's look GREAT.
| >
| > I can wait as well.  If we don't see it until Q1 2002 that's cool.  I
just
| > hope it doesn't slip any further than that.
| >
| > David Cook
| >


| > > IMO it's in that translation of 'that special feeling' that we'll know
| > > if there is a worthy successor to GPL, no amount of 'eye candy' will
| > > ever make up for it.
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| >
| >
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