Project CARS
Slightly Mad · released 2015 · discussed in 24 posts, 2011-2013 · overall tone positive
Posts per month
Timeline
- 2011-10-13 Slightly Mad Studios and EA split, ending patches for Shift 2 Unleashed. Slightly Mad's new project, C.A.R.S., was in early alpha. post
- 2012-06-07 Project CARS announced a Ford licence and kept adding tracks in its weekly development builds. post
- 2012-07-09 The Nordschleife was added to the Project CARS development build. post
- 2012-11-02 Project CARS announced licences for four RUF Porsches. post
Key threads
- FFB, latency and field of view on a new PC 2012-04-05 · 41 postsMario Petrinovic posted many updates on force feedback, latency and field of view settings after getting a new PC. FolkGT shared settings recommended by the Project CARS developers and discussed differences between sims. GaryR attacked the thread as the death of the newsgroup, leading to insults with FolkGT, while others noted the lack of discussion of new sims like Assetto Corsa and rFactor 2.
Busiest threads
- FFB, latency and field of view on a new PC (8 posts about it)
- Rfactor 2 (3 posts about it)
- C.A.R.S. open beta (3 posts about it)
- Nordschleife added to Project Cars (2 posts about it)
- rF2: The quest for new ways to be miserable continues! (2 posts about it)
- rF2 updating (2 posts about it)
- State of the Sim Union (1 posts about it)
- Project C.A.R.S. RUF licensing announcement (1 posts about it)
- Mario Petrinovic's continued FFB settings experiments (1 posts about it)
- From the archives... (1 posts about it)
Sentiment by year
Each post that discussed the sim was rated from −2 (very negative) to +2 (very positive).
| Year | Posts | Positive | Negative | Tone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | 2 | 0 | very positive (+0.60) |
| 2012 | 16 | 4 | 2 | mixed (+0.19) |
| 2013 | 3 | 3 | 0 | very positive (+1.67) |
Who talked about it most
Andrew MacPherson · 9 FolkGT · 7 Mario Petrinovic · 6 Andre Warringa · 1 Foke · 1
