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iRacing.com – Development Outlook

Posted on August 19th, 2011 in iRacing – 16 Comments

Back in July, iRacing successfully released their much-anticipated summer 2.0 update, adding plenty of new content items and various new features to the simulation.

Aside from the switch to the new tire model for all cars that not yet finished, the launch has been successfully completed but that does not mean that iRacing’s simulation stops improving in the coming months.

The iRacing development team is already working on plenty of new features as the company has released a small outlook at the upcoming developments. A major new feature in upcoming months will be team/endurance racing that will allow the usage of spotters and crew chief as well as driver swaps for endurance races. The new feature will allow to run 24 hour races as drivers can join & leave the race as it is in progress.

The sound system is also receiving an update and plenty of new sounds such as ambient and pit sounds are being added. Graphics are also on the to do list as the iRacing staff is working on significant shader improvements alongside new features such as driver animations, pitlane details as well as planes and birds.

In terms of tracks, iRacing is currently working on Oulton Park, Kentucky and the Japanese Twin Ring Motegi, the British Oulton Park is the first venue in line to be completed.

Add countless other small improvements such as performance tweaks and a new server farm in Holland, iRacing members have plenty to look forward to in the upcoming months.


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  • SBKRacer

    iRacing 2.0 is JUNK! The thing became worse than before the new cars are FULL of bugs the NTM doesn’t work in the few cars it has being released for! I wonder why do the came out with this information when they should be concentrated in answering their subscribers for all the GRAP is going on with 2.0!

  • Sam Stratten

    Here we go again.

    Put simply, I disagree. :)

  • r8

    Its good and bad.  

    There is something obviously wrong with the tyres in the updated NTM cars.   Full pressure… i don’t think so!

  • Riches

    Yippie!!!

    A new server farm in Holland.
    That would give me a killer latency, as im living really close to the biggest datacenters of Europe.

  • Fuffle

    Well it’s not junk, but the NTM has been rushed out to meet a deadline.

    I’ve been a subscriber since 2008 and think the service is great, but I’m not prepared to pay a premium price to use what is, in reality, an alpha update.

    I’ve cancelled my sub, but will return once they have sorted the tyres out.

  • Nathan Robinson

    I’ve had no issues with anything the last month. That could be because i’ve only been running SM though which hasn’t been affected by anything. I wouldn’t cancel my subscription though as i get too much enjoyment out of it :)

  • DR.Joint

    They should first focus on patching NTM and making it perfect, aswell for other cars before release.

  • Bakkster

    That is their priority, according to them, Montoya just didn’t copy that part over.

  • Nathan Robinson

    I love how comments just get randomly deleted around here lol. Me and another guy had some positive iracing comments and then they are taken away. Is this virtualr-North Korea Edition?? I love what they are doing at iracing and will continue to support it. :)

  • Montoya

    If you´re reffering to your responses to SBKRacer, those comments are gone because the inntiial comment has been flagged as abusive. 

    No one’s censoring any comments here.

  • Justin ForzaBarça D’Cruze

    Wasnt his comment something about v2.0 being an alpha release full of bugs?
    Not that I agree with him but thats hardly “abusive” really, just an exaggeration.
    Imo it would be better if the site just hides the flagged comments in the same manner as ytube instead of just deleting it completely.

  • Nathan Robinson

    appreciate the explanation :)  better than not knowing why at all.

  • Robert H.

    Planes and birds for the win! Been waiting forever for that. Kentucky has some good racing, and fried chicken!

  • amdr

    “the launch has been successfully completed”
    That’s exagerating a bit

  • aaltomar

    yeah, the new server for Europe is a good one. But I won’t be re-subscribing until the NTM is on all cars and also a good promotion on gametime.

  • Sam Stratten

    Wouldn’t be nice if Montoya patched in a “whinging again” flag. That way we could ignore SBKRacer all the time.

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