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Stunning as usual. I love and can’t wait to try Zolder, one of my favorite tracks. My only gripe with pCARS these days, since most cars drive just fine now, is the AI. I wish they bumped up the schedule for fixing it so it doesn’t try to drive through my car. If one passes the AI on the inside it’s actually quite smart and it will try to avoid you, but at the start and when Passing on the outside or on a switchback, it will ram you like if you didn’t exist.

But it sure is pretty. Love the picture of the close up of the light. Amazing.

Weekly screenshots never cease to amaze…..

Dling now, time to thrash some cars around Bathurst :)

Getting a bit worried now about the amount of Shift tracks in this title, I can understand why some are calling it Shift3.

The track poll on the WMD forum isn’t being fully put into practice, Zolder had very few votes (as have others) yet it’s already in the game. I hope there will be room left for all the other tracks the community want that aren’t in the SMS back catalogue.
 
There are only two new venues from SMS in the game, Le Mans, Watkins Glen (not including the highway, kart tracks), every other one has featured in Shift or previous/future SMS titles.

 I think they can´t fully relate to community wishes since they have not endless time to develop the game. Andy Garton already mentioned that not every proposal can be considered and they need to make their own decisions.

They’re not going to invent tracks, will they now ?

As Shift had a pretty nice selection of tracks, if you want tracks that weren’t in Shift, we’re gonna need fictional ones pretty quick ;)

Don’t worry, in the end, everything’s gonna be alright. If it’s not alright, it’s not the end.

It’s hard to believe these pics are taken from a game. Whatever happens to the future of this game, and the planning and organization behind it, and whether it becomes accepted by the sim community, it has achieved this one thing, it looks beautiful.

I’m a little concerned about the amount of Shift tracks too, but if they are of the same quality as they have been recently I’m not too concerned. Especially with the 4 British tracks on the way.

Yes the British tracks will be great to have especially if they’re a laser scanned.

Although I hope we won’t have to pay extra for these and they are part of the full retail package.

Sorry but I’m not accepting shot 19 as a screenshot.   :)

I love these new weekly galleries.  The detail and textures on these cars are absolutely top drawer.
Render quality stuff.

 Picture 10 is amazing too. :)

This exactly, Shift 2 already had a great track selection, so reusing reference materials that they have already gathered is a good way to get a lot of tracks in in a short space of time. They’re all being revised and updated however, Catalunya seems to have had just about every polygon of terrain reworked this week for accuracy.

As for the track poll, 13 of the top 15 requested tracks have been confirmed, it just so happens that there’s a fair bit of crossover with the Shift list.

 Why wouldn’t they want to reuse work they’ve already done, though? It’s not like there’s anything wrong with the tracks…

Yeah, its almost like Far Cry :) 

No.6 isn’t too shabby either.

I think 14 is a photo too.

more historical tracks the better. shift tracks or not. more tracks more historical leagues more sales bigger community and better follow up titles.

I tried to adjust the AI’s psychotic side down a bit, but they ended up totally neutered. I knows there is plenty of work continuing in this area, so I’ll wait a while before posting it as a bug.

I felt that way about ’30′. It’s like HAL meets ‘The Prisoner’ … absolutely vibrating with character that shot.

 and shot 11.  The crowd look great.  Only thing that stops the effect of it being a photo is the foreground grass.  

 Don’t dream. Just because there is a bunch of guys in the sim community that goes nuts because of oldschool F1 doesn’t mean it will push sales to have it. In general oldschool F1 for sure isn’t a big sale argument for a racing game.

True, currently it’s like you can have either italians or swedish drivers racing against you. Still, I’m not that concerned, I think they’ll fix it if they manage to keep the improvement-over-time ratio they had so far.

I strongly disagree. There is a reason why GPL is still held at such high regard and regularly used by simmers, and there’s a reason why the 67-68 Lotus being showcased in AC, pCARS, and rF2, is such a big event. 

There is no 11, you mean shot 7? Odd how the pics are not in order.

If you’re a full member, you definitely wont have to pay extra.
Not entirely sure about the lower level tool packs, just depends on whether those tracks will be considered “exclusive tracks”.

Dream? Not sure how to take that but I will take it nicely.  :)
Let me set you straight :)
The F77 Cromwell is the best old school F1 car in all sims/ race games by far. I have raced rfactor, gpl, iracing lotus (little used for a reason) and the rest. It should be featured and would be a mistake not to. More people need to know about this ~~F77 gem~~. (and the tracks which are not same tracks in feel as the shift tracks totally different . Only thing the same is places)

 Keep in mind the fastest growing gaming  population rite now is the over 40 years old crowd.  Those people are the people with the money. Not kiddies nor the 20 year old kiddies. Tell simbin old school add packs are not popular, tons of sales on 6
year old game by releasing retro packs of 70′s cars and tracks.

The 1979 mod was reason for a lot of people to buy rfactor years ago and was first interesting mod (and there are still leagues built around it 7 years later).  If old school F1 was not a big sale it would not still have a huge community still playing and updating a GPL game 10 years old.  Also the market for games like Pcars grows more every year with more households having fast internet and decent pc/ apple machines. If Old school f1 was not a interest the F1 videos on youtube would have hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of clicks more then new f1 videos.

Last  time I checked people and companies who dare to dream are companies who make money. Especially in niche markets.  Hope everyone enjoys racing today!
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There is also a movie about Lauda and Hunts rivalry coming to the cinemas in 2013, named Rush. I wouldnt be surprised if there were more people interested in classic F1s afterwards.

They built Suzuka, Brno and Zolder from ground up, they re not library tracks. And keep in mind, they also have to select tracks that match the series they want to include in the career mode.

I’m pretty sure there have been VERY few racing games (sim or otherwise) that feature old school F1 tracks and cars at all. The ones that have featured them have been popular.

I second Felix’s sentiment about Rush. This will absolutely help Project CARS since it’s being ported over to consoles as well as PC native.

 All content from the Shift series is owned by EA so it is not a case where SMS can use assest from those. every track in pCars is built from the ground up.