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Looks like we are also getting Ginettas soon!
http://www.wmdportal.com/projectnews/three-ginettas-to-join-project-cars/

It’s all good :) Quite an eclectic mix of cars so far.
I`d love see a Fezzazi 458 Idealia appear on the scene :)

I’m excited for the patch that has the new tires and physics every time I check through the change log to see.

Id love this game to be a top simulator or a game that bridges the gap between arcade and sim , bringing more people to sim racing in the long run.

Yeah exactly. A fanastic bridge between the two and may nuture a few, who desire more of a challenge, onto pCARS and then branching out further into other titles. As long as they’re not whiny kids :)

The amount of updated stuff each week is phenomenal. Even if the game disappoints, which I’m sure it won’t, it has been worth the price of admission to get these weekly enhancements. The sim racing equivalent of a TV drama or soap opera. This is definitely the future, in terms of robustly engaging with our community.
Codemasters please take note – OK I’m dreaming.

Ian Bell had said in a thread on VirtualR, actually, that AJ was doing some early tests on the new tire model. These things take time, though, so I’ve just been enjoying all the new eye candy and FFB tweaks from users (some of which are excellent).

Holy…!!! Just took the reworked BAC Mono out for a spin around notSpa. Thing is a blast to drive now. Slides predictably and is much easier to catch. I was 4 wheel drifting it around some of the corners.

I am liking your recent posts Chris. Find myself agreeing a lot with what you say.

Yeah its worth the price just to get an inside glimpse of how a game develops from alpha through beta and to final. We get to see it evolve week by week and even if, for some, it may not be the exact result they were looking for, the journey I think would have been an experience in itself.

Or even an Ascari KZ1R GT. That would rock in pCARS.

Well as for me a good example IMO of a True to Life physics driving cars without having to add assists would be the LMP’s in Carpe Noctem’s Serie Internationale Du Mans mod for rF1. The Enduracers may be more realistic because they urge the use of certain assists to get a True to Life experience. What I do see is the more hard core simmers wanting a more difficult challange and that is fine if that’s what they want but I don’t see it as True to life physics. So I see the balance that pCARS offers as being closer to true to life than what some of these hard core simmers saying it isn’t. Yes the tire model may give better how the road feels effects and may help to enhance a more realistic aero loose aero push effect but other than some enhancements I see the physics as very good with needing a small amount of polish to be really great. Believe me Doug did a great job on all of his maths for the physics. Then what is done with that is the polish.

“What I do see is the more hard core simmers wanting a more difficult
challange and that is fine if that’s what they want but I don’t see it
as True to life physics.”

I might get flak for this, but this is exactly how I see RBR.
I never got on with the physics in that sim. Doesn’t mean they are bad or not accurate, I just didn’t personally take to them. For me they were too raw and didn’t compensate at all for the lack of motion or thru-the-ass feel you get in a real car. Made it quite hard to drive but some people have the patience to sit and master it. Me, not so much. Maybe in a motion rig I would do better than I do sitting on a static chair with my wheel clamped to a desk.
Ok sorry, I’m drifting (no pun intended) off-topic….

Well the list is endless. Classic Mini John Cooper S Works, Jag E-Type. Would love to see some classic cars.
Ooh and that big green classic Bentley… you know the one I mean ?…. this thing….
http://www.carondesktop.com/d/17824-5/bentley-classic-01.jpg

Saw you on the leaderboard Alan, and beat you by 7s. I didn’t think I had a particularly good lap though but it was my first clean lap (on the 4th try).

Yeah, rain or dry, the BAC Mono at Spa is fun to drive. Default setup is understeery and the quicker you turn the wheel into the corners, the more drift you get. And it does powerslide nicely. Sometimes not so easy to catch though, like when it fishtails on you.
Raindrops are a welcome addition. Be nice to see them bouncing off the car or streaming off the helmet visor.

SMS, please tweak the track cams at Sp…er.. Belgian Forest.
A few cams you dont see the car at all and some it switches to another cam after 0.5s.
Worst of all is the camera not tracking the car through Eau Rouge !

I know, it’s Alpha… but this is the Belgian Forest we’re talking about ! :)

Yep, I like it. Its evolving very nicely.

LOL… Ya I wasn’t exactly going for lap times, was having fun in the rain sliding about. :) I keep my FFB Damper way on the low side so I steer a bit quicker. Also found driving any of the open cockpit cars using Helmet cam helps get a better ‘Feel’ for what the car is doing under you with Look to apex set to 50%.

Amazing sky and night and day cycles, great automatic updates need a PC upgrade again fps hit….but once physics are nailed this game will be the best out there .

I agree 100%. Some weeks I only take a few laps and I leave it for the week. Others I test more and more cars and I pay attention to the changes.
The only downer I found lately is that is seems NotMonaco has not progressed a great deal and I find it hard to race it so empty.

However, overall it’s like having Christmas every Friday and wondering what gifts are under the tree. That alone is worth the price of admission for me.

There wasn’t a lot wrong with my BAC Mono run at Spa. The way I was manhandling the steering wheel around the corners and catching the slides (and sometimes not), this was no arcade game. I was making tiny corrections through the corners, deliberately inciting drift into a corner to counter the understeer. It did feel good and satisfying once I clocked a clean lap.

So it they’re planning on improving this even more with an updated tyre and/or physics model, then I can only hope for a good forward step when that happens. And yes if that happens pCARS will be qute the package.

Nah no worries, the lap times at this stage don’t mean much to me at all (unless when I temporarily go No.1 on the leadboards, but that doesnt last for more an hour before I’m comprehensively beaten by an alien :)

I haven’t really delved much into setups yet either.
I dunno, I’m sort of enjoying the physics and FFB in these recent builds. I find it has improved a lot in last few builds although it can depend what car you get into as some are better than others.
But I feel like I can push the car harder now and when I drive some of them, its not much difference to when Im driving the titles that are considered pure sims. My steering inputs are similar, my driving style works with it. So, for me, it’s really not as bad as some say.
I think on a physics scale, if 0 was arcade and 10 was pure sim (and believe me I hate making this black and white distinction) I would probably put pCARS at a 6-6.5 overall right now. Simply because pCARS is clearly more sim than arcade – it always was. But what’s a 10 ? Its subjective isn’t it ?

0 – 10 isn’t black and white though, it’s more like a 2-dimensional scale with lots of shades of grey ;)

Its my scale, my rules :)