I didn't even know MHR existed, interesting...

Quote from shi shi bog :

how far away can you have the shifter from the wheel?

The cable between the wheel and shifter is about 5 or 6 feet long

Quote from Ian.H :

No, I prepaid for S2 (in it's final form).. of which I don't yet have. I don't pay £2 a week until the updates are complete, I paid the full amount, yet haven't received the full product... this isn't a case of putting down a deposit.

I think there is a difference in terminology here also, alpha/beta/final as applied to most software products is not the same as what Scawen uses to describe LFS. So when you paid for an S2 license you bought access to the current content, I looked at the purchase page and I didn't see anywhere that promised a final(in the terms that you and not the devs judge)version of the game.

There are definetly things that need work in LFS, it is obviously a WIP, but I have faith in Scawen and his choices on what to develop when. Saying things like insim are pointless and a waste of time just seems a bit short sighted.

Quote from Ian.H :

If you think my posts here sound like trolling at face value, I suggest you resign from being a moderator as you obviously have no clue. If I was trolling, I'd say LFS is bollox and rF or [insert any other sim title here] was the best!

Quote from Ian.H :

but it'sa damn sight more of a complete game than I think LFS will _ever_ be
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Preferably something that made the cars sound like...... cars, not synthetic echoing spaceships. Sorry to piss on your bonfire, but the LFS sound engine is nothing but a _seriously_ bad joke right now.
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and bad due to the most appalling texture mapping I've ever come across
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Something that doesn't sound like spaceships hovering in a plastic tube at the bottom of a bath?

Now you are definitely sounding trollish

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Bottom line #2: LFS has easily the highest time played and enjoyed/dollars spent ratio of any game I've owned, and that alone ensures that it's been worth my money. In no way can I fault the devs for their slow development process when I've been pleased with the game (as such) at every step along the way. Rather than seeming like the long awaited ends of various kinds of torture, the updates that come with each patch are presents to me. They make a game I love better.

+1


I understand how some of the posts here are upset with the slow progress in some areas of the game(content), but I would have to disagree with the attitude that the devs still fundamentally owe us something, they have already delivered for the price I have paid.

I don't know about you people, but I just enjoy racing, there's a reason I have played LFS more than any other game I have ever played, it is simply fun, and continues to be that for me. So here's to another year of great developments and racing action!

Quote from Boris Lozac :

Hm, can't seem to agree with this, i have a Atlhon XP(Barton) 2500+, 512 ddr and a Radeon 9550 128mb, and when starting with 20 + people from the back, FPS can go bellow 25, but never bellow 20, and after T1, it's on the 35, 40 with 8, 9, 10 cars ahead of/behind me, and when alone or in a batlle with someone, it's 50, 55, 60.. And i tend to have all the High res textures..
Haven't tried W9, nor W17, but one guy at our local forum, said he got 10+ more FPS with W9...

An automatic LOD reduction when there are many cars are on screen would be a great feature, like I mentioned in another thread my comp will go from 92fps constantly to 30 when I can see all the cars on screen at once. I am not sure what part of my graphics card it is maxing with the cars to drop like that, are the car models that detailed?

Quote from DEVIL 007 :

regarding the damage and tires its a feature.
There are now to possibilities:
"arcade" - so everything is reseted
"simulation" - nothing is reseted as well when you flip the car its not reseted.

There was already suggestion to incluide the middle option as was before that only car position reset so you can still continue with damage

A middle option would really be appreciated, I was racing with the mrt and got stuck facing a wall, with no reverse I was forced to exit the race

Did anyone notice the small problem that the whole reason Tully is going is to get his wife back, the chick who joined him said she was kidnapped for the race a long time ago and her parents died trying to complete the race, so doesn't that mean they just let her go after the race? Why wouldn't they do the same for Tully's wife? The repeat shots of them driving down the same section of road over and over and the poor action shots are also getting annoying.

I was just wondering if this happens to everyone else now that we have such large races, if there is a full grid (20+ cars) then when the camera pans around so that almost all of them are in full view the framerate drops significantly? My computer will go from 90+fps constantly to 30-45fps for a ton of cars on screen. In order to get it to not drop I have to set the car lod so low that cars nearby now look horrible.
I have a radeon x1900gt and amd 64 x2 4200

Last edited by BrandonAGr, Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:58.

Quote from sil3ntwar :

Manufacturers wont allow their cars to be seen flipping wildly through the air. Thats why these games with all their fancy car licenses dont let you flip.

Can you cite an actual news article that states that?

You can't flip the cars? What kind of sim is it?

Quote from dontsimon :

Today on the radio, a pro gun nutter was saying that it's important to keep gun laws as they are, so that you can defend yourself as and when you need to. Seems like none of the victims in this massacre took any notice of this advice. None of their cold dead hands were holding a gun which may have defended them.

It's not legal to carry or keep a concealed weapon on campus, at least thats my understanding.

Last edited by BrandonAGr, Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:30.

Cool, looking forward to finally being able to get one

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Because this is LFS, not NFS. Plus there is only one guy creating all the circuits, so we don't want him wasting his time building petrol stations when he could be building race tracks.

What race tracks has he built in the past 2 years?

I'm not sure if it did this before, but I just noticed it in this patch, when I was in a replay and would look to the side, when the view returned to looking forward sometimes the cars in front of me would take a split second before they showed up, meaning they would just pop in out of nothingness. It would do this repeatedly even when the same car is always right in front of me.

When was the last time LFS got a new track anyway? S2? June 05?

http://www.cheathappens.com/show_download.asp?ID=22279 is a link to a utility to give you a couple billion dollars(mode 2 worked for me). You get points for owning so many of each kind of cars and stuff, so you can get to the champion level without having to win that many races.

I unlocked hardcore mode(ctrl+g to get the little meter to show), and really wasn't that impressed, it just seemed unpredictable and I would just slide all over the place.

If I run it at 1280x1024 full detail or 800x600 low detail I still get just about the same amount of stutter when entering cities and getting passed by AI cars, it makes it really hard to control the saleen at 240 when the frame rate drops

How far do you have to get to unlock tuning?

Anyone know what the fastest car in the game is? I'm still saving up money, I would have over 500k but I probably have paid more than 200k in police fines
It is really annoying that ramming someone head on at 150 gets you in the same amount of trouble as just BARELY scraping their side at 180

I get an occasional frame rate drop, but I think it's more to do with loading new scenery. If you consider the demo to be a 4gb torrent that only lets you try the offline mode, then yeah it's out. I have a copy reserved but it wont come out here for another 2+ weeks.

Anyone else tried this out yet? I have found that the environments even roads are very lowpoly, so when you go over a hill or anything at highspeed you are bounced around pretty badly. Even with all the aids turned off, it still seems way too hard to do a donut, the back end just doesn't want to come around. But overall it seems like a pretty decent driving game, with tons of different cars that you can get.

Anyone know what the nature of the cheat is? What does alter on the client side to go faster?

I can understand why he did this, but it is definetly very childish and a fairly dumb move unless your only goal is to get some quick attention for yourself.