when S3 is released you will still need to buy s2.
If you have/buy S2 then when S3 is released you will simply pay just for S3 (which if it stays the same price as the others will an additional £12). If you wait for S3 you will still have to pay the same as you will be buying S1,2 and 3 all together.
S3 is only content (like an expansion pack). You shouldn't be worried about developing time, as those improvemets come to demo, S1, S2 and S3 anyway
Waiting for S3 without buying S2 now is just plain stupid IMO
You have nothing to loose, but a lot to win. Don't know why so many people have troubles in such an easy question (I like LFS, maybe people bored about it has their own opinion).
Indeed, regardless of S3, LFS S2 is good value for money and if you've had fun on demo (with over 8000 miles - it seems like it!) you'd enjoy S2 even more.
I lost my enthusiasm - Duke nukem forever is out before S3.
And as we all know LFS is not very active nowadays.
+ I am a student and my monthly hostel rent is less than £36
I admit you do get a lot of game for that money and i will eventually buy it (S1 or S2) if it revives (which i am not sure). Plus i can't get the FFB to work properly in Linux, so i don't play anything recently.
1. Kinda - on lfsworld i counted 7 servers that there are enough people for an actual racing. Only 1 of the servers is S1 compatible (for now i only want S1) - checked it with lfs remote and realized that that's some stupid mod and they aren't actually racing the same applies to some other S2 server. So 7-2=5 - well not really, because there are 2 drifting servers, so 5-2=3. 3 servers that you can actually race and one of them is oval And of course none of them S1
So yeah it's live and kicking.
Perhaps you've picked a bad time to check. There might not be many real racing servers, but those that are there are actually quite good (or were last time I checked).
As far as the community knows, the only extra content in S3 will be the Rockingham circuit and one German 200bhp FWD car that looks like flattened frog. Plus only God knows when it's gonna actually be released. You will have a lot of fun just with S2 for long time.
I'm pretty confident it will work eventually, there's no reason why it wouldn't...
Just to be precise, LFS runs perfectly on Linux with WINE(translation layer between OpenGL and DirectX functions). Scawen even made new shadow rendering system for Linux users(if I remember correctly).
No, the game runs perfectly, but there are some FFB issues that have nothing to do with the game, but with the drivers and wine. MadCatX done an absolute magic and things are far better now!
To be pedantically precise WINE is complete Windows API implementation for UNIX systems. As wolfshark said, there are few issues mostly regarding FF support which probably go on account of incomplete kernel drivers. It's being worked on though...
I can't help it, this image springs to my mind whenever I see a Rocco roaming the highways.