Quite a list

btw I just installed U35 and had a quick go in the LX4 against some AI. Love the new sounds! It's a lot more immersive now and sounds great at low revs too. Good stuff guys :up: Looking forward to heading home and trying the other cars now.

Have a good holiday!

Quote from KiDCoDEa :

u can expect patch V to update the lfs webpage with a news entry!!!!

Hoooraay. Finally some good news! This will shut up the "main page doesn't get updated often enough" crowd for about half a month.

But I can already see what's coming. About two hours after release we will get about 15 threads complaining about the new sounds, and a crapload of whiners ranting that they want new cars and tracks, hell we even have them now! Then we get about two to three requests on how to have the patch V features mixed with the U sounds. Shortly following will be a considerable amount of first posters, asking in hundred different ways why we didn't get [feature X that would've needed an incompatible patch]. Random moans about how the patch didn't fix "important" things or took way too long for so little change are thrown in here and there. Moderators will hate the day, merging, moving and deleting a heapload of double, triple or quadruple requests, questions and improvement suggestions. The player counts will probably spike again, but not as high as normally as the patch contents are widely known now, but the racing shortly after the patch will be of low quality due to all the sound discussion and messing around (and moaning that the physics still haven't been "fixed". Them damned ice roads!). Finally after a week or so the masses will cool down and the usual practice of asking when the next patch will arrive is starting up again. Oh and lets not forget the few hardcore LFS love-haters who threaten to leave LFS forever because of [new feature Y].

Oh the joy :hyper:

Well, I don't have the time to read through that and it's too boring.

In one of the test patches, the laptimes/split times and flags were shown even in Shift+F mode, I want that back or as an option... Or is it? Don't wanna make a thread/post somewhere else about this, seemed nice here Had to add something eh

Too many Canadians here

Quote from thisnameistaken :

I think you must have got a defective LFS installation. According to your stats, you've only done 28 laps at Aston, three laps of non-oval driving at Kyoto, just 14 laps in total at Fern Bay, and you haven't raced at Westhill at all. You've only taken part in 36 races, total.

And you're bored of it?

Me or Rob?

I think the next finished version of LFS will be called "LFS S3 0.5 X"

Actually by now I'm quite in favor of the new sound system. The improvements on the FXR show that it is capable of good sounds. Now please postpone christmas by a month so Scawen has enough time to work on good sounds for all cars. That'd also give me more time to buy christmas presents.

Vain

Quote from Jonas8431 :

I think the next finished version of LFS will be called "LFS S3 0.5 X"

Good for you... illepall

TBH with you, 90% of my play is at Cops n Robbers which is why i don't have high race stats.

Quote from AndroidXP :

But I can already see what's coming. About two hours after release we will get about 15 threads complaining about the new sounds

That is what is going to happen... and it is quite reasonable. Think about it, if you weren't checking these forums and wouldn't have played LFS for a long time and suddenly you'd see "patch released! sound improvements!" on the front page, what would you expect? To prevent this maybe best to not mentioned it at all or with a more truthful term like "slightly tuned sound engine" or something similar.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Eww... Well then I can understand why you're bored. I don't suppose any improvement to the sim would make that any more interesting for you.

Well, if more cars were added, the hosts would be more inclined to let you use them on their servers so it's more about car improvement than track improvements IMO for me.

If you mostly play CNR, I would think you'd get bored of a new car fast too. And there isn't a new car coming, so quit it

There will always be some people who complain, but the dev team knows they are doing a kickass job and there are tons of people enjoying their work.

Quote from BrandonAGr :

There will always be some people who complain, but the dev team knows they are doing a kickass job and there are tons of people enjoying their work.

Who's complaining...

I don't know what does it for me but i just seem to like to be able to mess about there... Some people like to just race time after time after time whereas some like me like to relax lol

Evolution: a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage).

keywords: process, by degrees....

Quote from Vain :

Actually by now I'm quite in favor of the new sound system. The improvements on the FXR show that it is capable of good sounds.

Me too, and I'm most impressed by how much they've improved since the initial test patch (33?). After that little hiccup, Scawen has fixed the sound issues damn quickly, and LFS is sounding great. And I'm not even mentioning the other improvements (the auto updater is GOLD).

Well done and merry christmas.

Quote from farcar :

....After that little hiccup, Scawen has fixed the sound issues damn quickly, and LFS is sounding great. And I'm not even mentioning the other improvements (the auto updater is GOLD).

I agree. When I started with the test patches, I kept the original (U.05) version saved in a seperate folder. After playing the game for some time tonight, I reverted to the old version just to compare. Although I'd already grown used to the new sounds, it was an eye opening experience to step back and evaluate the new sounds for what they are - Improvements in the old sounds - not a reinvention of the whole system.

All the improvements are subtle, not in your face. But then, that's LFS, isn't it ?

Personally I wish to see a Update of the LFS Clutch in one of the V Patches.

Any chances for that coming about this time around?

No.

How do you know for sure? What will Patch V focus on?

Quote from George Kuyumji :

How do you know for sure? What will Patch V focus on?

anything compatible with u ... a different clutch sim would make all u replays go out of synch

Any of "the V patches", meaning V1, V2, etc. will always be compatible to version V and U, and thus can not contain any changes regarding the driving model. What you'd want to wait for is patch W, which is probably going to be the next incompatible patch.

Any test patches we get will always be compatible ones, so don't get your hopes up of testing new physics or somesuch.

So, today should be the V-day. Fingers crossed for some interiors

Moan moan moan .........

This isn't a real sim till we get pit girls ( or boys, menu option ) & no mention of them in the update.
Thats it, I'm leaving, never play again moan moan moan etc.........

& back to the real world, sounds are a great improvement, hadn't played 4 a couple of weeks & wow......

I've got my crissy present & stuff everyone else.

Have a great whatever you celebrate & see you on the track.

Quote from Blackout :

So, today should be the V-day. Fingers crossed for some interiors

I don't think we will, as I thought the models were used to calculate CoG's etc, so a change of interior will affect the handling = incompatible.