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[The Patrician]

It looked fun enough to make me want to play it someday.
Well, that day will never come unless it's somehow reverse engineered and playable offline. No game should be downright killed, no matter how horrid or cancerous it is they all deserve to be preserved for future generations unless they have literal malware or something within them. You don't burn books just because they're shitty or overrated

100% agree on the not deleting - I hated when games went ’must phone home’ awhile back.

 

[Balr0g]

Did anyone actually care about the Crew? I found it a mediocre experience, though I lean toward the sim end of things when feeling racist.

I got a free copy when Ubisoft gave it away for free. Not abad game but it could be better. Like a lot of Ubisoft games now that I think about it

 

[Lerias]

News for simracing sweats:

ACC will get the GT2 pack DLC on the 24th. Contains all 2023 GT2 Series cars and the brand new Porsche 935 GT2 (probably except the Brabham, it has not been revealed to this date)

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Leaks have also indicated that Red Bull Ring (?) will be included in the DLC pack, or an upcoming update
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The iRacing Daytona 24 has ended a few hours ago and brought us a few feats of depravity, one example below from Basic Ollie
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Leaks have been confirmed - Red Bull Ring is being added as part of the GT2 DLC pack. Since the xeet mentions that it completes the pack, looks like the Brabham BT62 won't be making it to the game's roster.

 

[Thiletonomics]

The entire Playlist for FH5's next season was leaked, revealing the new upcoming cars:





The Lynk & Co 05+ appears to be also revealed in the livestream announcement:



The addition of the Kona, IONIQ6, and i30, raises the total amount of South Korean cars to FOUR. It's nice to see more of them though, although the Kia Stinger still not coming back is a letdown. That also appears to mean that the Cyberster and the 05+ will be part of the said Chinese Car Pack.

As for Gran Turismo, it's the same old very lackluster update that people come to expect with the game:

The Bulgari VGT will be available later in February, but people who purchased one of the brand's $5000+ watches, can get the car early by scanning an included QR code with the watch. Now lets hope that other game companies don't get the same ideas, when it comes to future pre-order bonuses.

This update is so bad that even the GT World Series pro players are complaining about it:



And given the ratings for the video, maybe the seething is working. It obviously won't make the game any better though:

 

[Thiletonomics]

The other two cars in the Chinese car pack have been revealed, the VW Santana and the Wuling Hongghang Mini EV Macaron:



And Brazilians will go nuts about being able to drive the Santana in a racing game.

 

[The Last Stand]

The entire Playlist for FH5's next season was leaked, revealing the new upcoming cars:

Are we still in Mexico?

 

[Thiletonomics]

Are we still in Mexico?

Yes, since this is just for Lunar New Year. Another thing of note is that the VW Santana in the Chinese Car Pack, was also sold in Mexico as the VW Corsar.

And the Nordschleife will be added to FM2023 in the next update in February:

 

[Thiletonomics]

Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown is also expected to launch by the end of March, but the severe lack of recent news about the game, sounds like it's either going to be delayed AGAIN, or it's going to be vaporware, as people feared it would be.

 

[Thiletonomics]

FM2023 will be getting changes to it's Car Level system:



At least that means you can use the Credits for stuff that isn't just other cars now.

Some Behind The Scenes footage was posted about how PD records car sounds for Gran Turismo.

The car sounds in GT, especially the tire noises, are still off-putting to me, compared to other racing games.

 

[Thiletonomics]

The Patch Notes for FM23's Update 5 are out.

And a Widebody kit that may have been unintentionally added to the game, was removed:

 

[Thiletonomics]

A developer who worked FM2023, talks about his experience with developing the game.

The whole churning employees every so-many months, really explains FM2023's unpolished state at launch. I don't remember if Polyphony Digital had employee turnover issues like this, given that none of the GT games (I think), were as this buggy of a mess.

GT Planet revealed the contents of the $4600 Bulgari GT Watch, which again does not scream GT at all.

 

[Thiletonomics]

In other news, EA revealed the Year 2 Roadmap for NFS Unbound:

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

In other news, EA revealed the Year 2 Roadmap for NFS Unbound:

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Kek, I thought the game died just like Heat.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Kaz released a teaser for the next GT7 update:



It appears to be the Renault 4, Mitsubishi EVO IX, and an Audi TTS. It does look to be a small update, which is even more unfortunate, since the game turns 2 years old next week.

 

[Honk Hill]

I got an iracing subscription on the steam sale over xmas for $35 instead of $177, have a basic tube frame/race seat rig, g920 wheel and load cell pedals with a single 55' display, haven't done a proper race yet still doing test laps - AI in mx5, legends 34 and forumla vee but lads that sim is amazing. I'm sure when I quali and join an online race I will probs go full autistic on it and never leave the house again, especially talking shit on mic.

Have AC modded out the shit and play no hesi or do some of the track/cruise/open day maps on local servers. Lotsa fun.

 

[Thiletonomics]

F1 24 will be releasing on May 31, and players who pre-order the Champions Edition will also get some stuff for F1 23, if you own that game too:

Also, players who own either F1 2021, 22, or 23, can get a 15% discount on the F1 24 Champions Edition pre-order. Has this been a thing with other annual sports games?

In Forza Horizon 5, here are the cars for next season's playlist:



The European Automotive Car Pack will feature these 4 cars:





And more wagons are always a good thing. It does look like the teased Maserati MC20 may have been delayed though, and replaced with the Battista (bottom left), which also appears to have been the case with FM2023 too.

GT7's February Update will only be the said 3 cars, from the looks of it:

 

[Thiletonomics]

Nacom posted the 7th Solar Crown Letter, but it's mostly bad news:

While Hong Kong will be a 1:1 re-creation, or so they claim, the game STILL not having a release date, we still haven't seen actual game footage, and the game will be Always-Online, literally screams that the game will be a shitshow, if it turns out not to be vaporware.

 

[Spruce Supremacist]

Racing genre is niche as it is, but I feel it's even worse for someone like me who wants a racing game where one can drive boring regular daily driver cars and not some prototype speed demons which I'll never even get to see in real life. Does anyone know a game which would fit such a description?

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Racing genre is niche as it is, but I feel it's even worse for someone like me who wants a racing game where one can drive boring regular daily driver cars and not some prototype speed demons which I'll never even get to see in real life. Does anyone know a game which would fit such a description?

Gran Turismo?

 

[Spruce Supremacist]

Gran Turismo?

Ah, I forgot to mention that I'm looking for PC games specifically, having never owned a console. I've yet to play a game that lets me drive boring euro cars from the 90s, such as Audi 80/100, Opel Kadett, Renault 25 to name a few