World Racing Series demo - well worth a look

#1

http://www.worldracingseries.net/

Not the prettiest sim engine in the world, but perfectly adequate. And with all the
aids turned off this trip around Lime Rock is -- IMO anyway -- rather impressive.
It felt a little sterile at first, but with the aids off I soon started to push the
envelope and discover some rather satisfying weight transfer going on via the FFB.

For some reason I've never managed to get the same level of satisfaction with NKPro,
despite spending much longer in the cockpit. So this is either a sign that I have
no talent at diagnosing a decent sim model whatsoever, or that WRS is doing
something right.

You may decide differently, but this is certainly worth a try.

Andrew McP

#2

Andrew MacPherson wrote:

Quote:

http://www.worldracingseries.net/

Not the prettiest sim engine in the world, but perfectly adequate. And with all the
aids turned off this trip around Lime Rock is -- IMO anyway -- rather impressive.
It felt a little sterile at first, but with the aids off I soon started to push the
envelope and discover some rather satisfying weight transfer going on via the FFB.

For some reason I've never managed to get the same level of satisfaction with NKPro,
despite spending much longer in the cockpit. So this is either a sign that I have
no talent at diagnosing a decent sim model whatsoever, or that WRS is doing
something right.

You may decide differently, but this is certainly worth a try.

Andrew McP

25 Euro for 2 cars and 2 tracks, and MP only? Not this sucker.

#3

Andrew MacPherson wrote:

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On the ripoff scale of one to iRacing it only rates a 2.3 IMO.

Hmm, looks more like an 8.5 to me. I'll try the demo though and see how
it is. I have heard of it before just never bothered to research it
further. I seem to remember people saying it was a free racing sim but
back when it was free it probably only came with one car with three
wheels and half a track completed.

#4

Thanks for the heads-up, Andy. I hadn't heard of this one before. Does
it support the g25 in a decent manner?

Uwe

#5

uschuerkamp (AT) gmail (DOT) com (Uwe) wrote:

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Does it support the g25 in a decent manner?

It certainly supports mine very well Uwe. :-) Once calibrated I've had no problems,
and the FFB is pretty convincing IMO.

I did some messing about this morning dropping the wing settings, and I think this
guy really knows what he's doing when it comes to the physics engine.

I may be proved wrong by wiser and less easily distracted sim-heads, but so far the
FR2000 is proving to be a very enjoyable ride indeed. Obviously that doesn't mean
this project is destined for huge success, but I do think it means it should at
least be on everyone's radar as a project to watch.

Andrew McP

#6

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:45 +0100 (BST), mcp.andrew (AT) DELETTHISgmail (DOT) com
(Andrew MacPherson) wrote:

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http://www.worldracingseries.net/

The url doesn't work for me, 404 :-/

Andre

#7

Macropodid <789ij (AT) SPAMTRAP (DOT) net> wrote in
news:aqm2b51b73sjum9176s96g1gu945mokrvn (AT) 4ax (DOT) com:

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On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:11:51 +0000 (UTC), APLer <APLer (AT) floor (DOT) tilde
wrote:

That *should* be $41US in any case. The points *should* be made that
both cars and the track come free with the demo and it *is* named alpha
software.

Well, charging for alpha software isn't going to win the developer any
friends.

Tell that to Microsoft - Vista, Windows 7...

#8

"Macropodid" <789ij (AT) SPAMTRAP (DOT) net> wrote

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On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:19:20 +0000 (UTC), APLer <APLer (AT) floor (DOT) tilde
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Tell that to Microsoft - Vista, Windows 7...

Really? Then how is it that I , and many other people, have been
running Win7RC as our main PC OS for months now for free?

For free?

#9

Macropodid <789ij (AT) SPAMTRAP (DOT) net> wrote in
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On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:19:20 +0000 (UTC), APLer <APLer (AT) floor (DOT) tilde
wrote:

Tell that to Microsoft - Vista, Windows 7...

Really? Then how is it that I , and many other people, have been
running Win7RC as our main PC OS for months now for free?

Torrents most likely (assuming you've even *seen* W7). Besides it was a
*free* download for a working demo.

Another bozo for the bin methinks.

#10

(Andre) wrote:

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The url doesn't work for me, 404 :-/

I just had the same problem, but googling worldracingseries brought up the page (a
few links down) and the (same!) url worked from that link. Weird.

Andrew McP