Sim Racing

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Taking advantage of the fact that we are at FOSDEM 2025 we are really proud and happy to present you the #NewVersion 2.4.0 of #SpeedDreams. You have more info in the post on our website: https://www.speed-dreams.net/en/blog/release-2-4-0 #OpenSourceGame #SimRacing #FOSDEM

While waiting for Assetto Corsa Evo to arrive one day on playstation 5, I’ve decided to race a little bit more online in GT7.

While I enjoy it, the penalty system is a problem with players involuntarly creating accidents and not being punished for it (I’ve bern on every side). This gets on my nerves as it can ruin your race.

I decided to give another go to Sophy as I had only done a few of the races where you can compete with it and it’s so much better than online racing for me.

I can clearly understand that for good players, online racing is the way to go, but at my low level there are far too many durty drivers and Sophy is just better.

I’d love a new carreer mode in GT7 with a championship against Siphy and would gladly pay for it.

Sony wanted Gran Turismo to be a game as a service, but except some new cars and tracks, they aren’t really bringing new content.

Some DLC’s would be welcome and I would love to get a Sophy equivalent AI in every racing game now that I’ve enjoyed it.

By the way, I’m really not enthusiadtic about the AI hype, but that’s my exception.

What do you think about Sophy?

Hi everyone!

I’m a Playstation owner and I’ve been playing Gran Turismo 7 since its launch.

I mostly play offline and I really enjoy the driving but the lack of a real carreer mode with a championship, good AI and standings is getting me bored.

Hopefuly AC Evo will still be launched on Playstation 5 in 2025, but no one really knows.

As sadly, Poliphony isn’t gonna launch a career mode DLC, I’m really tempted to get another racing game in order to wait.

Asseto Corsa and Asseto Corsa Competizione are the 2 choices I’m seeing as I already have Project Cars 2.

Which one would you buy, keeping in mind that I’m mostly an offline player and that I wouldn’t want the graphics to be much worse than GT7?

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Our migration from SVN to GIT has already started! You can now access our new repositories on http://a-lec.org/ 😍 :

• https://forge.a-lec.org/speed-dreams/speed-dreams-code
• https://forge.a-lec.org/speed-dreams/speed-dreams-data

The repos are now open! Please feel free to play around with them, ask questions, report feedback, etc.

To avoid confusion, please keep in mind the following TODOs:

• Migrate existing assets (tracks, driver liveries, cars) to their own repositories.
• • This can be done at a slower pace, since we can only migrate assets whose licensing is clear and fully free (as in freedom).
• • Non-free assets should be ideally hosted elsewhere.
• • Illegal assets (e.g.: those under proprietary licenses and/or violating intellectual property, such as lancer09-wr) will not be migrated.
• Migrate existing tickets/issues from SVN to https://forge.a-lec.org/speed-dreams/.
• Make some suggested improvements to the in-game download manager.
• • "Download all" button.
• • Filter by category (car category, track type, robot type) and quality (pre-alpha, alpha, beta, production).

Hi all, my team Backmarker Racing is looking for new members from around the Americas / Oceania timezones to round out our driver availability in the big endurance events. Check the post in the iRacing forums for more info:

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/71883/join-backmarker-racing-for-the-2025-season-and-beyond

Reiza Studios’ Automobilista 2 has just hit its concurrent players peak on Steam, four years after release.

Perhaps the main reason for AMS 2’s popularity is its Low Fuel Motorsport implementation, a feature currently in Beta. The sim racing platform offers a wide range of multiplayer races to cater for AMS 2’s diverse roster of tracks, cars and motorsport disciplines.

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The base game receives significant changes, while the new DLC packs are free for this weekend only.

It had it's all time concurrent player count record on Steam today, reaching 3.6k

The sale includes some AAA titles as well as much smaller indie games. Some popular sim titles, like Assetto Corsa and Euro Truck Simulator, and all of their DLC, are marked down by as much as 90%.

The popular sim racing league and ranking platform LFM will soon support RaceRoom’s diverse content.

All of RaceRoom’s content is available to try for the duration of its Black Friday Event, which also includes hefty discounts.

KW Studios’ RaceRoom is having another limited-time event where all its content can be sampled free of charge.

Although some of the sim’s content is free-to-play, most is only available as an optional purchase. But between the 21st of November and the 6th of December, players can try any of RaceRoom’s cars and tracks completely free.

Sim racers could look forward to "not quite a week but a couple of days" with the new content to see if they like it enough to buy it.

"For each car, there will be all configurations and engines that you would find in any dealership. If your favourite car is sold in either petrol or diesel, to give you an example, or has a version that mounts 17-inch wheels with a sunroof, then it will be the same in our game." - Davide Brivio talking to Multiplayer.it

Uncover why a basic piece of equipment is now indispensable in simracing. It ensures your concentration remains sharp and your body temperature stays low throughout demanding races, enhancing peak performance and reducing overheating disruptions.

Pre-release Multiplayer test with the the V1.6 version of AMS2 Beta demonstrating various recent developments made to the game and its Multiplayer experience.

The test was hosted by Low Fuel Motorsports as part of their own ongoing beta integration of their services with AMS2, which is expected to extend to all users upon V1.6 release (currently in final stages of development).

The video is part of the upcoming November 2024 Development Update

Things are back to normal at the top of the list for most played racing games on Steam in October 2024: After The Crew 2 leapfrogged everyone following the announcement of an offline mode being implemented and the game being severely discounted. The Crew 2 dropped down the order a bit, with BeamNG.drive, Forza Horizon 4 and 5 taking back the podium spots.

The biggest surprise, however, can be found a bit further down: DiRT Rally 2.0 actually posted a new all-time player peak record in October, eclipsing the 3,486-player mark set in March of 2021 at 5,074. A recent poll here on OverTake showed that most of our community actually prefers DR2.0 over the newer EA Sports WRC - and the price for the older rally title dropping to as low as €1.99 in late October certainly helped, too.

At the end of every year, sim racing streamer Jimmy Broadbent hosts a fun 23 hour race around Zolder on iRacing to raise money for charity, and this year looks like it will be the most stacked yet in terms of high profile participation.

Finally got a chance to run an imsa fixed race at silverstone! in iracing.

Weather said rain unlikely: that was a lie.

It lightly rained the whole race.

Qualified P2 with a lucky lap in the wet, but fell back to P3 at the start of the race.

Tried to overcut P2, but didn't have the pace.

P3 finish in the LMP2 class.

Super fun race.

They're going to be hosting a tournament which is really neat. #

Week 6 of Season 4, 2024: Got in a few races.

Started off with IndyCar Fixed at Long Beach, started 9th and finished 6th.

Next, IMSA Fixed at Road Atlanta (one of my favorite tracks!), started 14th and finished 11th.

Ended the week strong with a P3 finish in the PCC at Road Atlanta!

How was your week?

Based on this thread (https://feddit.org/post/3912054 / [email protected] ) there are quite a few people who prefer not to interact with communities hosted on Lemmy.ml

Could we maybe consider moving this community to a less controversial instance, such as discuss.tchncs.de because [email protected] and [email protected] are already hosted there, or Lemmy.zip ?