rFactor 2: August Content Update Includes Porsche Cup Liveries

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Things had recently gotten quiet regarding rFactor 2 while developer Studio 397 is hard at work with Le Mans Ultimate. rF2 has not been abandoned, however: The August update brings new liveries, visual improvements and various smaller changes to the sim. More is to come, too.

Image credit: Studio 397

It may not be a big update, but the official liveries of the 2023 Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain is still a nice addition for more immersion when racing the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992). The series is about to enter the second half of its season at Knockhill this weekend before heading to Donington, Silverstone and Brands Hatch.

Staying with the British racing scene, the BTCC cars in rF2 are also subject to change regarding their brake adjustments and their AI, as well as a tire update. To ensure better competition, their Balance of Performance has been adjusted, focusing on FWD cars in particular. GTE and GT3 vehicles are also among the vehicles that have received slight BoP changes.

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A few circuits like Mills Metro have seen improved visuals in rFactor 2's August Update. Image credit: Studio 397

Some of the simulation's circuits have received a touch-up regarding their visuals, notably Toban Raceway Park, NOLA Motorsports Park, Mills Metro and Atlanta Motorsports Park. All of them except for NOLA have also seen improved track limit detection for AI drivers.

You can find the full changelog to find out all the details of the update below. While this is a small update, Studio 397 promises to have "more coming your way soon..." in the official update post on their website.

rFactor 2 - August Free Content Update Changelog​

Circuits
  • Loch Drummond v1.27
    • Fixed Track Limits at long layout uphill chicane and pit entry
  • NOLA Motorsport Park v1.39
    • Fixed naming issue on NOLA layouts C and D
    • Added atmospherics settings
    • New advertisements on indycar layout
    • New camera files
    • Increased rear view clip planes
  • Mills Metro v2.22
    • Updated specular, ambient, and atmospheric settings.
    • Improved night lighting
    • AI Track Limits review including pit exit cut detection.
  • Toban Raceway Park v1.22
    • Updated specular, ambient, and atmospheric settings
    • Enhanced terrain, tree, and road materials
    • Improved nightlighting
    • AI Track Limits review including pit exit cut detection
    • Fixed Pit Wall Collisions
    • Fixed sector splits not covering whole track
  • Atlanta Motorsport Park v1.31
    • Updated specular, ambient, and atmospheric settings
    • AI Track Limits review including pit exit cut detection
Cars
  • Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992)
    • v1.07
      • Added 2023 Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain cars
  • Brabham BT44
    • v2.66
      • Updated materials
      • Fixed metallic rim upgrade
  • March 761
    • v2.14
      • Updated materials
  • Mclaren M23
    • v1.55
      • Updated materials
  • Formula ISI 2012
    • v2.25
      • Added KERS
      • Fixed dashboard display
  • BTCC
    • BMW 330 BTCC
      • v1.65
        • Slight tire wear increase
        • Normalised AI front/rear grip to make cars more equal under acceleration out of slow corner
        • Minor AI grip tweak
        • Brake system adjustments
        • Higher maximum brake pressure
    • Cupra Leon BTCC
      • v1.65
        • ~2% more AI grip
        • Brake system adjustments
        • Higher maximum brake pressure
        • Increased AI front tire grip 10% to match RWD cars
        • Updated with cooler tyres
        • Slight tire wear increase
    • Ford Focus BTCC
      • v1.65
        • 2% more AI grip
        • Brake system adjustments
        • Higher maximum brake pressure
        • AIGripMult on front tyres to match RWD lap times
        • Updated with cooler tyres
        • Slight tire wear increase
    • Honda Civic BTCC
      • v1.65
        • 2% more AI grip
        • Brake system adjustments
        • Higher maximum brake pressure
        • Adjusted AI front tire grip to match RWD lap times
        • Fixed windows on 2021 cars
        • Updated with cooler tyres
        • Slight tire wear increase
    • Hyundai i30 BTCC
      • v1.65
        • 2% more AI grip
        • Brake system adjustments
        • Higher maximum brake pressure
        • Adjusted AI front tire grip to match RWD lap times
        • Updated with cooler tyres
        • Slight tire wear increase
    • Infiniti Q50 BTCC
      • v1.65
        • Normalized front/rear grip for AI to make them closer to FWD
        • Brake system adjustments
        • Higher maximum brake pressure
        • Updated with cooler tyres
        • Slight tire wear increase
    • Toyota Corolla BTCC
      • v1.65
        • 2% more AI grip
        • Brake system adjustments
        • Higher maximum brake pressure
        • Adjusted AI front tire grip to match RWD lap times
        • Updated with cooler tyres
        • Slight tire wear increase
    • Vauxhall Astra BTCC
      • v1.65
        • 2% more AI grip
        • Brake system adjustments
        • Higher maximum brake pressure
        • Add front tire grip for AI
        • Updated with cooler tyres
        • Slight tire wear increase
  • GT3
    • Aston Martin GT3
      • v3.61
        • No change
    • Audi R8 GT3 2018
      • v3.61
        • No change
    • Audi R8 GT3 2019
      • v3.61
        • No change
    • Bentley GT3 2017
      • v3.61
        • -5kg
    • Bentley GT3 2020
      • v3.61
        • -10kg
    • BMW M4 GT3
      • v3.61
        • No change
    • BMW M6 GT3
      • v3.61
        • No change
    • Callaway C7 GT3
      • v3.61
        • No change
    • Ferrari 488 GT3
      • v3.61
        • No change
    • McLaren 650 GT3
      • v3.61
        • No change
    • McLaren 720 GT3
      • v3.61
        • -5kg
        • Fixed HUD font
    • Mercedes AMG GT3
      • v3.61
        • +5kg
    • Porsche 991 GT3
      • v3.61
        • -10kg
    • Radical RXC GT3
      • v3.61
        • No change
  • GTE
    • Aston Martin Vantage GTE
      • v3.15
        • -12kg on standard aero package
        • 2% more engine power on Le Mans package
        • Adjusted pitstop times
    • BMW M8 GTE
      • v3.15
        • -20kg on standard aero package
        • Adjusted pitstop times
    • Corvette C7R GTE
      • v3.15
        • Slightly reduced drag
        • Adjusted pitstop times
    • Corvette C8R GTE
      • v3.15
        • Slightly reduced drag
        • 1% more engine power
        • -23kg with standard package
        • -15kg with Le Mans package
        • Adjusted pitstop times
    • Ferrari 488 GTE
      • v3.15
        • +15kg on standard aero package
        • 1.5% less engine power on Le Mans package
        • Adjusted pitstop times
    • Porsche 991 RSR GTE
      • v3.15
        • 16kg on standard aero package
        • 1% engine power increase on Le Mans package
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Marcel Offermans
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R00b_Driver said:
Nascar: Ignition - was developed by some Russian development team (now obsolete I believe).
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This is not correct. The development of this game was a collaboration of several teams within MSG:
  • A team in Moscow that worked on the creation of assets, motion capturing and Unreal Engine integration as well as some gameplay mechanics.
  • Studio 397, integrating the rFactor 2 physics engine into Unreal Engine, creating the car physics, providing multiplayer code, adapting the AI to run on ovals and implementation of several NASCAR specific rules.
  • A 704 games team, working on the career mode, paint booth, and in general providing the other teams with NASCAR expertise with their background working on the HEAT games.
  • A team in Silverstone, working on game design, game testing and several other bits.
So this was a much broader collaboration.
 
R00b_Driver
Marcel Offermans said:
This is not correct. The development of this game was a collaboration of several teams within MSG:
  • A team in Moscow that worked on the creation of assets, motion capturing and Unreal Engine integration as well as some gameplay mechanics.
  • Studio 397, integrating the rFactor 2 physics engine into Unreal Engine, creating the car physics, providing multiplayer code, adapting the AI to run on ovals and implementation of several NASCAR specific rules.
  • A 704 games team, working on the career mode, paint booth, and in general providing the other teams with NASCAR expertise with their background working on the HEAT games.
  • A team in Silverstone, working on game design, game testing and several other bits.
So this was a much broader collaboration.
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Ahh, completely wrong then

Thanks for the corrections.

Hope things are going well for you in your new adventures.
 
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Durge Driven said:
Then don't enable steam overlay, why people do this for serious sims I have no idea.

Why should you get a discount when you were too cheap to buy the pack the first time ?

Does any other sim give you discounts on DLC ? like Racroom ? Do i get a discount buying AMS2 season pack because of packs I already brought ? No Then why should rF2 ? You people.
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I think you misunderstood what I meant with discount, When the pack was created later than the individual content, which I already bought when the individual content was released initially. E.g., RaceRoom has a system when you buy a pack that already contains content you already own, you won’t have to pay for it again. But for me it does not matter much, since I buy all rF2 content always on day one.:D
 
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Marcel Offermans said:
This is not correct. The development of this game was a collaboration of several teams within MSG:
  • A team in Moscow that worked on the creation of assets, motion capturing and Unreal Engine integration as well as some gameplay mechanics.
  • Studio 397, integrating the rFactor 2 physics engine into Unreal Engine, creating the car physics, providing multiplayer code, adapting the AI to run on ovals and implementation of several NASCAR specific rules.
  • A 704 games team, working on the career mode, paint booth, and in general providing the other teams with NASCAR expertise with their background working on the HEAT games.
  • A team in Silverstone, working on game design, game testing and several other bits.
So this was a much broader collaboration.
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Thanks for an eye-opener. The project seems in good hands.

Once upon a time when acquiring a game I read the credit list as a first to-do (in some C64 games you had to, with no skipping option) and still remember most of the who to credit for GTR2 :) Nowadays it's in a seperate menu of which I unfortunately imperceptibly forget to check.
Looking forward to try out the news, especially a refined rF2 version of Toban Raceway Circuit. Though not that often into fantasy tracks this track I've really enjoyed the original in rF1 :inlove:
 
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Durge Driven said:
Never good at explanations so if this went over your head this may help.

1. Start rF2 and go to workshop.
Auto updates is ticked.
There are no warnings for uninstalled content.
Everything is green.
Perfect ? Yes for sure.

View attachment 687206

2. Now.....I click once on "Installed" and this happens.
So those orange items where at the bottom of the list hidden
and no warning about uninstalled content.

Since I been doing this method as long as I can remember
and never had this issue ever happen with default content
all I can assume is you have changed something and
whatever it is is wrong, clearly.

I know the solution ! Subscribe all the content was just updated.
Well that sort of defeats the purpose of not having to subscribe in the first place don't it ? :rolleyes:

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P.S. you can see mixed into this list are some 3rd party skin sets I mentioned.
I have not found a way to make them stay green so i left them subscribed, issue solved, but they are small mods and 5 in total so no problem. I just don't want to be subscribing to GB's of content I should not have to.
Just was never expecting to have the same issue with default content.
All because I want to use content in rfmods without subscribing to them.

Like I said this was part reason you changed this feature from auto subscribe.
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Could it be that Steam is maybe having issues? Because it works on my end. ;)
 
Durge Driven
tr1v1um said:
Could it be that Steam is maybe having issues? Because it works on my end. ;)
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You right was my fault.
I tested your theory by uninstalling rfmods using latest content I then
uninstalled same content, did this through mod manager.
When I opened rF2 it said warning "uninstalling" so steam still
thought it had content installed.
I must have left steam open when I was doing manual updates.

p.s. manually re-installed all updated content activated rfmods and workshop
is green ticks. Thanks :)

Moral is steam is smarter then I thought lol
 
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eg01st
Refreshing old content is good, but I still wait for the day Reiza paid DLC is updated. Isn't there any way to make them do it? Make it free content if they refuse, or too busy with stamping their AMS2 stuff.
Now 2 of the best race tracks - Imola and VIR - are left with 5 years old graphics, and not even laser scanned.
 
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eg01st said:
Refreshing old content is good, but I still wait for the day Reiza paid DLC is updated. Isn't there any way to make them do it? Make it free content if they refuse, or too busy with stamping their AMS2 stuff.
Now 2 of the best race tracks - Imola and VIR - are left with 5 years old graphics, and not even laser scanned.
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I thought they were working on updating it, but have not heard anything about it for a while.
traxion.gg

rFactor 2's Reiza Pack DLC is in the process of being revamped

The Reiza Pack on rFactor 2 will see revamped and improved visuals at some point as Reiza Studios unveiled images of the updated tracks on 23rd March.
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Timothy Wheatley
Finally, the Formula ISI is receiving an update to include KERS in the simulations for the first time

Formula ISI 2012 v2.25
Added KERS
Fixed dashboard display
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It seems nobody mentioned that this build also added KERS to the sim.
 
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stenovitz said:
Thanks for an eye-opener. The project seems in good hands.

Once upon a time when acquiring a game I read the credit list as a first to-do (in some C64 games you had to, with no skipping option) and still remember most of the who to credit for GTR2 :) Nowadays it's in a seperate menu of which I unfortunately imperceptibly forget to check.
Looking forward to try out the news, especially a refined rF2 version of Toban Raceway Circuit. Though not that often into fantasy tracks this track I've really enjoyed the original in rF1 :inlove:
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There was an Amiga game called Keef the Thief. When all the legal mumbo-jumbo was displayed during the initial install, you were instructed by the game to read the information. As usual, I just scrolled down to the bottom and hit the 'accept' button. I was immediately scolded by the game for cheating and NOT reading the thousands of expertly crafted legal words. Clicked 'accept' again. More chastising. Finally, after the 3rd or 4th attempt, the game relented and allowed the installation to continue. Lot of humor in that title, if I recall correctly.
 

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