Catch a First Look at the McLaren 650s GT3 Coming to rF2

[Paul Jeffrey]

Studio 397 have revealed the first images from the controversial upcoming pay DLC for rFactor 2.. the McLaren 650s GT3.

Although looking beautiful in game, and built with considerable cooperation from the McLaren team who design and run the cars in GT3 championships throughout the world, the upcoming 650s GT3 has attracted plenty of attention within the rFactor 2 community as the very first paid DLC for the venerable racing simulation.

Build in-house by Studio 397, the new car will form part of the McLaren endorsed 'World's Fastest Gamer' competition and is set to be made available to the gaming public for an additional fee, the first time either rFactor game has been in receipt of paid DLC content since the series began in 2005.

Priced at a reasonable 4.99 eu and expected to form the beginning of a wider GT3 pack, the McLaren 650s looks to be quite possibly the most accurate rendition of a racing car brought to rFactor 2 as first party content.

Unfortunately no release date has been revealed by the studio at present, however with the WFG competition and the apparent advanced state of the car, one can expect to be able to access the new content in the not too distant future.

rFactor 2 can be purchased from the Steam platform right now and is available exclusively for PC.

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Will you be purchasing the McLaren on release? Happy to see official DLC content for the sim? Looking forward to more GT3 spec cars (officially) released for rF2? Let us know in the comments section below!

 

[osyres]

Ssy wut?? Studio whatever lost their mind? Im NOT impressed by their work so far. DX11 was a pure waste of time. The radical....could have been a mod. I will NOT buy any dlc created by those arrogant dutch %@#&$!. Look at Reiza and learn...rookies.

U mean reiza which made a kickstarter with vr promise and next gen titel reiza 17 call end of 2016... really u learn from them ? And how can u complain about dx11 if its never out its in beta u know what beta means ?...

Now 5 euro are more than assetto corsa and less than iracing. So the key will be how good are thes pay cars in graphic, sound etc. and how will the pay content integrate in in good mutliplayer system. If they make it good its worth 5 euro per car for sure compare to other sims like raceroom,iracing etc.

 

[Craig Dunkley]

You mention the word "reasonable" and for me this is the problem, I do not think 4.99eu is a resonable price for ONE car.

Lets compare it to the DLC's from AC I think that is a fair and good comparison to make.

DREAM PACK 1 - £6.99

- Features Alfa Romeo 4C, GTA and 155 Ti V6 ‘93
- Features BMW M235i Race car
- Features GM Corvette C7r GTE
- Features McLaren P1 and F1 GTR
- Features Mercedes-Benz 190E EVO II and C9
- Features Nissan GT-R NISMO 2014 GTR

9 cars !!!!!!

DREAM PACK 2 - £5.59

- Features the Catalunya circuit in two all-new layouts: GP and MotoGP.
- Features AUDI R8 Ultra 2014
- Features BMW M4 Coupé
- Features BMW M4 Coupé Akrapovic Edition
- Features FORD GT40 MKI
- Features LAMBORGHINI COUNTACH 5000 Quattro Valvole
- Features LAMBORGHINI HURACAN GT3
- Features RUF RT12 R
- Features Scuderia Glickenhaus SCG003

8 cars and one track !!!!!!

DREAM PACK 3 - £5.59

- Features the Brands Hatch circuit in two all-new layouts: GP and Indy.
- Features Abarth 500 Assetto Corse
- Features Ford Escort RS 1600
- Features Lotus 25
- Features Lotus 72
- Features LAMBORGHINI Gallardo SuperLeggera
- Features LAMBORGHINI HURACAN SuperTrofeo
- Features McLaren 650 GT3
- Features Mercedes-Benz AMG GT3

8 cars and one track !!!!!

and notice one of the cars in this pack for £5.59 ...yes the 650 GT3, but rfactor 2 want to charge 4.99 for one sole car ...to much, way to much.

I have no problem as mentioned in another post with rfactor2 starting to charge for additional content but at that price they will drive people away.

 

[osyres]

I don´t need to know the car, i know the numbers. 560 kg dry-weight with that center of gravity don´t understeer like a Porsche Cayenne in AC and seem´s i´m not the only one finding this car strange. And Billy isn´t a nitpicker.

funny thing is when in rfactor 2 something is rong even inside simracing talks about it but on iracing which i call understeer racing where every car is rong at some points with too much understeer nobody in hell talks about it. I mean drive the iracing skip barber and it is a joke. and this comes from a iracer because its my main sim.

 

[Deleted member 130869]

Today I learned simracers are alcoholics who love very expensive beer and fatty snacks on a daily basis

 

[tlsmikey]

This feels a bit like R3E's attempt to go e-sports. R3E has fallen flat because the sim wasn't complete (lack of triple screens, mediocre VR implementation, flag system woes, net code)....basically a host of issues that make it less than ready for prime time.

I feel the same about RF2. The handling model is good, but the game itself is very unpolished. The UI is brutal, color pallet is not appealing to me even after DX11, car list is a bit rough, sounds are rough....hard to charge premium dollars in a sim that is not fully polished.

 

[TOOOlazy545]

The Radical SR03 is driving like horse- and nowhere near the real car, so first they should fix this car and maybe i buy this boring GT3-car after. Today i don´t think anyone in this Studio is capable of creating cars with accurate physics so far. Just try out the MCR 2000 in AMS for comparison, which is similar in shape and weight with a bit less bhp. Or just watch this video and try out the same:

Rfactor 2 quality for you. A large majority of the content drives like garbage (from stock content to mods), especially the pay mods.

Which is a shame because it has a ton of good tracks.

 

[Patrik Marek]

sorry guys, but your points about missing vs proper data from manufacturesrs makes me laugh

yes maybe for the modern cars, and if company doing the sim is high profile, but definitely not always, and pretty much never with historical/older cars content

the only big advantage that comes with official DLC is that for more modern cars, you would often get CAD model of the car, so some of the suspension stuff you can measure from it, but not all of course ( like dampers), and again no CAD for older cars

so yeah, while sometimes official content has more data it's not all the data and definitely not always

big advantage on modder is that they can work on the car forr unlimited time , to get everything right, where's developers have bills to pay and after certain time they have to release it

or see you guys saying that Automobilista cars are not realistic ? I doubt they got much data from manufacturers, even less so for their unlicensed versions of the real cars

 

[mclarenf1papa]

You mention the word "reasonable" and for me this is the problem, I do not think 4.99eu is a resonable price for ONE car.

Lets compare it to the DLC's from AC I think that is a fair and good comparison to make.

DREAM PACK 1 - £6.99

- Features Alfa Romeo 4C, GTA and 155 Ti V6 ‘93
- Features BMW M235i Race car
- Features GM Corvette C7r GTE
- Features McLaren P1 and F1 GTR
- Features Mercedes-Benz 190E EVO II and C9
- Features Nissan GT-R NISMO 2014 GTR

9 cars !!!!!!

DREAM PACK 2 - £5.59

- Features the Catalunya circuit in two all-new layouts: GP and MotoGP.
- Features AUDI R8 Ultra 2014
- Features BMW M4 Coupé
- Features BMW M4 Coupé Akrapovic Edition
- Features FORD GT40 MKI
- Features LAMBORGHINI COUNTACH 5000 Quattro Valvole
- Features LAMBORGHINI HURACAN GT3
- Features RUF RT12 R
- Features Scuderia Glickenhaus SCG003

8 cars and one track !!!!!!

DREAM PACK 3 - £5.59

- Features the Brands Hatch circuit in two all-new layouts: GP and Indy.
- Features Abarth 500 Assetto Corse
- Features Ford Escort RS 1600
- Features Lotus 25
- Features Lotus 72
- Features LAMBORGHINI Gallardo SuperLeggera
- Features LAMBORGHINI HURACAN SuperTrofeo
- Features McLaren 650 GT3
- Features Mercedes-Benz AMG GT3

8 cars and one track !!!!!

and notice one of the cars in this pack for £5.59 ...yes the 650 GT3, but rfactor 2 want to charge 4.99 for one sole car ...to much, way to much.

I have no problem as mentioned in another post with rfactor2 starting to charge for additional content but at that price they will drive people away.

Kunos are selling those packs to a much bigger userbase on the PC in addition to their PS4 and Xbox userbases... if you get 9x the downloads you can afford to sell it at 1/9 the price.

 

[Chobonator]

I'm done paying for potential.

 

[Chobonator]

I hope it will come with nice skins.

Maybe they'll even make a skins pack DLC like Sector 3!

 

[leseb64]

You mention the word "reasonable" and for me this is the problem, I do not think 4.99eu is a resonable price for ONE car.

Lets compare it to the DLC's from AC I think that is a fair and good comparison to make.

DREAM PACK 1 - £6.99

- Features Alfa Romeo 4C, GTA and 155 Ti V6 ‘93
- Features BMW M235i Race car
- Features GM Corvette C7r GTE
- Features McLaren P1 and F1 GTR
- Features Mercedes-Benz 190E EVO II and C9
- Features Nissan GT-R NISMO 2014 GTR

9 cars !!!!!!

DREAM PACK 2 - £5.59

- Features the Catalunya circuit in two all-new layouts: GP and MotoGP.
- Features AUDI R8 Ultra 2014
- Features BMW M4 Coupé
- Features BMW M4 Coupé Akrapovic Edition
- Features FORD GT40 MKI
- Features LAMBORGHINI COUNTACH 5000 Quattro Valvole
- Features LAMBORGHINI HURACAN GT3
- Features RUF RT12 R
- Features Scuderia Glickenhaus SCG003

8 cars and one track !!!!!!

DREAM PACK 3 - £5.59

- Features the Brands Hatch circuit in two all-new layouts: GP and Indy.
- Features Abarth 500 Assetto Corse
- Features Ford Escort RS 1600
- Features Lotus 25
- Features Lotus 72
- Features LAMBORGHINI Gallardo SuperLeggera
- Features LAMBORGHINI HURACAN SuperTrofeo
- Features McLaren 650 GT3
- Features Mercedes-Benz AMG GT3

8 cars and one track !!!!!

and notice one of the cars in this pack for £5.59 ...yes the 650 GT3, but rfactor 2 want to charge 4.99 for one sole car ...to much, way to much.

I have no problem as mentioned in another post with rfactor2 starting to charge for additional content but at that price they will drive people away.

cool!! for a technical démo....

 

[JeffL]

If RF2 is going in a direction of a true simulator then 5 bucks is fair, I still think we are a few years out from simulators opening the gap between sims and games. The jury is still out but I personally like the direction.

 

[Alex72]

Blah blah whatever dudes. Yeah i will buy it. 5 bucks is nothing and i want to see continued work on rF2.

 

[Peter Stokman]

Ssy wut?? Studio whatever lost their mind? Im NOT impressed by their work so far. DX11 was a pure waste of time. The radical....could have been a mod. I will NOT buy any dlc created by those arrogant dutch %@#&$!. Look at Reiza and learn...rookies.

dont know where you from but you a ......gready....... not even paying 10 euro for RD but have a big mouth and attitude like a million dollar man you go ................................................................................................... and we will wait for your impressive work

 

[Boby Kim]

dont know where you from but you a ......gready....... not even paying 10 euro for RD but have a big mouth and attitude like a million dollar man you go ................................................................................................... and we will wait for your impressive work

Oh boy, dont know who u are but you are not the sharpest tool in the shed are u mr. Stokman: its "Greedy".
Im glad for you that you are a millionaire. Good luck with it

 

[Peter Stokman]

Oh boy, dont know who u are but you are not the sharpest tool in the shed are u mr. Stokman: its "Greedy".
Im glad for you that you are a millionaire. Good luck with it

doesnt matter how to write you recognized yourself mr Greedy

and where did i write that i am a millionaire ?

 

[Pywackett-Barchetta]

R: They will pay for these licenses? I'd rather wait.

Who knows, maybe if we hold off and they skip those, we can get the LcMaren 761z GTC for free later!

 

[Ghoults]

Who knows, maybe if we hold off and they skip those, we can get the LcMaren 761z GTC for free later!

If you wait long enough you can get fractor 2 for free!

 

[felippekiss]

http://simracingpaddock.com/rfactor2/report-rfactor-2-feature-official-formula-e-content/

 

[Boby Kim]

doesnt matter how to write you recognized yourself mr Greedy

and where did i write that i am a millionaire ?

Luckily im hanging next to u in the shed.