iRacing's Upcoming Releases

[Yoeri Gijsen]

Let's keep a little thread going about what iRacing has in store for us in the (near) future. Some things have been announced, some targets have been rumoured and who knows what you have picked up in the darkest recesses of the net...

Below I will put up some things I find or found. Please post any news, rumours or hints below so one of the moderators can update this thread.

Cars

• McLaren MP4-12C GT3 - Next up, but time unspecified
• Lotus 49 - Next up, but time unspecified
• RUF Rt12R - October 2012
• Honda Civic BTCC - May/July 2013
• Honda HSV-010 - May/July 2013
• NASCAR Sprint Cup 2013 models - TBA

Tracks

• Auto Club Speedway - To be scanned (confirmed!)
• Circuit de Gilles Villeneuve - To be scanned (confirmed!)
• Hongaroring - Plans
• Kansas Speedway - To be scanned (confirmed!)
• Lukas Oil Raceway - In production
• Rockingham Speedway - October 2012
• Interlagos - To be scanned (confirmed!)
• Miller Motorsports Park - To be scanned
• New Jersey Motorsports Park - To be scanned
• Long Beach - 2013
• Oran Park Raceway - October 2012
• Tsukuba Circuit - In production
• Willow Springs - Scanned but on hold

Features

• Crew chief & spotter functionality - February 2013 at the earliest, but probably later
• Driver swaps - February 2013 at the earliest, but probably later
• DirectX 11 and x64 support - Long term project
• Dirt and oil build up on windscreen - Side project
• Enhanced sounds (DirectSound > XAudio2) - Groundwork in next build; the rest later
• Exhaust fire - Side project
• Teams - February 2013 at the earliest, but probably later
• Time transition - Long term and after DirectX 11

Your turn!

 

[Etab]

Cadillac come in next build.
Mclaren in the one after that.
RUF in the one after that.
Lotus 49 in the one after that, or at the same time as RUF.

Sounds like the most accurate to me. Hoping for new track content soon, too, since their scanning team is heading over to the UK.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Motegi will be next out as far as road tracks go. I expect it to be in the coming build. Or sooner.

What i look forward to is that this will be the first road track with night lighting that don´t have most areas lit up.
Sebring it pretty dark but it has lights in a few corners and bridges across the track.

can´t wait for SPA to be full on night Day/night transitions i think will be beautiful, the Daytona afternoon lighting is just mindbogglingly good imo.

 

[Eckhart von Glan]

and don't forget my favourite: the planes coming in to Daytona airport, just love it when you are in the infield and out of the corner of your eye you see 'em. brilliantly authentic.

 

[Greg Carr]

and don't forget my favourite: the planes coming in to Daytona airport, just love it when you are in the infield and out of the corner of your eye you see 'em. brilliantly authentic.

I was distracted in testing there watching the planes landing and I missed the breaking zone and crashed . During the race I had to tell myself "don't watch the planes, don't watch the planes!"

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Yea plane looks good

Birds don´t haha, what a POS those birds are. Nintendo 8-bit quality. Same with driver arms, can´t believe anyone let that pass through the quality checks.

 

[Eric Estes]

Looks like some new league tools/functions coming:

https://twitter.com/#!/iRacingMyers/status/185382811514056705/photo/1/large

 

[Marko Buhin]

No "teams" in this picture. does that mean that we wont get teams in next build?

 

[Hampus Andersson]

I hate to say it but correct, the whole Team boss/team thing is not coming. Nor is driver swaps or any of that stuff.

But atleast we get a nice little page saying "League"..

 

[Jan Roman]

At least they made a statement which says "You're gonna like the sound engine in next season."

 

[Hampus Andersson]

I´ve started to listen less to their statements They called the RUF partnership "badass"

I don´t know but "badass" in my car world is something like this.

 

[Dario Jagar]

this is badass in my book

 

[Jan Roman]

I agree, we need more GTs to race with... and Nordschleife, I can't believe they havent scanned it yet. I'd be willing to pay 25 bucks just to be able to drive such an amazing circuit. I am European so I don't really understand their focus on oval racing (but I haven't tried it yet so I won't bi*ch about it). Players are quite right. We need to focus on getting closer and closer to reality - real flagmen, pit crew, better sound engine, driver swaps along with endurance racing, weather, changeable track conditions (dirty track, proper racing line), real start lights, various parts of cars on track after crashes... and there's the immersion factor too - real tow truck (not really possible), motion blur (very subtle), grass would be nice. And a possibility to test new cars before buying them. Improvements to NTM, smoke and so on. There's a lot to improve, but I'm quite sure they're gonna stick to oval racing, and road racers won't get as much as oval drivers.

 

[Greg Carr]

Me likey!

 

[Yoeri Gijsen]

I'd say they've not biased oval vs. road racing as much as they have biased American vs. non-American content. I think all sides will be served. Anyhow, let's focus on what is being released or what appears to be in the pipe line.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Potential re-scan of Lime Rock today,

From Lime Rock tweet,

On track today: ladybug cameras and laser scanners.

No telling yet! But it will be widely available when launched. We'll let you know when we can mention names.

EDIT: Not the iracing crew apparently.

 

[Alex Sturm]

http://www.drivesrt.com/racing/viper-gts-r/

I wanna see this car in iRacing

 

[Hampus Andersson]

 

[Dazmaniac]

While many folks give PCARS a hard time, iRacing would be well advised to have a look at the work the graphic artists have done on the driver hands and animations as a whole. It's rather impressive IMO and would not look out of place in iRacing.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Let´s hope backfires come with this build, the mclaren spits out flames quite a lot

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Sound updates in @iRacing build - updated scrape and crash sounds - All cars have had their engine/wind/tire volumes tweaked.
@iRacing sound updates cont - many cars have new samples - Off throttle volumes should now be louder
@iRacing sound updates cont - Most cars have a new sub-wave sound designed to drive sub-woofers better.