Would you buy Race07 now?

Balázs Gerencsér · Nov 26, 2012

I'm thinking of buying this game. But not sure if I still should do it now when Assetto Corsa and some other games will be out soon. Do you think it still worths the money and - especially - time investment?

Dennis Phelan · Dec 3, 2012

The Multiplayer Lobby usually has plenty of open servers available and many are populated. Also, many are like the RacerDepartment servers passworded and setup for club and league use. You can usually find an open session in the public's but I bet you'll want to join a club soon!.

Dave Flower · Dec 3, 2012

I would still recommend race07 although I wish Simbin and Steam would find a way to streamline the mass of add on content thats available into a more 'new to the Race Series' friendly format - they went so far with the release of Race Injection, its just a shame they couldnt roll it all into one and include the retros and the GTR Evo expansions.

The club here is still alive and kicking, but unfortunately limits members to only 3 races a week, for racing on other nights I would highly recommend going to Multiplayer and looking for servers with the 100Mbit tag - particularly the 100Mbut WTCC servers - you will find a friendly bunch of people on there most nights (many are RD Members using online Aliases) - a word of warning though - most times the server admins are in the servers, or are in contact via teamspeak or steam with people in the server - act the fool and you WILL be kicked and probably banned from all 100Mbit Servers - join using illegal (Skidrow) Race07 software and whilst you may get the occassional race more often than not the admins kick out Skidrows during the 2 minute countdown to race. You will struggle to find public server racing thats cleaner anywhere else in race07 or any other sim.

Dave Flower · Dec 15, 2012

I guess Simbin and I are in agreement :

http://www.racedepartment.com/2012/12/steam-simbin-mega-bundle-retail-keys/

Highly recommend this to anyone who has not already got the set - look into the mods available, they may be older but GT Legends and GTR/GTR2 are very well respected. The GT Legends Club seems to be going through a revival at the moment - I'm going to get GTR2 and the Power & Glory mod soon, hopefully, bundling them all in one like this will lead to a bit of a revival in all the titles.

Dave Flower · Dec 20, 2012

Someone already posted a thread about the steam sale but I thought I'd come here and give a heads up - Until the 5th January 2013 the Mega bundle is on steam at £14,24 - that includes race07, gtr, gtr2, GTR Evo expansion, Race On Expansion, Race Injection plus others.

The Race On expansion is only £3.14 well worth picking up !
STCC 2 is only £1.19

Merry Christmas to you all and I hope to see you on track soon !

SVP Skins · Dec 22, 2012

ty hunny =)

Marian Zelenka · Dec 22, 2012

I've been playing GSC2012 lately and played R07 yesterday just to enjoy some tracks I haven't been driving for a while and wasn't happy with FFB at all. If there was some FFB update, it would be just superb and that mega bundle would be totaly worth getting for new people. It could help to prolonge its life a bit and fill up servers a bit.

Ryan Vickery · Dec 23, 2012

I just got the Simbin bundle from Steam, previously I just owned GTR 2. Think the Race 07 series is definitely worth it, massive ammount of content for cheap and some good racing to be had.

What I will say is that coming from playing SimRaceway and Game Stock Car the Race 07 experience does feel a bit watered down, though it runs on the same engine (and is similar as a result) the FFB/Physics/Graphics/Modelling/Tracks etc in general do feel a little dated compared.

With all that said, value for money wise (especially if you haven't played SRW/GSC) Race 07 is excellent value for money, a great way to get started in sim racing with a load of quality content without having to go through the hassle of going the Rfactor + Mods route and filtering through all the crap and tweaking (which is the route I went).

I also feel it doesn't feel exactly like GTR 2, personally I think GTR 2 is actually a step above Race 07, but that might just be something subtle that depends on personal preference. Beware with the Steam version of GTR 2, it doesn't come with the Porsche/Ferrari cars that the retail version has.

SVP Skins · Jan 5, 2013

RacerRyan88 · Jan 17, 2013

I'm also looking at Race 07 had Race Pro on xbox 360 thought it was 1 of the best games on the console down to the realism proper touring cars will look at the of the mod's once i get sorted with it

Calum McLure · Jan 18, 2013

Just ordered my first PC to get me started and I bought Race 07 in the Steam sale so I should be joining you lot once I've gotten the hang of it

Andrew Ford · Jan 19, 2013

Calum McLure said:
Just ordered my first PC to get me started and I bought Race 07 in the Steam sale so I should be joining you lot once I've gotten the hang of it

come and join me and mark g at some point ;-) play occasional ourselves too

Calum McLure · Jan 20, 2013

Andrew Ford said:
come and join me and mark g at some point ;-) play occasional ourselves too

Will do mate

going to try and make the Mini race on the 25th as long as I don't deem myself a hazard

Andrew Ford · Jan 20, 2013

Calum McLure said:
Will do mate going to try and make the Mini race on the 25th as long as I don't deem myself a hazard

great stuff. see you then. i won't be practising much as i'm busy this week. from memory you are faster than me anyway. pad or wheel? add me on steam. i'm fourthdimension1

Calum McLure · Jan 20, 2013

Andrew Ford said:
great stuff. see you then. i won't be practising much as i'm busy this week. from memory you are faster than me anyway. pad or wheel? add me on steam. i'm fourthdimension1

Must have been a fluke then

I'm using a wheel, hoping my Race Pro settings work or I'll end up spending a week trying to sort it

Lars Bargmann · Jan 22, 2013

I still think the Race07 series is a great sim.
...and there's plenty of races to pick up, if you just want to go racing here and now, and plenty of leagues that are still active too.
Only bad thing I have to say about it, is that I hate it's dependency on Steam.
After Steam fubar'ed last year (moving Race07 to "common" and back and whatnot) my Race07 have never been the same. I've been doing some testing lately, 'cause I'm writing some software for it, and things have become even stranger.
My steam seem to randomly pick an installation to run from when I start Race07.
Sometimes it starts the one in the "Common" folder, and sometimes it starts the one in my steam-playername folder???
There's no system in this, it just seem to pick whatever it feels like..

I think it might be time, for a complete wipe-down, and re-install...

Mark Greenall · Jan 22, 2013

Calum McLure said:
Must have been a fluke then I'm using a wheel, hoping my Race Pro settings work or I'll end up spending a week trying to sort it

Give me a shout calum if you need any help, i think iv just about cracked it myself

Mark Greenall · Jan 22, 2013

Lars Bargmann said:
I still think the Race07 series is a great sim.
...and there's plenty of races to pick up, if you just want to go racing here and now, and plenty of leagues that are still active too.
Only bad thing I have to say about it, is that I hate it's dependency on Steam.
After Steam fubar'ed last year (moving Race07 to "common" and back and whatnot) my Race07 have never been the same. I've been doing some testing lately, 'cause I'm writing some software for it, and things have become even stranger.
My steam seem to randomly pick an installation to run from when I start Race07.
Sometimes it starts the one in the "Common" folder, and sometimes it starts the one in my steam-playername folder???
There's no system in this, it just seem to pick whatever it feels like..
I think it might be time, for a complete wipe-down, and re-install...

Thats what i'd recommend full clean install