Endurance Motorsport Series: A New Simulator That Mixes Driving And Management

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Endurance Motorsport Series is a new simulation driving game from the team that used to work on the WRC titles.

Imagine a driving platform that features prototype racing’s current top-class, official tracks, dynamic weather and strategy planning.

If you said, ‘yes, that already exists several times over’, then you’d be right.

But – a new game is just around the corner that is trying to muscle its way onto the grid, and it is called ‘Endurance Motorsport Series’.


Created By KT Racing​

The name sounds deliberately bland to appease lawyers. Mind you, translate it to French and ‘Série de sport automobile d’endurance’ sounds much grander.

Why French? This new endurance racing simulator is being developed by Kylotonn, or KT Racing for short, which has two studios across Paris and Lyon.

It used to create the official World Rally Championship games between 2015 and 2022 until that licence went to Codemasters and Electronic Arts.

Since then, it has been focused on the upcoming Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown, but it turns out that the open-world Hong Kong racer is not the only title it has in production.

Endurance Motorsport Series Porsche LMDh

A Potential Le Mans Ultimate Competitor?​

Only a brief amount of information has been unveiled so far, but what we do know is that the Porsche 963 LMDh (or GTP in America) will be included alongside the Porsche 911 GT3 R. Classes include 'Hypercars', LMP2 and GT.

Based on long-distance racing, and we hope multi-class is included, the new game will see you drive around real-world venues. KT Racing states that “your race strategy and decision-making based on unforeseen occurrences (incidents, weather, etc.) will be just as important as your driving skills.”

We presume then, that there could be an emphasis on the managerial aspect of longer racers, and maybe doubling down on this element is this sim’s unique selling point compared to its rivals.

“Race as a driver, win as a team” is the tagline – how this vision manifests itself in terms of gameplay features is yet to be unveiled. The Steam pre-order page lists 'online co-op' as a feature.

Endurance Motorsport Series, Win As A Team

New sim racing platform set for 2025 launch​

Publisher Nacon refers to it as a “simulation”, we’ll see closer to release how serious this claim is.

Speaking of which, it is set for a 2025 launch on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S simultaneously. We’ll keep you updated as the development progresses over the next year.

Are you interested in a new sportscars and prototype sim racing title from a developer new to this sub-genre? Let us know in the comments below or discuss in the forum.
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Thomas Harrison-Lord
A freelance sim racing, motorsport and automotive journalist. Credits include Autosport Magazine, Motorsport.com, RaceDepartment, Overtake, Traxion and TheSixthAxis.

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KT don't support their product (WRC bug fix,...) like they don't care about customer and just move forward from project to project.... so let's wait the release but I don't trust that company anymore.
 
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My opinion is not popular, but:

1- The more games and sims the better it is for us.

2- Also I purchase all other sims and games combined for the same money I saved by not purchacing iRacing. And doing so, I am supporting those developers and those studio to keep making new driving games. Not expensive, and justified purchases in my opinion.


Now I know that there are some people who say we only need 2 decent sims every 20 years and I understand where they're coming from. But what I don't understand is when they comment negatively trying to deter the developers from working and the players from playing. Anyway, the tires will keep turning.
 
Given their history I'm taking this like I do any Electronic Arts title...

Waiting a year to see if they've fixed the bugs they released it as a 1.0 with...

I do like the concept... But I don't like their history... They've done better than a few, but those are low hanging fruit like the pCARS series...
 
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On one side I'm happy because a new sim is always something I love to see and play.
Just imagine football fans (like me), who have no alternatives other than Fifa-arcade and an hybrid thing that is not PES anymore.

On the other hand, KT-Games is not exactly a developer team known for amazing titles, but hope is the last to die and after all, if ever the sim will suck, we'll just skip it.
 
KT ? no. The studio with a throttle bugged and stated it's fixed, even if with the first 50%, nothing is responding....they didn't have the honesty to admit they are bad and wrong.
No thanks.

and still no announce from the famous "test drive solaar crown"....
Looks like it's gonna be a huge flop. So yeah, they can't even make arcade-ish open world racer and now they are trying to compete with LMU or ACC. That's nuts. :roflmao:
 
"Série de sport automobile d’endurance" :D
Don't want to be rude but it doesn't make any sense in Molière's language. You would translate that in other ways the most simple and effective probably being "courses d'endurance", or closer tonthe original title "compétition de sports automobiles d'endurance" but that doesn't sounds French.

Back to the topic, we should.avoid the confusion between e developpment company and a publishing one. Nacon has been the publisher of the WRC games and if it didn't want a product developped by KT to be supported anymore, KT wouldn't do it for free as it was, or was before TDU, a really small team.

For their size and the difificult support, their products are relatively good. I've stayed away from them for years before I got V Rally 4 in a cheap bundle and was absoultely positibely surprised. WRC Generations is good too. There are some things which aren't great (like the angle of wheels not being adapted to the wheel rotation, although it is set ingame, so at 1080 the car is undrivable. 360 degrees is just the way to go), but globally there are no more issues than other rally games made by much bigger companies.

About their track based simracing experience, who knows? They have been working for years on that TDU game, they work with the real auomobile industry, there's obviously some background. And all of these work on tracks for TDU has to be used for.something else, it is a good idea imo.

I am more.concerned about their ability to optimize their proprierary engine and to program a solid AI (which is a question for all developpers, not specifically for KT).

Still remains the VR question for.KT dev team, when will it happen in their engine?

Looking forward to.more news about the project.
 
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Hey ! Here is some news about EMS from KT Racing (french speaking post)
Some promising (overpromising?) news have been published today :


Globally, Nacon, the publisher, promises realistic physics, various weather conditions, endrance races rules with safety car, the possibility to change driver during the race, the AI being able to take control of your car or another player. The innovation is that you can also managed several cars, inside a team, and can only monitored the rzce and makes strategy changes during the race. You don't have to drive at all to enjoy the game as the manager. You can even play coop with one as a manager and the other as a pilot. There will be real tracks and fictious ones. The game has been in development for.3 years. For sure there id a lot ambitkon there, if KT do everything right, there will be a serious sim there. Promises from a publisher aren't promises and possibilities of a decevelopper, wait and see.
 

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