Enjoy All RaceRoom Content for Free Over the Weekend

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If you are on the fence about certain RaceRoom content, this weekend is your chance to try the simulation's entire roster of cars and tracks: Until September 4th, every circuit and vehcile will be free to access.

Image credit: KW Studios

The most recent free access period took place in June and lasted a full week. A month later, the Porsche Pack launched - so if you have not given the trio of Stuttgart-made racing cars that comprise the pack a try yet, this weekend is a good opportunity to do so.

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Interestingly, practical reasons are behind the free access weekend this time: RaceRoom will be performing maintenance to its store, which will be unavailable for the duration. Instead of just letting users race what they have bought so far without the alternative to expand their libraries, developer KW Studios decided to open up the vast content database to all users of the free-to-play simulation.

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The Porsche Pack is the most recent release of RaceRoom content and includes the 944 Turbo Cup. Image credit: KW Studios

Should you fancy more inspiration on what to try over the weekend, we put together a list of 5 RaceRoom tracks to try during free access back in June - since no new tracks have been added ot the sim since and its selection of lesser-known but immensely fun tracks is still just as good, it should be a good starting point this time around as well.

Will you be firing up RaceRoom over the weekend? What content are you looking forward to try? Let us know in the comments below!
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VFX Pro
Their FFB/Physics is top-notch, sound is unmatched, car setup UI is the best, car/track selection is pure bliss... if they could only update their god damn graphics I would make this sim my number one choice. They never talk about their plan about this elephant-in-the-room problem..
 
S
If RRR wouldn’t do a lots of things right, I wouldn’t be so sad about their ancient engine. It has so much potential, which is just wasted by such a stupid decision made 10 years ago. DX11 was already available for years when RRR was released. It would age so much better with DX11. But DX9 is a tragedy ‍
 
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Majuh said:
Enabling ABS for cars that don't have it in real life makes it work less efficient I think.
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The key is how I adjust when driving a car with ABS. For example, in all other games such as ACC and RF2, I can adjust the 1-N level, but not in R3E.
It seems that many people have asked this question, but the developer's answer is not to add it
 
JoelRR
gonna give it a try, expected rains for the whole weekend down here at Argie, so, perfect plan
 
K
I went back to Raceroom when I finally bought a load cell kit for my brake pedal. Before that, the game was almost unplayable. It has some amazing content, some of my favorite cars and tracks. I still drive the DTM cars of 2013-2020 all the time, they are such a blast. The big problem, as so many people have already mentioned, is the outdated engine: no weather effects, no day/time transition, etc. The AI is still a bit too agressive for my taste. The graphics are quite good for a sim that's so old.

Bottom line: with a major update, this could be THE sim to own...
 
Andy_J
It's still a great race sim. And my go to race sim for AI racing. Just boot up BRNO with the GT3/ADAC car set and it's pure bliss. That track and car combo is so good. :)
 
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Kingkoenig said:
I went back to Raceroom when I finally bought a load cell kit for my brake pedal. Before that, the game was almost unplayable. It has some amazing content, some of my favorite cars and tracks. I still drive the DTM cars of 2013-2020 all the time, they are such a blast. The big problem, as so many people have already mentioned, is the outdated engine: no weather effects, no day/time transition, etc. The AI is still a bit too agressive for my taste. The graphics are quite good for a sim that's so old.

Bottom line: with a major update, this could be THE sim to own...
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There is time transition though only from dawn to dusk
 
Large Style
For those saying the graphics are a deal-breaker for them, maybe have a look at my Remastered Reshade mod which updates the tone-mapping to Unreal Engine 4 standards while also providing colour correction and some subtle lighting improvements. It just reduces / eliminates the dull and flat look of the game by a decent amount and make's it less painful on the eyeballs...

I did try and convince the game's dev's to update Skyboxes to go from this...
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..to this (photoshopped skybox from Assetto Corsa's Pure)...
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...and polish the lighting up as that is all little effort and big gain, but I never heard back from them. They're seemingly either not truly interested in improving their game, or are doing so but haven't bothered formally announcing their intent.

Thankfully (for them and us) the core gameplay is still right up there with (if not better than) the competition.
 
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