IndyCar IR18 and Ligier LMP3 Comes to rFactor 2 Next Week

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Studio 397 keeps announcing new content for rFactor 2. After announcing Daytona International Speedway, with multiple layouts, on Monday. The Ligier JS P320 was announced on Tuesday. Today, the IndyCar IR18 was announced.

In an announcement that probably didn't surprise many rFactor 2 players, the IndyCar IR18 was announced today. Users of rFactor 2, may have spotted the car when launching the game, as it is one of the cars being shown on the start-screen of the game.

The Dallara DW12 is already in the game, but IndyCar has progressed since then, and they have kept updating the spec chassis over the 10 years the car has been used. Now in it's third iteration, the IR18 have visibly changed, with the removal of wheel covering, enormous group b-like aero and the aero development. They have also introduced the Red Bull Technologies developed frontal driver protection canopy. More alike what you see on jet-fighters and speed record cars than the F1 halo.

The cars have upwards of 700HP in the configuration with most power, and it comes with different aero and power packages depending on type of track you are driving on. The cars have very little in terms of driving aids, and they still run without power steering. Making it a physical car to drive on bumpy street circuits.

The car will arrive to rFactor 2 with all teams, drivers and liveries from the 2021 NTT IndyCar Series season, and have been developed in cooperaton with the IndyCar teams. Together with the car, rFactor 2 will be adding a couple of new physics features as well. Namely Push-to-Pass and Weight Jacker, both are features that are vital in IndyCar racing.

To celebrate the release of the car. There will be a special edition esport event with drivers like 2021 IndyCar champion Alex Palou, 2021 INDY 500 winner Helio Castroneves and two-time champion Josef Newgarden. This will take place the 9th of February. In addition to this, the IndyCar IR18 will be added to the rF2 competition system.

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In addition to the IndyCar IR18. The Ligier JS P320 LMP3 was announced on Monday. This will be a welcome addition to all who likes the lower powered prototype-racing, as it means the Norma LMP3 already in the game will get a playmate on track.

Ligier is well known for years in Formula 1, and their win with Olivier Panis in the 1996 Monaco GP is widely known and remembered. However, they sold the team to Alain Prost, and left F1 after the 1996 season.
Liger returned to motorsport in 2013 together with Onroak Automotive and have enjoyed great success in prototype racing. Being the first since Ferrari to win the 24 hours of Daytona, 12 hours of Sebring and Petit Le Mans when they did so in 2016 with their LMP2-car.

Their LMP3 car is built for Road to Le Mans, Le Mans Cup, IMSA and the European Le Mans Series, where the Ligier have been fighting for titles all seasons.
LMP3 is considered more of an entry class into prototype racing, which makes it a great car to learn how to handle cars that relies on downforce, yet not so much downforce that it makes it hard to have close and hard racing on the track.

Both the IndyCar IR18 and Ligier JS P320 LMP3 will join Daytona International Speedway in being released for rFactor 2 the 7th February 2022.

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Ole Marius Myrvold
Ole Marius Myrvold
I've been a motorsport-fan for as long as I can remember. Initially a rallycross-maniac, but got into F1 around the time I started school. Got my first sim when I was 7, but didn't start properly until I got a wheel when I was 12. Been a staff at RaceDepartment since 2012. Mainly the dirty-guy who does rally-stuff here. But also management-titles and rFactor 2.

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BloodSinking said:
How you are treated after spending around 150 euros on all of RF2 my boys! Thanks S397 (or Jimmy). At least you won't get nothing more from me.
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Your behaviour was socially unacceptable.
Criticism is one thing, constant trolling and generally unruly behaviour is something that any developer is entitled to censor and eradicate.
Was it harsh? Perhaps, but frankly, 95% of the discord members were happy, including people that don't post at all ended up posting a "thank you" :-D
All of us at the S397 have been pointing out the issues which we believe should be addressed, repeatedly and consistently, but we kept it civil.
I am assuming that you are OBAN.
 
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Fucitol said:
So what, you want any new addition that might end up in the pack for free? What business model is that?
If they don't put it in the pack people (like you just did) complain that it is fragmented...
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In my opinion if I buy a pack called Endurance Pack and another person half a year later buys a pack called Endurance Pack we should own the same thing. If the Endurance Pack would be delisted from the store and say Endurance Pack 2 Electric Boogaloo would be sold, my complaint would be baseless.

AT THE SAME TIME fragmenting content of the same class should be avoided as much as possible and reasonably priced upgrades to existing customers should be offered (immediately after release).

For example, at the moment there is no upgrade for Formula E Pack owners who got it before the release of the Diriyah and Rome ePrix circuits, yet the pack is being sold with those two tracks added to it for new customers.

R3E suffers from the same thing, you buy the premium pack with all content you are at a disadvantage for new content releases. But at least when "filling" content from the same class you get a discount.

AC had fragmented DLC content but at the same time very reasonable pricing.

These are niche products with small playerbases, a little bit of a customer-friendly system would certainly not hurt the playerbase. I still stand by my opinion that for what rFactor 2 offers at the moment, the premium content is overpriced. Even if the content itself would be of high quality (does not apply for older paid content in my opinion, newer stuff is good), its value is reduced by a lot because the single player experience is very questionable and the online playerbase is small, and actually even smaller due to fragmenting them with the DLC strategy.
 
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v4v474 said:
Your behaviour was socially unacceptable.
Criticism is one thing, constant trolling and generally unruly behaviour is something that any developer is entitled to censor and eradicate.
Was it harsh? Perhaps, but frankly, 95% of the discord members were happy, including people that don't post at all ended up posting a "thank you" :-D
All of us at the S397 have been pointing out the issues which we believe should be addressed, repeatedly and consistently, but we kept it civil.
I am assuming that you are OBAN.
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Yeah very unacceptable, but not as unacceptable as Mr Jimmy who the day before asks people to stop coming up with the infamous "Oban tires" but the next day or so comes back at me witht the same BS and because I said I gave them until February... I knew it was a trap and I didn't even reply with anything nasty LOL. I simply said that people were calling me childish before and then he does that and also excuses poor lack of trust and development because iRacing is bad! LMAO

If I was banned for other then that and with a propper warning instead of a trap, I would consider it fair. There was nothing fair about it.

By the way, it's funny because I was using discord to simply defend myself as I started blocking very limited people intelectually that had the same non arguments all the time. They accuse me of repetition but can't see why...

But yeah, seems I was right to be freaking scpetical of all this "oh we are so excited" BS. 3 pieces of content, an UI that was overdue, still nothing on fixing previous issues like a arcade tire model and many more...

At least most of the money I spent were on some good tracks. There is talent in S397, just not in the simulation and fixing things department. Better for me this way honestly, it was taking me a little bit of too much of my energy and time all of it, but there's gonna be a video why not to trust S397 anymore, but people already know it because of Nascar Ignition...
 
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davehenrie said:
? you don't have to spend anymore than that initial price to 'test it quickly' There are dozens of free cars and tracks included with rF2 at no extra cost. If you do want the DLC content, then you do have to contend with that All or Nothing system, but to try it..to race it...to use it for hours and hours and hours with car after car at track after track, all forjust the initial price.
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If you want to test one gt3 on one track against human opponents you need to buy all the cars and tracks too in the online series. I am not sure if I remember it correctly or if it has been changed but I think at point you needed to own all cars and tracks just to do one race in one in the rf2 official races in their competition system. I hope I remember that wrong because that would be catastrophically bad design.

But anyways if someone wants to do gt3 racing he has many options. In raceroom you can buy one car and maybe one track and you are good to go against full grids of various gt3 cars against human opponents. In iracing you buy a sub, one car and maybe one car and you can race people as long as your license is up to it. In acc you buy the game. Ac is 9€ and then just register at srs and go race. In ams2 I don't know. In rf2 you need to buy the game, then all the gt3 cars and at least one track just to do one race. Sure you can drive alone on years and years old out of date gt3 camaro on your own against full grid of ai gt3 camaros but how representative that is about the actual experience, it really isn't.
 
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Ghoults said:
If you want to test one gt3 on one track against human opponents you need to buy all the cars and tracks too in the online series. I am not sure if I remember it correctly or if it has been changed but I think at point you needed to own all cars and tracks just to do one race in one in the rf2 official races in their competition system. I hope I remember that wrong because that would be catastrophically bad design.

But anyways if someone wants to do gt3 racing he has many options. In raceroom you can buy one car and maybe one track and you are good to go against full grids of various gt3 cars against human opponents. In iracing you buy a sub, one car and maybe one car and you can race people as long as your license is up to it. In acc you buy the game. Ac is 9€ and then just register at srs and go race. In ams2 I don't know. In rf2 you need to buy the game, then all the gt3 cars and at least one track just to do one race. Sure you can drive alone on years and years old out of date gt3 camaro on your own against full grid of ai gt3 camaros but how representative that is about the actual experience, it really isn't.
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Hum, Maybe graphically it won't be representative of the best RF2 has to offer, but physics wise the Camaro GT3 beats the S397 GT3s to a pulp! Propper tires, great feeling of mass... Unforgiving car.
 
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Another laugher . I don't know how RF2 has become so bad at distinguishing good from bad physics, but they did. They've swallowed the S397 DLC cars for years now and Ermin had to come to point out the obvious of it - although he needed Esports players for that; I've felt their stupid behavior since ever I bought one of the GT3 cars; vague tires with too much grip, both on the static and dynamic side of it. Good thing someone woke you up!
 
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Ghoults said:
If you want to test one gt3 on one track against human opponents you need to buy all the cars and tracks too in the online series. I am not sure if I remember it correctly or if it has been changed but I think at point you needed to own all cars and tracks just to do one race in one in the rf2 official races in their competition system. I hope I remember that wrong because that would be catastrophically bad design.

But anyways if someone wants to do gt3 racing he has many options. In raceroom you can buy one car and maybe one track and you are good to go against full grids of various gt3 cars against human opponents. In iracing you buy a sub, one car and maybe one car and you can race people as long as your license is up to it. In acc you buy the game. Ac is 9€ and then just register at srs and go race. In ams2 I don't know. In rf2 you need to buy the game, then all the gt3 cars and at least one track just to do one race. Sure you can drive alone on years and years old out of date gt3 camaro on your own against full grid of ai gt3 camaros but how representative that is about the actual experience, it really isn't.
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You are correct, mostly, what you are required to have is whatever the server has. If they have two different cars, then you need those same two different cars. It was setup this way to prevent cheating long before DLC became a thing. Your cars must match the server's cars and if they do, then you are not trying to bring a cheat car online. But as you noted, almost all GT3 servers have ALL the currently available GT3 cars, so to join in on those servers you would also need all the cars.
But there are plenty of online events that use free cars and tracks, At least one option on the Comp System is almost always dedicated to free cars and tracks. So you can test and evaluate rF2 mostly for free without jumping all the way in. And buying ONE car to test against humans, how unscientific, each car is different, Porsche drivers sneer at front engined cars, The Merc GT3 is a separate car all in itself. Buying one car to test the GT3 fleet will never show you the broad range of the cars. There are plenty of quality free cars so that you will get the flavor of rF2 without spending one red cent.
The Ferrari GT3 is $5.71 (US Dollars) right now. If you purchase all of the current 13 GT3 cars that is over 70 Dollars. The pack is $37.93(prices vary by regions and currency around the world) That works out to $2.90 per car. One purchase, all the cars, and if you wait for a Steam sale, chances are it would drop well below that price. If you buy the Ferrari and THEN decide to get all the cars, you are out just under 6bucks with a duplicate purchase. and get over 70 dollars worth of product.
I can see where most folks would have an argument IF the package price was up near $70.00. But it isn't, S397 attempts to compensate by GROSSLY underpricing the pack. This argument has been on-going since the very first package, you are not alone. But it's like going camping and then complaining that you couldn't see anything cuz the Mountains blocked your view.
6 bucks, Make a stand for your principles, they are surely worth 6 bucks.
 
Durge Driven
I take some blame I should be like the other 99.9% of happy rF2 users and just ignore it all together.

Riddle me this, how does better rolling resistance affect performance and handling

I mean surely not ! Did all naysayers totally miss this because in all my years I never heard a thing ?

So go take same car probably a GT3 as all sims have them and Monza ?

Get to 100kph before start/finish line and as you cross hit neutral and let the car come to a stop keeping it as straight as you can obviously
Judge how far each car travels in each sim

rF2 car will travel double triple the distance , look at all them open mouths another pick on rF2 thing :)

What I want to know is how you think that affects car physics ( pretty sure it is positive ) and hidden in plain view from the masses :p

Well imho it is one of the 2 unique things that makes ISI cars more " lively"
The other is gravity or lack of it
Remember AMS dirt cars ? Didn't they feel ordinary jumping you never got much air, like the cars were nailed to the track

In rF2 cars travel higher further then is possible

So what do those 2 things mean to a dynamic model ....... :whistling:
 
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TurboT said:
I hope that they fix the previous ligier LMP first before they release a new one ! The old LMP is like glue when it even slightly touches the other LMP car, they simply melt and become one big crash. It's a true disaster. S397 does it again, releasing/selling new content while the old content is still full with unfixed bugs.
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I just tried the LMP2 Ligier and could not get it to stick to any other surface. Not pitwalls, Oreca LMP2s, pace cars, tire walls, I rubbed, slammed, reversed into as many static and moving objects as I could find and not once did the LMP2 Ligier stick to anything.
This was the S397 Ligier, not the Enduroracers version. I quite agree there is a long long list of items that could be corrected, I just can't seem to generate your complaint.
 
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davehenrie said:
All paid. There is a newly released Daytona track in the workshop that is free. The S397 stuff will all be released next week.
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I'll bet $1000 that the pros (that can afford to buy this overpriced garbage) wont have to spend a single cent on it.
 
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Defender said:
I'll bet $1000 that the pros (that can afford to buy this overpriced garbage) wont have to spend a single cent on it.
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There also is a newly released 3rd party mod of the same Indycar with plenty of skins. Allowing professional competitors to use a product at no cost that would later showcase the product is fairly common. It's called advertising.
Race driver Max Papis, during the lockdown, helped several professional drivers get online and sold them gear like wheels & cockpits to help them race. Should he have donated his products & time?
If you don't like the DLC, then avoid it.
 
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davehenrie said:
There also is a newly released 3rd party mod of the same Indycar with plenty of skins. Allowing professional competitors to use a product at no cost that would later showcase the product is fairly common. It's called advertising.
Race driver Max Papis, during the lockdown, helped several professional drivers get online and sold them gear like wheels & cockpits to help them race. Should he have donated his products & time?
If you don't like the DLC, then avoid it.
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Oh trust me.. I wont be. I already have fantastic free Indycar and Daytona road course mods. I just dont understand how they can keep making these freakin paid mods and not be fixing the game? Have you driven it recently? The ridiculous shadow draw-in has supposedly been being worked on for over 2 or 3 years now.. When the hell are we going to get that implemented? It took them over a year to add the name-tags back in that they removed like morons.. A FREAKIN YEAR!!! FOR NAME-TAGS!!! Are you kidding me?!?!?!?
 
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Defender said:
I'll bet $1000 that the pros (that can afford to buy this overpriced garbage) wont have to spend a single cent on it.
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Pro drivers help promote the product so that's a no brainer!! This is an instant buy for me... great to see something other then endurance race related in rF2. I bought AMS just for the USA pack .. anything releated to IndyCAR Car/Champcar... I'll gladly give them my $$ in support.
 
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Defender said:
Oh trust me.. I wont be. I already have fantastic free Indycar and Daytona road course mods. I just dont understand how they can keep making these freakin paid mods and not be fixing the game? Have you driven it recently? The ridiculous shadow draw-in has supposedly been being worked on for over 2 or 3 years now.. When the hell are we going to get that implemented? It took them over a year to add the name-tags back in that they removed like morons.. A FREAKIN YEAR!!! FOR NAME-TAGS!!! Are you kidding me?!?!?!?
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HAHAH, one more that sees how ridicullous things are with RF2 the past years.
 
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You are not missing anything on the M4 thread has it's been derailed to no end. BTW All the new content should have the new tire model so it should be good.
 
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boxer said:
You are not missing anything on the M4 thread has it's been derailed to no end. BTW All the new content should have the new tire model so it should be good.
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I think the Indycars will have the new tire model, but I'm not so sure about the GT3 Bimmer, it has to balance with existing cars in the GT3 Fleet, so I think they announced the GT3 Bimmer will have the same tire as the other GT3 cars. Not sure about the Ligier LMP3.
 
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davehenrie said:
I think the Indycars will have the new tire model, but I'm not so sure about the GT3 Bimmer, it has to balance with existing cars in the GT3 Fleet, so I think they announced the GT3 Bimmer will have the same tire as the other GT3 cars. Not sure about the Ligier LMP3.
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the M4 is confirmend to run the current model, just like the other GT´s, wouldnt really make sense to have it different. They are getting them at a later stage. The rest that comes monday has the new one
 

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